Research projects
See a list of the current research projects below, or visit the archive of completed projects. Projects are either funded by the ASCL or externally funded.
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A multi-media documentation of the Oyda Language
Keywords: language documentation, DoBeS projects, endangered languages, Omotic studies
Countries, location: Ethiopia
Researchers: Azeb Amha
Cooperation:
In cooperation with Dr. Bernhard Köhler (Institut für Afrikanische Sprachwissenschaften, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main).
Funding:
The DoBeS programme of the Volkswagen Stiftung, Germany.
CoCooN Initiative Kenya Programme – ‘Land grab’ and dwindling water resources: reconciling competing claims and conflicts over natural resources in Africa’s dry lands, specifically Kenya
Countries, location: Kenya
External affiliates: Moses Mwangi, Department of Hydrology and Water Resources Management, South Eastern Kenya University (SEKU)
Consortium for Development Partnerships
Researchers: Mirjam de Bruijn
CorTypo: Designing spoken corpora for cross-linguistic research
Keywords: Linguistic Copora, Afroasiatic, Wolaitta, Omotic
Countries, location: Ethiopia
Researchers: Azeb Amha
Decoding Digital Media in African Regions of Conflict (DDMAC)
Keywords: Social media, digital media, conflict, hate speech, disinformation
Researchers: Mirjam de Bruijn
PhD Affiliates: Modibo Galy Cissé
Cooperation:
Oslo Metropolitan University (Oslomet)
African Studies Centre Leiden
Utrecht University
University of Addis Abeba
Voice4Thought
Digital Humanities Leiden
External affiliates: Kristin Skare Orgeret, Professor in Journalism at Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), Norway, Bruce Mutsvairo, Associate Professor in Media Studies at Utrecht University , Johannes Langguth, Research Scientist at Simula Research Laboratory, Mulatu Alemayahu Moges, Assistant Professor in Media Studies, Addis Ababa University, Daniel Thilo Schroeder, postdoctoral fellow, Simula Met
Funding:
Norwegian Research Council
Developmental dilemmas and political culture in Ethiopia and the Horn: local refractions of state policies
Keywords: developmentalism; state politics; economic policy; human rights; local political culture; donor policy dilemmas; resistance
Researchers: Jan Abbink
Funding:
African Studies Centre Leiden, Netherlands
DigiDogon: Digitizing Dogon heritage. The legacy of Abirè, the Dogon prophet
Keywords: Dogon, intangible cultural heritage, digital heritage, song cycle, oral traditions
Countries, location: Mali
Researchers: Wouter van Beek, Jan-Bart Gewald
PhD Affiliates: Ibrahima Poudiougou
Cooperation:
International project between African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) and University College London (UCL).
Other partners: Musée National du Mali in Bamako, Ginna Dogon, UNESCO office in Mali.
External affiliates: Michael Rowlands (University College London) , Amadou Salif Guindo (Université des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines de Bamako), Daouda Keita (Université des Sciences Sociales et de Gestion de Bamako), Issa Sagara (Université des Sciences Sociales et de Gestion de Bamako), Roberto Beneduce (University of Turin)
Funding:
JPI on Cultural Heritage
Evolving relations between religion and politics in the Horn of Africa: media use and public identity discourse of religious communities/elites in Northeast Africa
Keywords: religious relations; polemics; communal tension; public sphere; the politics of religion
Researchers: Jan Abbink
Funding:
ASC
Financial decision-making, gender and social norms in Zambia
Keywords: Financial decision-making, gender, social norms, financial services
Countries, location: Zambia
Researchers: Marleen Dekker
Cooperation:
Financial Sector Deepening Zambia
External affiliates: Abigail Barr (University of Nottingham) , Floyd Mwansa (Financial Sector Deepening Zambia) , Tia Linda Zuze (Stellenbosch University)
Funding:
NWO Westerdijk Talent Impuls
DFID through FSD Zambia
Frugal innovations in Africa
Keywords: frugal innovation ; economic growth ; development ; bottom of the pyramid ; private sector ; multinationals ; technology
Researchers: André Leliveld
Cooperation:
Cees van Beers (TU Delft); Peter Knorringa (ISS/EUR)
Funding:
Seed money from Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Kenya Coast Portal
Keywords: anthropology ; economics ; education ; geography ; health ; history ; languages ; law ; political science ; religion ; sociology
Countries, location: Kenya
Researchers: Jan Hoorweg
Locally grounded models for air quality in Africa: the power of TROPOMI to bridge African science and policy
Keywords: Inclusive development, air quality, satellite data, TROPOMI, climate change, Africa
Researchers: Marleen Dekker
Cooperation:
KNMI, University of Pretoria
External affiliates: Deborah Stein Zweers, R&D Satellite observations department of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute (KNMI), Rebecca Garland, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria
Funding:
ASCL, KNMI
Muslim Africa’s global connections
New topographies of power? Africa negotiating an emerging multipolar world
Keywords: transnational linkages ; economic networks ; natural resources ; migration
Researchers: Mayke Kaag
Pedagogies of peace and conflict in the Great Lakes region
Keywords: Informal pedagogies, parenting, families, legacies of conflict, peace and conflict, Rwanda, Burundian refugees, Congolese refugees
Countries, location: Rwanda
Cooperation:
University of Rwanda
Funding:
NWO Aspasia premie
Pentecostalism and Social Services in Botswana: Charting a new terrain in the religious provisioning of social support
Keywords: Religion, Pentecostalism, social support, activism
Countries, location: Botswana
Researchers: Rijk van Dijk
Portable Islam: Swahili literary networks in the Indian Ocean
Keywords: African-language literature, traditions of learnings, materiality, Muslim networks, Islamic studies, Swahili intellectual history, India, Indian Ocean
Countries, location: East Africa
Researchers: Annachiara Raia
Funding:
NWO-Talentprogramma Veni SGW 2021 - Cultuur en Taalwetenschappen/ NWO Talent Programme Veni SSH 2021 - Cultural Sciences and Linguistics
Society and Change in Northern Ghana: Dagomba, Gonja, and the Regional Perspective on Ghanaian History
Keywords: Dagomba, Gonja, regional history, migration history, social history, state formation, conflict, colonial society, post-colonial society, culture, heritage
Countries, location: Ghana
Researchers: Michel Doortmont
PhD Affiliates: Alice Mapenzi Kubo
Cooperation:
- Leiden University
- Institute of African Studies & Department of History, University of Ghana at Legon
- Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Integrated Development Studies, University for Development Studies, Tamale/Wa, Ghana
Associate partners in the project:
- Institute Globalisation Studies Groningen, University of Groningen
- Department of International Relations and International Organisation, University of Groningen
Funding:
African Tiger Holding Ltd.
Studying the reform agenda in Ethiopia: Enhancing inclusive patterns of regional governance and economic opportunities
Keywords: regional governance, inclusive development, women empowerment
Countries, location: Ethiopia
Researchers: Jan Abbink
External affiliates: Prof. Madeleine Hosli (FGGA)
Funding:
Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ethiopia
The enduring legacy of German colonial rule and the League of Nations mandate in the borderlands of contemporary Africa
Keywords: German colonialism ; League of Nations mandate ; contemporary Africa
Countries, location: Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa), Namibia, Zambia, Ghana, Togo, Cameroon, Nigeria, Central African Republic
Researchers: Jan-Bart Gewald
External affiliates: Dr Samuel Ntewusu
Funding:
European Science Foundation
Transnational Islamic NGOs in Africa
Keywords: Transnational linkages ; Islam ; Arab World ; religion and development
Researchers: Mayke Kaag
Ustadh Mau Digital Archive (UMADA). Maktaba ya kidijitali ya Ustadh Mau
Keywords: Archives, digital humanities, heritage, material culture, Indian Ocean, Swahili intellectual history
Countries, location: Kenya
Researchers: Annachiara Raia
Cooperation:
Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS)
Centre for Digital Scholarship, Leiden University Library
ASCL Library
Lamu Museum, Kenya
Lamu Fort Museum Library, Kenya
Hekaya Arts Initiative, Mombasa, Kenya
UCLA Library, Los Angeles
Iwalewa House (Bayreuth University)
External affiliates: Ustadh Mau (archive owner), Abu Mirah, Fahim Abdalla , Mohamed Mwenje (curator), Fahim Abdalla (IT specialist), Khadija Issa Twahir (librarian at Lamu Fort and Survey of Documentary Heritage and indigenous records), Thomas Gesthuizen (webmaster and audio expert at voice4thought), Charlotte Sophie Bruns Knight, Naima Idris, Mohamed Omar
Funding:
This project is supported by the Modern Endangered Archives Program at the UCLA Library, with funding from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.
Posted on 9 May 2012, last modified on 19 September 2019