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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
05 September 2013
05 September 2013
04 September 2013
Fred van der Kraaij’s boek ‘Liberia: van Vrijheidsideaal naar Verloren Paradijs’ wordt vrijdag 18 oktober tijdens een speciale Liberia-bijeenkomst gepresenteerd. Het boek is Van der Kraaij's persoonlijke relaas van het veelbelovende land waar hij in de jaren 70 werkte, en dat veertig jaar later bezig is te herstellen van twee gruwelijke burgeroorlogen. Bijdragen deze middag komen o.a. van de consul van Liberia in Nederland, van de NABC over de handelsmissie naar Liberia en van Stephen Ellis over verzoening.
03 September 2013
Studies on North Africa have usually been included within the scope of research on the Arab world and on the Middle Eastern world. 'The rest' of Africa, on the other hand, has been approached as a relatively homogeneous world labelled sub-Sahara or ‘black’ Africa. This will be discussed at a workshop on Friday 20 September. Please note the changed location: Huizinga building, Doelensteeg 16, Leiden, room 004.
03 September 2013
This book is about the history of consumption and social change from 1840 until 1980 in Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Angola. Topics range from the social history of firearms to the perception of the railway and include contributions on sewing machines, traders and advertising. By looking at the socio-economic, political and cultural meaning and impact of goods, the history of Central Africa is reassessed.
28 August 2013
Transnational corporations are increasingly important players in the development arena under the banner of corporate social responsibility (CSR). The CSR movement promises to use the global resources of corporations to the benefit of local development. In today’s seminar, Dinah Rajak of the University of Sussex argues that CSR generates new processes of exclusion and inequality, inspiring deference and dependence, rather than autonomy and empowerment. Rajak takes the world’s third biggest mining company, from their headquarters in London to the platinum mines of South Africa, as an example.
26 August 2013
Are you interested in studying Africa from a social-sciences perspective? Read what our two-year Research Masters in African Studies has to offer! The blog is written by current students and it’ll give you an idea about their first-year courses and the fieldwork they did in Africa in their second year.
26 August 2013
In een muzikale monoloog vertelt acteur Raymi Sambo het verhaal van de Congolese professor Kanouté, die zijn studenten tot kritisch nadenken stimuleerde. Hij vluchtte na een periode in de gevangenis naar het Westen. De monoloog is gebaseerd op het leven van de Congolese onderzoeker Felix Kaputu, verbonden aan het Afrika-Studiecentrum en eveneens spreker op deze bijzondere avond, 16 oktober in Leiden. Language: Dutch/English. Let op! Nieuwe locatie / Please note! Change of location: Burumazaal, LUMC-onderwijsgebouw, Gebouw 3, Hippocratespad 21, 2333 ZD, Leiden.
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