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• This Time for Africa! series Event
• LUCAS Modern & Contemporary Cluster Event
• Winner Africa Thesis Award 2025: Yonwaba Matshobotiyana News - 16 March 2026

  The jury of the Africa Thesis Award is delighted to announce that the 2025 prize has been awarded to Yonwaba Matshobotiyana of the University of the Free State, South Africa, with a thesis on Black women's poetry in South Africa.

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  Sini Hassinen Postdoctoral researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  W van Kessel

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Antonio Frank

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Karin Nijenhuis Lecturer

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

• Visuality of Deaf People in Contemporary Times Event - 14 April 2026

  Lecture

• (re)Mapping Africa: Colonial cartography collection soon ready for search News - 18 March 2026

  Describing almost 1400 maps of Africa in three months. It’s no small task that student assistants Artemis Mantheakis and Beatriz Veiga have been working on within the joint ASCL-UBL Africa Maps Project. The project’s aim is to describe and catalogue a 20th-century map collection of the library of the…

• Bijutsu: The Key Issue of Contemporary Japanese Art Event - 29 April 2026

  Lecture

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  Katharina Natter Senior assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Maria Ditmars Education development officer

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

• Contemporary Art History and Theory in a Global Perspective - Joint Art Talk by Matthew Rampley and Vera Wolff Event - 7 May 2026

  Alumni event, Arts and Culture

• Media | Art | Politics (MAP) Event
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  Jan Abbink Professor emeritus

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Leila Demarest Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Chibuike Uche Professor

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Cynthia van Vonno Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• How can youth political participation in Africa be encouraged? News - 21 August 2025

  Do political knowledge and democratic values encourage young people to participate in politics or not? Political Scientist Leila Demarest had a closer look at adolescents’ participation intentions in Nigeria and shared her findings with The Conversation.

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  Thijs Vos Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Floris Mansvelt Beck Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Densua Mumford Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Cécile Pick PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Mohamed Muse PhD candidate

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Harry Wels Associate Professor African Organisational Anthropology

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl Senior assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• Visit to Ghana: Leiden University strengthens ties with partners in Africa News - 11 June 2024

  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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  Elisabeth Dieterman PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Loes Oudenhuijsen PhD candidate

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Silke Herms PhD candidate

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Maarten Mous Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

• Mayke Kaag appointed Professor of the Anthropology of Politics and Governance in Africa News - 22 January 2024

  Mayke Kaag has been appointed Professor of the Anthropology of Politics and Governance in Africa at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (CADS) on behalf of the African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL).

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  Petr Kopecky Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Michael Meyer PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Tim Mickler Senior assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Josh Robison Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• Former president South-Africa visits Campus The Hague News - 10 July 2023

  Former President Kgalema Motlanthe of South Africa gave a public lecture on Campus The Hague on 7 July. His story was about the economic transformation of Africa.

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  Jonathan Phillips Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Marijn Nagtzaam Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Maria Spirova Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• Politics and Governance: Shape tomorrow’s decisions

  The bachelor's programmes at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, based in the city of international cooperation and politics – The Hague – prepare you for a future in governance, leadership, and diplomacy. In the administrative heart of the Netherlands, you will learn to tackle the challenges…

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  Hannah Kuhn PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Matthew Longo Senior Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Gul-i-Hina van der Zwan Postdoc / guest

  International Institute Asian Studies

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  Max Joosten Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Peter Castenmiller Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Simon Otjes Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• New research programme for urgent challenges in Africa News - 6 November 2023

  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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  Mayke Kaag Professor

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Vasiliki (Billy) Tsagkroni Senior assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences