Podcasts

The ASCL presents podcasts that have been created either by its students in the framework of their assignments, or by ASCL staff members in the context of their projects. Most podcasts can be listened to on the platform SoundCloud.
 

Urban Uncovered podcast series

The Urban Uncovered podcast series is an initiative of LDE Global (in which the Leiden, Delft, and Erasmus universities work together on global challenges). Mandipa Ndlovu, PhD candidate at the ASCL, hosts the podcast and takes you on a journey through the heart of urban transformation. 

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African Dynamics podcast series

 
As part of their curriculum, students of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus minor African Dynamics create podcasts. Check out the series of the past three years:
 
 
For this series, students of the 2022-2023 LDE master African Dynamics collaborated with their peers from the University of Nairobi and the Namibian University of Science in Technology. The theme of the series is Youth as Actors of Change.
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For this series, students of the 2021-2022 LDE minor African Dynamics interviewed African academics working at Leiden University, Delft University of Technology, and Erasmus University about the role of the diaspora.
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#1 'Africa Knows!'

For this series, students of the 2020-2021 LDE minor African Dynamics interviewed selected participants in the conference Africa Knows! It is time to decolonise minds. This was the closing conference of the special Africa 2020 year in which 17 countries on the African continent celebrated 60 years of independence. While decolonising knowledge is a major subject in these podcasts, a wide range of topics is being discussed.
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Photo credit Youth as actors for change: DFID - UK Department for International Development, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.