Africa – Area Committee

Email africa@basisthehague.nl
Website https://basisthehague.nl/committees/areas/africa/

Events from this organizer

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  • The Congo Tribunal – a student exhibition

    Leiden University - Wijnhaven Campus - Room 2.10 Turfmarkt 99, Den Haag, Netherlands

    Have you ever dissected the insides of your smartphone? What you would find inside tells a dark and complicated history of a conflict that has lasted for almost 30 years. The resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo have attracted international economic and political forces whose extractive activities are carried Read more

  • Falemos Português!

    Recurring
    Havana Buitenhof 19, The Hague, Netherlands

    Olá a todos! BASIS Latin America Committee is back with its Portuguese language café, from this year on together with the Africa Committee! Do you already know some Portuguese but do you want to improve it? Are you an advanced speaker but you don’t get to practice it often enough Read more

  • Africa Committee Movie Night Fundraiser

    Wijnhaven Campus - Room 3.60 Turfmarkt 99, Den Haag, Netherlands

    Hello, everyone! The Africa Committee is collaborating with the International Humanity Foundation on a fundraiser for children in Kenya. The donations will contribute towards their education, medicine, and nutritional programs. We will be showing the movie The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind in order to raise donations. A *free cookie* Read more

  • Care X Africa Committee: Guest Lecture by Dr. Diana M. Natermann

    Den Haag Centraal

    Black Women in African Decolonization Movements - Just a Myth? In honour of Black History Month Care and Africa Committee invite you to a guest lecture Dr. Diana M. Natermann. Dr. Diana M. Natermann is an Assistant Professor at Leiden University in the History Department. As an historian she focuses Read more

  • Falemos Português!

    Recurring
    Online

    Olá a todxs! The Portuguese language café is back and this time it will be better than ever! We (the BASIS Latin America Committee) have paired up with the BASIS Africa Committee in order to organize a playfully educational night, filled with fun pub quizzes and good company. No ticket Read more

  • Africa Committee Book Club

    Recurring
    Online

    This semester, the Africa committee book club features the book The Perfect Nine by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. The story is based on the origin myth of the Gĩkũyũ- Kenya’s largest tribe. This book tells the story of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi who fled war and hunger and settled down at the Read more

  • Swahili Language Café

    Online

    Mambo! Do you learn Swahili, or want to learn it? Then, join us at the Swahili Language Café to practice your speaking! All levels are welcome! There will be fun games that will get your language skills going! The café will be taking place online in The Africa Committee's Kaltura Read more

  • Falemos Português!

    Online

    Olá a todxs! The Portuguese language café is back and this time it will be better than ever! We (the BASIS Latin America Committee) have paired up with the BASIS Africa Committee in order to organize a playfully educational night, filled with fun pub quizzes and good company. No ticket Read more

  • Africa Area Information Session

    Online

    Are you still not entirely sure which area you want to choose? Can you not decide between two or more languages? Or do you simply want to get a first impression of what is going to expect you in the African area courses next semester? Then join us on Friday Read more

  • Falemos Português!

    Online

    Olá a todxs! The Portuguese language café is back and this time it will be better than ever! We (the BASIS Latin America Committee) have paired up with the BASIS Africa Committee in order to organize a playfully educational night, filled with fun pub quizzes and good company. No ticket Read more

  • Guest Lecture: The Impact of Covid on Migration in Africa

    Online

    Make sure to join us for a guest lecture by Otieno Ong'ayo on the impact of COVID-19 on migration in Africa. Ong'ayo is a political scientist from the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) with a PhD on Ghanaian diaspora, and he is very interested in the relation between migration Read more

  • Guest Lecture Anton de Kom by Karwan Fatah-Black

    Online

    In light of Black History month and Anton de Kom's 123rd birthday, we are excited to welcome Dr. Karwan Fatah-Black as our guest speaker. We are also welcoming the Stichting Standbeeld Anton de Kom in Den Haag, who are working on erecting a statue of Anton de Kom in The Read more

  • Falemos Português!

    Online

    Olá a todxs! The Portuguese language café is back and this time it will be better than ever! We (the BASIS Latin America Committee) have paired up with the BASIS Africa Committee in order to organize a playfully educational night, filled with fun pub quizzes and good company. No ticket Read more

  • Falemos Português!

    Olá a todxs! The Portuguese language café is back and this time it will be better than ever! We (the BASIS Latin America Committee) have paired up with the BASIS Africa Committee in order to organize a playfully educational night, filled with fun pub quizzes and good company. No ticket Read more

  • African City Walk

    The Hague The Hague, Netherlands

    Are you craving Authentic African Food but you are too busy to travel to the continent?  Wow, this is your lucky day! 🥳 In collaboration with two East-African restaurants: Djebena 🇪🇷 and 3 Stones 🇰🇪, the Africa Committee is excited to announce a Restaurant City Walk throughout the city centre of the Read more

    €11.00

  • Swahili Language Café

    The Africa Committee is organising another Swahili Language Café where we come together and practice our Swahili language skills! All levels of Swahili are welcome!🤩 The event will take place on the 9th of November at 6PM at the ESN Common Room (Beehive). Please sign up via this form in Read more

  • “Timbuktu” Movie Screening

    Join the BASIS Africa Committee for our movie screening of "Timbuktu" (2014) next week, on November 11th. The movie is set in Mali, following the lives of Kidane's nomadic cattle-herding family whose survival is increasingly placed at risk by Jihadists occupying Timbuktu in 2012. While the Jihadists try to impose Read more

  • Africa Info Night

    First-Years interested in choosing Africa: Join us for our Info Night! Are you still unsure about which region you want to choose for the remainder of your studies? Don't worry, we know your struggle! The Africa Committee is organizing an info session during which we will tell you about our Read more

  • Movie Screening: “Rafiki”

    Wijnhaven Campus - Room 3.46 Turfmarkt 99, The Hague, Netherlands

    The Africa Committee is happy to announce our first event of this year: a movie screening of "Rafiki," produced in 2018 in Kenya, by director Wanuri Kahiu. The movie follows the story of two young women, Kena and Ziki, who first become friends and later fall in love. As their Read more

  • The Sudanese Revolution: Mini-lecture and Q&A

    Wijnhaven Campus - Room 3.48 Turfmarkt 99, Netherlands

    The BASIS Middle East & Africa Committees present: The Sudanese Revolution: Mini-lecture and Q&A with Dr. H.A.M. Taha of the Van Vollenhoven Institute! 🇵🇸 Her lecture will be tailored around civil society during the 2019 protests and subsequent coup that have paved the way for significant democratic transition in the Read more