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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
11 March 2021
Topical issues in sociolinguistics: The Nigerian perspective was re-issued in 2020, after first appearing more than a decade earlier. The book is part of a series of volumes on Nigerian languages and linguistics published or re-issued in recent years by M&J, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The books provide a most welcome overview of linguistic research in Nigeria, a country home to 522 living languages. They are the subject of our latest Library Highligt!
09 March 2021
09 March 2021
08 March 2021
08 March 2021
08 March 2021
Are you looking for a master's programme offering you in-depth knowledge about different aspects of the African continent? Find out all about the master's and the research master's programmes in African Studies during the Online Master's Week 10-12 March 2021! Online presentations on African Studies will be given on Friday 12 March from 15.30 - 16.30 (CET). Register now!
08 March 2021
Jochem Scheelings, MA student African Studies, is doing an internship that is as fascinating as it is fun. With Angus Mol en Mirjam de Bruijn as supervisors, he is researching the role of video games in education, more specifically, in educating histories of Africa. Within the video game The New Order: Last days of Europe, an alternative world history has been written, but Scheelings noticed that Africa was missing from this game. 'I decided I would like to write that missing history’, he says in an interview.
05 March 2021
The Africa Knows! conference (2 December 2020-25 February 2021) has come to an end. It straddled many boundaries: geographical (if only for its virtual character), disciplinary, but also between academia and practitioners. In their reflections, the organisers look back as well as forward: on the ‘lessons learnt’ in terms of decolonising academic minds and practices, and on five layers of impact of the conference.