News about Africa

Optimism | Asia-Africa Seminar 2023

This seminar series addresses Africa-Asia linkages, dynamics and engagement. We approach Africa-Asia both as a geographical zone of connection and engagement and as two major world regions in which contemporary and…

Grounding the Prosperity Gospel

In their recent work, Associate Professor Karen Lauterbach and CAS Affiliate Professor George Bob-Milliar, present an overview of grounding the prosperity gospel, basing their discussion on an analysis of the project of…

Universal connectivity by 2030, will Africa ever get there?

Read one of CERTIZENS’ MPhil researchers, Gifty Cobbinah reflections on an online report- ‘Digital 2023: Global Overview Report’

Turning data into drawings: distributing children’s books on wild forest foods in East Africa

Research on how to improve food and nutrition security has the potential to make real-life contributions for local communities suffering from nutrient deficiencies. Yet, most research remains inaccessible to people who…

The counting of nine billion trees could help manage climate credits and nature restoration

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and NASA have developed a method that has now mapped several billion trees and their carbon uptake in Africa’s Sahel. In the future, the method could be used to monitor…

The counting of nine billion trees could help manage climate credits and nature restoration

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and NASA have developed a method that has now mapped several billion trees and their carbon uptake in Africa’s Sahel. In the future, the method could be used to monitor…

Nigeria’s choice: a light in the darkness of apathy

On the recent episode of the Globalnyt podcast Højtryk, former director of CAS, Niels Kastfelt, discusses Nigerian politics and the upcoming elections.

Book Review: Healing and Power in Ghana

Karen Lauterbach, Associate Professor and Director of CAS, recently reviewed Paul Glen Grant´s new book, called Healing and Power in Ghana: Early Indigenous Expressions of Christianity.

This Land Is Not For Sale

Together with Lotte Meinert, Professor Susan Reynolds Whyte has co-edited and co-written the book This Land Is Not For Sale: Trust and Transitions in Northern Uganda, recently published by Berghahn Books in the series…

The Power of International Collaboration: The Future Looks Bright

Researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders from the health research community in Tanzania and Denmark gathered at the BSU Scientific Symposium 2023 to celebrate and share their experiences and insights from the…

Piss off: Salva Kiir and South Sudan

On the recent episode of the Danish Radio podcast Genstart, Associate Professor at CAS, Stig Jensen tells the story of the leader who became president of South Sudan.

Rwandan tree carbon stock mapped from above

Breakthrough in climate change mitigation: Researchers at University of Copenhagen have developed accurate nation-wide mapping of the carbon content of trees based on aerial images.

Nai Lee Kalema, visiting researcher on the CERTIZEN project

Nai Lee Kalema is a Visiting Researcher at the University of Copenhagen's Centre for African Studies (CAS) for the CERTIZENS project. Nai is a third-year PhD candidate in Innovation and Public Policy at the UCL…

Land healing, farming and spiritual cleansing in Southern Africa

In their recent work, Marie Curie Fellow, Hans Olsson, and Associate Professor Karen Lauterbach ask what the relationship between religion, healing and farming in Southern Africa could look like? Discussing Christian…

Climate reparations can give a Denmark comeback as an aid beacon

Why is Denmark paying development aid? To answer this question Associate Professor Stig Jensen has written an article about Denmark's proposal to pay climate reparations to the Global South. He explains that it is…

Disability and Technology in Africa: Introduction

In collaboration with Herbert Muyinda, Professor Susan Whyte has edited and co-authored a special issue of Africa, the Journal of the International African Institute.

Novo Nordisk Foundation-funded @EQUAL project included in this year’s WIDER conference

On 5-7 October 2022, UNU-WIDER in partnership with Universidad de los Andes hosted in Bogota, Colombia, a conference on reducing inequality.

Virtues and Vexations: Intimate Others Caring for Elders in Eastern Uganda

Professor Susan Reynolds Whyte has contributed the chapter 'Virtues and Vexations: Intimate Others Caring for Elders in Eastern Uganda' to the book Imagistic Care: Growing Old in a Precarious World.

George Bob-Milliar appointed Affiliate Professor in African Studies

George Bob-Milliar of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana is appointed new Affiliate Professor in African Studies, effective 1 September 2022.

Green transition called off: DR Congo’s new way to fight poverty and create development

Associate Professor Stig Jensen at the Centre of African Studies has written a three-part article series for GlobalNyt highlighting some of the many paradoxes associated with DR Congo's decision to Congo put 30 oil and…

Textures of precarity

Professor Susan Reynolds Whyte has contributed the article ‘Textures of precarity: Repurposing in a Ugandan refugee settlement’ to a special issue of Anthropology Today

Gender configurations and suicide in northern Uganda

In collaboration with Henry Oboke, Professor Susan Reynolds Whyte has written the chapter ‘Gender configurations and suicide in northern Uganda’, which is included in the book Configuring Contagion: Ethnographies of…

What M23’s on-and-off insurgency tells us about DRC’s precarious search for peace

Kasper Hoffmann (IFRO) and Christoph Vogel, Ghent University write about the development of the M23 since its early beginnings in 2012 until the dramatic escalation of conflicts today.

Russia and the West hunt hearts and minds in Africa

Associate Professor Stig Jensen has written a two-part article for GlobalNyt analysing Sergei Lavrov and Emmanuel Macron's tours in Africa.