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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
15 January 2015
12 January 2015
Muhammadu Buhari has won the presidential elections in Nigeria. What's to be expected of his new government in terms of the economy? On 22 April, the ASC organizes a Country Meeting about Nigeria with the theme: 'The incoming government and its implication for Nigeria’s growth and economic transformation 2015-2019'. Keynote speeches will be given by Dr David Ehrhardt (assistant Professor in International Development, Leiden University College) and Dr Dele Olowu (consultant on governance and capacity development). You may also want to read the new web article on the election results by ASC researcher Akinyinka Akinyoade.
12 January 2015
Recent years have seen a sharp increase in speculations that China’s development trajectory may provide a model for African states. This seminar by Elsje Fourie (University of Maastricht) on 19 February examines the ideational influence of China’s development on developing country elites. Elites in two country cases - Ethiopia and Kenya - indeed look outside their borders for exemplars of development. China, however, is viewed as only one source of potential ‘lessons’.
09 January 2015
Asian Tigers, African Lions: Comparing the Development Performance of Southeast Asia and Africa, published by Brill in 2013 and coordinated by the African Studies Centre and the KITLV in Leiden, has won a Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award 2014! Asian Tigers, African Lions contains contributions by scholars and (former) diplomats comparing the performance of development of four pairs of countries in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. The review that appeared in Choice in May 2014 called the book 'essential'.
09 January 2015
ASC senior researcher André Leliveld, who is also a researcher within the Centre for Frugal Innovation in Africa (CFIA), gave a web lecture about frugal innovations and inclusive economic growth. Frugal innovations can be described as sober but ingenious products and services for small budgets and local conditions. The Centre for Frugal Innovation in Africa is a joint multidisciplinary centre of the Leiden, Delft and Erasmus universities.
09 January 2015
Museums in Western countries that possess cultural objects acquired during the European colonial era, try to ‘decolonise’ their practices and relations with museums in former colonies. Yet they have difficulty to seriously rethink the distribution of these objects. In the 1970s, Indonesia and the Netherlands, and Belgium and Zaire agreed upon new cultural relations, including the transfer of a number of museum items. At present, Nigeria is in discussion with some Western museums about Benin art treasures seized by British soldiers in 1897. In this ASC seminar on 12 March, PhD researcher Jos van Beurden (VU University) will analyse the agreements of the 1970s and the ongoing process between Nigeria and Europe.
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