Donderdag 10 November 2016

Promotie: A grammar of Hamar, a South Omotic language of Ethiopia. Promovendus: Sara Petrollino. Promotor: Prof.dr.M.P.G.M. Mous

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How to make Africa visible: African collections in the British Library and the West Africa exhibition of 2015-16. The British Library is the national library of the UK, and holds rich and very extensive collections on Africa. These comprise printed books, electronic resources, manuscripts and archives, newspapers, maps, sound recordings and stamps, and (to a lesser extent) photographs, prints & drawings, film and sheet music. These collections were at the core of the British Library’s recent major exhibition, ‘West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song’, which ran between October 2015 and February 2016. Speaker: Dr Marion Wallace, Lead Curator, African Collections at the British Library. Please register

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The third edition of the Africa Works! Conference will be themed 'Innovation in Finance'. It will serve as a platform to champion private sector initiatives, appealing to start-ups, SMEs, and large corporations alike. The conference will bring together industry leaders with a key focus on: shaping the financial innovation debate, accelerating fundraising, catalysing business development, supporting the private sector and SME financing. Key words are: fintech, financing businesses, funding facilities, access to finance, regulation & innovation, private equity & venture capital for development.

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