The journalist and the researcher
Reporters go out into the street and academics lock themselves up in an ivory tower. In the past such platitudes ...
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Podcast – Differences between the African and Dutch food culture
In this podcast, Dorine and I discuss the African food culture with Daniel, our fellow student. Daniel is orginally from ...
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Africans and The Fourth Estate
The Fourth Estate is under attack, or so says conventional wisdom in the era of populist backlash across the Western ...
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Analysing Protests in Sub-Saharan Africa
Analysing Protests in Sub-Saharan Africa The year 2019 is now commonly referred to as a “year of protests” which spanned ...
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Sustainable Development and the Culture Sector
UNESCO’s sustainable development goals have been brought about in order to help counties develop in three key areas. These areas ...
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Money does not make you happy?
In the Master African Studies, we often talk about (economic) development. Yet, what matters most is happiness. Therefore, I wanted ...
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Two sides of the same poster?
At the African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) one can pick up doubly-printed posters covered in graphs and diagrams on particular ...
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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 ...
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Are statistics just as connected as the world is?
Since I can remember, I have been interested in migration. I grew up next to an AZC, which might be ...
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