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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
29 February 2016
26 February 2016
The ASCL congratulates the Leiden African Studies Research Master’s graduates Iorver Ekeseh (Nigeria), Tanja Hendriks (the Netherlands), Michele Portatadino (Italy), Affoh Guenneguez (Côte d’Ivoire), David Drengk (Germany) and Rafael Verbuyst (Belgium), who received their diplomas at Leiden University on 25 February. Two of them have graduated cum laude. Take a look at the pictures!
26 February 2016
22 February 2016
On 16 February, associated senior researcher Prof. Wim van Binsbergen completed his last PhD supervision as promotor of Pius Mosima. Wim van Binsbergen is an Honorary Fellow of the African Studies Centre Leiden Community. Although retired in 2012, he is still doing research. On the photo: Wim van Binsbergen and Pius Mosima during their first meeting in Cameroon 2005.
19 February 2016
ASCL senior researcher Marcel Rutten will give a key note lecture on 19 February for the National Land Commission of Kenya, Directorate of Research, in the 2016 Speakers Series on land Tenure Rights. The title of his lecture is 'Individualization of group ranch land: A 30 years longitudinal overview of effected changes in Kajiado County'. Rutten conducts research notably among Turkana, Orma and Maasai pastoralists. Ongoing projects address the effects of land tenure changes; water innovations and drought coping strategies; and conflicts and co-operation over natural resources (Cocoon Initiative Kenya) together with SEKU-Kitui.
17 February 2016
15 February 2016
This book, a co-publication of the ASCL and IFRA (Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique), is the first to consequently use quantitative data in addition to qualitative data about violence in Nigeria in very different fields: from oil production to cattle breeding, radical Islam to motor accidents, land conflicts to witchcraft; quantitative data that was previously unavailable or inaccessible. The authors underline the necessity of a trend analysis to decipher the patterns and the complexity of violence in these fields. Open access!
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