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The library of the African Studies Centre Leiden is a research library, which is also open to the general public. The library consists of a digital and a paper library. The digital library gives access to an unlimited number of publications, the paper library holds 91,000 books about and from Africa, 90,000 journal articles and 1,700 films on DVD.
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On the occasion of the Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture by Emmanual Akyeampong (Harvard University) in Leiden on 3 December, the ASCL Library has compiled a web dossier focusing on the three early West African leaders Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana), Sékou Touré (Guinea) and Léopold Senghor (Senegal). It is these three leaders that Prof. Akyeampong will focus on during his lecture. New sections will be added to the web dossier in connection to 'Africa 2020', in particular in the run-up to the conference on 30 January: ‘Africa: 60 years of independence’. Read the web dossier.
Recently the ASCL Library purchased Kenya: through my father’s eyes, number 338 of a limited edition of 2,000 copies by Salim Amin. The book is dedicated to his father, Mohamed Amin (1943-1996), arguably the best documented African photographer and journalist ever. Many of Amin’s pictures appear in the Leiden collections and his contribution to our understanding of major events in African history can hardly be underestimated. Read all about it in the latest Libary Highlight!
Purchased on 9 November 2019 in Abuja and already available to ASCL library users! Thirteen recently published books from Nigeria, by established writers like Wole Soyinka and debut novelists like Ever Obi, can be loaned now. This was made possible thanks to the support of Nigerian Wikimedian Uzoma Ozurumba and the good teamwork at the ASCL Library. Discover them all and enjoy reading!
