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We are very pleased to share with you the launch of our new open access volume, The Climate, Migration and Health Nexus: Opportunities for Interregional Cooperation, published by Springer. This has been a long work in progress with many of our network members, and we are so happy to finally see our book published online.

Adopting a transdisciplinary and international perspective, the volume provides new empirical insights and methodological approaches to better understand how climate change acts as a driver of migration and shapes health outcomes across diverse contexts.

Rice has played an important role in Madagascar’s political economy and historical trade within the western Indian Ocean. This subject has been recently explored in historiography, covering both ancient and early modern periods.

Dr. Sanchez's work is based on the administrative archives of the Merina monarchy, written in the Malagasy language, and allows new approaches to the rice economy in the nineteenth century.

The present contribution is concerned with scalar concessive conditionals (SCCs) in 9 Bantu languages. The Bantu data will then be compared to data from 30 non-Bantu languages spoken in Africa, revealing broader cross-linguistic tendencies.

Graag nodigen we jullie uit op woensdag 22 april 2026 voor de feestelijke opening van het nieuwe Patrice Lumumbapark (Nieuw-Gent).

De keuze voor deze naam is een belangrijke mijlpaal in de gedeelde inzet voor dekolonisering van de publieke ruimte. In het rapport ‘Dekoloniseer mijn stad’ wordt onder punt 5 ‘Een publieke ruimte waar elke Gentenaar zich in herkent en erkend voelt’ de vraag gesteld naar een inhaalbeweging bij het toekennen van straatnamen. Deze toekenning dient een weerspiegeling te zijn van de samenstelling van de Gentse bevolking en een link te hebben met ons gedeeld koloniaal verleden en migratiegeschiedenis.

Karine Ramondy is a historian and associate researcher at UMR SIRICE, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her research focuses on the history of Europe-Africa relations in the 20th century, the history of decolonization/independence in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in Central Africa, war violence and the circulation of combatants.

In this presentation she will address the many acts of repressive violence perpetrated by colonial authorities and the French army before and after independence of Cameroon in 1960.

Het Gents Centrum voor Afrikaans en de Studie van Zuid-Afrika nodigt u van harte uit voorstellen in te dienen voor een tweedaags colloquium over Breytenbach in context. Het congres heeft plaats in Gent op 26-27 november 2026.

De intrinsieke verwevenheid van de literaire, artistieke en intellectuele nalatenschap van Breyten Breytenbach (1939-2024) nodigt uit tot interdisciplinaire en comparatistische onderzoeksvragen.

We warmly invite you to the 10th edition of Africa Film Festival Ghent, which is co-organised by the Africa Platform of Ghent University Association. We will be screening short films, movies and documentaries from countries such as Rwanda, Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana and Burkina Faso.

For this 10th edition we offer you a 5-day festival programme with, in addition to the film screenings, two concerts, a number of special guests, panel discussions, a Kizomba workshop and lots of good vibes and networking opportunities.

The 19th multidisciplinary conference of the Africa Platform will take place on Tuesday 8 December 2026, and it will be co-organised by Ghent University’s Human Rights Research Network.

Voices, Rights & Justice in Africa remain highly relevant today due to ongoing challenges related to human rights, environmental rights, rights to health & education, access to legal systems, etc. across the continent. Studying these issues academically will inform policymaking, activism, and international engagement to promote accountability, equity, and sustainable development in African societies.