Afrika Studies

The multidisciplinary African Studies master’s programme offers you an opportunity to learn about Africa from a wide range of angles, including historical, literary, cultural, socio-economic, and political. The programme offers a solid methodological and comprehensive programme with six cross-cutting themes: ‘Framing Africa’, ‘Developing?’, ‘Decolonizing?’, ‘Dwelling and moving’, ‘Caring’ and ‘World-viewing’. At Leiden, relevance and real-world issues are at the fore, which means that you get to critically analyse current events as they unfold, from a broad, comparative, and global perspective.
An important part of the master's programme is a ten-weeks embedded research project with a societal organisation in Africa or Africa-related setting elsewhere. Here, you can test your new skills and ideas in practice while gaining invaluable cultural and professional experience. You will receive funding for your embedded research project.