Prof. Peter Little (Emory University, USA) will give an ASCL Seminar on 5 October, in which he will address 'the litany of different development approaches' from the perspectives of marginal populations and geographies in rural Africa.

We are thrilled to announce that the Stephen Ellis Lecture 2023 will be given by Dr Mercy Iroaganachi, University Librarian of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Her lecture deals with the place of archives in modern African Studies and puts a searchlight on the patronage of the National Archives of Nigeria, Ibadan.

The new students of the Master and Research Master African Studies, as well as the LDE minors African Dynamics and Frugal Innovation for Sustainable Global Development have started! Early September, more than sixty students were introduced to their courses.

John Kegel has been awarded a Kiem seed grant from Leiden University for the project 'The re-enchantment of infrastructure in Africa: Comparing Colonial and Contemporary Coastal Corridors'. The Kiem grant is an initiative from the university to stimulate new interdisciplinary, interfaculty research partnerships and encounters.

This volume about human trafficking in Nigeria (1960-2020) highlights the overlap between child trafficking and child fostering, presents Nigeria's legal framework and institutional intervention mechanisms, showcases (inter)national organisations' willingness to minimise it, and reveals contexts in which people become victims of trafficking.

As part of its teaching innovation agenda, the ASCL took the lead in a EUniWell project that explored how students from different geographical and cultural backgrounds perceive well-being in their respective societies.