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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
16 October 2015
This new ASC Infosheet focuses on the relations between South Korea and Africa. South Korea’s primary goal in establishing diplomatic relations in the 1980s was its own political recognition. After it was admitted to the United Nations and recognized as a state, the country’s interest in Africa waned. In the mid-2000s South Korea began to take diplomatic relations with Africa seriously again, establishing trade relations, as well as official development assistance.
16 October 2015
The Africa Yearbook 2014 covers major domestic political developments, foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Saharan Africa, all related to developments in 2014. It contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions, an article on continental developments and one on African-European relations. The book is a joint effort of the Africa Institute of South Africa, The Nordic Africa Institute, the German Institute of Global and Area Studies and the ASC Leiden. For this edition, Klaas van Walraven, co-editor of the first ten volumes, wrote the chapter on Niger.
08 October 2015
Ethiopia hosts migrants and produces migrants; it hosts diasporas and produces diasporas. It is precisely at that interface between Ethiopia and its diasporas, that this special issue of African Diaspora is situated, Giulia Bonacci writes in her introduction. ASC researcher Rijk van Dijk is editor-in-chief of African Diaspora, which is published by Brill. The journal seeks to understand how African cultures and societies shape and are shaped by historical and current diasporic and transnational movements.
06 October 2015
The Swedish author Henning Mankell, who died on Monday 5 October 2015, loved Africa. He lived in both Africa and Sweden since 1987, and travelled in Africa since the early seventies. After publishing his first novel in 1973, his maiden trip to an African country took him to Guinea-Bissau, where he immediately felt at ease. “I don't know why, but when I stepped out of the plane in Africa I had the odd feeling of coming home”, Mankell once remarked.
02 October 2015
Miriam Ocadiz (23) from Mexico and Rob Hogenboom (24) from the Netherlands are two of our new Research MA students. Miriam is particularly interested in South-South relations, Rob is fascinated by music from North-India and the Arabic world, and how they influence African music. If you want to know more about their background, education so far and (career) expectations for the future, read these short interviews to get to know them better!
02 October 2015
The novel The Fishermen, by Nigerian writer Chigozie Obioma, was on the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize 2015. The Fishermen is Obioma’s first novel and, at the age of 28, he was the youngest of this year’s nominees. Chigozie Obioma was born in Nigeria and, after studying in Cyprus and staying in Turkey, now lives in the United States, where he is professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The Fishermen is the subject of our latest Acquisition Highlight!
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