Catherina Wilson – Chronicle of an Uprising Foretold

CTD researcher Catherina Wilson wrote a blog on the rising tensions in Congo-Kinshasa: http://rumoursontheubangui.tumblr.com/post/154679532052/chronicle-of-an-uprising-foretold


Meike de Goede – Matsouanist resistance & independence in Congo-Brazzaville

CTD researcher Meike de Goede wrote a blog about Matsouanist resistance & independence in Congo-Brazzaville for The University of Portsmouth, UK. Meike de Goede works on silenced history and memory in Congo-Brazzaville and former French Equatorial Africa. In this blog she argues that: “[the case of the Matsouanists] raises questions aboutRead More


The Broker’s special dossier: Africa’s Conflicts Connected

On the 19th and 20th of March 2015 several members of the CTD team participated and co-organized the workshop ‘Governance and Connections in Africa’s Contemporary Conflicts’ at the African Studies Centre (ASC) . After the conference several speakers engaged in writing blogs for The Broker.Read More


N’Djamena, théâtre de toutes les colères

Un calme précaire est revenu à N’Djamena après un début de mois de septembre bien mouvementé par des manifestations de tous bords, que ce soit ici à la capitale, comme dans les autres villes du Tchad. N’Djamena fut le théâtre d’un mouvement d’humeur hors duRead More


Catherina Wilson, NPO Radio 1, 26 September 2016

Catherina Wilson on the rising tensions in Congo on NPO Radio 1 ‘De Ochtend’ (Dutch)    


Voice4Thought Festival: People in Motion, 21-25 September 2016

After last year’s successful edition, Voice4Tought is back with its second annual festival, featuring a.o. the artists Valsero (Cameroon), Croquemort (Chad), Amee (Ivory Coast), author Lieve Joris (Belgium), and musician Ernst Jansz (Netherlands). This year’s theme is ‘People in Motion’. In the Netherlands and in Europe, many of the migrants’Read More


Prof. dr. Mirjam de Bruijn

Mirjam de Bruijn is an anthropologist whose work has a clearly interdisciplinary character with a preference for contemporary history and cultural studies. She focuses on the interrelationship between agency, marginality, mobility, communication and technology. Mirjam is an Africanist with a focus on West and Central Africa. She did,Read More


Dr. Meike de Goede

Meike de Goede holds a PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of St Andrews (UK). After completing her studies in African History at Leiden University and Peace and Conflict Studies & Human Rights at Utrecht University, Meike worked for several years inRead More


Adamou Amadou MA

Adamou Amadou est détenteur d’un Master en Anthropologie Visuelle de l’Université de Tromso (Norvège) et d’une maîtrise en Droit Public de l’Université de Ngaoundéré (Cameroun). Il est magistrat et est également affilié au programme doctoral « Connecting in Times of Duress » à l’Université de Leiden (Hollande). Son projetRead More


Dr. Jonna Both

Jonna Both started working in March 2015 as a postdoctoral  researcher within the VICI project ‘Connecting in Times of Duress’ of professor Mirjam de Bruijn. For her BA she studied African Languages and Cultures at Leiden University from 2003-2006 and specialized in African History. She also followed a fewRead More


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