News about Africa

Call for Submissions: CERTIZENS West Africa Regional Workshop

The CERTIZENS Research Project invites submissions for a workshop in Accra, Ghana, from 7-9 April 2025, on Changing ID Systems in West Africa: Policies, Practices and Contestations in the Reshaping of States and Citizen…

Urban encroachment – untangling drivers and dynamics of land-use transitions in ecologically sensitive areas

Manja Hoppe Andreasen, Associate Professor at KU discusses her project on urban encroachment in Ghana and Tanzania.

Articles on Ghana’s Election 2024

Dive into the latest articles exploring Ghana’s 2024 Elections and gain valuable insights from experts, including Associate Professor Karen Lauterbach.

Analyzing President Biden's Visit to Angola

Associate Professor Stig Jensen has recently analyzed President Biden's visit to Angola from December 2-4, 2024, in articles published on pov.international and Altinget.

New Discovery Uncovers the Malaria Parasite’s Achilles’ Heel

The new study, that has just been published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature, reveals the first broadly neutralizing antibodies against Plasmodium falciparum - the parasite responsible for the most severe…

HOWA Research Project – CEA/CAS Workshop Highlights

In the framework of the Marie Sklodowska Curie-funded research project HOWA, hosted by the Centre for African Studies, an interdisciplinary workshop was held at the Centre of African Studies at the University of…

Swahili Festival 2024

Swahili Festival is an annual event offering a platform to Swahili businesses, NGOs, artists, and more to showcase their work, as well as offering the opportunity for attendees to interact with Swahili culture. This…

CEA/CAS Workshop

Displacements, identities and societies in reconstruction processes - A socio-political look at the materiality of life trajectories

Participatory photo exhibition in Mutua resettlement camp

Reflections on visual anthropology, community and sociopolitical issues.

Addressing financing primary health care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

In a symposium on 10 September, experts gathered to address financing primary health care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

Project to investigate the social and political impact of migrant deaths

Every year, thousands of migrants from Africa die on their way to Europe. A new anthropological project funded by the European Research Council will examine the impact of these deaths on the bereaved.

Juliette Nicolaï: Conducting applied research in water, sanitation and hygiene programs in Togo and Kenya

Juliette Nicolaï, a Research Assistant at the Global Health Section, University of Copenhagen, conducts applied research in water, sanitation and hygiene programs in Togo and Kenya.

New postdoc researcher at the Centre of African Studies

The Centre of African Studies welcomes new postdoc researcher Dr. Mads Yding.

Bridging the gap: Childbirth challenges in Tanzania and beyond

In a symposium hosted by the University of Copenhagen’s School of Global Health, experts gathered to address the pressing issues surrounding childbirth in Tanzania and globally.

New Assistant Professor at the Centre of African Studies and Center for Privacy Studies

Francis Ethelbert Kwabena Benyah, join Centre of African Studies (CAS) as an Assistant Professor in African Studies, with a dual role at the Centre for Privacy Studies in the Faculty of Theology at the University of…

CAS graduates attend The Third European Students' Conference on African Studies

Three recent graduates from the African Studies MA program presented their MA theses at the conference hosted by the University of Basel

ECAS 2025 - Call for Panels Deadline on 15th September

The European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) 2025 will take place from 25-28 June in Prague under the theme: African, Afropolitan, and Afropean Belongings and Identities.

'The Social Life of Health Data': Health Records and Knowledge Production in Ghana

Guest Researcher at CAS and Marie Curie fellow at the IT University Alena Thiel has published a new book examining 'The Social Life of Health Data'

New Publication: ‘Farming God’s Way’ in Post-Apartheid South Africa

CAS guest researcher Hans Olsson has published a new article in the Journal of Southern African Studies, examining 'Evangelical Cosmologies of Land and ‘Crisis’ in Post-Apartheid South Africa'

Sven Botha joins the Centre of African Studies as a Guest Researcher

Sven will advance his research on Africa-Nordic relations while at CAS. This research encompasses the establishment of a research community that examines the relationship between Africa and the Nordics from a political,…

We are all Storytellers: Art and Narrative as a tool for climate and humanitarian communication at the Red Cross Climate Centre

Raramai is a former MSc Global health student at University of Copenhagen. She specialised in Disaster Risk Management as part of her studies and now works as a consultant at The Alliance of Bioversity International and…

Mumbi Macharia is the new Kiswahili teacher at the Centre of African Studies

Born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya, Mumbi will be teaching Kiswahili I and Kiswahili II at the Center of African Studies

Ben Jones joins the Centre of African Studies as an Associate Professor

Ben will be working on the 'Multiple Waterscapes in Urban Ghana' research project. He brings long-term experience as an ethnographer, with a particular focus on local level institutions in Africa, and the part they play…

PostDoc/PhD/MPhil Opportunities at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Positions in Kumasi, Ghana are part of the 'Multiple Waterscapes in Urban Ghana' research project