Woensdag 16 September 2015

On the occasion of the defence of her PhD thesis ‘Sharing Scarcity: Land Access and Social Relations in Southeast Rwanda’ on 16 September at VU University Amsterdam, Margot Leegwater organizes the seminar ‘Scarcity, Security and Sustainability: Bottom-up perspectives from rural Rwanda’ on the same day. Short presentations will be given by Dr An Ansoms (Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve), Dr Bert Ingelaere (University of Antwerp), Cora Dekker (PhD student VU University) and Margot Leegwater. If you would like to attend this seminar, please send an email to Margot Leegwater before 11 September: leegwater@paxforpeace.nl.

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Miranda Brouwer onderzoekt welke factoren bijdragen aan een succesvolle implementatie van tuberculoserichtlijnen in Mozambique, waar tuberculose veel voor komt. Dit doet ze door de implementatie van een aantal internationaal ontwikkelde bestrijdingsrichtlijnen te evalueren, en te kijken deze bijdragen aan beslissingen op het gebied van gezondheidszorg.

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The influence and impact of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) on blood transfusion services in Africa; Case studies from Namibia. PhD ceremony: dr. J. Pitman. Promotors: prof. dr. M.J. (Maarten) Postma, prof. dr. T.S. (Tjip) van der Werf. The questions addressed by this thesis were born from an interest in the relationship between international development projects and the impact external funds had on technical issues of importance to blood transfusion services.

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Margot Leegwater will defend her PhD thesis Sharing Scarcity: Land Access and Social Relations in Southeast Rwanda at the VU University. Land is a crucial yet scarce resource in Rwanda, where about 90% of the population is engaged in subsistence farming, and access to land is increasingly becoming a source of conflict. This study examines the effects of land-access and land-tenure policies on local community relations, including ethnicity, and land conflicts in post-conflict rural Rwanda. Social relations have been characterized by (ethnic) tensions, mistrust, grief and frustration since the end of the 1990-1994 civil war and the 1994 genocide.

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This legendary band was formed in the late 1960's by guitarist Mamady "Djelike" Kouyate and singer Emile Soumah. They made some of the most beloved music of their generation. Now based in New York, Mamady Kouyate has decided to revive The Ambassadors. Every Wednesday night.

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Proud to announce the opening of Afrika / Architecture, Culture and Identity which will take place on Wednesday June 24. The exhibition will be opened with a speech by ArchiAfrica chairman Joe Osae-Addo. Especially for this exhibition I made four slideshows, showing Johannesburg, Lagos, Nairobi and Kinshasa, selected out of the large archive that I produced working on Africa Junctions. From the series Africa Junctions - Capturing the City, there will be five large wall-prints shown.

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Together with the award-winning Nigerian photographer Akintunde Akinleye, anthropologist Dr. Marloes Janson hit the road in the summer of 2013 to map the most important and busiest Nigerian road - the 120-kilometer long Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. While it has failed as the artery linking the north and the south of Nigeria, the highway has succeeded as a stage for the performance of public religiosity to the extent that it can be described as a 'Spiritual Highway'. The convergence of Christian and Muslim elements makes the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway a true crossroads. At this crossroads prayer camps act as road-builders in rendering meaningful the unstable flux of life in megacity Lagos.

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20 toonaangevende hedendaagse kunstenaars uit alle continenten tonen op uitnodiging van Museum De Lakenhal hun visie op de huidige geglobaliseerde wereld. Dit doen ze aan de hand van bestaand of nieuw werk, waarbij ze zich laten inspireren door Leidse museale collecties. Het resultaat is een boeiende afspiegeling van actuele thema’s en ontwikkelingen in de ons omringende wereld. De werken – vaak grootschalige installaties, videoprojecties, sculpturen, etc. - zijn te zien in De Meelfabriek, een imposant, voormalig industrieel complex aan de rand van Leiden. Tot de geselecteerde kunstenaars behoren de Ghana ThinkTank, een mondiale denktank die in 2006 in Ghana werd opgericht door Christopher Robbins, John Ewing en Matey Odonkor.

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The countdown has started for the Arts Alive Festival in September with theatre, music, dance and the annual Jazz on the Lake concert. The festival is back with a full programme traversing the continents from Africa to the Caribbean to the USA, to showcase the diversity and quality artistic offerings for the residents of Joburg. The festival will feature a range of exciting overseas and local artists within literature, poetry, master class workshops, music and dance; a diverse range of music from Jazz to Afrobeat, Hip Hop, Dancehall reggae and traditional rhythms to Kwaito.

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