News & Events
Find the latest news below, and our event calendar on the right.
Would you like to stay updated on our latest research news, publications and events? Please subscribe to our monthly newsletter!
Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
26 August 2014
The African Studies Centre and the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden offer a joint fellowship of (maximum) 6 months. The fellowship is intended for researchers specialising in Asian-African interactions. We are particularly interested in proposals that go beyond a mere analysis of current issues associated with African-Asian comparative economic developments or Chinese investments in Africa - although these themes will not be excluded. Deadline for application: 15 September!
25 August 2014
25 August 2014
18 August 2014
ASC researcher Wijnand Klaver contributed to an article in Chronica Horticulturae, coinciding with the XXIX International Horticultural Congress in Brisbane. While a healthy diet is based on a diversity of foods, in Africa many people rely on monotonous diets. As a consequence, more people suffer from ‘hidden hunger’ than from overt starvation. This article proposes for tropical Africa a doubling of the present intake of about 100 g of vegetables as a long-term realistic target.
15 August 2014
ASC senior researcher Jon Abbink wrote an article for the Journal of Eastern African Studies about the recent Muslim protest movement in Ethiopia and the response to it by the government in the light of the secular state model. While the challenges to it also extend to the large Christian community in Ethiopia, the problems became prominent mainly in the case of the Muslims, who contest perceived 'government interference' in their community life.
24 July 2014
On 23 September, Iva Peša will defend her PhD thesis Moving along the roadside: A social history of Mwinilunga District, 1870s-1970s, at Leiden University. This thesis aims to understand how the process of social change has been negotiated in the area of Mwinilunga, a district in the north-west of Zambia, between the 1870s and the 1970s. It looks at the process of social change by tackling four aspects in detail: production, mobility, consumption and social relationships.
21 July 2014
Jo Jordan describes herself as one of those who would rather “hear the flatulence of camels than the prayers of the fishes”.
This perfectly sets the tone of the book she writes about her life and the adventures she has travelling through Africa’s vast geography and cultures.
Inspired by a grainy black and white film of an overland journey across the Sahara to Nigeria and stumbling across a small ad in the Observer announcing an 18-week overland trip to South Africa, the author left 'swinging sixties' London behind and never looked back.
21 July 2014
The African Studies Centre and Community mourn the loss of Joep Lange. Joep Lange was one of the world’s most prominent HIV-AIDS researchers and academic activists, who died in the crash that followed the attack on Malaysian Airways Flight 17 in Ukraine, on July 17, 2014. Joep Lange’s work has been very important for the fight against HIV-AIDS in Africa and elsewhere and many Africans still live decent lives thanks to his tireless efforts. Joep Lange was chair of the International AIDS Society, co-founder of the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health And Development, of Pharmaccess and of the Health Insurance Fund.
Pages
26 September 2024
10 October 2024