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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
31 October 2013
Hans Muller and Arie Sonneveld have been selected as 'Wikipedians in Special Residence' at twelve scientific libraries in the Netherlands. Participating libraries vary from the African Studies Centre Library to the Rijksmuseum Library and the Peace Palace Library. From November 2013 until December 2014 the two Wikipedians hope to raise the diversity and quality of Wikipedia through the collections and knowledge present at these institutions, and enhance Wikipedia skills of the staff.
28 October 2013
Swahili, Somali, Xhosa, Zulu, Berber, Hausa… het zijn slechts een paar van de tweeduizend talen die in Afrika gesproken worden. Voor het Nederlandse publiek is er een website over die talenrijkdom, stemmenvanafrika.nl, opgezet door een team onder leiding van Maarten Mous, hoogleraar Afrikaanse Taalkunde aan de Universiteit Leiden, en Pieter Muysken, hoogleraar Taalwetenschap aan de Radboud Universiteit. Stemmenvanafrika wil mensen aan het denken zetten en waardering wekken voor de diversiteit van Afrika.
25 October 2013
Roger Nord, Deputy Director of the IMF’s African Department, spoke about Africa's strong economic performance at the ASC seminar on 22 November. He cited the latest IMF's Regional Economic Outlook: Sub-Saharan Africa (Oct 2013), which you can now read on our website, as well as his lecture.
22 October 2013
Due to the scarcity of rental property in South Africa’s rural areas, real-estate entrepreneurship has become a highly lucrative enterprise. While for many South African entrepreneurs the high rents are a struggle, they do not deter migrants, in particular from China. This ASC seminar by Nkululeko Mabandla from the University of Cape Town will show how these processes are leading to forms of class realignment and changing patterns of consumption in South Africa’s rural towns.
22 October 2013
In line with many West African nations, Niger’s democratization process in the early 1990s led to the spread of Orthodox Sunni Islam (Salafism). However, in contrast to neighbouring countries, Niger has not experienced large-scale Islamic violence nor have the various governments given in to Islamic demands to abandon the secular state. Salafism remained ‘quietist’. The seminar by Dr. Sebastian Elischer on Thursday 12 December will try to identify the causes that have led to the rise of quietist Salafism.
21 October 2013
Social Protection is high on the development agenda. In African countries governments, NGOs, donor agencies and the private sector have been involved in social protection initiatives which run alongside local and informal mechanisms of social support. The Library of the African Studies Centre has compiled a new (bibliographic) web dossier on this subject, containing titles available in the ASC Library. Simultaneously, ASC partner The Broker has published a dossier about social protection.
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