Graduate Programme African Studies

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Graduate Programme African Studies

The African Studies Centre Leiden has its own Graduate Programme African Studies (GPAS) for PhD candidates who are supervised by one of the ASCL Professors. The Head of the GPAS is Prof. Rijk van Dijk.

The mission of the GPAS is to enhance the pursuit of PhD degrees in African Studies at Leiden University, by providing the necessary support and intellectual resources to ensure their academic quality, relevance, and originality. In addition, the GPAS seeks to offer academic grounding in African Studies for PhD candidates working on/in Africa at any of the three Faculty Graduate Schools that we collaborate with, viz. the Faculties of Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences, and Law. In doing so the GPAS seeks to foster the mutual exchange relationship between its graduate programme and those of the three faculties’ Graduate Schools.

The GPAS offers a monthly PhD exchange seminar to its candidates, alternating a review seminar with a presentation seminar.

If you have any questions regarding the GPAS, please contact Maaike Westra (m.a.westra@asc.leidenuniv.nl).

See a list of dissertations on Africa defended at universities in the Netherlands.

Below you will find an overview of PhD candidates who are linked to the African Studies Centre Leiden in the sense that they have a (co)promoter who is a member of the ASCL research staff.

Agape Kanyiri Damwah, The Samori Invasion of Western Gonja (1895): A Study of the Impact of War on Society

PhD student:

Agape Kanyiri Damwah

Supervisor:

Michel Doortmont, Jan-Bart Gewald

Project status:

Ongoing

Alice Mapenzi Kubo, Developments in the Shea sector in Ghana and their implications for livelihoods

PhD student:

Alice Mapenzi Kubo

Supervisor:

Ton Dietz, Michel Doortmont

Project status:

ongoing

Antonio Frank, Providing security in Luanda’s shantytowns, Angola

PhD student:

Supervisor:

Project status:

Ongoing

Belindah Okello, Challenges of Integration: A Case Study of the migrant Luo in Mombasa Kenya, 1902-2015

PhD student:

Belindah Okello

Supervisor:

Jan-Bart Gewald

Project status:

Ongoing

Crépin Marius Mouguia, L’enfance et la jeunesse en période de conflit de longue durée en Centrafrique

PhD student:

Crépin Marius Mouguia

Supervisor:

Mirjam de Bruijn

Project status:

Ongoing

Daniel Tanko Dawda, Female political authority in a patriarchal society: The role of the Wuriche in the Gonja traditional political system in Ghana

PhD student:

Daniel Tanko Dawda

Supervisor:

Michel Doortmont, Jan-Bart Gewald

Project status:

Ongoing

Francesca Pugliese, Working experience in the Congolese mining sector

PhD student:

Francesca Pugliese

Supervisor:

Jan-Bart Gewald

Project status:

Ongoing

François Janse van Rensburg, Labour and the Netherlands-South African Railway Company, 1887-1902

PhD student:

François Janse van Rensburg

Supervisor:

Jan-Bart Gewald

Project status:

Ongoing

Gerda Hooghordel, Transformations in healing processes of female Zulu sangomas in the transition from a rural to an urban society

PhD student:

Gerda Hooghordel

Supervisor:

Wouter van Beek, Rijk van Dijk

Project status:

Ongoing

Inge Butter, Change and continuity within the Misseria Rouge’s (inter)national networks: Connections and navigations amongst nomadic Arabs of the Batha, Chad

PhD student:

Supervisor:

Mirjam de Bruijn

Project status:

ongoing

Jacqueline de Vries, 'Your custom was bad. It has been changed by Government': Control over women in colonial Kom (Cameroon)

PhD student:

Jacqueline de Vries

Supervisor:

Jan-Bart Gewald

Project status:

Ongoing

Jeleel Balyaminu, Natural Resource Governance and Socio-Cultural Conditions in Africa: From Policy to Practice

PhD student:

Jeleel Abiola Balyaminu

Supervisor:

Chibuike U. Uche

Project status:

Ongoing

Joseph Fosu-Ankrah, Common Grounds: Urban Spaces, Religious Encounters and Intercommunality in Accra's Madina, ca 1800-2020

PhD student:

Joseph Fosu-Ankrah

Supervisor:

Jan-Bart Gewald

Project status:

Ongoing

Kassim Assouma, Increasing Political Leverage of Informal and Formal Workers’ Organisations for Inclusive Development: The case of Benin

PhD student:

Supervisor:

Ton Dietz, Mayke Kaag

Project status:

ongoing

Kauthar Khamis, Beauty Practices: A Modality of Religious Co-existence Amongst Christian and Muslim Women in Madina

PhD student:

Supervisor:

Project status:

Ongoing

Kim Molenaar, Godly Gays? Sexuality and a Pentecostal Morality in Gaborone

PhD student:

Supervisor:

Project status:

Ongoing

Loes Oudenhuijsen, Islam, everyday ethics, and its gendered contestations: ‘’wicked’’ women in Senegal from 1950 to the present

PhD student:

Loes Oudenhuijsen

Supervisor:

Project status:

Ongoing

Martin Luther Darko, The Quest for Health in Madina: Health seeking across Religious Boundaries

PhD student:

Martin Luther Darko

Supervisor:

Project status:

Ongoing

Martin van Vliet, An in-depth empirical study of the democratic consolidation process in Mali

PhD student:

Martin van Vliet

Supervisor:

Project status:

ongoing

Merel van 't Wout, Society and Change in Northern Ghana: Dagomba, Gonja, and the Regional Perspective on Ghanaian History

PhD student:

Merel van 't Wout

Supervisor:

Michel Doortmont, Jan-Bart Gewald

Project status:

Ongoing

Michael Glover, A Cattle-centred History of Southern Africa

PhD student:

Supervisor:

Jan-Bart Gewald

Project status:

Ongoing

Modibo Galy Cissé, Le conflit (terrorisme-djihadisme) dans le Delta Central du fleuve Niger au Mali

PhD student:

Modibo Galy Cissé

Supervisor:

Mirjam de Bruijn, Han van Dijk

Project status:

Ongoing

Mpalang’a-Maruv Liévain Mwangal, Musumb and its emperors (17th-21st century). Laboratory History of cities in Central Africa

PhD student:

Mpalang’a-Maruv Liévain Mwangal

Supervisor:

Jan-Bart Gewald

Project status:

Ongoing

Nilza César, Participatory Assessment of Development of the Eduardo Mondlane University (1976-2013)

PhD student:

Supervisor:

Project status:

ongoing

Peter Justin: Grounding land governance- Land conflicts, local governance and decentralization in post-conflict South Sudan

PhD student:

Supervisor:

Project status:

Ongoing

Rashida Adum-Atta, Food and Interreligious Coexistence in Madina

PhD student:

Rashida Adum-Atta

Supervisor:

Project status:

Ongoing

Rosine Tchatchoua Djomo: Decentralized land governance and legal pluralism in Burundi

PhD student:

Rosine Tchatchoua Djomo

Supervisor:

Project status:

Ongoing

Serena Nasongo: Putting the house in order: Institutions and governance in the management of the Nyando papyrus wetlands, Kenya

PhD student:

Serena Adhiambo Adede Nasongo

Supervisor:

Project status:

Ongoing

Tinashe Chimbidzikai, Re-) production and imagination of urban social space by Pentecostal Christian migrants in South Africa: A narrative ethnography

PhD student:

Tinashe Chimbidzikai

Supervisor:

Project status:

Ongoing

Tycho van der Hoog: Brothers in Arms: National Liberation Movements in the Frontline States, 1950-1990

PhD student:

Tycho van der Hoog

Supervisor:

Jan-Bart Gewald

Project status:

Ongoing

Completed PhD research projects

Aenne Post, Existence Versus Extinction. Human-hippo conflicts in Lake Victoria Area, Kenya

Supervisor:

André van Dokkum, Deliberating “democracy” in Mozambique

PhD student:

André van Dokkum

Supervisor:

Angela Kronenburg García, Land struggles, the Naimina Enkiyio forest conflicts and leadership among the Loita Maasai of Kenya

Supervisor:

Anika Altaf, Reaching the ultra poor: comparing NGO approaches in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Benin

Supervisor:

Arnold Pannenborg, The financial, political and prestigious reasons for administrators and club officials to run and sponsor football in Ghana and Cameroon

PhD student:

Arnold Pannenborg

Supervisor:

Wouter van Beek

Bethuel Kinuthia, Comparing Malaysia’s and Kenya’s foreign direct investment and industrial development policies

PhD student:

Bethuel Kinuthia

Supervisor:

Blandina Kilama, Cashewnuts: comparing Vietnam and Tanzania

PhD student:

Blandina Kilama

Supervisor:

Djimet Seli , Mobile Phone and its impact on the social relations in the marginalized regions and their diaspora

Supervisor:

Mirjam de Bruijn

Doreen Kobusingye, Embedding Land Conflict-Decentralized Land Governance and Conflict Transformation in Uganda

Supervisor:

Doreen Setume, Modernity: a gender based assessment of changed courtship patterns and cohabitation in Botswana: a case study of Bakwena of Molepole

PhD student:

Supervisor:

Mirjam de Bruijn, Rijk van Dijk

Fatimata Diallo, The technologies of information and the communication and the construction of the State under the rule of law in Senegal

PhD student:

Supervisor:

Mirjam de Bruijn

Harrie Leyten, Objects with power

PhD student:

Supervisor:

Wouter van Beek

Henrietta Nyamnjoh, Communication technologies, politics and mobility in the Bamenda Grassfields and amongst Bamenda Grassfielders in the South West Province of Cameroon and in the diaspora

PhD student:

Henrietta Nyamnjoh

Supervisor:

Mirjam de Bruijn

Joseph Mangarella, The Politics of African Oil-bearing Communities: New Perspectives from Gabon

PhD student:

Joseph Mangarella

Supervisor:

Jan Abbink, Klaas van Walraven

Karin Nijenhuis, The mobility of farmers in relation to access to land and conflict in Mali

PhD student:

Karin Nijenhuis

Supervisor:

Han van Dijk, Mayke Kaag

Karin van Bemmel, Mental health and the conceptualization of illness in a post-conflict area

PhD student:

Karin van Bemmel

Supervisor:

Lotje de Vries, Facing Frontiers, Everyday practice of state-building in South Sudan

Supervisor:

Margot Leegwater, Land access and local conflicts in Rwanda

PhD student:

Margot Leegwater

Supervisor:

Maru Shete, Land grabbing in Ethiopia

PhD student:

Maru Shete Bekele

Supervisor:

Ton Dietz, Marcel Rutten

Melle Leenstra, Beyond the façade: instrumentalisation of the Zambian health sector

PhD student:

Supervisor:

Ton Dietz, Jan-Bart Gewald

Mercy Derkyi , Forest governance and conflict management in Ghana

Supervisor:

Michiel van den Bergh, Livelihood changes and their impact on land use, habitat and the survival of migratory bird species in Burkina Faso

PhD student:

Michiel van den Bergh

Supervisor:

Ton Dietz, Dick Foeken

Romborah Robert Simiyu, Gender dynamics of urban agriculture in Eldoret, Kenya

PhD student:

Romborah Robert Simiyu

Supervisor:

Ton Dietz, Dick Foeken

Samantha Williams, Access conflicts at the Coast of the Western Cape in South Africa

Supervisor:

Samuel Ntewusu, Settling in and holding on: a socio-economic history of northern traders and transporters in Accra's Tudu: 1908-2008

Supervisor:

Mirjam de Bruijn, Jan-Bart Gewald

Sander Muilerman: Cocoa governance in Ghana

Supervisor:

Sebastiaan Soeters, How has the introduction of motorized transportation shaped the social and economic lives of Tamale's rapidly increasing, urban population?

PhD student:

Sebastiaan Soeters

Supervisor:

Jan-Bart Gewald

Verina Ingram, Non-timber forest product governance in Cameroon

Supervisor:

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