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Piss off: Salva Kiir and South Sudan

On the recent episode of the Danish Radio podcast Genstart, Associate Professor at CAS, Stig Jensen tells the story of the leader who became president of South Sudan.

Nai Lee Kalema, visiting researcher on the CERTIZEN project

Nai Lee Kalema is a Visiting Researcher at the University of Copenhagen's Centre for African Studies (CAS) for the CERTIZENS project. Nai is a third-year PhD candidate in Innovation and Public Policy at the UCL…

Land healing, farming and spiritual cleansing in Southern Africa

In their recent work, Marie Curie Fellow, Hans Olsson, and Associate Professor Karen Lauterbach ask what the relationship between religion, healing and farming in Southern Africa could look like? Discussing Christian…

Climate reparations can give a Denmark comeback as an aid beacon

Why is Denmark paying development aid? To answer this question Associate Professor Stig Jensen has written an article about Denmark's proposal to pay climate reparations to the Global South. He explains that it is…

AFRICA SEMINAR Programme Autumn semester 2022

The Centre of Africa Studies is proud to announce the full schedule of the Africa Seminar series autumn semester.

Affiliate Professor

George Bob-Milliar appointed Affiliate Professor in African Studies

George Bob-Milliar of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana is appointed new Affiliate Professor in African Studies, effective 1 September 2022.

Green transition called off: DR Congo’s new way to fight poverty and create development

Associate Professor Stig Jensen at the Centre of African Studies has written a three-part article series for GlobalNyt highlighting some of the many paradoxes associated with DR Congo's decision to Congo put 30 oil and…

Russia and the West hunt hearts and minds in Africa

Associate Professor Stig Jensen has written a two-part article for GlobalNyt analysing Sergei Lavrov and Emmanuel Macron's tours in Africa.

Remembering former CAS student, Gavin David Shepherd

CAS has been greatly saddened by news of the recent tragic loss of our former MA graduate, Gavin ‘Gavster’ David Shepherd. Gavin suffered a fatal cardiac arrest on 19 July while hillwalking in Scotland with his sister…

CAS students collaborate with GlobalNyt on course-based articles

Globalnyt has published a two-part article series with two CAS students, supported by the Center for African Studies, University of Copenhagen.

PRIVACY Postdoctoral researchers invited to teach at the Center of African Studies (CAS) methods course with a focus on digital

Karen Lauterbach, Associate Professor and Director of the Center of African Studies, invited the two Privacy Scholars, Natacha Klein Käfer and Natália da Silva Perez, with a scholarly profile on Digital Humanities to…

What does the EU want with Africa?

Associate Professor Stig Jensen, CAS, is invited to participate in a panel by the Democracy in Europe Information Society on the bilateral relationship between the two unions. The panel will address the following…

PhD Scholarship at the Faculty of Theology including Centre of African Studies

Two PhD scholarships (three-year) will be available from 1 December 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Mission and the Anthropology of Christianity: Africanist Perspectives

Karen Lauterbach, Associate Professor and Director of CAS, contributes to the newly published Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies with a chapter on ‘Mission and the Anthropology of Christianity: Africanist Perspectives’.…

The Centre of African Studies hosts new visiting PhD researcher, Francis Benyah

Francis research focuses on Pentecostal/Charismatic theology and African Pentecostal Christianity with a special interest in how Pentecostal/Charismatic theology and African Pentecostal Christianity intersects and…

The (Spiritual) Revolution, Pentecostal Belonging, and the Past in Zanzibar

Hans Olsson, Marie Curie Fellow at CAS has contributed with a chapter in the recently published book Across the Waves Strategies of Belonging in Indian Ocean Island Societies edited by Iain Walker & Marie-Aude Fouéré…

Dr. Primus M. Tazanu gives keynote at 4th Biennial Conference of African Studies Association of Africa

CAS guest researcher Dr. Primus M. Tazanu delivered a keynote at the 4th Biennial Conference of African Studies Association of Africa hosted by the Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA), University of Cape Town,…

Karen Lauterbach gives keynote at 13th GloPent conference

CAS Director and Associate Professor Karen Lauterbach has given one of three keynotes at the 13th GloPent conference on 1-2 April 2022. The international and interdisciplinary conference is organized by the European…

Russia has many friends in Africa, but can they stand to be beaten yellow and blue?

Associate Professor Stig Jensen has written article for GlobalNyt explaining that several countries in Africa see Russia as an attractive partner because they are fed up with what they perceive as the West's know-it-all…

INTERNSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT

Combined Internship 2022

Nordic Africa Research Network (NARN) and Centre of African Studies (CAS), University of Copenhagen.

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