1,026 search results for “africa politics” in the Staff website
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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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Juan Masullo JimenezFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Winner Africa Thesis Award 2023: Rachel Dubale
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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Africa Thesis Award for Baleseng Maeneche
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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Winner Africa Thesis Award 2025: Yonwaba Matshobotiyana
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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Rick van Well
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Amy VerdunFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Christina Luise ToenshoffFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Mateo Cohen
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Sine BagaturFaculty of Humanities
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Eric CezneAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Victor PosthumaFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Faizal RiantoFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Mirjam de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
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Bruno VerbeekFaculty of Humanities
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Bastiaan HoornemanFaculty of Humanities
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Jasper van der SteenFaculty of Humanities
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Natascha van der ZwanFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Henk KernFaculty of Humanities
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Danique FrançoisFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Josette DaemenFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Lauren LauretFaculty of Humanities
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Political Science Master’s thesis prize 2021: the nominees
Tradition has it that at the end of each academic year, the best master’s thesis in Political Science is awarded a prize. For 2021-2022, the jury is considering six nominations. All of great quality, but on different topics. These range from political party bans to questions regarding commitment within…
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Herman SiemensFaculty of Humanities
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Soledad Valdivia RiveraFaculty of Humanities
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Nominees bachelor thesis prizes Political Science 2021
The nominees for the IRO thesis prize 2021 and for the Prof. Dr. J.Th.J. van den Berg prize 2021. Who wrote the best Political Science bachelor’s theses?
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Jan-Bart GewaldAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Klaas van WalravenAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Stefano BellucciFaculty of Humanities
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(re)Mapping Africa: Colonial cartography collection soon ready for search
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…
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Deborah OyuuFaculty of Humanities
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Una Europa project update: Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa (ELSEA)
In September, the Una Europa ELSEA project, Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa, officially started. Now that the project has been running for a couple of months, it’s high time to check in and see how the project is going.
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Call for chapters: Sustainable development in Africa
Research
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Wouter Veenendaal
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Raafat Shamieh
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Spierenburg in NRC on the neoliberal system in South Africa
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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Marie Louise KroghFaculty of Humanities
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Lecture Paul Krugman: Advising Political Leadership in an Era of Societal Turbulence and Geopolitical Tensions
Lecture
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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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Femke Bakker
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Irma Mosquera Valderrama speaks at Africa taxation webinar
On 15 February 2022, Irma Mosquera Valderrama, Professor of Tax Governance, holder of the EU Jean Monnet Chair on EU Tax Governance EUTAXGOV and Principal Investigator of the ERC funded project GLOBTAXGOV, participated in the High-Level Webinar Taxation and Business in Africa.
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Duygu Uysal DincolFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Manuel Cabal LopezFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Matthew di Giuseppe
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Maartje van Diest
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Rosalba Icaza GarzaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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An overview of Dutch politics and Political Science in the Netherlands: the Oxford Handbook of Dutch Politics
Dutch politics has long been a paragon of stability. Think, for example, of our party system until, say, the last decade. At the same time, we also see occasional changes and significant shifts. Society has changed and this is reflected in, among other things, how we vote and how policy is made. About…
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Clara van DamFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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ASCL Seminar: The politics of net zero in Africa. Insights from ongoing work
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