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Three PhD defences in one day on religious coexistence in GhanaMilestone 05 June 2026Last Tuesday was a special day: three researchers defended their PhD dissertations in succession as part of the same project. Martin Luther Darko, Kau...
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Where do the stereotypes about Africa come from?PhD research 02 June 2026In the seventeenth century, stereotypes about Africa and its inhabitants became deeply ingrained in European culture. PhD candidate Matthias Lukkes is...
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MEPs’ visit highlights importance of knowledge about Global SouthKnowledge institutions 03 February 2026Two MEPs visited Leiden University on Friday 30 January. Their visit underscored the vital importance of the university’s expertise on Africa, Asia an...
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Executive Board visits African Studies Centre: ‘We work from African perspectives’30 September 2025From the energy transition in Namibia to sustainable jobs for young Nigerians, from African cookbooks to vodcasts on vintage Swahili booklets: during ...
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Look to Africa as a mirror of global developmentsInaugural lecture on 29 september 29 September 2025Western countries still tend to view Africa as the periphery, says anthropologist Mayke Kaag. In her inaugural lecture, she calls for a shift in persp...
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Tanja Hendriks awarded Veni17 July 2025The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has announced that Tanja Hendriks, along with 17 Leiden University researchers, will receive a Veni grant, embedded a...
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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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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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Visit to Ghana: Leiden University strengthens ties with partners in Africa11 June 2024Leiden University will deepen its cooperation with knowledge institutions in Africa. During a trip to Ghana, a delegation spoke with several African k...
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‘One day of lessons and the Boa people can read their own language’18 April 2024Until recently the Congo’s isolated Boa community had never read a single letter in their own language: quite simply, there was no alphabet to describ...
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A semester in Morocco: ‘You see the history that you’re learning about’14 March 2024The Netherlands Institute in Morocco is open to students from all Dutch universities. Two students explain why they are spending a semester studying i...
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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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New book by Lydie Cabane explores how the South African state bureaucracy reacts to disasters23 October 2023Lydie Cabane, Assistant Professor in Governance of Crises at the Institute for Security and Global Affairs, recently published the book 'The Governmen...
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Influencers, X and WhatsApp: social media and the coup in Niger02 August 2023A number of European countries have started evacuating their citizens and there is a threat of military intervention by neighbouring countries: the si...