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Leila Demarest receives LUF research grant02 July 2019Leila Demarest, Assistant Professor of African Politics at Leiden University, has recently been awarded with a Leiden University Fund research grant t...
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Return of customary law often a let-down for local people23 January 2019Traditional leaders in many African countries have regained some of their former powers. Politicians and companies in some of these countries manage t...
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Sada Mire’s Leiden Experience: "the Johnny Cash of Archaeology"30 August 2018Pioneering in the archaeology of Somaliland, hosting international TV and radio shows, and producing a very successful MOOC: Dr Sada Mire already has ...
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Joris Larik: New handbook cornerstone for emerging field of comparative foreign relations law30 October 2017On 13-14 October, Dr. Joris Larik, Assistant Professor for Comparative, EU, and International Law at LUC, took part in the Duke-Pretoria Conference on...
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Why southern Africa is full of North Korean monuments25 September 2017North Korean workers designed and built numerous monuments, museums and other buildings in southern Africa. This is clear from research by history stu...
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Call for papers: Claiming Rights and Resources in the African City30 August 2017On Wednesday 11 October 2017 the African Studies Centre Leiden and the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society are organizing a work...
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Views on Africa23 June 2017In the media, we hear a lot of worrying news from Africa: refugees, attacks, Ebola, starvation, corruption... But Africa is much more than that: it is...
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Eritrean regime trades its own nationals in a billion-dollar trafficking business09 March 2017The human trafficking of Eritrean refugees is a booming business, where money is made with smuggling people, but also using violence, hostage situatio...
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Shishani & The Namibian Tales: 'We bring the world together in our music’26 January 2017With her debut album ‘Itaala’, the multicultural Shishani & The Namibian Tales are taking the Dutch music scene by storm. The album, which was crowned...
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To target or protect? Militias and political order in African civil wars25 July 2016Political scientist Corinna Jentzsch received an NWO Veni grant for her research on the conditions of collaboration between militias and state forces ...
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Call for Papers and Kick-off Conference Research Group: From Disorder to Order31 May 2016On October 20 and 21, 2016, Leiden University will host an international conference under the title "From Disorder to Order: Conflict and the Resource...
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Searching for the wanted and unwanted effects of innovation28 April 2016How does ICT affect society? Mirjam van Reisen, professor Computing for Society at the Leiden Centre of Data Science, is intrigued by this question. W...
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Jan Erk elected Smuts Memorial Fellow at Cambridge University28 April 2016Jan Erk, political scientist at Leiden University, has been selected as the 2016-2017 Smuts Memorial Fellow at the University of Cambridge. During his...
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Leiden University to strengthen research on Africa15 December 2015The Leiden African Studies Centre (ASCL) will become part of the University from 1 January 2016.
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Inge Ligtvoet in Nigeria03 September 2013
My first fieldwork in Nigeria began up in the air, as we were approaching the runway of Lagos’ Murtala Muhammed Airport.