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Submissions are invited from final year Masters students at universities in Africa and the Netherlands for the Africa Thesis Award. This annual award, offered by the African Studies Centre in Leiden, encourages research and writing on sub-Saharan Africa and on African cultures and societies. The winner will receive 1,000 Euros and their thesis will be published … Read more

City and Islington College in London is hosting an exhibition in memory of Nelson Mandela at the Centre for Business, Arts and Technology. The exhibition has been created by college staff who were involved in the Anti-Apartheid Movement in the 1980s and 1990s and aims to describe the segregation and racial discrimination of the apartheid … Read more

Nominations are invited for the Audrey Richards Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis in African Studies which is awarded biennially by the African Studies Assocation of the UK. Theses examined in a British institute of higher education between 1 January 2012 and 31 December 2013 are eligible and nominations should be made by 31 March … Read more

The African Studies Centre Library, Leiden, has received 3000 books from the library of KIT (Royal Insitute of the Tropics) in Amsterdam following its closure at the end of 2013. The books, all about Africa, mainly in English and not held in any other library in the Netherlands, are already in the ASC library cataloge and available … Read more