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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
28 November 2019
On the occasion of the Africa 2020 year, the ASCL Library has compiled a web dossier about African leaders of independence. It is a ‘growing’ web dossier that will be expanded monthly. It has now been updated with sections on Gabon, Senegal and Nigeria. Also have a look at the corresponding interactive timeline. Enjoy the web dossier!
26 November 2019
In the 1960s, there was an African ambition to build modern states based on ‘national development’. But in the late 1980s, national development was dismissed - in most cases under compulsion from the international financial institutions. And without national development project, there are really no states in Africa, Rahmane Idrissa writes, only regimes. In the Sahel, this paved the way for the establishment of the ‘Islamic state’. Read the latest blog post!
25 November 2019
20 November 2019
Purchased on 9 November 2019 in Abuja and already available to ASCL library users! Thirteen recently published books from Nigeria, by established writers like Wole Soyinka and debut novelists like Ever Obi, can be loaned now. This was made possible thanks to the support of Nigerian Wikimedian Uzoma Ozurumba and the good teamwork at the ASCL Library. Discover them all and enjoy reading!
19 November 2019
The Many Hidden Faces of Extreme Poverty by Anika Altaf addresses the challenge to include the poorest people. It provides deeper understanding of the mechanisms of in- and exclusion of extremely poor people, the structural causes of extreme poverty and the desirability of a univocal definition of extreme poverty. Altaf will give a presentation followed by a panel discussion with Jan Pronk (former Minister), David Lawson (NAI), and Marleen Dekker (ASCL).
18 November 2019
The ASCL is thrilled that South African professor Lungisile Ntsebeza will receive an honorary doctorate on the Foundation Day of Leiden University, 7 February. Ntsebeza is an authority in the democratisation of rural South Africa and poverty reduction. Ntsebeza has been Professor of Sociology and African Studies at the University of Cape Town since 2008, where he is also Director of the Centre of African Studies. Ntsebeza was imprisoned for five years during apartheid. While imprisoned, he obtained, by correspondence, his degree in Political Science and Philosophy. We congratulate Prof. Ntsebeza, his family and colleagues!
14 November 2019
The winner of the Africa Thesis Award 2019 is Nsima Udo for his thesis Visualising the body: photographic clues and the cultural fluidity of Mbopo institution, 1914 – 2014. Nsima Udo graduated cum laude for the MA in History at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. His thesis unpacks the history of mbopo, a form of female initiation in Southern Nigeria: how it emerges historically, is discredited in the 1990s as a form of female mutilation and is re-appreciated in recent reality TV shows.