CTD team – Behind the scenes: vodcast in one day
This clip was made during the first Vodcast workshop in Leiden, organised by Sjoerd Sijsma.
Inge Butter – La mobilité transnationale et le réseau économique des nomades de Batha
This video gives an impression of the fieldwork Inge Butter carried out between October 2012 and March 2013, in Chad and the Central African Republic. It was presented at a workshop hosted by the research center CRASH in N’Djamena on March 19th 2013. It is very muchRead More
Inge Ligtvoet – Youth and Social Media in Nigeria
This video was made by Inge Ligtvoet during her fieldwork in Nigeria in April 2013. Short interviews with students of the University of Ibadan give a first impression of the use of social media by Nigerian youth. See also her vodcast on duress and NaijaRead More
Eefje Gilbert – Impressions of my field: Kribi, Cameroon in 45 seconds
Eefje Gilbert is a master student at Leiden University.
Presentation CTD poster at the NVAS Conference, 23 November 2013
On Saturday 23 November the Connecting in Times of Duress team was present at the NVAS (Netherlands Association of African Studies) Conference in the Ethnology Museum in Leiden. We presented a poster full of fieldwork photos that gave interested conference guests an idea of theRead More
CTD team – Leiden Global: an innovative platform of academia and stakeholders from CTD
The launch of Leiden Global on Vimeo, made by Sjoerd Sijsma (Eyeses).
Book – Bridging Mobilities: ICTs appropriation by Cameroonians in SA and The Netherlands
Nyamjoh, H. (2013) Bridging Mobilities: ICTs Appropriation by Cameroonians in South Africa and The Netherlands, Langaa RPCIG: Cameroon. This is a study on the creative appropriation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by mobile Africans and the communities to which they belong, home and away. WithRead More
CTD Seminar Series: Louisa Lombard, 28 January 2014
‘Hunting Hunters: Production and Politics in a Central African Autonomous Zone’ by Dr. Louisa Lombard In this talk Lombard develops a framework for thinking through the mode of integration-without-incorporation of a Central African autonomous zone into broader circuits of exchange. She draws on the anthropologicalRead More
CTD Seminar Series: Laura Fair, 5 November 2013
‘Cinemas, Cities and Audiences: A social cartography of going to the show in Tanzania’ by Dr. Laura Fair, Michigan State University. From the 1950s through the 1980s going to the movies and talking about the latest film to hit the town was the most popular form ofRead More
Interview with Shamil Jeppie, NRC, 25 September 2013
Manuscripten ademen Afrikaanse cultuur Article in the Dutch newspaper NRC on Shamil Jeppie’s lecture at the University of Leiden on the 17th of September 2013.