Past events

02 May 2019
LeidenASA Workshop: Tracing African Infrastructures. From Colonial Grand Schemes to Contemporary Mega-Projects

01 May 2019
Seminar: South African Elections Approach: Has the Liberation Dream been Realised?
Speaker: Barry Gilder

11 April 2019
CANCELLED: ASCL Seminar Series: Islamist militancy in the Sahel: Critical reflections
Speaker: Prof. Hussein Solomon, University of the Free State

08 April 2019 to 09 April 2019
Africa Works! Conference: panel discussion with Akinyinka Akinyoade

02 April 2019
LeidenASA seminar: Digital cultures, gender and sexuality in Contemporary Cameroon
Speaker: Larissa Kojoue

26 March 2019
LeidenASA Lecture: The Influence of Human Capital and Labour Market Among Youth for Agripreneurship Development in Nigeria
Speaker: Dr. Adeola Oloyede, University of Ilorin, Nigeria

19 March 2019
LeidenASA Lecture: Hogbetsotso rituals and their cultural significance
Speaker: Dr Kofi Dorvlo

14 March 2019
ASCL Seminar Series: 'Fear of the trader at Whitehall': UAC-Government relations in British West Africa, 1929-1941
Speaker: Ayodeji Olukoju, University of Lagos

04 March 2019
Dubbele book launch: Over insiders en outsiders in ontwikkelingssamenwerking

18 February 2019
Seminar: The Pioneers (Voortrekkers) monument in Pretoria. Classical ideals and Afrikaner ideologies
Speaker: Rolf Michael Schneider, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

07 February 2019
Documentary screening on a mining conflict in KwaZulu-Natal: This land

31 January 2019
ASCL Seminar Series: Before Johannesburg; a newly discovered Tswana city from around AD 1800
Speaker: Karim Sadr, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

13 December 2018
LeidenASA Annual Meeting

12 December 2018
Country Meeting: Ethiopia

10 December 2018
Seminar: Innovation for Inclusive Development and Innovation platforms in Africa
Speaker: Sara Grobbelaar, CREST, Stellenbosch University

06 December 2018
Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture by Henrietta Moore: What is prosperity for Africa?
Speaker: Prof. Henrietta Moore

30 November 2018
Book presentation: More than just an object. A material analysis of the return and retention of Namibian skulls from Germany

30 November 2018
Workshop: Business Practices, Governance and Ethics in Africa

29 November 2018
ASCL Seminar Series: Pastoral associations in the face of social change in the nomadic world
Speaker: Dr Mahaman Tidjani Alou, LASDEL, Niamey

27 November 2018
Seminar: Kanga: the ‘talking cloth of the Indian Ocean’
Speaker: Renu Modi, Centre for African Studies, Mumbai

26 November 2018
Presentation: Bram Vermeulen on VPRO documentary ‘Sahara’

15 November 2018
LeidenASA Seminar: Landscape Terms, Placenames and Spatial Language in Asᴐgli Ewe
Speaker: Mercy Adzo Klugah

12 November 2018
LeidenASA Seminar: Les Lieux de mémoire de la traite négrière à Brazzaville
Speaker: Joseph Zidi

09 November 2018
LeidenASA Seminar: The Role of Service-Learning in Preparing Students for the Labour Market
Speaker: Dr Titus Pacho

06 November 2018
LeidenASA Seminar: African topographies in India: mapping a research across Indian Ocean heritages, African prints and art practices
Speaker: Pedro Sobral Pombo

05 November 2018
Seminar: Innovation in Africa’s Financial Services: From high impact entrepreneurship to informal savings groups
Speaker: Dana T. Redford

01 November 2018
Seminar: The aftermath of demobilization for children and youth in the Central African Republic

29 October 2018
Seminar: Oil’s Destructive Peace: A history of symbolic violence and anomie in Gamba, Gabon
Speaker: Joseph Mangarella, PhD candidate at the African Studies Centre Leiden

26 October 2018
Workshop: Words in Action? Exploring Local Perceptions of Persuasion and Propaganda as Verbal Performances in Africa

25 October 2018
Seminar by Michael Rowlands: The Dignity of Heritage?
Speaker: Michael Rowlands