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Influencers, X and WhatsApp: social media and the coup in Niger 02 August 2023A number of European countries have started evacuating their citizens and there is a threat of military intervention by neighbouring countries: the si...
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Former president South-Africa visits Campus The Hague 10 July 2023Former President Kgalema Motlanthe of South Africa gave a public lecture on Campus The Hague on 7 July to an audience of students and teachers, Africa...
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Four Comenius teaching awards for Leiden lecturers 27 June 2023Two lecturers from Leiden University have received a Comenius teaching award of 100,000 euros as part of the Senior Fellows programme. And a further t...
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Winner Africa Thesis Award 2022: Robert Okello 20 January 2023The winner of the Africa Thesis Award 2022 is Robert Okello for his thesis on rural women’s legal empowerment through digital technology in Northern U...
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“No metadata no future” – kicking off UMADA [on a donkeys’ island] 26 October 2022Ustadh Mau Digital Archive project (UMADA) is among the UCLA Library 29 international cultural preservation projects supported by the Modern Endagered...
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Visit UNDP Director Africa: 'Africa needs a new narrative' 04 October 2022Africa 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 2022A ‘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 2022Strengthening 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 2022Many 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 2022Ten 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 2022North 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 2022What 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 2021Mirjam 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 2021The 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 2021André Leliveld has won a grant of 100,000 euros within the Comenius Senior Fellow programme for the project ‘Learning globally, acting locally: co-cre...