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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
04 June 2026
We are very sad to report that our former colleague, friend and mentor Professor Fantu Cheru passed on on Sunday 31 May. Fantu worked as a senior researcher at the ASCL from 2014 to 2019. Former colleagues Mohamed Salih (ISS) and Jon Abbink (ASCL) wrote an obituary in his honour.
04 June 2026
04 June 2026
On 2 June, Martin Luther Darko, Kauthar Khamis and Rashida Adum-Atta successfully defended their PhD theses at Leiden University within the Madina Project. Mare interviewed the three new doctors, alongside Madina Project alumnus Joseph Fosu-Ankrah.
26 May 2026
On 27 May 2009, the Gambian novelist, poet and surgeon Lenrie Peters passed away. Peters was born on 1 September 1932 in Bathurst (now Banjul) in The Gambia. In 1952 he went to study at Trinity College, Cambridge. Afterwards, he worked and studied at University College Hospital, London, and was awarded a medical and surgery diploma from Cambridge.
19 May 2026
On the occasion of Jon Abbink's emeritus status, the volume Ethnography, History, and the Politics of Knowledge in Africa has been created in his honour. It is a Festschrift to celebrate Abbink's wide-ranging career covering culture and politics in Ethiopia and Africa in general.