Africa in the Hague

21st Century (2020/21)Personal Reflections+1

September 22, 2020

Ria Winters

South Africa on the Keizersgracht

A stroll from the Westerkerk along the Keizersgracht, towards number 141, to the canal house with its stone steps, dark ...

21st Century (2020/21)Africa in the Hague

September 22, 2020

Marcia Semedo Gonçalves

Writing Ethnography – African hair care shops

For this assignment I decided to go to the only place in the Hague I know caters specifically to African ...

21st Century (2019/20)Africa in the Hague+1

May 23, 2020

Charlotte Simons

Money Transfer Services in The Hague: Paul on the social impacts of money transfers

As part of our ‘Researching Africa in the 21st Century’ course, we – master’s students ‘African Studies’ at Leiden University ...

21st Century (2019/20)Africa in the Hague+2

March 3, 2020

Melat Pusch

African Music in The Hague

Introduction When thinking of a topic to research for the Researching Africa final assignment, Andrea talked about how we could ...

21st Century (2019/20)Music - Africa in the Hague+1

February 25, 2020

Andrea Rodriguez Hernandez

Africa In The Hague: Mama Africa

“Music is a great blessing. It has the power to elevate and liberate us. It sets people free to dream. ...

21st Century (2019/20)Africa in the Hague+1

January 22, 2020

Rebecca Alcolea Krauss

Investigating Remnants of Apartheid in The Hague

For the course “Researching Africa in the 21st Century,” we were asked to conduct research and present it in a ...

Africa in the Hague Personal Reflections+1

January 22, 2020

Joris Martens

Reflections on Africa in The Hague: a project on ‘Jan van Riebeekstraat’

‘A quiet street in The Hague, nothing to see here.’ That is what I thought the first time I visited ...

Africa in the Hague Street names & colonial past - Africa in the Hague

January 20, 2020

Joris Martens

Decolonizing the public sphere – The Jan van Riebeek street in The Hague

In recent years the debate on colonial history in the public sphere in the Netherlands has picked up steam. Mainly ...

Africa in the Hague African businesses - Africa in the Hague+1

December 31, 2019

Boline Ning

Within the Shop, more than a Shop — A reflection paper on African Products Shop Project

A Review of our Project Introduction African Products Shop is an African-owned independent shop located in downtown the Hague. ...

Music - Africa in the Hague

December 31, 2019

Andrea Rodriguez Hernandez

Mama Africa in the Hague

This multimodal project explores the event ‘Mama Africa’ as an example of African music in the Hague. Created only two ...

African businesses - Africa in the Hague Personal Reflections

December 30, 2019

Anissa Sidhoum Hassaïne

Three Months Exploring the Africa Products Shop

« Le ‘quelconque’ et l’’ordinaire’ sont mes alliés »

21st Century (2019/20)Africa in the Hague+1

December 29, 2019

Mira Demirdirek

Money Transfer Services in The Hague: insights from an online survey

At the beginning of our research project we had envisaged to carry out a survey as a starting point to ...