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1,074 search results for “africa politics” in the Student website

• Winner of the Africa Thesis Award 2024: Baleseng Maeneche News - 13 May 2025

  The jury of the Africa Thesis Award is delighted to announce that the 2024 prize has been awarded to Baleseng Maeneche, a graduate of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at the University of the Western Cape, for her thesis 'Media Representations of Male Perpetrators of Violence against Women and Children:…

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  Tom Theuns Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Denny van der Vlist Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Abdourahamane Idrissa Abdoulaye University Lecturer Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

• colonial bureaucracy at the turn of the twentieth century in southern Africa Event - 17 April 2026

  Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series

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  Aleksandra Khokhlova PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Thomas Fossen University Lecturer Political Philosophy

  Faculty of Humanities

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  David Ehrhardt Associate Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Ton Dietz Professor emeritus

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Anne Heyer Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Kebadu Gebremariam Postdoc / Marie Curie fellow

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Marco Verschoor Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Diana Davila Gordillo Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Corinna Jentzsch Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Amadou Adamou PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ruud Koole Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Luc Verheij Professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

• ‘Interaction between politics, science and colonial impact often overlooked’ News - 10 March 2026

  How did science relate to politics and colonialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Assistant Professor Lauren Lauret has been awarded an NWO XS grant to map the colonial and political activities of nineteenth-century scientists.

• Policy and politics pre-analysis plan workshop Event - 26 March 2026

  Workshop

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  Paul Nieuwenburg Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Joop van Holsteijn Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Stefan Cetkovic Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Michael Meffert Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Kathleen Brown Postdoc

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Dorota Mokrosinska Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Henk te Velde Interim Dean / Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ingrid van Biezen Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Gisela Hirschmann Senior Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Nikoleta Yordanova Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Robert Ross Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Joyce Outshoorn Emeritus professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Juan Masullo Jimenez Assistant professor/guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Faizal Rianto PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Anika Altaf Researcher

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Tom Barkhuysen Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Pralay Kanungo University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• Disentangling ghost segments and number marking in Sengwer nouns Event - 3 April 2026

  Lecture, This Time for Africa! series

• 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.

• 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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  Rick van Well Promovendus

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Amy Verdun Guest professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Christina Luise Toenshoff Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Mateo Cohen External PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Sine Bagatur University Lecturer Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Economics

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Eric Cezne Postdoc

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Mirjam de Bruijn Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jelena Belic Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Bruno Verbeek Senior University Lecturer Moral and Political Philosophy

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jasper van der Steen Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Peter Pels Emeritus hoogleraar

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences