News & Events

On  Wednesday 5 March at 16:00 CET, Loes Oudenhuijsen will defend her dissertation Situating “wicked” women: Gender panic and savoir vivre in urban Senegal. This thesis analyses women’s gender and sexual dissidence in relation to social transformations in Senegal.

Chibuike Uche and Azeb Amha have been awarded grants in the Leiden University Global Seed Fund. This Fund was established in 2024 to enhance the relationship between Leiden University and her partners in Africa, Latin America, North East and South East Asia.

Lidewyde Berckmoes wins an NWO Open Competition Grant for a project on intergenerational resilience and anticipation of conflict and natural disaster. It investigates how descendants of survivors of violent conflict anticipate and respond to future disaster, both conflict and natural disaster.

On 2 January 1996, Ghanaian playwright, children's author, poet, researcher, child advocate, and cultural activist, Efua Sutherland passed away. Her works include the plays Edufa (1967) and The Marriage of Anansewa (1975).

Within the GROW Research Programme one more position opened for a PhD candidate with professor Janine Ubink (Leiden Law School) and professor Mayke Kaag (ASCL) and/or Chibuike Uche (ASCL). The ideal candidate has a proven interest in the relationship between law and society in Africa. 

On 29 December 1923, Senegalese anthropologist Cheikh Anta Diop was born in Thieytou, Senegal. He begun his education at a Quranic school. Later on, he traveled to Paris to study philosophy, art, chemistry, and nuclear physics.

Jan-Bart Gewald has written a new blog post for the Boom2Dust project, which investigates the environmental history of three industrial mining centres in southern Africa. In the article Prof. Gewald commemorates the death of the important Zambia-historian Andrew Roberts.