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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
03 November 2016
Five powerful young women, and a man have traveled all the way from Kenya and Uganda to the Netherlands, to present to you the challenges that they face when trying to promote women empowerment in the slums of East Africa. They have all set up inspiring projects using different means, such as performing arts, to support children and youngsters. Their projects, are not only unique, but also very successful in giving youngsters more confidence and a safe space where they can speak up. This workshop will be an interactive entertaining workshop with lots of dance and singing, showing you a very positive outlook on improving the complicated situations of daily life in slums. These complicated situations vary greatly; going from not being able to buy pads when a girl is on her period, to not being able to go for a run in the morning due to the risk of being harassed.
03 November 2016
Still a Pygmy, by Isaac Bacirongo & Michael Nest, is the memoir of Isaac Bacirongo, an ethnic BaTembo Mbuti (Pygmy) from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. This recent library acquisition is thought to be the first memoir by a Pygmy author ever to be published. Bacirongo has become an advocate for fair treatment of his people and has helped establish the first indigenous rights organization for pygmies in Congo. Still a Pygmy is the subject of our latest Library Highlight!
31 October 2016
On Friday 28 October Stephen Ellis’ last book This present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organised Crime was launched at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, in the presence of Stephen Ellis’ widow Prof. Gerrie ter Haar and ASCL director Prof. Ton Dietz. The launch was followed by the Stephen Ellis Colloquium where papers were given about subjects as diverse as currency counterfeiting, theft in Early Colonial Lagos, crime at the University of Lagos and reporting Crime in Contemporary Lagos.
31 October 2016
On behalf of the jury, the ASCL is pleased to announce that the winner of the Africa Thesis Award 2016 is Tanja Hendriks for her thesis ‘Home is always home’. (Former) Street Youth in Blantyre Malawi and the Fluidity of Constructing Home. Tanja completed the Research Master in African Studies at Leiden University and graduated cum laude. The prize will be presented to Tanja at the LeidenASA Annual Meeting on 8 December.
28 October 2016
Maru Shete Bekele successfully defended his thesis on the Impacts of large-scale farming on local economic development, household food security and the environment in Ethiopia on 25 October at Leiden University. The study concludes that the approach of large-scale mechanized farming contributes little to the economic and agricultural transformation of the nation. Local people generally lose out in respect of land transactions and investments, and they are expropriated from their customary land rights to the benefit of national goals.
27 October 2016
25 October 2016
The Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa - all related to developments in one calendar year. This year's editors: ASCL senior researcher Jon Abbink, Sebastian Elischer (University of Florida), Andreas Mehler (Arnold Bergstraesser Institute)and Henning Melber (Nordic Africa Institute). ASCL senior researcher Klaas van Walraven wrote the chapter on Niger.
25 October 2016
On 18 October the Dutch company Groasis received a National Icon award from the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs. This award acknowledges their position as one of the three most innovative companies in the Netherlands and highlights the promise that the Groasis Ecological Water Saving Technology holds. The Cocoon Initiative Kenya research project of the ASCL conducts trials with the Groasis Waterboxx, which can be used in arid regions to grow plants using up to 90% less water.
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