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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
26 February 2015
The Centre for Frugal Innovation in Africa has received funding from the Responsible Innovation programme of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for a four-year project. Researchers of the Centre - in which the Leiden, Delft and Erasmus universities work together with Dutch companies and African entrepreneurs - aim to develop new 'inclusive business models' for successful innovation in Africa. The project is co-funded by three Dutch companies: Royal Philips and the water companies OASEN and Hatenboer.
23 February 2015
Filmmaker Bert Haitsma kindly donated copies of two South African documentaries to the ASC Library: 1994: The Bloody Miracle, directed by Meg Rickards and Bert Haitsma, and Forerunners: South Africa's new middle class, directed by Simon Wood. The first film reveals the plans for a military coup and a plot to kidnap Mandela and other new leaders in the run-up to the elections in 1994. The second film is about the first generation of black South Africans to join the country's middle class. The films are the subject of our latest Acquisition Highlight!
23 February 2015
The Kenya Coast - Social Sciences Portal is a service provided by the African Studies Centre in Leiden for students, researchers, development workers, government officials and all others interested. The Kenya Coast is a region with distinct geographical, economic and social characteristics. It has a long history of intercontinental trade and cultural exchange with other communities along the East African coast as well as with the Middle East and South Asia. Due to its cultural diversity and varied history, the Coast has attracted the attention of many researchers over the years. This Portal provides digital follow-up to the Kenya Coast Handbook (2000).
23 February 2015
The ASC exhibits photos of colourful wall paintings in Northern Ethiopian churches until 1 July. The paintings represent scenes from the Old and New Testament and scenes of the history of the Ethiopian Orthodox (Christian) Church. Amateur photographer Pieter de Kleer travelled through Northern Ethiopia some years ago and was impressed by the beautiful religious paintings he found in places like Gondar, Lalibela, Aksum and around Lake Tana. Most of the paintings are several hundreds years old. The exhibition can be seen in the ASC Library (ground floor) and in the corridors at the third floor.
19 February 2015
Many African countries have experienced sustained economic growth, but few have achieved the type of structural change, driven by rising productivity, that has transformed mass living standards in parts of Asia. In the Developmental Regimes in Africa Synthesis Report, editor David Booth examines how DRA research has shed new light on how developmental regimes might emerge and be sustained in Africa in the 21st century. Among the other authors are the ASC's Ton Dietz and André Leliveld, with a contribution on the Agricultural ‘pockets of effectiveness’ in Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda since 2000.
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