Africa in the Netherlands (2020/21) November 27, 2020 Oussama El Khairi Home and the diaspora About 15% of the respondents who tweeted in support of #EndSARS, found themselves outside Nigeria. They mostly joined in when ... Read More
Africa in the Netherlands (2020/21) November 26, 2020 Femke van Zeijl When women got involved Women’s roles in public uprisings on the African continent have been highlighted in the media, from the Sudanese revolution to ... Read More
Africa in the Netherlands (2020/21) November 25, 2020 Jared Hally Slacktivism or activism? How active were the people using the #EndSARS hashtag? Did they occasionally retweet a line someone else wrote, or did ... Read More
Africa in the Netherlands (2020/21) November 11, 2020 Shannon Lorimer Hashtag Activism: Discontent in Nigeria Online activism has played a role in protests all over Africa in the past decade. One of the most recent ... Read More
21st Century (2020/21) October 13, 2020 Shannon Lorimer Does the high representation of women in parliament in Rwanda translate to meaningful empowerment of women? According to UN Women, in 2013, The Rwandan parliament had the highest representation of women in parliament in the world ... Read More
21st Century (2020/21) October 6, 2020 Shannon Lorimer “Repeat: ‘I am a man!’” Inxeba: The Wound, released in 2017, follows the process of initiation in the isiXhosa culture in South Africa. It is ... Read More
21st Century (2020/21) September 29, 2020 Shannon Lorimer Discussing the decolonisation of curriculums in South Africa In this podcast, I interviewed my sister to discuss our experiences of curriculums and the process of decolonisation in ... Read More
21st Century (2020/21) September 21, 2020 Shannon Lorimer ‘Writing’ ethnography: supporting local art in South Africa As the Facebook page loads, the first thing that grabs my attention is the painting of Nelson Mandela set as ... Read More
21st Century (2020/21)Portfolio September 9, 2020 Shannon Lorimer Portfolio: Shannon Lorimer 21st Century (2020/21) Does the high representation of women in parliament in Rwanda translate to meaningful empowerment of women? October ... Read More