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Module 03-AFR-1302 "Postkoloniale Kritik"

The seminar "Postkoloniale Debatten" (03-AFR-1302) willl start on Thursday, the 26th of October in Room S 127.

The lecture "Postkoloniale Theorie" (03-AFR-1302) will start on Friday, the 27th of October in Room S 302.

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Erasmus+ Applications - winter term 2024/25 and summer term 2025

Dear students,
the deadline for the Erasmus+ applications fot the winter term 2024/25 and the summer term 2025 is 31st of January 2024!

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Belated module registration for winter semester 2023/24

Until 31st October 2023

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Modul registration Winter semester 2023/24

You have register for all modules and courses that you would like to take. Please use TOOL to register for modules or courses...

Forschung

How South Africa went from a strong economic nation to a risky location

South Africa’s economic power is shrinking, companies are going bankrupt and the population is suffering. The reason for this is massive and widespread power cuts, which have been becoming more frequent for years now. In the ranking of Africa’s economically strongest countries, South Africa is only…

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New Video Podcast – Afrikanists Assemble

Take a look at the newest episode of Afrikanists Assemble, a Video Podcast produced by the research project Recalibrating Afrikanistik; a forum that seeks dialogue and exchange.

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RELANGUAGING LANGUAGE FROM A SOUTH AFRICAN TOWNSHIP SCHOOL

Multilingual Matters has published a book by one of our institute members.

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Everything you currently need to know from the Institute of African Studies: news, lectures, workshops, colloquia and conferences.

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about us

We see African Studies as part of Area Studies with a particular historical responsibility. Our interdisciplinary institute works within the scope of the humanities and the social sciences.

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Team

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Students

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Alumni

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STUDIES

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African Studies

We learn to think critically about Africa and its role in a globalised world as well as in the social sciences. Here you find information on our Bachelor and Master programme in African Studies.

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Bachelor African Studies

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Master African Studies

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Doctorate

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Research

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Diverse, dynamic and changing

We engage in individual and collaborative research projects on Africa in its regional and global entanglements, and we orient towards Leipzig University’s strategic research field “Changed order in a globalised world”.

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Recalibrating Afrikanistik (RecAf)

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Language as Archive

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Precarious and Informal Labour in South Africa and Nigeria

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Local Self-Governance for the Provision of Security: Vigilantes in Burkina Faso

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Doing the City: Socio-Spatial Navigation in Urban Africa

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Interregionalism and Security in the Sahel: The African Union, ECOWAS, and the EU

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Institute of African Studies

Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum
Beethovenstraße 15
04107 Leipzig
Head: Prof. Dr. Katja Werthmann-Kirscht

Phone: +49 341 97-37030
Fax: +49 341 97-37048

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