African Studies Centre Leiden

African Studies Centre Leiden

research institute, publisher

Part of	Leiden University
Inception	1947
Field for work	Africa
Director / manager	Jan-Bart Gewald
Country	Netherlands
Dem locate for de administrative territorial entity insyd	Leiden
Coordinate location	52°10′11″N 4°28′37″E
Official website	https://www.ascleiden.nl
Terms of service URL	https://www.ascleiden.nl/content/open-access
Content partnership category	Category:Images from the African Studies Centre (Leiden)

De African Studies Centre (Afrika-Studiecentrum) be scientific institute for Netherlands wey dey undertake social-science research for Africa top plus de aim say ego promote better understanding of historical, current den future social developments for Sub-Saharan Africa insyd. De centre be interfaculty institute of Leiden University. De present director since 2021 be Marleen Dekker. De institute dey locate for de Pieter de la Court Building of Leiden University ein Faculty of Social Sciences.

Library

Library

De centre ein library dey consist of sam 90,000 books den about 2,000 journals (wey dey include electronic journals), government reports, brochures, African newspapers den about 1,700 documentaries den feature films for video den DVD top. Dem centre develop web service, Connecting-Africa, plus links go more dan 58,000 online articles about Africa. De library sanso get collection of archival material wey dey include archives of African government publications den number of personal archives.

Publications

Publications of de ASC

De centre dey publish extensively, samtyms for cooperation insyd plus publishers such as Brill Publishers wey dey Leiden. ASC publications dey include:

• Africa Yearbook (ISSN 1871-2525)
• African studies abstracts online (ISSN 1570-937X)
• Kroniek van Afrika (Chronicles of Africa, 1961-1975, ISSN 0023-4893)