News & Events

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has announced that Tanja Hendriks, along with 17 Leiden University researchers, will receive a Veni grant, embedded at the ASCL. Hendriks will work on the research project 'Taking risks with disasters: speculative humanitarianism and climate change in Malawi'.

In a blog for the Global Health in Africa course of the Research Master African Studies, student Christiana Banja argues that we need to think differently about health in Africa: one that is fair, respectful, and includes everyone’s voice.

This year's annual meeting of the European Librarians in African Studies (ELIAS), entitled African collections: from collecting to sharing and repatriating was held in Prague on 24 June. It was an inspiring opportunity to exchange information, connect with professionals in the field, and to discuss developments in information and library science. 

In April 2023 violence erupted in Sudan between the armed forces and the RSF. Since then, the violence has taken the lives of more than 150,000 people and displaced over 12,000. In the media this conflict has received limited attention. The African Library has been keeping track of selected resources.

On 7 July, we celebrate World Kiswahili Language Day. Swahili is one of the most widely spoken languages of the African linguistic family and the most commonly used language in sub-Saharan Africa. It ranks among the top-ten most spoken languages in the world. 

After four days of exchanging knowledge, networking, and gathering new ideas at the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS, 25-28 June), the ASCL delegation left Prague more than inspired. ECAS 2025 engaged with 'African, Afropolitan and Afropean forms of belonging and positioning'.