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Associate Professor Stig Jensen provides an insight into UCPH's long road towards becoming a green university.

Karen Lauterbach, Associate Professor at CAS, has reviewed Doreen Baingana’s story ‘Lucky’ for Africa in Words. The story was originally published in Ibua Journal. Doreen Baingana is an Ugandan writer, who won the…

The Centre of African Studies officially launch the African Studies Alumni Network. The African Studies Alumni Network is established to enhance cooperation among graduates of the African Studies programme, by offering…

The CERTIZENS Africa research project has launched its second quarterly Newsletter. Read it here for a summary of recent research, journalism and scholarship on systems of citizenship classification, certification and…

Associate Professor Stig Jensen has co-authored a peer reviewed article titled "Coronavirus, macroeconomy, and forests: What likely impacts? In the journal Forest Policy and Economics. The article focuses on…

The African Union issued in early August a strong condemnation of Denmark’s Aliens Law passed in June. The AU said: “This law effectively externalizes and exports the asylum process beyond the borders of Demark. Denmark…

Karen Lauterbach has published a book chapter entitled ‘‘I Will Not Tell Anyone Until You Have Left': The Ending of a Development Relationship Remembered' in a new volume on ‘NGOs and Lifeworlds in Africa:…

The leader of the terror group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has been reported dead in northern Nigeria. In a podcast for the Genstart program on Danish national radio P1 associate professor emeritus Niels Kastfelt from…

We are delighted to announce the launch of a quarterly newsletter for the CERTIZENS research project (Certifications of Citizenship in Africa), which is a joint collaboration between the University of Copenhagen,…

For CAS Masters students, the opportunity to do an internship abroad is something that lets students tailor their semester to their own passions and interests. For CAS student Daryl Aubry, the experience working for a…

Associate professor at Centre of African Studies, Stig Jensen, has written two articles, that explore nature management in Chad, and how the integrated conservation of bio-diversity in Chad has inspired the European…

The Faculty of Theology has appointed Associate Professor Amanda Hammar as Professor. In her new position as Professor of African Studies, alongside other roles and with other colleagues, she hope to combine several…

Associate professor at CAS, Stig Jensen has written an article on the recent killing of Chadian president Idriss Déby, and how this might have very big repercussions for the entire Sahel region. He analyses how Chad has…

Associate professor at CAS, Stig Jensen, has written three articles on the COVID-19 pandemic and its implications and consequences on the African continent.

Senior Guest researcher at CAS, Primus Tazanu, publishes article on "COVID-19 vaccine, Christian right end-time prophecy, and conspiracy theory. The article pivots around COVID-19 and the vaccine, with the main point…

Karen Lauterbach (Associate Professor at CAS) has published the article ‘’A Refugee Pastor in a Refugee Church’: Refugee-Refugee Hosting in a Faith Based Context’ in Migration and Society (vol. 4, issue 1). The article…

In this article Hans Olsson puts focus on the relationship between religion and farming in South Africa and discusses how a Christian model to grow food enters questions of social and ecological sustainability.…

The African football association CAF has a new president, after Ahmad Ahmad from Madagascar had to resign due to corruption. The new man at the helm is the South African business man and mining billionaire Patrice…

Globalnyt has published a series of articles about CAS students and their exciting, creative and relevant thesis projects. This can give insight into some of the possibilities studying at CAS, and what type of research…

For the first time ever, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague, has found a child soldier guilty of crimes against humanity. Dominic Ongwen was abducted and brainwashed by a Christian rebellion army and…