News & Events

In this seminar on 31 May, Wayne Modest (Director of Content of the National Museum of World Culture) will explore the demands to decolonise museums and other heritage institutions, and the museums’ responses. He remains close to his own experience, focusing on the Tropenmuseum.

Annachiara Raia has received funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for the research project 'Forging Transoceanic Muslim Histories: Swahili Literary Networks on the 20th-Century Indian Ocean Coast'. From the 1930s in East Africa, a massive print production of Swahili religious pocket literature started.

'Period poverty' is a term used to refer to the insufficient access of millions of girls and women around the globe to the sanitary products and facilities they need when menstruating. It is a situation that hugely affects girls' physical and mental well-being, and one that undermines their confidence to go to school. My First Time, by Janet Mbugua, is a collection of personal stories of more than 50 Kenyan women about the first time they menstruated and how they dealt with their period as a girl. My First Time is the subject of our new Library Highlight!

An account of D. Elwood Dunn's triple careers in academia, and services to two distinct governments of Liberia: William R. Tolbert’s and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s (consultant). Situated between the crisis years of the True Whig Party (TWP) regime and the hopeful years of the first post-civil war government stand more than three decades of teaching, research and public intellectual engagement. The author employs a rich repertoire of unpublished documents that include his personal cabinet notes and a wide range of government papers.