News & Events

South Africa is battling growing anti-immigrant attitudes driven by vigilante groups. PhD candidate Tinashe Chimbidzikai writes about how anti-immigrant sentiments have become episodic, in the ASCL Africanist Blog.

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.