New publications

The ASCL Annual Report for 2023 is out now! Read all about our publications, collaborations with African studies colleagues around the world, the INCLUDE Platform's new research agenda, and the ASCL Library achievements, including their partnership in the ERC project on African Literary Metadata (ALMEDA).

This photo-ethnography on young people of Burundian heritage in Belgium and the Netherlands, explores the traces of war in Burundi. The book reveals how war reverberates across time and space: in people, places and through ‘war repertoires’.

In 'Ondernemers in het wild' Olivier van Beemen investigates the non-profit organisation African Parks. The mainly white organisation, which manages 22 game parks, aims to protect Africa's untouched nature. Dr Harry Wels wrote a review of the book.

Contrary to popular perceptions of North Korea as a hermit kingdom, its capital city used to be a hotspot for international travel. During the Cold War a stream of African visitors travelled to North Korea, a largely overlooked phenomenon, writes Tycho van der Hoog.

The effects of air pollution are broadly studied in the ‘global north’. Much less is known about the status and impact of air pollution in developing countries, particularly on the African continent. The objective of this new working paper is to review the existing academic and grey literature on the use of satellite-based air quality data.

The Quagga was literally shot out of existence as a species in the second half of the 19th century, with the last attested reports of Quagga in the wild dated to 1878 in South Africa. In a new ASCL Working Paper Jan-Bart Gewald explores the possible connection between the rise of diamond mining in South Africa and the passing of the quagga.