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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…

Associate Professor Amanda Hammar, formerly MSO Professor (2009-2017) and head of the Centre of African Studies (2014-2020), and current president (2019-2023) of AEGIS (the European African Studies Association), has bee…

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…

CAS welcomes Hamida Massaquoi, our new PhD fellow at the faculty.

CAS Associate Professor Amanda Hammar has recently had a chapter published in The Handbook of Displacement (Adey et al., Palgrave Macmillan 2020). The Handbook “provides the knowledge and tools needed to understand how…

In November 2019, CAS Associate Professor Amanda Hammar was invited to give the 5th JJ Bachofen Lecture in Anthropology at the University of Basel. The title of her lecture was Speaking Through Houses: Interweaving…

Associate Professor Stig Jensen publishes article on tourism in Uganda during the COVID-pandemic in Globalnyt.

The Centre of African Studies (CAS) on the South Campus of the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) is looking for a part-time student assistant to be part of an exciting new team of researchers from Denmark, Ghana and…

The Centre of African Studies, in partnership with the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Makerere University, Uganda, and the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana, proudly hosts a new…

Centre of African Studies welcomes new visiting researcher Yahya Barry!

Centre of African studies is excited to welcome and host new guest researcher Noura Alkhalili.

At CAS we are excited to offer three elective courses next semester that are open for both credit students, professional masters students and part time (open university) students. 1. The course "Critical Development…