News & Events

The new ASC research project 'Society and Change in Northern Ghana: Dagomba, Gonja, and the Regional Perspective on Ghanaian History' will be presented on 9 April. In this project, the ASC works together with the University of Ghana at Legon and the University for Development Studies in Tamale & Wa. The project aims to develop alternative views on the position of Northern Ghana, in particular the regions of Dagomba and Gonja, in the context of long-term processes of change and social-economic and political inclusion and exclusion. 

Visiting fellow Christopher J. Lee (University of the Witwatersrand) will talk about his new book Unreasonable Histories during the ASC seminar on Thursday 26 March. At the book's core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa - contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia - from the 1910s to the 1960s. Drawing on a spectrum of evidence, Lee traces the emergence of Anglo-African, Euro-African, and Eurafrican subjectivities which constituted a grassroots Afro-Britishness that defied colonial categories of native and non-native.

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Namibia's independence, the ASC organized a Country Meeting on 6 March 2015. Among the speakers were Prof. Jan-Bart Gewald, Leonor Jonker and Dr Stasja Koot. Prof. Gewald spoke about Namibia's achievement of having peace for 25 years now. Leonor Jonker (Utrecht University) talked about the continuing controversy surrounding the return and retention of Namibian skulls from Germany, while Dr Koot dwelled on tourism and the position of Bushmen in contemporary Namibia.