News & Events

PhD candidate Loes Oudenhuijsen has been awarded the 2022 Queer African Studies Association Prize for the Best Published Scholarly Essay by a Graduate Student. She won the prize for her article ‘Quietly Queer(ing): the Normative Value of Sutura and Its Potential for Young Women in Urban Senegal’, published in Africa in 2021. Congratulations Loes!

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary conference of the NVAS (Netherlands Association for African Studies) on 9 and 10 December, the ASCL Library compiled a web dossier on language, conciliation and conflict in Africa. 

On 8 December 1961, Santomean poet and journalist, Maria da Conceição de Deus Lima, also known as Conceição Lima, was born in Santana on São Tomé. According to Santomean literary critic Inocência Mata, Conceição Lima's poetry is a conscious voice that addresses Europe with an accusation of the suffering that has occurred for centuries in Santomean society.

After a bloody war of independence in the 1950s and 1960s, Algeria became independent from France in 1962. Read about the country's recent history, demographic and social-economic developments, urbanisation, agricultural developments, and regional inequality.