Podcasts

The ASCL presents podcasts that have been created either by its students in the framework of their assignments, or by ASCL staff members in the context of their projects. Most podcasts can be listened to on the platform SoundCloud.
 

Urban Uncovered podcast series

The Urban Uncovered podcast series is an initiative of LDE Global (in which the Leiden, Delft, and Erasmus universities work together on global challenges). Mandipa Ndlovu, PhD candidate at the ASCL, hosts the podcast and takes you on a journey through the heart of urban transformation. 

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African Dynamics podcast series

 

As part of their curriculum, students of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus minor African Dynamics create podcasts. Check out the series of the past four years:

 

#4 'Interdisciplinary Approaches to Complex Global Challenges'

In this series, the 2024-2025 LDE minor African Dynamics students explored the importance of interdisciplinary approaches in addressing complex global challenges. Their podcasts were created under the guidance of Thomas Vorisek at the Leiden University Digital Humanities Lab.

 

 

 

#3 'Youth as Actors of Change'

 

For this series, students of the 2022-2023 LDE master African Dynamics collaborated with their peers from the University of Nairobi and the Namibian University of Science in Technology. The theme of the series is Youth as Actors of Change.
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#2 'African academics in the Netherlands'

For this series, students of the 2021-2022 LDE minor African Dynamics interviewed African academics working at Leiden University, Delft University of Technology, and Erasmus University about the role of the diaspora.
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#1 'Africa Knows!'

For this series, students of the 2020-2021 LDE minor African Dynamics interviewed selected participants in the conference Africa Knows! It is time to decolonise minds. This was the closing conference of the special Africa 2020 year in which 17 countries on the African continent celebrated 60 years of independence. While decolonising knowledge is a major subject in these podcasts, a wide range of topics is being discussed.
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LUALA Beats

The lecture and podcast series LUALA Beats (Leiden University Africa Latin America) is a cooperation between the two Area Studies sections of Leiden University’s Institute for History. The lecture and podcast series are intended: (1) as platforms for critical discussions amongst practitioners, scholars and students on issues typical of Area Studies’ epistemologies: diversity, inequality, power and cultural interactions; (2) as avenues to connect Leiden University with society. The project team consists of Prof. Mirjam de Bruijn, Dr Sara de Wit, Dr Walter Nkwi, Dr Stefano Bellucci (African Studies), Prof. Ed Ammann and Dr Soledad Valdivia Rivera (Latin American Studies). Go directly to the playlist.

Photo credit Youth as actors for change: DFID - UK Department for International Development, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.