News & Events

ASC researcher Akinyinka Akinyoade was interviewed by EenVandaag television about Boko Haram on 13 April. It's been one year since Boko Haram kidnapped 200 girls. More than 1,5 million people have fled out of fear for the terrorist group's actions in northern Nigeria. The number of children that have fled has doubled to 800.000, as Unicef writes in a report.

Two PhD candidates that are closely related to the ASC, Angela Kronenburg García and Harrie Leyten, defended their PhD theses this week. Angela defended her thesis Contesting Control. Land and forest in the struggle for Loita Maasai self-government in Kenya at Wageningen University on 13 April. Harrie defended his thesis From idol to art. African 'objects with power': A challenge for missionaries, anthropologists and museum curators at Tilburg University on 15 April. His thesis has become a reflection of his long career.

During a joint lunch seminar on 13 May, organized by the ASC and the International Institute for Asian Studies, the relationship forged between states who follow a liberal economic model (mainly France, Japan and the US) and states directly involved in the investment of capital across their traditional borders (mainly China, Dubai and Malaysia) will be traced. Speaker is Samson A. Bezabeh, Visiting Fellow of the ASC and IIAS.

During the last months of 2014, Google Scholar approached the African Studies Centre and got permission to index the AfricaBib database and use the metadata in Google Scholar. This means in practice that the more than 216,000 records in AfricaBib will be more visible to scholars and other interested persons, and that more scholarly publications about and from Africa will receive the attention they deserve. More news about AfricaBib: as of January 2015, it is possible to search through all records simultaneously in a one-stop search.