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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
13 February 2014
Two new researchers have started at the ASC: Fantu Cheru and Laura Mann. Professor Fantu Cheru is a political economist. His research concentrates on emerging powers and African development, natural resources governance, and South-South cooperation in agriculture and food security. Laura Mann is an economic sociologist whose research focuses on the political economy of markets in Africa. She received her Masters and PhD from the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Before joining the ASC, she worked at the Oxford Internet Institute.
11 February 2014
This Friday 14 February, 11:45, Lidewyde Berckmoes will defend her PhD thesis entitled 'Elusive Tactics: Urban Youth Navigating the Aftermath of War in Burundi'. This will take place at the VU University. Jan Abbink is her promotor. Everyone is welcome!
07 February 2014
The Liberian coastal town of Harper is no ordinary town. This much is immediately apparent when paging through the book A Dream Called Harper by Dutch photographer Martin Waalboer. The pictures, some in colour, others in black and white, show what remains today of this once-flourishing settlement of freed slaves who began to return from the southern states of the US to the land of their ancestors as early as the 1820s. A Dream Called Harper is the subject of our latest Acquisition Highlight.
07 February 2014
How can we imagine in today’s and tomorrow’s Africa a nation-state in which the cohabitation of ethnic groups forms a positive force? That is the crucial theme in the PhD Defence of Pascal Touoyem (Cameroon) on 18 February in Tilburg. The ethnic reality in Africa continues to be decisive as an absolute dimension of individual and collective life, which puts a heavy mortgage on the normal functioning of these nation-states. That is why the black continent is rich in failed states, or states on the road to failure or collapse. Please note that this PhD Defence will be in French.
03 February 2014
03 February 2014
Read the column of ASC director Ton Dietz in the latest issue of OneWorld Magazine. The title, 'Cultural Barbary', alludes to the decision making process related to the book collection of the Royal Tropical Institute, and its transfer to Egypt.
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