1. Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures
  2. School of History
  3. Research groups
  4. Centre for African Studies (LUCAS)

Centre for African Studies (LUCAS)

  • Group summary: Leeds University Centre for African Studies (LUCAS) is an interdisciplinary centre that brings together scholars with an active interest in Africa from across different schools and faculties at the University of Leeds.
  • Website: http://lucas.leeds.ac.uk

Details

We promote African Studies at the University of Leeds and in the city of Leeds, and are also part of the Yorkshire African Studies Network (YASN). In 2017 LUCAS joined the Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS), a research network of European studies centres.

We also run the Schools Africa Project, a scheme that recruits postgraduate African students to go into British schools and deliver lessons about Africa to British pupils.