Events and News
New book by Adriaan van Klinken: “Sacred Queer Stories: Ugandan LGBTQ+ Refugee Lives and the Bible”
LUCAS member Adriaan van Klinken, Professor of Religion and African Studies at the University of Leeds, recently published a new...
Lionel Cliffe Prize 2021 for the Best Leeds Undergraduate Dissertation in African Studies goes to Shannon de’Vries
The Leeds University Centre for African Studies is delighted to announce the winner of the 2021 Lionel Cliffe Prize for...
New Book by Adriaan van Klinken: “Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa”
Adriaan van Klinken, Professor of Religion and African Studies at the University of Leeds, recently published a book co-authored with...
Nine African scholars awarded Virtual Research Fellowship with Leeds
The Leeds University Centre for African Studies has partnered with the Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute to launch a...
African Knowledges of Customary Justice: Chinua Achebe’s Works
Presenters: Evelyn Nwachukwu Urama and Brendon Nicholls Hosted on Zoom https://universityofleeds.zoom.us/j/85856626936?pwd=dXo5THdUK1E3WTYxbUI1T09WSm5ldz09 Presentation 1, by Dr Evelyn Urama (Department of English...
LUCAS Annual Lecture 2020-21: ‘#AskAMan and the Cultural Itineraries of Courtship in South Africa’ – Professor Grace Musila
Professor Grace Musila (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa) will deliver the Leeds University Centre for African Studies annual lecture of...
African Knowledges – Taking Stock and Looking Ahead – Seminar 8 in the series “African Knowledges for Global Challenges”
On 20th May, we have the eighth seminar in the Sadler series “African Knowledges for Global Challenges”. In this last...
African Knowledges of Community and Belonging – Seminar 7 in the series “African Knowledges for Global Challenges”
On 29 April, we have the seventh seminar in the Sadler seminar series “African Knowledges for Global Challenges”. This seminar...