News & Events

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Netherlands Association for Africa Studies, NVAS, NUFFIC and HHS are organizing a conference about “Education for life in Africa”. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for education stakeholders in Africa to exchange ideas about how to attain and sustain quality at all levels of education in Africa. Check out the web dossier made by the ASCL Library, and the thematic map on education in Africa, published by the ASCL and ICLON.

Because of the forthcoming retirement of our current director, the ASCL is looking for a new director who is a professor with international acclaim as a scholar in African Studies. The new director should be able to propagate a clear vision on African Studies and its future. The ASCL is an interfaculty institute of Leiden University. Read the full text of the vacancy. Application deadline: 1 February 2017.

Ethiopian prosecutors have brought multiple criminal charges against Dr. Merera Gudina, a political scientist and chairman of the Oromo Federalist Congress in Ethiopia. Dr Merera was arrested on 1 December 2016. The African Studies Centre Leiden is concerned about Merera, who has been a visiting scholar to the African Studies Centre Leiden twice.

Eline Sleurink, MA student African Studies at Leiden University, has won a blog competition for first-year students of the (Research) Master in African Studies. The assignment was to write a blog about what is ‘African’ in African Studies and what is your motivation to study African Studies. Eline’s blog was selected by the jury as the best among the sixteen papers submitted. Read her blog Africa at the forefronts of 'firsts'.