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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
12 August 2021
This seminar on 17 September is organised in the framework of 'Africa 2020' and coincides with Bert van Pinxteren's PhD Defence (16 September). In his dissertation, Van Pinxteren shows that maintaining former colonial languages as sole medium of instruction in higher education will become impossible to sustain. Over the next decade, more and more African countries will have to move towards increased use of African languages. Discussion with Maarten Mous, Kwesi Kwaa Prah, Azeb Amha, Mandipa Ndlovu, Akinyinka Akinyoade, and many others.
15 July 2021
13 July 2021
For the Stephen Ellis Chair for the Governance of Finance and Integrity in Africa, Professor Chibuike Uche, the ASCL is looking for a student assistant (four hours a week, 9-10 months). The duties will include online research and data gathering, questionnaire distribution and collation, library search, data analysis, and taking minutes during meetings. The ideal candidate should be a second or third-year Honours student with excellent academic grades and a genuine interest in Africa. Application deadline: 26 July.
12 July 2021
Do socio-economic cleavages shape electoral dynamics in African countries? Individual-level and party systems research since the 1990s has suggested that the answer is "no." Focusing on a number of countries in East and West Africa, this online seminar on 28 October by Prof. Catherine Boone (London School of Economics) will offer a spatial analysis of geographic patterns in constituency-level voting over three decades.
08 July 2021
Since the end of June, the hashtag #justicepourlouise has been circulating in Senegal. This is a large effort from the recently established Collectif des féministes du Sénégal to ensure that justice is done for Louise, the pseudonym given to a 15-year-old girl who accused a 19-year-old schoolmate of having raped her. Societal responses to pleas for justice in cases like these show how politicised gender and sexual rights are in Senegal, Loes Oudenhuijsen writes in the ASCL Africanist Blog.