News & Events

The African Studies Centre Leiden is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year! We will organise a day full of festivities highlighting this anniversary, which will take place on Thursday 8 September at the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden. 

The student members of the African Studies programme committee have nominated Akinyinka Akinyoade for the Faculty Education Award. Each year, the Faculty of Humanities awards the Faculty Education Prize to the best university lecturer. Akinyoade's nomination relates to the Master's programme, in which he teaches several courses.

On 27 June 2011, Mozambican writer, journalist and political activist Lina Júlia Francisco Magaia died in Maputo. While still at school she joined the Mozambican Liberation Front and was imprisoned for three months for political activities. Read the Library Weekly!

We are saddened by the news that fellow Africanist Paul Hebinck passed away on 21 June. Paul worked at Wageningen University until his formal retirement three years ago. He was involved in the ASCL as a teacher in the Research Master African Studies, in various conferences, and as a Community member.

On 20 June 1920, Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola was born in Abeokuta. When Amos was seven years old, he became a servant for F. O. Monu, an Igbo man, who sent him to the Salvation Army primary school in lieu of wages. Read the Library Weekly!

The ASCL calls for applications for its Visiting Fellowship Programme in 2024. Visiting fellows use their time in Leiden for data analysis and/or writing, often on a joint project with one or more ASCL staff members. Applicants must indicate the Collaborative Research Group they want to be linked with. Application deadline: 21 May 2023.