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. 

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

Since the early 2000s, Rwanda has been praised for its high number of women in Parliament. However, critics argue that President Paul Kagame's government is an authoritarian regime that silences political opposition. Xianan Jin (University of Exeter) will explore this paradox during the ASCL Seminar on 3 April. Join us!

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.

During the Master's Open Day on Friday 14 February, you can find out all about the Master and Research Master in African Studies, the future prospects and what it's like to study at Leiden University. Come have a chat with students, alumni and lecturers and ask them your questions!