The Africa Committee offers a space to students interested in Africa as a region to learn more about the African continent’s astonishing diversity and culture, inform students about current African events and the lasting consequences of past ones, and to connect over this interest in Africa with new people.
As a committee, we set our goal to bring diversity to our community, offer a different kind of global learning to Leiden University, organize guest lectures and events that will raise awareness to the African continent and its diaspora, and promote Africa as an area at Leiden University.
The committee aims to create a space in which people can exchange knowledge, experience, and interest in Africa, and add to their knowledge on African culture, history, politics, and economics, both in form of academic guest lectures and panel discussions and fun social events.
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Africa Spotlight is a student-led newsletter dedicated to amplifying and curating African perspectives across news, culture, and creative work for a growing readership. Africa Spotlight brings together curated African news and analysis, features on African films, books, artists, thinkers and more, as well as reflections that centre African voices beyond mainstream headlines. Our goal is to create an accessible but thoughtful space for readers interested in Africa’s political, cultural, historical and intellectual landscapes