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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
14 July 2016
14 July 2016
Professor Wim van den Doel, dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University and chair of the Board of Governors of the ASCL, has been appointed member of the Executive Board of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) as of 1 January 2017. Van den Doel will relinquish his role as dean in Leiden but will retain his post as Professor of Contemporary History. Van den Doel became chair of the ASCL Board when the African Studies Centre integrated with Leiden University on 1 January 2016.
14 July 2016
Samuel Ntewusu is KNAW Visiting Professor for 2016-2017. A Research Fellow at the Institute of African Studies (University of Ghana) Ntewusu is one of the coordinators of the ASCL research programme 'Society and Change in Northern Ghana: Dagomba, Gonja, and the Regional Perspective on Ghanaian History'. We interviewed him about the importance of understanding history. ‘Our object is to fill the gaps and generate knowledge on development issues which will be critical for policy making.’ Read the interview.
12 July 2016
The Library's Gerard van de Bruinhorst made an exciting acquisition trip to Nigeria, visiting more than fifty different book selling joints in Yorubaland (Lagos and Ibadan), as well as the 15th edition of the Nigeria international Book Fair on the University of Lagos premises. He also attended the conference “Book, the Untapped Entertainment Treasure in Africa”. Harvest of the trip: 150 kilos of publications. Read his report!
11 July 2016
The African Studies Centre's Annual Report for 2015 is out now! In 2015 we finalized preparations to become part of Leiden University as an interfaculty institute. It was also the year in which we lost our most successful researcher, Professor Stephen Ellis. You can read the Annual Report online; printed copies will be available soon.
11 July 2016
The Coutinho Collection consists of about 1250 photographs (negatives and slides) taken in Senegal and Guinea-Bissau in 1973 and 1974 by the Amsterdam and Utrecht professor and microbiologist Roel Coutinho. Coutinho donated the collection to the African Studies Centre Leiden, which had the photographs digitized and “donated” them to Wikimedia under a Creative Commons license.
08 July 2016
Commissioned by the Food & Business Knowledge Platform, this scoping report aims to contribute to a more contextualized comprehensive picture of The Netherlands’ government's ongoing cooperation with West Africa and the perspective in terms of policy options for strengthening its effectiveness and coherence by giving more emphasis to the promotion of intraregional trade and investment.
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