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Tanzanian children's and youth literature: AfricanStudiesCentre highlight about information specialist Gerard van de Bruinhorst buying 230 books in Dar es Salaam, among which a selection of Tanzanian children’s and youth literature in English and Swahili #Tanzania ascleiden.nl/content/librar…

Frédérick Madore and I are convening a panel on #DigitalHumanities and #AI in #AfricanStudies #ECAS2025. Please submit your paper before 15th Dec guarant.eu/ecasconference… #DH #AfricanHistory

Over the course of five years, I've catalogued the personal papers of Stephen Ellis - renowned historian of Africa and former director of the AfricanStudiesCentre. The 295 page inventory is now available online: asclibrary.nl/docs/994044800….

10th European Conference on African Studies will be held in Prague, 25-28 June 2025. Deadline for paper submission: 15 Dec. 2024. #ECAS2025 List of panels ecasconference.org/2025/wp-conten… Website: ecasconference.org/2025/

Deadline paper submission #ECAS2025 extended to 20 Dec. 2024 ecasconference.org/2025/call-for-…

Nice gift to the Library of AfricanStudiesCentre, from the collection of Leiden professor Carla Risseeuw (1947-2024): a rare specimen of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" (from "1001 Nights") in #Swahili

Hans Muller, Wikipedian in Residence at AfricanStudiesCentre, moves on to UBLeiden in 2025. Talk: Thursday 19 Dec. 16:00 hr, Herta Mohr Building Leiden, 'Highlights of the African Studies Centre image collection' #Wikipedia commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:C…

Inventory of Stephen Ellis Archive now online: impressive 295 page inventory of the archive of a distinguished #Africa researcher. Thanks to Tycho van der Hoog and Ursula Oberst ascleiden.nl/news/inventory…

"A luta pela libertação da Guiné-Bissau, vista pelos olhos de um jovem médico neerlandês, Roel Coutinho" - book now #openaccess online -about the liberation struggle in #Guinea-Bissau against Portugal in the 1970s hdl.handle.net/1887/4172557

Roel Coutinho donated his orginal diary 1973/74 to the Library of AfricanStudiesCentre This diary of a young Dutch medical doctor from within the liberation movement of Guinea-Bissau reveals daily life during a revolution in Africa (1973-1974). Portuguese transl.: hdl.handle.net/1887/4172557

Cheikh Anta Diop (29 December 1923 – 7 February 1986) was a Senegalese philosopher & antropologist. The Library Weekly AfricanStudiesCentre of 29 Dec. was written by ASCL's young student intern Issa Niang ascleiden.nl/content/librar…

In 1972 Nixon won the US Presidential Elections. Paul Simon wrote a song. "I don't know a soul who's not been battered / I don't have a friend who feels at ease / I don't know a dream that's not been shattered / or driven to its knees / but it's alright" youtube.com/watch?v=AE3kKU…

Four new #openaccess publications in the AEGIS Brill series (a.o Oil-age Africa) aegis-eu.org/aegis-brill-se…

Winston Churchill in the White House… Not wearing a suit because he is at war

Doubleface (by Peter Klashorst, 2016)

Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive) will give a lecture in Leiden about "Copyright in the 21st century, the case of the Internet Archive". Place: Telderszaal, Academy Bld, Rapenburg 73, Leiden. Tuesday 18 March, 16:00 hr. Free entrance, reservation advised linkedin.com/events/lecture…

Brewster Kahle: Thank You, Leiden. You were amazing! Me: Thank you Brewster, you were wonderful. Universiteit Leiden Internet Archive internetarchive.eu/thank-you-leid…

The The Medieval Academy has awarded the 2025 Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Prize to the Pemm Project (PEMM)! This groundbreaking digital library preserves centuries of African miracle stories and art, making them accessible to all. brittlepaper.com/2025/04/the-pr…

Yes. Harvard University has brains - and guts harvard.edu/president/news…

Carla Hayden (LoC) fired by Trump nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/…