African Studies Centre Leiden
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The African Studies Centre Leiden of @unileiden.bsky.social is the only research centre on Africa in the Netherlands. African Library. Master and Graduate Programme. Seminars. Publications. Visiting fellows.
📝Reminder for the Stephen Ellis Debate on the role of African philosophy in the future of peace and security. With Prof. Mungwini, John Kegel, Angela Roothaan, Irma Specht and Jos Hummelen (Africast).
➡️ 4 December 2025 / 16:00–18:00 / Pieter de la Court Building, 1A20
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➡️ 4 December 2025 / 16:00–18:00 / Pieter de la Court Building, 1A20
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November 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
📝Reminder for the Stephen Ellis Debate on the role of African philosophy in the future of peace and security. With Prof. Mungwini, John Kegel, Angela Roothaan, Irma Specht and Jos Hummelen (Africast).
➡️ 4 December 2025 / 16:00–18:00 / Pieter de la Court Building, 1A20
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➡️ 4 December 2025 / 16:00–18:00 / Pieter de la Court Building, 1A20
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❓What if West African unity started with people, not politics?
Join our CRG Seminar to explore how Edward Blyden's people-centred vision of Pan-African unity still shapes West Africa today.
🗓️ 19/11/2025
🕐 15:00-17:00
📍 Room 0.31, Herta Mohr Building
🔗 Register: ascleiden.nl/news/crg-sem...
Join our CRG Seminar to explore how Edward Blyden's people-centred vision of Pan-African unity still shapes West Africa today.
🗓️ 19/11/2025
🕐 15:00-17:00
📍 Room 0.31, Herta Mohr Building
🔗 Register: ascleiden.nl/news/crg-sem...
November 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
❓What if West African unity started with people, not politics?
Join our CRG Seminar to explore how Edward Blyden's people-centred vision of Pan-African unity still shapes West Africa today.
🗓️ 19/11/2025
🕐 15:00-17:00
📍 Room 0.31, Herta Mohr Building
🔗 Register: ascleiden.nl/news/crg-sem...
Join our CRG Seminar to explore how Edward Blyden's people-centred vision of Pan-African unity still shapes West Africa today.
🗓️ 19/11/2025
🕐 15:00-17:00
📍 Room 0.31, Herta Mohr Building
🔗 Register: ascleiden.nl/news/crg-sem...
📣Reminder to join this Thursday's ASCL Seminar 'When Africans speak'!
🔗Information and registration: ascleiden.nl/news/ascl-se...
💭In preparation, read Madi Ditmars' blog about African philosophies and the interdependence of humans as social and collective beings: ascleiden.nl/content/ascl...
🔗Information and registration: ascleiden.nl/news/ascl-se...
💭In preparation, read Madi Ditmars' blog about African philosophies and the interdependence of humans as social and collective beings: ascleiden.nl/content/ascl...
November 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
📣Reminder to join this Thursday's ASCL Seminar 'When Africans speak'!
🔗Information and registration: ascleiden.nl/news/ascl-se...
💭In preparation, read Madi Ditmars' blog about African philosophies and the interdependence of humans as social and collective beings: ascleiden.nl/content/ascl...
🔗Information and registration: ascleiden.nl/news/ascl-se...
💭In preparation, read Madi Ditmars' blog about African philosophies and the interdependence of humans as social and collective beings: ascleiden.nl/content/ascl...
📣 Join us for the ASCL seminar “When Africans Speak” to explore the impact of African anti‑colonial critique and question whether Western universal principles are truly applied globally.
🗓 6 November
🕐 16:00 - 17:30
📍 Room 0.31 Herta Mohr Building
🎙️ Grâce Ndjako
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🗓 6 November
🕐 16:00 - 17:30
📍 Room 0.31 Herta Mohr Building
🎙️ Grâce Ndjako
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October 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
📣 Join us for the ASCL seminar “When Africans Speak” to explore the impact of African anti‑colonial critique and question whether Western universal principles are truly applied globally.
🗓 6 November
🕐 16:00 - 17:30
📍 Room 0.31 Herta Mohr Building
🎙️ Grâce Ndjako
🔗 ascleiden.nl/news/ascl-se...
🗓 6 November
🕐 16:00 - 17:30
📍 Room 0.31 Herta Mohr Building
🎙️ Grâce Ndjako
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🎉November is ASCL's African Philosophy Month!
At the centre, we recognise the importance of amplifying intellectual traditions and ensuring that African philosophy is given the space it deserves in global academia.
➡️ All the events, information and registration here: ascleiden.nl/news/novembe...
At the centre, we recognise the importance of amplifying intellectual traditions and ensuring that African philosophy is given the space it deserves in global academia.
➡️ All the events, information and registration here: ascleiden.nl/news/novembe...
October 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
🎉November is ASCL's African Philosophy Month!
At the centre, we recognise the importance of amplifying intellectual traditions and ensuring that African philosophy is given the space it deserves in global academia.
➡️ All the events, information and registration here: ascleiden.nl/news/novembe...
At the centre, we recognise the importance of amplifying intellectual traditions and ensuring that African philosophy is given the space it deserves in global academia.
➡️ All the events, information and registration here: ascleiden.nl/news/novembe...
🎉Congratulations to Mayke Kaag! We celebrated her inaugural lecture as Professor of the Anthropology of Politics and Governance in Africa at Leiden University, titled 'Reflections on power, knowledge, and trust. Political dynamics in Africa and beyond'. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
September 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
🎉Congratulations to Mayke Kaag! We celebrated her inaugural lecture as Professor of the Anthropology of Politics and Governance in Africa at Leiden University, titled 'Reflections on power, knowledge, and trust. Political dynamics in Africa and beyond'. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
Check out the latest acquisition at the #AfricanLibrary - the British Online Archives’ Colonial Africa in Official Statistics!
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Now available through the #AfricanLibrary to the entire Leiden University.
@Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
@Leiden University
catalogue.leidenuniv.nl/permalink/31...
Now available through the #AfricanLibrary to the entire Leiden University.
@Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
@Leiden University
September 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Check out the latest acquisition at the #AfricanLibrary - the British Online Archives’ Colonial Africa in Official Statistics!
catalogue.leidenuniv.nl/permalink/31...
Now available through the #AfricanLibrary to the entire Leiden University.
@Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
@Leiden University
catalogue.leidenuniv.nl/permalink/31...
Now available through the #AfricanLibrary to the entire Leiden University.
@Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
@Leiden University
📣 Join us in the next seminar on 'Communicating science - challenges and solutions for effective communication around antimicrobial resistance (AMR)'.
🗓 25 September 2025
⏰ 13:00-14:30
📍 Room 0.12, Herta Mohr Building
🎤 Marina Joubert
🔗 More info & registration here: ascleiden.nl/news/crg-sem...
🗓 25 September 2025
⏰ 13:00-14:30
📍 Room 0.12, Herta Mohr Building
🎤 Marina Joubert
🔗 More info & registration here: ascleiden.nl/news/crg-sem...
September 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
📣 Join us in the next seminar on 'Communicating science - challenges and solutions for effective communication around antimicrobial resistance (AMR)'.
🗓 25 September 2025
⏰ 13:00-14:30
📍 Room 0.12, Herta Mohr Building
🎤 Marina Joubert
🔗 More info & registration here: ascleiden.nl/news/crg-sem...
🗓 25 September 2025
⏰ 13:00-14:30
📍 Room 0.12, Herta Mohr Building
🎤 Marina Joubert
🔗 More info & registration here: ascleiden.nl/news/crg-sem...
📢 Panel discussion 9 October: Increasing media attention for wars in Africa. Focus: Sudan and DR Congo. Join us for an urgent panel discussion about why these conflicts in Africa receive so little attention, and what the media, academia & NGOs can do. Registration: ascleiden.nl/news/increas...
September 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
📢 Panel discussion 9 October: Increasing media attention for wars in Africa. Focus: Sudan and DR Congo. Join us for an urgent panel discussion about why these conflicts in Africa receive so little attention, and what the media, academia & NGOs can do. Registration: ascleiden.nl/news/increas...
❓ How do we really understand colonialism, not just as historical episodes, but as processes that continue to shape how Africa is seen, , and how people across the continent think, know, and act in diverse ways?
September 17, 2025 at 6:30 AM
❓ How do we really understand colonialism, not just as historical episodes, but as processes that continue to shape how Africa is seen, , and how people across the continent think, know, and act in diverse ways?
"This library is not just full of books, it is full of care, knowledge, and comfort. It reminds me that even though I am far away, I still belong. I am truly thankful for this space and the people who make it so welcoming. The African Library doesn’t just support my studies, it supports my heart"
September 15, 2025 at 6:30 AM
"This library is not just full of books, it is full of care, knowledge, and comfort. It reminds me that even though I am far away, I still belong. I am truly thankful for this space and the people who make it so welcoming. The African Library doesn’t just support my studies, it supports my heart"
The Research Master African Studies at @unileiden.bsky.social (2006-2027) is coming to an end. Following national budget cuts, the programme will be discontinued after this year's final intake of ResMAAS students.
September 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The Research Master African Studies at @unileiden.bsky.social (2006-2027) is coming to an end. Following national budget cuts, the programme will be discontinued after this year's final intake of ResMAAS students.
🎉We are proud to share that Carlien Donkor, PhD candidate at the African Studies Centre Leiden, has been awarded a prestigious grant from the British Museum's Endangered Material Knowledge Programme for her project “A Stick in Time.”
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September 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🎉We are proud to share that Carlien Donkor, PhD candidate at the African Studies Centre Leiden, has been awarded a prestigious grant from the British Museum's Endangered Material Knowledge Programme for her project “A Stick in Time.”
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📣 ASCL Seminar reminder - buff.ly/3XzB4gh
Join us on 11 September 2025 in Leiden or online for "Democracy and Corruption in Malawi – Between Resilience and Backsliding" with Dr Gerhard Anders (The University of Edinburgh).
Join us on 11 September 2025 in Leiden or online for "Democracy and Corruption in Malawi – Between Resilience and Backsliding" with Dr Gerhard Anders (The University of Edinburgh).
August 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
📣 ASCL Seminar reminder - buff.ly/3XzB4gh
Join us on 11 September 2025 in Leiden or online for "Democracy and Corruption in Malawi – Between Resilience and Backsliding" with Dr Gerhard Anders (The University of Edinburgh).
Join us on 11 September 2025 in Leiden or online for "Democracy and Corruption in Malawi – Between Resilience and Backsliding" with Dr Gerhard Anders (The University of Edinburgh).
⏰ The deadline for the Africa Thesis Award is approaching fast – submit your Africa-related thesis by 30 September!
More information ➡️ www.ascleiden.nl/content/afri...
More information ➡️ www.ascleiden.nl/content/afri...
August 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
⏰ The deadline for the Africa Thesis Award is approaching fast – submit your Africa-related thesis by 30 September!
More information ➡️ www.ascleiden.nl/content/afri...
More information ➡️ www.ascleiden.nl/content/afri...
🔎 Searching for the African Clausewitz - buff.ly/Q6KMPK4
Strategic studies has long relied on a Eurocentric canon built around thinkers like Carl von Clausewitz, but is entirely devoid of African thinkers and case studies.
Strategic studies has long relied on a Eurocentric canon built around thinkers like Carl von Clausewitz, but is entirely devoid of African thinkers and case studies.
August 21, 2025 at 11:15 AM
🔎 Searching for the African Clausewitz - buff.ly/Q6KMPK4
Strategic studies has long relied on a Eurocentric canon built around thinkers like Carl von Clausewitz, but is entirely devoid of African thinkers and case studies.
Strategic studies has long relied on a Eurocentric canon built around thinkers like Carl von Clausewitz, but is entirely devoid of African thinkers and case studies.
🔍 Keep Eyes on #Sudan
Since violence broke out in Sudan in April 2023, over 150,000 lives have been lost and more than 12,000 displaced, yet media coverage remains limited. The #AfricanLibrary is tracking key resources to help you stay informed.
👉 Explore the web resources: buff.ly/XNUrnxP
Since violence broke out in Sudan in April 2023, over 150,000 lives have been lost and more than 12,000 displaced, yet media coverage remains limited. The #AfricanLibrary is tracking key resources to help you stay informed.
👉 Explore the web resources: buff.ly/XNUrnxP
July 24, 2025 at 7:01 AM
🔍 Keep Eyes on #Sudan
Since violence broke out in Sudan in April 2023, over 150,000 lives have been lost and more than 12,000 displaced, yet media coverage remains limited. The #AfricanLibrary is tracking key resources to help you stay informed.
👉 Explore the web resources: buff.ly/XNUrnxP
Since violence broke out in Sudan in April 2023, over 150,000 lives have been lost and more than 12,000 displaced, yet media coverage remains limited. The #AfricanLibrary is tracking key resources to help you stay informed.
👉 Explore the web resources: buff.ly/XNUrnxP
Research Master student Christiana Banja calls for a new way of thinking about health on the continent, one that is just, inclusive, and rooted in respect. Drawing on course insights and a visit to #Micropia museum, she explores how science and lived experience can shape a fairer future.
July 21, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Research Master student Christiana Banja calls for a new way of thinking about health on the continent, one that is just, inclusive, and rooted in respect. Drawing on course insights and a visit to #Micropia museum, she explores how science and lived experience can shape a fairer future.
🎉 Congratulations to Dr Tanja Hendriks on being awarded a Veni grant from the NWO (Dutch Research Council)!
Tanja, a former African Studies research master student at @unileiden.bsky.social, is among 18 Leiden University researchers to receive this prestigious award.
Tanja, a former African Studies research master student at @unileiden.bsky.social, is among 18 Leiden University researchers to receive this prestigious award.
July 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
🎉 Congratulations to Dr Tanja Hendriks on being awarded a Veni grant from the NWO (Dutch Research Council)!
Tanja, a former African Studies research master student at @unileiden.bsky.social, is among 18 Leiden University researchers to receive this prestigious award.
Tanja, a former African Studies research master student at @unileiden.bsky.social, is among 18 Leiden University researchers to receive this prestigious award.
New Publication from ASCL!
Windvogel en Cupido delves into the origins of Dutch-sounding Khoisan surnames in South Africa. What do names like these reveal about identity, history, and shared cultural heritage between South Africa and the Netherlands?
Windvogel en Cupido delves into the origins of Dutch-sounding Khoisan surnames in South Africa. What do names like these reveal about identity, history, and shared cultural heritage between South Africa and the Netherlands?
July 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
New Publication from ASCL!
Windvogel en Cupido delves into the origins of Dutch-sounding Khoisan surnames in South Africa. What do names like these reveal about identity, history, and shared cultural heritage between South Africa and the Netherlands?
Windvogel en Cupido delves into the origins of Dutch-sounding Khoisan surnames in South Africa. What do names like these reveal about identity, history, and shared cultural heritage between South Africa and the Netherlands?
❓ Is democracy in Malawi thriving—or under threat? ascleiden.nl/news/ascl-se...
Join us on 11 September for the next ASCL Seminar: Democracy and Corruption in Malawi – Between Resilience and Backsliding with expert Gerhard Anders.
Join us on 11 September for the next ASCL Seminar: Democracy and Corruption in Malawi – Between Resilience and Backsliding with expert Gerhard Anders.
July 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
❓ Is democracy in Malawi thriving—or under threat? ascleiden.nl/news/ascl-se...
Join us on 11 September for the next ASCL Seminar: Democracy and Corruption in Malawi – Between Resilience and Backsliding with expert Gerhard Anders.
Join us on 11 September for the next ASCL Seminar: Democracy and Corruption in Malawi – Between Resilience and Backsliding with expert Gerhard Anders.
World Kiswahili Language Day celebrates the significance of #Kiswahili, recognising it as a global language of communication and cultural diversity. It has grown into a pan-African language across the continent that fosters unity, identity and intercultural exchange 👉 ascleiden.nl/content/libr...
July 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
World Kiswahili Language Day celebrates the significance of #Kiswahili, recognising it as a global language of communication and cultural diversity. It has grown into a pan-African language across the continent that fosters unity, identity and intercultural exchange 👉 ascleiden.nl/content/libr...
📚 New book release | The struggle for liberation: a history of the Rwandan Civil War, 1990–1994, by John Kegel
The story of the Rwandan Genocide has been told many times. But how does the civil war that preceded and ended the genocide shape our understanding of those tragic events?
The story of the Rwandan Genocide has been told many times. But how does the civil war that preceded and ended the genocide shape our understanding of those tragic events?
July 3, 2025 at 8:42 AM
📚 New book release | The struggle for liberation: a history of the Rwandan Civil War, 1990–1994, by John Kegel
The story of the Rwandan Genocide has been told many times. But how does the civil war that preceded and ended the genocide shape our understanding of those tragic events?
The story of the Rwandan Genocide has been told many times. But how does the civil war that preceded and ended the genocide shape our understanding of those tragic events?
When we do research, whose stories are we stepping into, and from where? In a panel on the last day of #ECAS2025 about identity & belonging in African fieldwork encounters Esma Karadag, Rishuai Chen, Mayke Kaag & Chong Zhang explored with the participants the emotional & ethical layers of fieldwork
June 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
When we do research, whose stories are we stepping into, and from where? In a panel on the last day of #ECAS2025 about identity & belonging in African fieldwork encounters Esma Karadag, Rishuai Chen, Mayke Kaag & Chong Zhang explored with the participants the emotional & ethical layers of fieldwork