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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
02 October 2017
02 October 2017
Jan-Bart Gewald, Professor of African History, is the new director of the African Studies Centre Leiden. In this interview he talks about the importance of studying the history of Africa, the 'where is the "African" in African Studies' debate, disparities in South Africa, and the future of the African Studies Centre Leiden. Read the interview.
29 September 2017
This is the latest volume in the African Dynamics series, published by the ASCL and Brill. Chapters in this volume contribute to our understanding of the theory, structure and practice of entrepreneurship in diverse African countries. Case studies examined include African multinational banks and businesses, female entrepreneurs, culture and entrepreneurship, finance and entrepreneurship and SMEs. Editors: Akinyinka Akinyoade, Ton Dietz and Chibuike Uche.
28 September 2017
To coincide with the Week of the Afrikaans Novel (29 September-8 October), the Library of the ASCL has compiled a new web dossier. In addition to titles on Afrikaans literature and on the six South African writers participating in this year’s literary festival (Amy Jephta, Andries Bezuidenhout, Ingrid Winterbach, Rudie van Rensburg, Suzie Matlhola and Willem Anker), the dossier contains titles of Afrikaans novels, short stories, poetry, prose and drama published since 2010. All titles are available in the ASCL Library. Read the new web dossier!
28 September 2017
In 2017 Swiss born Conradin Perner published his second volume of memoirs, completing a four decade spanning publication nightmare of his ethnographic fieldwork reports among the Sudanese Anyuak. Together with his 8 volumes of the Anyuak ethnography Living on Earth in the sky, this new travel autobiography gives an exhaustive and intimate portrait of ethnographic fieldwork in the period 1976-1983. The memoirs are the subject of our latest Library Highlight!
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