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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
12 May 2019
Loes Oudenhuijsen, alumna of the Research Master in African Studies at Leiden University and currently a PhD candidate at the ASCL, is the main winner of the 2019 LOVA/Marjan Rens MA Thesis Award. Loes won the award 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, on which she graduated in 2018. Congrats Loes!
06 May 2019
This Wednesday South Africa will be going to the polls, in a national election where for the past 25 years the ANC has led the government. Will President Cyril Ramaphosa be given a chance to continue ‘cleaning up’ the ANC and the country of the remains of the many Zuma factions and loyalists? Read the latest contribution to the ASCL Africanist blog!