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On the occasion of the upcoming South African elections, the ASCL has invited Barry Gilder to give a lecture. Barry Gilder is one of South Africa’s most important revolutionaries that fought against  apartheid. He served in the Secret Service and the National Intelligence Agency, from 2005 until 2007 as South Africa’s Coordinator for Intelligence. Gilder will speak about his acclaimed publications The List and Songs and Secrets. 

No continent will be struck as severely by the impacts of climate change as Africa. However, most predictions on the consequences of climate change focus on humans. But the threat of climate change is about a whole web of life that holds our planet together. Therefore, writes Harry Wels of the Collaborative Research Group 'Trans-species perspectives on African Studies', bringing climate change to the top of our attention requires a radical decentring of the human. Read his latest contribution to the ASCL Africanist Blog!

Loes Oudenhuijsen, alumna of the Research Master in African Studies, has won the 2018 MA thesis prize of Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality (ARC-GS) for her thesis "‘You Have to Know How to Play, Otherwise They Will Catch You’. Young Women and the Navigation of Same-Sex Intimacies in Contemporary Urban Senegal". The jury unanimously argued that this is 'a blueprint for MA theses'. More great news about our Research Master students: Miriam Ocadiz Arriaga received a special mention for her thesis "(E)motion of Saudade. The Embodiment of Solidarity in the Cuban Medical Cooperation in Mozambique" from the Jury of the IDleaks Thesis Award 2018. Congrats to both!