News & Events

Students from the 2024-2025 minor African Dynamics attended an engaging Academic Podcast Workshop in a professional podcast studio. For this year’s assignments, the students explored the importance of interdisciplinary approaches in addressing complex global challenges. 

Jon Abbink's blog,The Sudan Impasse 2023-2025: Prospects for ‘Normal Politics’, discusses the ongoing devastating conflict in Sudan, which has persisted for nearly two years, leading to widespread suffering and humanitarian crises. 

Dr Xianan Jin examines how Rwanda’s focus on increasing women’s representation in politics connects to its tight government control and suppression of protests rooted in everyday struggles for economic and social justice. 

The Student Assistant will support the LUGF-funded project titled:  The operations of Multinational Corporations (MNCs) in Conflict Areas towards developing a conceptual framework.

On 24 January 1960,  Sierra Leone Creole advocate, activist, teacher, fiction writer, and feminist, Adelaide Casely-Hayford passed away.  As a pioneer of women's education in Sierra Leone, she played a key role in popularizing Pan-Africanist and feminist politics in the early 1900s.

This seminar by Valentina Fusari (University of Turin) explores the lives of multiracial people in the Red Sea region from the 1800s to the 2000s. The Red Sea connects Africa, the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean, making it a meeting point of different people and histories.

Bij het Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden (ASCL), Universiteit Leiden, is een vacature voor een Student-assistent secretariaat voor ongeveer 16 uur per week, met ingang van 3 maart 2025.