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How can images help us understand the cultural history of Africa and its legacy in the Caribbean, resulting from the largest forced migration in human history?

The abstract of this seminar will be placed here a soon as possible.

The ASCL Library has compiled a web dossier on LeidenGlobal's theme of 'Heritage on the Move'. The dossier consists of selected titles from the ASCL Library Catalogue, extended with online sources available through the UBL Catalogue. Interesting websites featuring African heritage issues and projects are showcased as well. Enjoy the web dossier!

This meeting will launch Bridging Humanities, a new Open Access academic publishing platform that aims to experiment with research carried out in co-creation and based on digital multimedia methodologies. Join us for an evening of debate, presentations and performances.

Frustration and despondency are widespread among girls with physical disabilities in Sierra Leone. The civil war (1991-2002) left thousands of citizens wounded, around 27,000 people had at least one of their limbs amputated. A gender empowerment project helps to diminish the social exclusion of girls with disabilities, writes Emma Frobisher in the ASCL Africanist Blog. 

In this workshop we aim to explore the interface between power and the production of history in Africa. We invite participants to track power and silencing in the production of history in Africa and the workings thereof in social and political processes in contemporary Africa

Nigeria mirrors a society where persistent wrongdoings by public officials breed systemic corruption and offer justifications for the proliferation of anti-corruption laws. There are for instance about nine extant regulations that deal directly in issues relating to corruption and fraud control in the country, most recent of which is the Whistleblowing Policy introduced by the federal government in December 2016.