2,387 search results for “african studies” in the Public website
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Mineke Schipper-de Leeuw
Faculty of Humanities
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Paula Esteves dos Santos Jordao
Faculty of Humanities
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Christian Henderson
Faculty of Humanities
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A Grammar of Makonde (Chiminna, Tanzania)
This dissertation provides a description of Makonde, a Bantu language spoken in Tanzania.
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Corinna Jentzsch, 'Here are 4 reasons why Mozambique isn’t a post-war success story' (blog)
Political scientist Corinna Jentzsch (Leiden University) explains why Mozambique is not (yet) a success story.
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Towards a Grammar of Benchnon
This dissertation for the first time provides a detailed description of Benchnon, a language spoken by approximately 200.000 people in Southwest Ethiopia.
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Portable Islam: Swahili literary networks in the Indian Ocean
The Swahili coast has a long-standing history of transoceanic Islamic connections dating back to the 25th century. Yet, print, has changed the world – not only ours. This project unravels unique forms and archives of intellectual history emerging from within South-South connections. In East Africa Indian…
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Erasmus+ for Studies
Bachelor, Master, PhD
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Oran Kennedy
Faculty of Humanities
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A grammar of Ik (Icetod) Northeast Uganda’s last thriving Kuliak language
This study offers a comprehensive but balanced grammatical analysis of Ik (Icetod), Northeast Uganda’s last thriving Kuliak language.
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Michael Herzfeld
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Bastian Still
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Lieks Hettinga
Faculty of Humanities
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Paul Hoftijzer
Faculty of Humanities
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Mahmood Yenkimaleki
Faculty of Humanities
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Alireza Asghari
Faculty of Humanities
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Ali Shobeiri
Faculty of Humanities
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Petra de Bruijn
Faculty of Humanities
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Irene Hadiprayitno
Faculty of Humanities
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Muslim Youth and the 9/11 Generation
On young Muslims seeking to understand their place and make their way in a transformed world.
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Things hold together: Foundations for a systemic treatment of verbal and nominal tone in Plateau Shimakonde
This is a study of Plateau Shimakonde, a sub-dialect of the Makonde language which is spoken on the Makonde Plateau in northern Mozambique.
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A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali
This dissertation provides a description of the language Tadaksahak as it is spoken by the Idaksahak, a people group of about 30,000 living in the most eastern part of Mali and several isolated places in western Niger.
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Densua Mumford
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Michiel Veldhuis
Science
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Alanna O'Malley
Faculty of Humanities
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Mirjam de Bruijn
Faculty of Humanities
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Religious Studies (MA)
The MA Religious Studies at Leiden University is designed to equip students with the tools and knowledge required for studying, interpreting, and analysing religion as a diverse (human) phenomenon. With its world-class scholars and access to exceptional research collections, the programme offers the…
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A grammar of Sheko
This thesis investigates the grammar of Sheko, an Omotic language spoken in southwest Ethiopia.
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Memory and Identity
Research conducted in this group aims at furthering our understanding of how communities and individuals deal with social change, conflict and trauma through remembrance and commemoration as well as forgetting in the arts.
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World Congress of African Linguists (WOCAL): A conference like no other
The 10th edition of the World Congress of African Linguists (WOCAL), hosted by Leiden University, will be held online from 7 – 12 June. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) researchers give us an insight into how important and special this event actually is.
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Latin America and 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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Documentation and analysis of !Ora and !Ui languages
This project aims at describing the Khoisan languages !Ora (Korana/Griqua) and !Ui of South Africa.
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Nubian Voices II
New Texts and Studies on Christian Nubian Culture
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Lena Riecke
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Guita Winkel
Faculty of Humanities
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Ugur Derin
Faculty of Humanities
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Ajay Gandhi
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Omer Kocyigit
Faculty of Humanities
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Elly Mulder
Faculty of Humanities
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Onur Ada
Faculty of Humanities
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James McAllister
Faculty of Humanities
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Deniz Tat
Faculty of Humanities
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David Henley
Faculty of Humanities
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Isabelle Duijvesteijn
Faculty of Humanities
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Marcel Cobussen
Faculty of Humanities
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Gradients of Europeanness in Colonial Africa: the case of the Portuguese in the Congo Free State (c. 1885-1908) (GRADIENTS)
The project GRADIENTS investigates what it meant to be European in colonial Africa where identification as European often did not depend on skin colour and was understood on a spectrum with many gradients.
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