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In this book you will meet several individuals and families who experienced war and displacement during the civil war in northern Uganda (1986-2006). Based on ethnographic field research and specifically life histories, the book draws attention to their experiences and links these to broader analyses about ‘post-conflict’ society.

This book honours Bob Wishitemi, Professor of Tourism and Wildlife Management at Moi University. Commemorating his death in 2021, it presents a variety of approaches to the major challenges facing sustainable tourism in Sub-Saharan Africa: climate change and biodiversity loss. Open access!

(Book in Dutch). Roel Coutinho publishes his diary and photos of his time as a young doctor in Guinea-Bissau in the 1970s. Guinea-Bissau gained independence from Portugal in 1974. During his time there and in Senegal Coutinho took hundreds of photos, which have been made available on Wikimedia Commons by the ASCL Library. The ASCL now publishes his book.

This book, edited by Annachiara Raia and Clarissa Vierke, is a pioneering collection of poetry by the outstanding Kenyan poet and imam Ustadh Mahmmoud Mau from Lamu island, once an Indian Ocean hub, now on the edge of the nation state. By means of poetry in Arabic script, he raises his voice against social ills and injustices troubling his community on Lamu.