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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
14 January 2014
Rhodesia was founded as a colony in 1890; most of its white population only arrived after World War II. The country did not have a deep history to tie white settlers’ loyalty to the land. So why would citizens fight a 14-year guerrilla war for its sake? That question is complicated by the respective rights and obligations of citizenship and residency. This seminar on 3 April by Luise White will argue that this complexity can only be understood by considering many sources: especially memoir and fiction.
13 January 2014
The fourth and latest report in the series Agricultural Dynamics and Food Security Trends has just been published: the one about Kenya. As part of the Developmental Regimes in Africa (DRA) project, four case studies were done about the most promising agricultural sectors in Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya. The DRA project is a collaborative venture between the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) in the UK and the ASC in Leiden, and is funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
10 January 2014
Nigerian scholar Chibuike Uche started as a senior researcher at the African Studies Centre as of 1 January 2014. Prior to joining the ASC, he was Professor of Banking and Financial Institutions at the University of Nigeria and a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria. Chibuike has a PhD in accounting and finance from the London School of Economics. His current research focus is on the political economy of foreign business operations in Africa.
10 January 2014
January 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the so-called Zanzibar Revolution on Sunday 12 January 1964. In the week following the toppling of the newly elected government, the Sultan of Oman fled the island and thousands of people were killed. While a lot of African citizens of Zanzibar will celebrate these events and see them as marking the beginning of the real era of independence, the January Revolution and its aftermath will be mourned by many others. Among them is the Omani writer Nasser Abdulla Al-Riyami, author of Zanzibar: Personalities & Events (1828-1972), subject of our latest Acquisition Highlight.
09 January 2014
09 January 2014
You are cordially invited to the opening of the ASC's new exhibition 'Look at you' on Tuesday 11 February. The exhibition is a duo-expo of works by visual artist Frouwkje Smit and documentary photographer Karine Versluis. How do we look at the African continent, and how do they look at us? How is our perception of the other formed? There will be lectures and a discussion with Professor Felix Kaputu from the Democratic Republic of Congo, who for the last seven years worked in the USA, Japan and Europe.
08 January 2014
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