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Gifts

The library receives and processes many gifts each year, including books, periodicals, videos and other library materials. These gifts help us to add depth to the collection and replace worn-out and lost books and journals.

To make a donation to the African Studies Centre library, please contact:

  1. Elvire Eijkman, eijkman@ascleiden.nl, phone 071 5273357
  2. Gerard van de Bruinhorst, bruinhorstgcvande@ascleiden.nl, phone 071 5273357

The library is particularly interested in gifts that fit into the collection profile. Gifts not retained are sent to affiliated libraries in The Netherlands or to Africa as part of our donation programme.

Gifts in 2012

1. Arnold Parzer (several books, a.o. Grace Ogot & on Nyerere)
2. [anonymous] 12 unique books from Ethiopia
3. Solani Ngobeni / Africa Institute of SA (on philosophy & more)
4. Gerald Neher (Life among the Chibok of Nigeria et al.)
5. Chuma Nwokolo
6. Gerard Linden
7. (heirs of) Karoy Gludovacz
8. David Millar (Ghana)
9. Laurens van der Laan (Sierra Leone)
10. Jan Abbink (Ethiopia)
11. Stephen Ellis (books from Routledge)
12. Maaike Westra
13. Linda van de Kamp (Mozambique)
14. Wouter van Beek (dissertations & more)
15. Jan Jansen (multimedia research)
16. Ton Dietz  (diverse)
17. Jan-Bart Gewald (Uganda)
18. Ineke van Kessel (South Africa)
19. A.P. van der Graaf (Angola 1950-1970)

Gifts in 2011

  1. Gerrie ter Haar (150 books on religion, West-Africa, Ghana)
  2. Former library of the Centrum voor Milieukunde Leiden (200 books on environmental issues & Cameroon)
  3. Zakariyau Idrees-Oboh Oseni (Islam & Nigeria)
  4. book cover James Mc ClureIngrid Djuly (ANC)
  5. Nelleke Hovestreydt (Joan Baxter & Malawi)
  6. Harry Wels (Wits University)
  7. Jan Jansen (Tanzania)
  8. Oliver Nyrubugura (Congo) 
  9. Ton Dietz (40 books, grey literature & Kenya)
  10. Stephen Ellis (Sierra Leone, Liberia)
  11. Mirjam de Bruijn (Yako & Cameroon)
  12. Jan-Bart Gewald (crime novels & South Africa)
  13. Marion Eeckhout (FAO)
  14. Ursula Oberst (Cameroon)
  15. Ineke van Kessel (Kimberley, South Africa)
  16. Linda van de Kamp (Burkina Faso)                                                     

Gifts in 2010   

  1. Dick van Galen Last [1952-2010] (books on black soldiers in Europe)
  2. John Griffiths (on Ghana’s Constitution)
  3. Jan Hoorweg (on Kenya’s Constitution)
  4. Piet Korse (translation of Hartering)
  5. Margherita de Koster [1918-2010] (on Ethiopia)
  6. Tiny Kraan (on Bitterkomix)
  7. Renu Modi (on Kenya’s elections)
  8. Jacqueline Parlevliet (on Kenya’s elections)
  9. Karel Roskam [1931-2010] (on South Africa and Mandela)
  10. David Sogge (grey literature on Mozambique)
  11. Henny Weima (on Mbankana)
  12. African Union (Addis Abeba, Ethiopia)
  13. International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam (Kier Schuringa)
  14. National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden (David Stuart Fox) 

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