Hard to refuse bio-companies
Farmers in Tanzania sell agricultural land to foreign investments
– It is not true that biofuel doesn’t compete with food production. Even if sugar-cane and jatropha is cultivated on other spots than food crops, the farmers have to re-prioritize their labor. This will affect food security, says Jumanne Abdallah, guest researcher at NAI during 18 April – 29 June.
Vacancy: Head of Communications
As Communications Manager you will be responsible for planning, coordinating, developing and monitoring the unit's activities and will also have staff responsibility . Please note! Deadline for applications is June 7th, 2012.
Read the Head of Communications advert here (in Swedish only).
Events
21 May, Seminar in Helsinki: Human Rights + Development Policy in Africa =?
About the role of the Nordic Africa Institute to strengthen the Finns’ Africa knowledge in the past, present and future. 9-12.30 hrs at Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki, Finland. Read about the seminar 21 May in this invitation (pdf)
22 May, public lecture, 15.00–16.30: 'State-Higher Education Relations in South Africa: Research policy and the (re)production of inequity'. Speaker: Beverley Thaver, Associate Professor of Higher Education, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. The lecture is open to all interested. No registration and no fees. Venue: The Nordic Africa Institute, Library, Kungsgatan 38, Uppsala.
Read more in the invitation (pdf).
CANCELLED! 23 May, Writers’ Africa in Uppsala: Salim Bachi
The Algerian writer Salim Bachi in conversation with journalist Monica Malmström about his novel ' Le chien d’Ulysse' ( 'Odysseus hund' in Swedish) .
4 June, 9.30-13.00, workshop at Uppsala University: 'Researching Africa at Uppsala University'. Organizer: Forum for Africa Studies, Uppsala University. Deadline for registration and submission of abstract: May 20th 2012. Read more about the workshop here (pdf).
Dr. Pamela Mbabazi is first woman appointed for the Claude Ake Visiting Chair
Dr. Pamela Mbabazi is an Associate Professor of Development studies at Mbarara University of Science and Technology in Uganda. She is a seasoned researcher and currently working with Political Economy of Oil, Land Governance and Health Access. She is the first woman to be appointed since the Claude Ake visiting chair was set up in 2003. She will be staying in Uppsala from November until March next year. The visiting professor is given the opportunity to continue her own research but also to lecture, hold seminars and contribute to ongoing research at University of Uppsala and the Nordic Africa Institute.
Read more about the Claude Ake Visiting Chair and Dr. Pamela Mbabazi here.
New exhibition at NAI starts May 7th
A new exhibition at the NAI library showcases images of Africa through fiction, art, maps and prints. The exhibition opens on Monday May 7th and is open to all. The 60-year old masterpiece by Amos Tutuola 'The Palm-Wine drinkard' and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead´s Town' is one of the exhibition´s central items. This was the first novel from West Africa written in English.
Filmed events
Video and audio on Africa research
Many lectures, seminars and other program activities of the Nordic Africa Institute are filmed and/or saved on audiofile.
Library opening hours
Differing opening hours: The library is closed 17 May (Ascension Thursday), 18 May , 21 May, 28 May , 6 June (National day) and 22 june (Midsummer eve).
Please note! NAI library closed during the summer - move to new premises, read more here.
Persons who need to use the library collections for their research or major papers are given the possibility to use the library at times other than the regular opening hours. This, however, is only by agreement.
Presidential candidates on trial
International Criminal Court’s up-coming trial in Kenya is welcomed by many but also poses threat to stability. Uhuru Kenyatta and Willian Rutu are two of the accused for crime against humanity. They also stand as candidates in the presidential election next year.
– Whatever final verdict, the trial shows that from now on also those in power will be accountable for their actions, says Ann Dismorr, Swedish ambassador to Kenya.
NAI researcher Anders Sjögren is expert on politics in Kenya and Uganda. He was interviewed in Swedish Radio about the political situation in Kenya after the charges from ICC.
Listen to interview (Swedish).
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Download text books
Publications for free download
The Nordic Africa Institute has recently scanned and uploaded 200 publications that are now available for free download in the digital archive DiVA . Most of these publications can also be ordered print on demand. ’African Voices, African Visions’ and ’Producing nature and poverty in Africa’ are two examples of text books which are now available. The Nordic Africa Institute has more than 700 downloadable publications in the DiVA-archive.
Read more about our publishing here.
Blogs
NAI researchers Mats Utas, Anders Themnér and Andrew Byerley write on their own blogs about their research. The blogs bring together their reflections on everything from field work to their day to day work at the institute and current affairs in Liberia and Uganda.
The blogs (open in new window):
http://matsutas.
wordpress.com/
http://andersthemner.
wordpress.com/
http://andrewbyerley.
wordpress.com/
Latest articles at NAI Forum
SEARCH PUBLICATIONS
Click here to search NAI's publications in the digital archive DiVA.
Research
NAI’s research is organised into distinct research clusters. The current research clusters are:
Rural Cluster
Agrarian Change, Property and Resources
Conflict Cluster Conflict, Security and Democratic Transformation
Globalization Cluster Globalization, Trade and Regional Integration
Urban Cluster
Urban Dynamics
Africa/has/the/floor: a photo exhibition
In 2010 the Göteborg Book Fair presented its broadest theme to date: African literature! Sixty-eight African writers from 28 nations participated as well as 15 African publishers. The theme was given the name Africa/has/the/floor. NAI now presents Africa/has/the/floor: a photo exhibition. It includes photographs of 20 of the African writers who visited the Göteborg Book Fair 2010. The exhibition is available in digital format to download free of charge. View the photographs and learn more about how you can create your own exhibition.
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FACTS ABOUT NAI
- Founded in 1962
- Jointly financed by the Nordic Countries
RESEARCH
with emphasis on social sciences
LIBRARY
specialized in modern Africa
PUBLICATIONS
more than 700 titles on development, human rights, conflict, culture...
CONFERENCES
and public events
GRANTS
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