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Sean Jacobs, associate professor of international affairs at The New School and founding editor of 'Africa is a Country' will give a keynote lecture at the Annual meeting of the Leiden African Studies Assembly (LeidenASA) on 12 December. The programme also includes the award ceremony for the winner of the Africa Thesis Award 2019: Nsima Udo (University of Western Cape, South Africa), for his thesis about the history of mbopo, a form of female initiation in Southern Nigeria.

In the presence of ASCL Professors and PhD candidates that are currently not on fieldwork, the ASCL Graduate Programme of African Studies (GPAS) was officially opened on Friday 6 September. In a pleasantly informal setting the Director of the African Studies Centre Leiden, Prof. Jan-Bart Gewald, announced the first Graduate Programme in African Studies in the Netherlands to be up and running!