Agenda 08 - 14 Mei 2011
Donderdag 12 Mei
The Quest for Alternatives: the attempt to craft authentic development programmes for Africa
ISS Seminar, Eyob Balcha Gebremariam, ASC Leiden. There have been practical engagements from the African Political Economic elite in pursuing a homegrown ‘development’ programs and encountering the prescription that has been forwarded from the ‘West’ or from WB and IMF more specifically.
promotie: Nubis of Kibera. A social history of the Nubians and Kibera slums
Donderdag 12 Mei 2011 16:15
J.V.A. de Smedt verdedigt om 16.15uur zijn proefschrift: The Nubis of Kibera. A social history of the Nubians and Kibera slums. Promotor: Prof.dr. R.J. Ross
Vrijdag 13 Mei
Hypertension and Resistance Vessel Function and Structure. Role of Ethnicity and Inflammation
Promotie UvA. Mw. Z. Taher Zadeh/Geneeskunde. Mensen van Afrikaanse afkomst uit gebieden ten zuiden van de Sahara hebben door onbekende oorzaak een verhoogde bloeddruk. Zhila Taherzadeh vond dat de kleine vaten van mensen uit deze groep anders reageren op stimulatie. Er is sprake van verhoogde samentrekking van de vaten, waarbij creatinekinase (CK) een belangrijke rol lijkt te spelen.
The Mijikenda Union: Ethnic Politics on the Kenya Coast, c. 1940-1980
ASC Seminar, prof. Justin Willis, Durham University. When the union was founded, the term Mijikenda was a novelty, an ethnonym created to promote unity among the 'nine tribes' of the southern Kenya coast. By the 1960s, both the ethnonym and the notion that this was a clear political constituency had become commonplace in the 'high politics' of the independent Kenyan state.
