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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
06 February 2023
Rachel Dubale, research master student African Studies, is doing research about the effects of large-scale urban development plans in Ethiopia. What has relocation from the slums of Addis Ababa to condominium complexes in the outskirts of the city done to the community's social fabric?
02 February 2023
On the occasion of the upcoming general and presidential elections in Nigeria (scheduled for 25 February), the ASCL, in collaboration with the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs and the ASCL Community, will organise a panel discussion on Tuesday 14 February.
02 February 2023
(Book in Dutch). Roel Coutinho publishes his diary and photos of his time as a young doctor in Guinea-Bissau in the 1970s. Guinea-Bissau gained independence from Portugal in 1974. During his time there and in Senegal Coutinho took hundreds of photos, which have been made available on Wikimedia Commons by the ASCL Library. The ASCL now publishes his book.
02 February 2023
This book honours Bob Wishitemi, Professor of Tourism and Wildlife Management at Moi University. Commemorating his death in 2021, it presents a variety of approaches to the major challenges facing sustainable tourism in Sub-Saharan Africa: climate change and biodiversity loss. Open access!
01 February 2023
31 January 2023
This book, edited by Annachiara Raia and Clarissa Vierke, is a pioneering collection of poetry by the outstanding Kenyan poet and imam Ustadh Mahmmoud Mau from Lamu island, once an Indian Ocean hub, now on the edge of the nation state. By means of poetry in Arabic script, he raises his voice against social ills and injustices troubling his community on Lamu.
31 January 2023
Robert Okello (Development Studies, International Institute of Social Studies) is the winner of the Africa Thesis Award 2022. He wrote his thesis on the legal empowerment of rural women through digital technology in Northern Uganda. His thesis was partly inspired by the experiences of his mother with the Ugandan legal system.