News & Events
Find the latest news below, and our event calendar on the right.
Would you like to stay updated on our latest research news, publications and events? Please subscribe to our monthly newsletter!
Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
30 June 2020
'For gathering information about Africa there is no better place in the Netherlands than the library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden'. Marijke Boter wrote an article about the wealth of the ASCL Library on Voertaal.
26 June 2020
On the occasion of the Africa 2020 year, the ASCL has created Infosheets about the countries that became independent in 1960. Of the seventeen colonies gaining independence in that year, Congo (earlier known as Zaire, nowadays called the Democratic Republic of the Congo) was the fifth one: on 30 June. Congo had been a Belgian colony from 1908 until 1960, after having been a ‘Free State’ under a company owned by the Belgian King Leopold II from 1884.
26 June 2020
Rahmane Idrissa published a new article in the London Review of Books Diary, travelling to Djenné to discover more about the history of the Songhay Empire. Songhay was one of the largest states ever established in Sub-Saharan Africa; for much of the 15th and most of the 16th century, it ruled over what is now Mali, as well as parts of Senegal, Mauritania and Niger, northern Benin and north-western Nigeria.
Pages
20 November 2024
21 November 2024