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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
08 February 2016
PhD Defence Pius Mosima: Philosophic Sagacity and Intercultural Philosophy; Beyond Henry Odera Oruka
08 February 2016
04 February 2016
Press cuttings from 1968 about the banning of the miniskirt in Malawi, a proposal for the Republican Constitution of Malawi dated 1965, field notes of conversations with local court chairmen: the Library of the African Studies Centre Leiden is thrilled to have acquired the archives of scholar Franz von Benda-Beckmann, who collected material about legal pluralism in Malawi in the 1960s. His wife, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, kindly donated 3 small boxes containing interesting material on Nyasaland and Malawi, including old Constitutions, law books, reports from local courts, penal codes and folders.
04 February 2016
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) in 2004 decided to document the Southern African liberation struggles and to publish the results in a series of books. In 2015 the 9-volume work appeared, describing the liberation wars in Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe, and the experiences in frontline states Botswana, Tanzania and Zambia and in the ‘extension countries’ Lesotho, Malawi and Swaziland. Historical chapters are followed by personal stories of liberation fighters, such as Saara Kuugongelwa, Namibia's current Prime Minister. The books are the subject of our latest Library Highlight.
04 February 2016
UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld was killed in September 1961 when his plane crashed in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). His period in office was marked by the challenges of the Cold War and the decolonization of Africa, in particular Congo. Initial investigations could not clarify the reasons for the crash. More than 50 years later further evidence emerged. Henning Melber (director emeritus Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, Uppsala) will discuss Hammarskjöld’s approach to Congo and the efforts to establish the circumstances of the plane crash, during the seminar on 17 March.
04 February 2016
This film is part of the Movies that Matter Festival. Both Fadimata 'Disco' Walet Oumar, one of the main characters, and film director Johanna Schwartz will be present. In 2012, extremist groups captured most of northern Mali. Sharia law banned all music. Forced into exile, singers Khaira Arby and Fadimata ‘Disco’ Walet Oumar join the resistance. The film follows the musicians up to their first public concert in Timbuktu since the music ban.
01 February 2016
Excellent news from the research programme Society and Change in Northern Ghana: Dr Samuel Ntewusu, co-coordinator of the programme, has been appointed KNAW Visiting Professor for 2016-2017 by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The position allows Samuel to travel to Leiden three times for the programme, and organise a conference and several workshops. Within the same programme, Dutch photographer Jan Banning will do a photo project on the chiefs of Gonja and Dagomba, in the form of ‘portraits in context’.
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