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The African Studies Centre Leiden is delighted to announce the ASCL Seminar Series speakers for 2024. The ASCL Seminars are invited lectures given by some of the most prominent researchers in the field of African Studies. The series will be kicked off by Dr Sandra Calkins (University of Twente) with a lecture on human-plant futures in Uganda. 

On 9 January 2020, Tanzanian novelist, poet, and scholar Euphrase Kezilahabi died at the age of 75 in Dar es Salaam. He was one of the first African writers to publish a collection of free verse poetry in Swahili. 

The declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic saw the WHO recommend the same lockdown measures in all African countries regardless of population profile or socioeconomic frameworks. This lecture by Prof. Toby Green interrogates the processes by which enormous increase in economic inequality came about.

The ASCL will move to a new building in Leiden in May-June 2024. The name for the new building, formerly referred to as 'Cluster Zuid', was announced on 1 February: it will be called the 'Herta Mohr Building', named after the young Egyptologist that studied in Leiden in the late 1930s.

For the second time Madi Ditmars has been awarded a Virtual International Collaboration Project subsidy from the Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. Aim is to develop a new online course (SPOC) for the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus minor Frugal Innovation for Sustainable Global Development that will focus on frugality.