News & Events

The 7th European Conference on African Studies ECAS 2017 will take place 28 June - 1 July 2017 in Basel. This year's theme: Urban Africa - Urban Africans: New Encounters of the Rural and the Urban. Many ASCL researchers and other Leiden University Africanists will organize a panel or present a paper. ASCL senior researcher Prof. Mirjam de Bruijn will give the Carl Schlettwein Lecture Digitalisation and the Field of African Studies on 28 June.

Prof. Muna Ndulo from Cornell University gave an inspiring Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture on 17 November on the topic of Ethnicity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Constitution Making in Africa. If you missed the lecture, you can now read the full text and check out the pictures! A video registration of the evening will be added soon. 

ASCL director Ton Dietz gave a closing speech at the end of the two-day international conference AfricaWorks! 2016 in Amsterdam, which was a big success. The theme of this year's conference was Innovation in Finance. In his speech, Dietz highlighted the fact that we need to look not only at matters like access to finance, finance for SMEs and finance for development, but also at finance and integrity.

On the occasion of the Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture by Prof. Muna Ndulo on Ethnicity, diversity, inclusivity and constitution making in Africa (17 November) the library has compiled a web dossier on African constitutions. It contains titles available in the library and published in the past six years. The dossier opens with a thematic introduction by Professor Nick Huls, Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Law, Leiden University, followed by an overview of constitutional texts. It concludes with links to relevant websites. Visit the web dossier!