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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
18 October 2016
13 October 2016
The jury of the Africa Thesis Award 2016 has announced this year's final 4 nominees (in alphabetical order): Seun Abimbola, University of Ibadan, Nigeria: 'The legend of Ajala’s travels and transnational backpacking in Africa'; Leonor Faber-Jonker, Utrecht University: ‘More than just an object. A material analysis of the return and retention of Namibian Skulls from Germany'; Silvana Gamboa, University of Groningen: 'Assessment and Optimization of energy systems in rural health facilities: A case in Rwanda'; Tanja Hendriks, Leiden University: 'Home is always home. (Former) Street Youth in Blantyre Malawi and the Fluidity of Constructing Home'.
13 October 2016
ASCL senior researcher Azeb Amha has started a new research project entitled Placing the Dead and Nurturing the Living: Documentation of house construction and terrace farming in Zargulla, an endangered Omotic language. The project on this East-Ometo speaking group of approximately 8000 people examines the interactions of language, culture and environment through a study of house construction and landscape architecture.
13 October 2016
In francophone West Africa the aspirations of young generations are translated in new cultural movements. Hip hop has become an important form of expression of young people. Several films have been made to document this new movement. The ASCL library recently acquired the documentary 'Du piment sur les lèvres', made by the young French filmmaker Laurène Lepeytre. The film follows Cameroonian rapper Gaston Abe, better known as Général Valséro, who has become a leader of his generation. The film is the subject of our latest Library Highlight!
13 October 2016
De Bibliotheek van het Afrika-Studiecentrum zoekt m.i.v. 1november 2016 een bibliotheekmedewerker (0.5 fte). De werkzaamheden bestaan uit baliewerkzaamheden, informatievoorziening en rondleidingen, titelbeschrijvingen, en diverse andere voorkomende werkzaamheden, onder meer voor de digitale bibliotheek. Het accent in deze functie zal liggen op de algemene baliewerkzaamheden. Lees meer over de vacature.
11 October 2016
ASCL researcher Akinyinka Akinyoade was interviewed in Nieuwsuur about the famine in Northeastern Nigeria, where the land has been virtually completely destroyed under Boko Haram rule. According to UNICEF, that was recently able to reach the area, 400,000 children are acutely malnourished.
10 October 2016
The NVAS Africa Day 2016 will take place on 15 October. This year’s theme is “Sport in Africa”. The programme highlights how sport is increasingly used as an instrument for positive social change. To mark this occasion, the ASCL Library has compiled a web dossier about Sport in Africa, containing titles from the ASCL Library catalogue published from 2010. Read the web dossier!
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