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VAD protests against visa refusal for Cameroonian scholars by the German embassy

The German Embassy in Cameroon has denied the Schengen-visa applications of three Cameroonian academics who were set to travel to Germany in order to participate in a workshop on the restitution of colonial objects at the Museum Fünf Kontinente in Munich. The Association for African Studies in Germany (VAD) protests against this move by German authorities as these…
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Preisträger*innen VAD-Nachwuchspreis 2020/21

Endlich ist es soweit: die drei Preisträger*innen für den Preis der VAD 2020/21 stehen fest (in alphabetischer Reihenfolge): Maurus, Sabrina: Battles over State Making on a Frontier: Dilemmas of Schooling, Young People and Agro-Pastoralism in Hamar, South West Ethiopia (Dissertation)Paulau, Stanislau: Das andere Christentum. Zur transkonfessionellen Verflechtungsgeschichte von Äthiopischer Orthodoxie und europäischem Protestantismus (Dissertation)sŠváblová, Alžběta:…
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The Brill-AEGIS Open Access Series

Are you aware of the AEGIS (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies) series published by Brill? The books in this series are available open access (with an embargo of two years).
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African Books Collective E-Books: License and Access

The African Studies Library (also known as "Fachinformationsdienst Afrikastudien" in German) has recently licensed an e-book package from the African Books Collective. Registered users have access to a searchable database of more than 1500 titles from African publishers.
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VAD 2022 in Freiburg: Call for Panels

The Association for African Studies in Germany e.V. (VAD) organizes an international and interdisciplinary conference every two years. The next VAD conference entitled "Africa-Europe: Reciprocal Perspectives" will take place from 07.-10.06.2022 in Freiburg im Breisgau. It will be organized by the newly founded Africa Centre for Transregional Research (ACT) of the Albert Ludwig University of…
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