Publications

European policymakers ask themselves why African governments and citizens no longer seem to want to deal with European partners, but instead turn to Russian, Chinese, Brazilian and other collaborators....

As part of its teaching innovation agenda, the ASCL took the lead in a EUniWell (European University for Well-Being) project that explored how students from different geographical and cultural backgrounds perceive well-being in their respective societies. Marleen Dekker and...

Nowadays, urban-rural connections are accelerating in sub-Saharan Africa resulting in agricultural transformations, which in turn lead to the transformation of rural livelihoods. This paper examines agricultural transformations in the Dodoma Region, Tanzania, and their impact...

April 2015, Burundi. What started as peaceful demonstrations against another term of president Nkurunziza, quickly turned into violent confrontations between mostly young male civilians and government forces. The demonstrations signalled the beginning of a new political...

Starting in September 2022, Lidewyde Berckmoes was invited for a three-month Embassy Science Fellowship at the Embassy of the Netherlands in Jakarta. She was asked to contribute ‘to structurally strengthen Indonesian knowledge of Africa’ and relations with African...

Since the early nineteenth century, the things which Black South Africans have had in their homes have changed completely. They have adopted things like tables, chairs, knives, forks, spoons, plates, cups and saucers, iron pots, beds, blankets, European clothing, and later...

Book review of: Jacques Berlinerblau, "Secularism: the basics'' (London, New York: Routledge, 2021)

At a time of sociocultural changes that started questioning established Islamic learning traditions (independence years, post-Cold War/book market liberalization), printing diasporas exerted influence on the circulation of Islamic texts in East Africa: published overseas (...