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Rahmane Idrissa recently started at the ASCL as Assistant Professor in Islam in Contemporary Africa. He has two research interests: the politics of Islam and secularism in Africa, and state formation in African contexts. We interviewed Dr Idrissa on the history of his home country Niger, Salafi ideologies and secularism in Mali, and the EU's dealing with migration. Read the interview.

Polygynous husbands and wives cooperate less than monogamous ones and may contribute resources to the household with less altruistic motives, according to a paper by Marleen Dekker and colleagues in the April issue of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Using a carefully designed series of public goods games, the authors compared the willingness of husbands and wives to cooperate to maximize household gains. 

The Breaking Down Barriers project, a collaboration between the Liliane Foundation and the African Studies Centre Leiden, has won the Impact Challenge Award 2019. The award is a prize for Dutch charity organizations that care strongly about the effectiveness of their strategies. The ASCL has coordinated the research programme for the project. Other nominees were the Lung Fund, the Max Foundation, the Dutch Foundation for Disabled Children, and Simavi.