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1,177 search results for “africa history” in the Student website

• Winner Africa Thesis Award 2022: Robert Okello News - 20 January 2023

  The winner of the Africa Thesis Award 2022 is Robert Okello for his thesis on rural women’s legal empowerment through digital technology in Northern Uganda. Robert did his Master in Development Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

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  Miko Flohr University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jeroen Duindam Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Rijk van Dijk

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Bart van der Steen Head Faculty Liaison & Services

  Leiden University Libraries

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  Catia Antunes Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Paul Kloeg Head Datamanagement

  Leiden University Libraries

• ASCL Seminar: Obscure Capital and Containers: History, Objects, and Power in Central Africa Event - 6 February 2025

  Lecture

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  Klaas van Walraven Researcher

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Patrick Dassen Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Irini Sifogeorgakis PhD candidate / guest

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  Alistair Kefford Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Elisabeth Dieterman PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• Peter Pels in Andere Tijden about fathers of the Holy Spirit and Africa Museum News - 6 September 2022

  The special of the Dutch History Programme Andere Tijden 'Missie Geslaagd?' (Mission accomplished?) tells the story of the last fathers of the Holy Spirit Congregation who live in Gennep. Professor of Anthropology and Sociology of Africa Peter Pels is one of the specialists in this episode. He explains…

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  Jacqueline Hylkema Assistant Professor

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

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  Marcel Keurentjes External PhD

  Faculty of Humanities

• Call for Papers: Peace Movements - A Global History News - 10 February 2026

  From the First World War until the height of the Cold War, actors from the decolonizing world sought to build connections with international peace movements. These efforts produced new networks and practices of solidarity while also exposing tensions over the centrality of decolonization in global struggles…

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  Herman Paul Academic director/ Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Abdourahamane Idrissa Abdoulaye University Lecturer Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Hans Mol Professor emeritus by special appointment of Medieval Frisian History

  Faculty of Humanities

• Spierenburg in NRC on the neoliberal system in South Africa News - 22 March 2023

  Anthropologist Marja Spierenburg talks in the Dutch newspaper NRC about the neoliberal system and how it has to change in order to solve the energy crisis in South-Africa.

• Symposium: Through the Hands of Signers: History of sign language emergence, transmission, and change Event - 10 July 2026

  Conference

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  Annachiara Raia University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Paul van Trigt Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Writing history together in the Transvaal News - 18 October 2021

  Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and partly South Africa. So, the fact that she is going to carry out an urban history research project together with colleagues, is something that even she…

• Starting at the root: P'urhepecha and the early history of American lexicography Event - 9 July 2026

  Lecture

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  Mamadou Togola PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Koundja Mayoubila PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jorge Blake PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Victor Barros Correia PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Modibo Cisse PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Femke Fakkeldij PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Mamadjibeye Mamadjibeye PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Gabriel Veppo de Lima PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Hendrik den Heijer Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Gert Oostindie Senior researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Doreen Müller Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Costanza Franceschini Postdoc

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Boukary Sangaré PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Maartje Janse Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Mayke Kaag Professor

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Klaas Worp Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

• AI-enabled ultrasound: LUC alumna empowers women in rural Africa News - 29 August 2024

  AI ultrasounds: LUC alumna empowers women in rural Africa

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  Bernhard Rieger Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Marieke Bloembergen Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Book Presentation ‘No Nonsense: A History of the Dutch Neoliberal Turn’ Event - 15 October 2026

  Lecture

• A semester in Morocco: ‘You see the history that you’re learning about’ News - 14 March 2024

  The Netherlands Institute in Morocco is open to students from all Dutch universities. Two students explain why they are spending a semester studying in Rabat.

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  Miriam Waltz 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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  Maarja Seire PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities