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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
13 May 2015
The ASC Library recently developed two new subject alerts on inclusive development for INCLUDE:
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12 May 2015
Did you miss Rijk van Dijk's inaugural address as a Professor of Religion and Sexuality in Africa at the University of Amsterdam on 24 June? You can now read the full text of his address 'Faith in Romance. Toward an Anthropology of Romantic Relationships, Sexuality and Responsibility in African Christianities', published by the UvA.
08 May 2015
As a Zimbabwean playwright who lives in South Africa, Pedzisai Maedza, winner of the Africa Thesis Award 2014, in this web article reflects on the recent 'xenophobic' attacks against African immigrants in South Africa. Earlier, Maedza produced a play about the attacks on immigrants in South Africa in 2008. In 2014, he graduated with distinction at the University of Cape Town on a thesis that studies the use of testimonial performances around the concept of asylum.
04 May 2015
Globalisation, Football and emerging urban ‘tribes’: Fans of the European Leagues in a Nigerian city
01 May 2015
30 April 2015
The African Studies Centre Leiden organized a conference (on invitation) about the nature and extent of connections between Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and various jihadi movements in Africa on 27 March 2015. During the conference - convened by Professor Stephen Ellis and Professor Benjamin Soares - participants discussed the history, nature and relations of IS, Boko Haram, al-Shabaab and its Kenyan affiliate al-Hijra, and the African countries in which these movements are most active. You can now read the conference report.
29 April 2015
Harrie Leyten's PhD thesis has been published in the African Studies Collection. In the book, Leyten describes how missionaries, anthropologists and curators of ethnographic museums have tried to come to grips with objects with power over the years. The research is based on available literature and makes use of the author’s own experiences as a missionary, anthropologist, Africa curator, and lecturer in museology.
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