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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
14 December 2015
Over a hundred Africa scholars of Leiden University and the African Studies Centre Leiden met on Tuesday 8 December for the first ‘Leiden African Studies Assembly’ Meeting. It appeared a very encouraging assembly for the new Africa strategy that Leiden University is developing alongside the integration of the African Studies Centre into the University as of 1 January 2016. Leiden University wants to make Africa a more prominent part of its profile. The University’s leadership has decided to stimulate the integration of the ASCL and UL by starting a Leiden African Studies Integration Fund.
14 December 2015
14 December 2015
The African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) has become part of Leiden University as of 1 January 2016. After many years of working closely together, for example in the jointly offered Research Masters in African Studies, the unofficial ties between the two institutions have now become formal. Leiden University wants to make Africa a more prominent element of its curriculum. The ASCL has become an interfaculty institute.
14 December 2015
According to the editors of Le Mali contemporain, the lack of information on the socio-political, economic and demographic changes that Mali has seen since its independence (1960) has diminished an understanding of what is actually happening in Mali considerably. This work, with contributions by Malian and European researchers in the fields of the social sciences and the humanities, (the outcome of a conference in 2013), aims to remedy this knowledge deficit by describing contemporary Malian society, just before the crisis broke out. Le Mali Contemporain is the subject of our latest Library Highlight.
11 December 2015
11 December 2015
10 December 2015
10 December 2015
The ASCL has recently started a scoping study focusing on regional trade integration in West Africa: ‘Improving the perspective for regional trade and investment in West Africa: the key to food security, economic development and stability in the region?’. The study has been commissioned by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The project will be carried out by a joint venture of knowledge institutions that, in addition to the ASCL, consists of the Agro-Economic Research Institute of the Agricultural University of Wageningen and the European Center for Development Policy Management.
10 December 2015
This book, edited by ASCL researchers Akinyinka Akinyoade and Jan-Bart Gewald, brings together the results of studies of the various cultural, social, economic and historical aspects that are formative in African societies’ experiences of how people negotiated the spaces and times of being in transit on the road to prosperity. The book analyses the various outcomes of the process of mobility and the experience of spaces and times of transit across gender, generational, and class-differences. Many ASCL researchers have contributed to the book, that has been published by Brill.
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26 September 2024
10 October 2024