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 The largest annual assembly of eLearning & education professionals from Africa and beyond. eLearning Africa continues to build & expand a worldwide network for people involved in all aspects of technology-enhanced education & training in Africa.
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 The question of colonial policies with regard to the extraction of taxes, labour and natural resources in Africa has become an important thread in recent years in studies on the economic history of empire. This paper intends to partly redress this imbalance by means of a multidisciplinary focus on the cases of Angola, Guinea and Mozambique and to shed light on extractive policies, with particular emphasis on direct native taxation, while considering their implications for the debate on statehood and citizenship in empire. Speaker: Philip J. Havik, Tropical Research Institute IICT Lisbon. Please register
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 Promotor: prof. dr. M.P.G.M. Mous. Tafi is one of the fourteen Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM) languages, spoken by approximately 4,400 people in the southeastern part of Ghana. The primary goal of the project is to document the synchronic structure of the language producing a grammatical description, a text collection, multi-media corpus of verbal interactions and a lexicon, the storehouse of the indigenous knowledge systems of the speakers.
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 This seminar is organized by the ASC together with ICCO, Woord en Daad, Prisma, KIT and UvA. PADev (the Participatory Assessment of Development) is a participatory evaluation method that has been jointly developed since 2008 by three Dutch NGOs (ICCO, Woord en Daad and Prisma), the University of Amsterdam/ African Studies Centre and the Royal Tropical Institute, the University for Development Studies in Tamale, Ghana and Etudes Action Conseils in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Please register
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 In 2009, the Anti-Homosexuality Bill introduced in Uganda’s Parliament reignited homophobic sentiment across Africa. The debate continues today, despite a well-documented history of sexual diversity in Africa, and claims that homosexuality is not only “un-African” but a Western imposition are being used to justify violence and exclusion. Based on the article 'Locating Neocolonialism, "Tradition," and Human Rights in Uganda's 'Gay Death Penalty' by Kristen Cheney, she and Auma Okwany will discuss the tensions and contradictions in the opposition to homosexuality.
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 Ensuring economic development for a postcolonial African nation was in itself a monumental task. Yet for landlocked Zambia, development was influenced by more than a colonial legacy. Zambian development issues were directly tied to the volatile situation in Southern Africa, and its methods of negotiating this situation were deeply influenced by the Cold War. Speaker: Jessica Achberger, Research Fellow at the Southern African Institute of Policy and Research in Lusaka, Zambia. Please register
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 Co-organized with the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden. The influence of China globally has garnered much attention in recent years, as the last decade has seen unprecedented growth from this economic powerhouse that is equal parts communist and capitalist. This has been particularly so for nations of the developing world, for which China represents a source of aid and no-strings-attached investment, as well as a hegemonic power in the quest for scarce resources. Speakers: Danielle Tan, International Institute for Asian Studies & Jessica Achberger, African Studies Centre. Please register
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 An analysis of the missionary career of John G Lake shows that the initial spread of Pentecostalism and Zionism in southern Africa was facilitated by the systematic use of fraud and deception. After having fled from Zion City in America in 1907 to escape popular justice, Lake and his missionary party introduced to South Africa an array of faith healing techniques used by the original Zionist John Alexander Dowie. They used these and other forms of deception to build a unified Zionist/Pentecostal movement. Speaker: Barry Morton, Ivy Tech Community College, USA. Please register
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 The African Young Professional Network (AYP) is a platform for young professionals of African descent living in the Netherlands. The members are connected to the African continent either by heritage or appreciation of the African culture and ways of life. AYP will be organizing the second edition of the symposium “Africa on The Move”. This years edition is dedicated to throwing more light on contemporary Africa – and the opportunities that exist therein. For more information and registration:
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 The fifth European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 5) will be organized by the Centro de Estudos Africanos - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Center of African Studies of the University Institute of Lisbon) on behalf of AEGIS, the Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies. Its general theme will be ‘African Dynamics in a Multipolar World’.
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 Social analysis has recently moved away from the nation-state as the pivotal research unit. However, in research on heritage, the nation-state remains the unexamined frame in which museums, memorials and intangible heritage acquire their visibility and functionality. It is through this ‘national’ heritage that nations are imagined. This seminar suggests that the nation-state may not be the appropriate context for the study of heritage. Speakers: Ferdinand de Jong, University of East Anglia & Klaas van Walraven, African Studies Centre Please register
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