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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
28 March 2019
Registration is now open for two Leiden-Delft-Erasmus (LDE) minors that the ASCL co-organizes: the minor African Dynamics, and the minor Frugal Innovation for Sustainable Global Development. The first minor builds your understanding of integrated and sustainable development approaches in Africa from leading academics of the universities of Leiden, Delft, and Rotterdam, as well as guest speakers. In the minor on Frugal Innovation you will learn what frugal innovation implies for technology, entrepreneurship and sustainable global development.
26 March 2019
In a context where sexuality remains extremely framed by reproductive values and principles, access to the Internet offers an unexpected opening to the world and unrestricted ways of enjoying a sexual life outside of imposed boundaries. In Cameroon, mobile phone coverage is estimated over 80%, and the number of internet subscribers has doubled in five years, from 14.16% in 2012 to 35.64% in 2017. 74% of internet traffic comes from mobile phones. Gender gap in accessing new technologies is relatively weak, especially in urban areas. This raises the following question: can digital technologies and their uses call into question male domination in social, political and economic relationships? By allowing sexual self-expression how can they challenge sexual inequalities that shape Cameroonian society? Grounded on a recent postdoctoral research on “The Internet, At Risk Sexual Practices and HIV/AIDS in Cameroon”, this presentation looks at smart phones and the internet as a mirror that allows us to better understand how gender and sexual hierarchies are challenged and reenacted through digital cultures.
22 March 2019
The ASCL Library compiled an experimental web dossier which combines the components of a classical ASCL web dossier with features offered by Wikidata. The web dossier focuses on Southern African women writers and their publications. Special feature is the interactive Wikidata map that provides links to the writer’s publications in the ASCL catalogue and to her English Wikipedia article. Check out the web dossier!
21 March 2019
This article by Agnieszka Kazimierczuk in Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews provides a review of the latest status and policy framework for wind energy in Africa. It takes a close look at Kenya, one of the most successful African countries in terms of attracting renewable energy investments, including the largest wind farm on the continent. However, international private participation is critical in wind energy expansion in Kenya.
21 March 2019
This new article by Mayke Kaag (ASCL) and Griet Steel (Utrecht University) in Built Environment highlights the role of transnational migrants in urban land investments and claim making on urban land. Using case studies in Khartoum and Dakar, the authors investigate the ways in which transnational migrants contribute to speculation, rising land values and processes of socio-spatial inclusion and exclusion.
20 March 2019
19 March 2019
How can the development of mega-projects and large-scale infrastructure help us understand the emergence of new forms of governance as well as changing ideas and practices related to citizenship across Africa? In recent years, governments from Morocco to Nigeria, and from Kenya to Cameroon have embarked on a series of ambitious billion-euro projects to overhaul their countries’ urban infrastructure on an unprecedented scale. With the help of global as well as regional investors and foreign technical experts, a host of spectacular ‘mega-projects’ aims to radically transform natural, economic, and social landscapes.
This workshop brings together colleagues working in different national contexts across the African continent to reflect together on the common challenges and divergent approaches to such accelerating phenomena.
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