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Visit UNDP Director Africa: 'Africa needs a new narrative' 04 October 2022
Africa needs a narrative that is consistent with the developments that are taking place all around the continent. In these developments, talented yout...
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Retrospective 75th anniversary African Studies Centre Leiden 15 September 2022
A ‘world class institute’ with a ‘vibrant atmosphere’, doing research on a continent that is ‘becoming increasingly important’. That is how Annetje Ot...
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Knowledge exchange visit: Morocco as an intermediary between Africa and the Netherlands 26 August 2022
Strengthening the cooperation between Moroccan, other African, and Dutch institutions for higher education. This was the focus of a two-day seminar at...
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Keti Koti in Leiden: 'Here, too, slavery is all around us‘ 30 June 2022
Many traces of the city's slavery history can be found in Leiden but the public isn't always aware of them. The initiators of 'Mapping Slavery in Leid...
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Ten Leiden researchers awarded a Veni grant 11 April 2022
Ten Leiden researchers will receive funding of up to 280,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). They will use this grant to develop their re...
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PhD candidate reveals link between North Korea and southern Africa 07 March 2022
North Korea is generally thought to be an isolated country. But, according to PhD candidate Tycho van der Hoog from Leiden’s African Studies Centre, t...
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Three new Leiden bloggers for Faces of Science 07 March 2022
What is life like as an academic? Twelve PhD candidates will report on their daily work in videos and blogs on the Faces of Science website (in Dutch...
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Reseach funding for 'Decoding Digital Media in African Regions of Conflict' 10 November 2021
Mirjam de Bruijn has received funding from the Research Council of Norway for the research project 'Decoding Digital Media in African Regions of Confl...
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‘Different languages of instruction could help African education move forward’ 09 September 2021
The high number of students that we are used to in the West would never have been possible if Latin were still the language of instruction in our univ...
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André Leliveld awarded Comenius Senior Fellowship 03 June 2021
André Leliveld has won a grant of 100,000 euros within the Comenius Senior Fellow programme for the project ‘Learning globally, acting locally: co-cre...
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Africa Knows! transformed into a three-month online event 20 November 2020
Covid-19 has transformed Africa Knows! into a unique international knowledge-sharing event: it will now be a three-month online event instead of a phy...
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A real professor in the classroom 07 February 2020
A school lesson by a professor, for instance about the history of Africa, the climate or research and healthcare. A hundred Leiden professors told pri...
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Dies natalis: ‘Collaboration requires firm grounding in the individual disciplines’ 06 February 2020
‘Collaboration is increasingly important,’ Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker said at the 445th Dies Natalis of Leiden University on 7 February. But, as ...
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‘It’s time to modernise African Studies’ 30 January 2020
In 1960, not one but 17 African countries became independent. Sixty years later the African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) is offering a wide programme ...
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Honorary doctorate for South African professor, Lungisile Ntsebeza 04 December 2019
South African professor Lungisile Ntsebeza will receive an honorary doctorate on the Foundation Day of Leiden University on Friday 7 February. Ntsebez...