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Keynote by Mayke Kaag at UN about trust and security sector reform13 June 2025On 2 June, Prof. Mayke Kaag gave a keynote speech at the UN Headquarters in New York. The meeting was organised by the UN’s Security Sector Reform & G...
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Large delegation heading for African Studies Conference in Prague02 June 2025A large group of researchers from Leiden University will convene a panel or present a paper at the 10th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS),...
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Winner of the Africa Thesis Award 2024: Baleseng Maeneche13 May 2025The jury of the Africa Thesis Award is delighted to announce that the 2024 prize has been awarded to Baleseng Maeneche, a graduate of the Faculty of A...
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How do you prepare students to engage with wicked problems?05 February 2025Climate change, social inequality, and the COVID-19 crisis are examples of wicked problems—issues that require collaboration across different discipli...
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From Modern Marvel to Environmental Tragedy: Grant for Research into Polluted Mines in Africa02 October 2024At one time, the railway from Kimberley to Kambove in Southern Africa symbolised prosperity and progress. Today, the exhausted mining towns along its ...
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Leiden University researchers tackle global challenges with Una Europa-Africa grants26 September 2024Three international research projects involving Leiden University researchers will receive funding from the Una Europa university alliance. The projec...
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Launch Leiden University Dialogue in Education Network (LUDIEN)26 July 2024On July 3rd the Leiden University Dialogue in Education Network (LUDIEN) has officially been launched. The network welcomes all who are interested in ...
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Annachiara Raia receives NWO Impact Explorer grant: ‘We want to ensure that literature is once again voiced by its own society and resonates beyond it’02 July 2024For decades, the trade in pocketbooks prescribing how to be a good Muslim flourished in East Africa, but in recent years the number of books in circul...
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Why North Korea and Southern Africa are dependent on each other30 April 2024North Korea may seem like an isolated country but it has strong ties with African regimes. This alliance, which trades in arms despite international s...
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The whole world knows the way to the Leiden institute in Morocco05 March 2024A delegation from Leiden University visited the Netherlands Institute Morocco (Nimar) in Rabat at the end of February. For a whole host of disciplines...
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Winner Africa Thesis Award 2023: Rachel Dubale06 February 2024The winner of the Africa Thesis Award 2023 is Rachel Dubale, a graduate from the Research Master in African Studies at Leiden University, with her the...
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Mayke Kaag appointed Professor of the Anthropology of Politics and Governance in Africa22 January 2024Mayke Kaag has been appointed Professor of the Anthropology of Politics and Governance in Africa at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Develop...
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‘Young people are cannon fodder in the Central African Republic’20 November 2023A bloody civil war has raged for years in the Central African Republic. PhD candidate Crépin Mouguia points out a tragic pattern: young people have be...
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New research programme for urgent challenges in Africa06 November 2023Leiden University and four other Dutch universities will appoint 51 PhD candidates to conduct solution-oriented research for and with the African cont...
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Opportunity LExS Scholarship - Research Master African Studies 2024-2026Graduation Ceremony Master and Research Master African Studies, November 2022 03 November 2023Leiden University offers one full Leiden University Excellence Scholarship (LExS) to an African candidate interested in the two-year Research Master A...