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1,432 search results for “contemporary africa politics” in the Student website

• Africa Thesis Award for Baleseng Maeneche News - 18 June 2025

  Baleseng Maeneche (University of the Western Cape) has won the Africa Thesis Award 2024 with a master's thesis on media representation of male perpetrators of violence against women and children in South Africa. Her research challenges dominant narratives and emphasises the need for fair media representation…

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  Bruno Verbeek Senior University Lecturer Moral and Political Philosophy

  Faculty of Humanities

• Disentangling ghost segments and number marking in Sengwer nouns Event - 24 April 2026

  Lecture, This Time for Africa! series

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  Daan Weggemans Assistant professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Jasper van der Steen Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Bastiaan Hoorneman Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Akinyinka Akinyoade Lecturer

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

• 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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  Natascha van der Zwan Guest

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Mirjam de Bruijn Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Thomas Wells Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Henk Kern Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Sebastian Diessner Assistant professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

• Winner Africa Thesis Award 2023: Rachel Dubale News - 6 February 2024

  The winner of the Africa Thesis Award 2023 is Rachel Dubale, a graduate from the Research Master in African Studies at Leiden University, with her thesis “They think we can eat the condominium”. Chronicles of Economic, Social and Political Practices in Addis Ababa’s Condominiums.

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  Josette Daemen Assistant professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Lauren Lauret Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Danique François PhD fellow

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Eric Cezne Postdoc

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Herman Siemens Senior University Lecturer History of Modern Philosophy

  Faculty of Humanities

• 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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  Soledad Valdivia Rivera Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jan-Bart Gewald Professor

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Klaas van Walraven Researcher

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Tim Enwerem
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  Wouter Veenendaal Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Raafat Shamieh Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Irini Sifogeorgakis PhD candidate / guest

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Emmanuelle Radar Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Marie Louise Krogh University Lecturer Continental Philosophy

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Nisida Gjoksi Guest

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Femke Bakker Senior assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Adam Fairclough Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Manuel Cabal Lopez Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Duygu Uysal Dincol Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Virgil Urbina Lazardi Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Enes Sütütemiz PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Matthew di Giuseppe Director of Studies / Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Philippe van Gruisen Associate professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Rosalba Icaza Garza Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Clara van Dam Guest

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Jonathan London Associate professor Global Political Economy

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Stefano Bellucci University Lecturer

  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.

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  Peter Pels Emeritus hoogleraar

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Hans Oversloot Guest researcher

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Hans-Martien ten Napel Associate Professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Ruben Gonzalez Vicente Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Guido Maschhaupt Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Diederik Smit Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Tingting Hui Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities