93 search results for “africa” in the Public website
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Unravelling East Africa’s Early Linguistic History (LHEAf)
This project investigates the rich linguistic history of the crucial language groups in East Africa and includes a search for words that indicate earlier lost languages. These outcomes, combined with recent archaeological and genetic research, will contribute to a new understanding of East Africa’s…
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SciSTIP – Bibliometric identification of research teams in Africa
This project is opening up the possibility of systematically studying research teams from a broad perspective, by developing specific bibliometric methodologies able to identify active collaborative research teams in Africa. Based on the extensive experience of CWTS and CREST, this project represents…
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W van KesselAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Karin NijenhuisAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Anika AltafAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Antonio FrankAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Cattle-talk: the language of colour among East African pastoralists
What categories exist in the languages of pastoralists? Do these semantic concepts reflect universal or languagespecific tendencies? What (environment? culture?) governs the similarities (or the differences) attested crosslinguistically in cattle colour systems?
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African Oral Literatures, new media and technologies
African oral literatures, new media and technologies: challenges for research and documentation
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Multimedia Research and documentation of African Oral Genres
The project Multimedia Research and Documentation of African Oral Genres: Connecting Diasporas and Local Audiences (Director: D.Merolla) focuses on multimedia as technology that allows scholars to share documentation and scientific knowledge with the cultural owners of the collected oral genres.
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MapLE
The project investigates epistemicity: how the knowledge of the speaker and hearer can be expressed in the grammar. This shows us how speakers organise their knowledge, and whether this is influenced by the language they speak.
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BaSIS
This project aims to systematically investigate the influence of information structure on nominal licensing in a subset of Bantu languages.
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Views on Africa
In 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 a continent in transition, with developments occurring at breakneck speed. African Studies scholars from different academic disciplines in Leiden conduct…
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Mirjam de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
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Leiden University to strengthen research on Africa
The Leiden African Studies Centre (ASCL) will become part of the University from 1 January 2016.
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Indigeneship, bureaucratic discretion, and institutional change in Northern Nigeria
‘Can he do it?’ Since the remarkable victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2015 Nigerian presidential elections, this has arguably been the most frequently posed question in Nigerian politics.
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Maarten MousFaculty of Humanities
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David EhrhardtFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Why southern Africa is full of North Korean monuments
North Korean workers designed and built numerous monuments, museums and other buildings in southern Africa. This is clear from research by history student Tycho van der Hoog for his master's thesis. These monuments can be an important source of income for a country that has become quite isolated on…
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Harry WelsAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Visit to Ghana: Leiden University strengthens ties with partners in Africa
Leiden University will deepen its cooperation with knowledge institutions in Africa. During a trip to Ghana, a delegation spoke with several African knowledge institutions about intensifying their collaboration.
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New research programme for urgent challenges in Africa
Leiden University and four other Dutch universities will appoint 51 PhD candidates to conduct solution-oriented research for and with the African continent.
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Michel DoortmontAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Chibuike UcheAfrika-Studiecentrum
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PhD candidate reveals link between North Korea and southern Africa
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, the opposite is in fact the case. North Korea actually has strong alliances with countries in southern Africa. Van der Hoog is trying to shed more light…
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Julia FoudraineAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Caroline ArchambaultFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Verba Africana
The project
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Knowledge exchange visit: Morocco as an intermediary between Africa and the Netherlands
Strengthening the cooperation between Moroccan, other African, and Dutch institutions for higher education. This was the focus of a two-day seminar at NIMAR (Netherlands Institute Morocco) in Rabat in July, during which scholars of the African Studies Centre Leiden interacted with colleagues from NIMAR…
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Tracing pollution through multimodal methods
In this project we ask: how does pollution manifest as part of different practices, both socially and materially.
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‘It’s time to modernise African Studies’
In 1960, not one but 17 African countries became independent. Sixty years later the African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) is offering a wide programme to mark this celebration. African Studies itself proved to be a topic of conversation at the kick-off conference on 30 January.
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Executive Board column: Annetje Ottow on Brussels, Africa and societal impact
Within the scope of innovating and connecting – the theme of our new Strategic Plan – I paid a visit to Brussels last week. It is important to give Leiden University a face in Brussels and to show our expertise, on Africa for instance.
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Jos DamenAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Jan-Bart GewaldAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Lidewyde BerckmoesAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Rijk van DijkAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Large Vidi subsidies for 5 humanities scholars
5 talented Leiden humanities scholars have received a Vidi research subsidy of 800.000 euros to set up or expand their own line of research.
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Akinyinka AkinyoadeAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Jan AbbinkAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Mayke KaagAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Alice KuboAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Marleen DekkerAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Fire and grazers in the West African savanna
Promotores: H.A. Udo de Haes, H.H.T. Prins, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh
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Carolien JacobsFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Densua MumfordFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Sara PetrollinoFaculty of Humanities
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Gerald AchoFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Timo McGregorFaculty of Humanities
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African Activism at the UN
Subproject of the ERC project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'.
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Digital warfare in the Sahel: popular networks of war and Cultural Violence
This interdisciplinary study focuses on (trans)national ethnic and popular networks, combining historical-ethnographic and computational methods to understand the ‘workings’ of networked conflict interfering in the increasingly violent conflict in the Sahel (Africa) and beyond. The project focuses on…
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Interreligious Encounter in a West African City: A Study of Multiple Religious Belonging and Identity Among the Yorùbá of Ogbómòsó, Nigeria
How has interreligious encounter in Ogbómòsó created multiple religious belongings and identities among individuals and groups?