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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
04 May 2020
Ton Dietz, former director of the ASCL and Platform Member of INCLUDE, wrote a blog about an interesting article in the Financial Times. ‘Only victory in Africa can end the pandemic everywhere’ it is called, and its subtitle: ‘World leaders call for an urgent debt moratorium and unprecedented health and economic aid packages’. Dietz is especially surprised about the European (e.g. Dutch PM Mark Rutte) and African leaders that signed it. Read his blog post!
24 April 2020
In the EADI webinar "How to reach the (extreme) poor through inclusive development policies in sub Saharan Africa?", Marleen Dekker (Leiden University) and Nicky Pouw (University of Amsterdam) introduce a policy analysis framework to understand inclusive development from a bottom-up perspective of the poor and diversified vulnerable groups, the stakeholders involved and the importance of uncovering the transaction costs related to access and reaping the benefits of the interventions, programs and processes.
24 April 2020
On the occasion of the Africa 2020 year, the ASCL has created Infosheets about the countries that became independent in 1960. Of the seventeen colonies gaining independence in that year, Madagascar was the fourth one: on June 26th. Madagascar had been a French colony from the 1890s.
21 April 2020
The Centre for Frugal Innovation in Africa (CFIA), in which the ASCL participates, has started a new series of blogs that focuses on the role of frugality and frugal innovation in times of Corona in different parts of the world. The first blog is written by André Leliveld, Associate Director of CFIA and senior researcher at the ASCL. He pleads for a frugal approach to cope with the resource constrained situation in the medical world.
09 April 2020
The COVID-19 epidemic has exposed the limitations of South Africa’s democracy. Very little has been achieved to address the critical issue of racialized poverty in the country. At the heart of it all is the failure of the democratic state to resolve the land question, writes Lungisile Ntsebeza of the University of Cape Town, who received an honorary doctorate from Leiden University on 7 February. Read his post in the ASCL Africanist Blog!
02 April 2020
Simone Reinders wrote a blog on behalf of a Leiden Edinburgh Research Group that focuses on inequalities in higher education in Africa. She asked two experts on higher education in Ethiopia: How have COVID-19 and the consequent shutdown of universities affected equity and inclusivity?