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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
06 May 2014
To coincide with the general elections in South Africa on 7 May, the ASC Library has compiled a new web dossier, containing titles on (the current and former) elections in South Africa from the library's online catalogue published since 1993. It includes monographs, articles and chapters from edited works, a selection of links to relevant web sites and an introduction to South African elections since the end of apartheid. Read the web dossier!
06 May 2014
The South African general elections will be held on 7 May 2014. The ASC offers the opportunity to follow these elections closely, using different sources like Twitter, newspapers, tv stations and news websites. Check out the ASC liveblog from 6-8 May! Please refresh the webpage to see the latest updates. Tip: In almost all browsers, pressing F5 (CTRL+F5) will force the browser to retrieve the webpage from the server instead of loading it from the cache.
06 May 2014
The African Studies Centre, the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS/EUR) and globalization think tank The Broker are excited to announce that they will be hosting the Secretariat for the Knowledge Platform on Development Policies. The core themes developed in this Platform are productive employment, strategic actors for inclusive development and social protection. The Knowledge Platform on Development Policies is one of the five Knowledge Platforms that the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs launched in June 2012.
06 May 2014
The ASC seminar on 26 June by visiting fellow Samuel Ntewusu (University of Ghana) is about the 'Great North Road' linking the north of the Gold Coast (present day Ghana) to the south. Scholars usually discuss the road in terms of the role it played in the movement of goods. Yet the focus of this presentation will be on the road itself. Ntewusu will discuss labour issues, the development of settlements, important religious rituals and trajectories of diseases that emerged on the road.
02 May 2014
On Thursday 5 June Lieve Joris will give a presentation about her newest book 'Op de vleugels van de draak' (On The Wings of The Dragon). In this book, for which she won the VPRO Bob den Uyl prize 2014, Joris journeys between Africa and China. She submerges herself in the world of Africans and Chinese who venture into each other’s territory in the slipstream of the big business contracts. Seada Nourhussen, Africa journalist at Trouw, will interview Lieve Joris. Language: English.
02 May 2014
On the occasion of the recently published book ‘Among the Mende in Sierra Leone. Letters from Sjoerd Hofstra, 1934-36’ the ASC organizes a seminar on 3 July about anthropologist Sjoerd Hofstra, who did the first major ethnographic study of the Mende people in the Upper West African forest (Sierra Leone) in the 1930s. Hofstra never completed his study, yet made a few hundred photos and wrote extensive letters home. These letters, edited by Hofstra’s daughter and sociologist Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra, form the basis of the book. At the seminar, Paul Richards of Njala University, Sierra Leone, will evaluate the significance of Hofstra's contribution to our understanding of the Mende.
02 May 2014
This seminar on 10 July will discuss resistance and collaboration during the Italian Fascist occupation of Ethiopia, 1935-41, the prelude to World Word II. Shiferaw Bekele, Associate Professor of History at Addis Ababa University, will cast a new glance on the topic on the basis of old and new sources: memoirs of Ethiopian veterans and patriots, autobiographies of Italian participants, and reports of members of the British armed forces who fought in Ethiopia to oust the Italians in 1940-41. Bekele's findings are that ’community collaboration’ from clans, parts of ethnic groups or religious communities, was quite large-scale. Except for the first year of the occupation, resistance was not widespread.
28 April 2014
Are you a student in the Netherlands or another EU country, and are you interested in Africa? You can then apply for the 2-year Research Masters in African Studies which is run by the African Studies Centre and Leiden University. The Research Masters at the ASC is unique in the Netherlands: it is the only programme with full focus on Africa and its global connections. The programme involves intensive course works in Leiden and possibilities for research in Africa. The ASC offers an attractive learning environment with excellent library services, international co-students and supervision by renowned researchers. Read all about the September 2014 intake and the entry requirements.
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