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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
02 October 2015
The ASC has been awarded a one-year research project on the attitudes, perceptions and usage of Mobile Money in four African countries: DR Congo, Zambia, Cameroon and Senegal. The project is financed by the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. It is a mix between academic research and consultancy and brings together anthropologists, young (African) research talent and key players in the industry. Project leader: Mirjam de Bruijn.
01 October 2015
The ASC is pleased to announce the winner of the Africa Thesis Award 2015: Merel van ‘t Wout, for her thesis 'Entrepreneurs by the grace of God: Life and work of seamstresses in Bolgatanga, Ghana'. Van 't Wout completed her research master in Modern History and International Relations cum laude at the University of Groningen. Her research project aims at understanding the expectations and motivations of young women in Ghana's Upper East region to start their own business. It intends to contribute to, and criticize, the dominant discourse in the global development agenda on the need to advance entrepreneurship.
01 October 2015
01 October 2015
Stephen Ellis' wife Gerrie ter Haar, Honorary Fellow of the ASC Community, would like to thank all of you for your expressions of sympathy following Stephen’s death. She is also grateful for the practical support provided to her to finalise some of Stephen’s work. This includes his book on the history of organized crime in Nigeria that is scheduled for publication in Spring next year, in the UK as well as in the US. Two academic articles that Stephen finished also shortly before his death will be published in the next couple of months. Read the thank-you card here.
24 September 2015
Ms Sheila Keetharuth, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea, will give a lecture at the ASC on Tuesday 29 September, followed by a discussion. During the meeting, economic and social-cultural human rights, as well as children’s rights, in particular of unaccompanied migrant children, will be discussed. Young Eritreans flee the country massively. After Syria, it is the country most refugees entering Europe originate from. Ms Keetharuth presented her report on the human rights situation in Eritrea last June.
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