Do you have a keen interest in Africa and are you looking for a suitable master’s programme? Then apply for the Master African Studies at Leiden University! The programme is unique in the Netherlands and highly recommended throughout Europe for its multidisciplinary foundations, international orientation, and embedded research component.
Het ASCL biedt momenteel twee promotieplekken aan: één over multipolariteit en militaire samenwerking in Afrika, en één over klimaat en krijgsmacht in Afrika. De projecten zijn onderdeel van de Kennishub Afrika van de Nederlandse Defensie Academie (NLDA) en worden door het ASCL met de NLDA beheerd en begeleid.
The ASCL calls for applications for its Visiting Fellowship Programme in 2027. Applicants must submit a proposal that is in line with one of these two Collaborative Research Groups: ‘Conflict Continuities’ or ‘Planetary Health in and from Africa’. Preference will be given to applicants based in Africa. Deadline: 3 May 2026.
On 28 April Antonio Frank will defend his dissertation ‘Policing the Periphery: Party-anchored hybrid policing in Luanda, Angola’. His findings show that hybrid police networks in a number of suburbs in Luanda are anchored in the MPLA, the political party that has been in power since 1975.
Organised by the final cohort of Research Master students of African Studies, the conference 'Mining Matters: Resource and Mineral Extraction Across Africa' was a huge success. It allowed both seasoned scholars and students to share their knowledge about resource extraction in Africa.
The jury of the Africa Thesis Award is delighted to announce that the 2025 prize has been awarded to Yonwaba Matshobotiyana of the University of the Free State, South Africa, with a thesis on Black women's poetry in South Africa. The jury was blown away by this strong scholarly contribution to Black feminist thought and the field of decolonial literature studies.
28 April 2026
19 June 2026