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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
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26 December 2016
Because of the forthcoming retirement of our current director, the ASCL is looking for a new director who is a professor with international acclaim as a scholar in African Studies. The new director should be able to propagate a clear vision on African Studies and its future. The ASCL is an interfaculty institute of Leiden University. Read the full text of the vacancy. Application deadline: 1 February 2017.
22 December 2016
22 December 2016
Ethiopian prosecutors have brought multiple criminal charges against Dr. Merera Gudina, a political scientist and chairman of the Oromo Federalist Congress in Ethiopia. Dr Merera was arrested on 1 December 2016. The African Studies Centre Leiden is concerned about Merera, who has been a visiting scholar to the African Studies Centre Leiden twice.
22 December 2016
Eline Sleurink, MA student African Studies at Leiden University, has won a blog competition for first-year students of the (Research) Master in African Studies. The assignment was to write a blog about what is ‘African’ in African Studies and what is your motivation to study African Studies. Eline’s blog was selected by the jury as the best among the sixteen papers submitted. Read her blog Africa at the forefronts of 'firsts'.
20 December 2016
Benjamin Soares has accepted a professorship at the University of Florida in Gainesville, USA, as per 1 January. Benjamin is a scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in Africa. He started working at the African Studies Centre in Leiden in 2003. Since 2015 he is also Professor (by special appointment) of the Anthropology of Islam in Africa and its Diaspora at the University of Amsterdam. We wish Benjamin all the best of luck in his new position!
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