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Guinea-Bissau is one of the poorest countries in the world. Due to the poor education system parents often try to set up schools themselves. Also in the area of vocational training for adolescents, private initiatives arise. Roel Burgler made a reportage of education in Guinea-Bissau with SOS Children’s Villages.

We welcome Dr Camino Kavanagh to deliver the Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture 2017 on 13 December in Leiden. For more than three decades, ICTs have been slowly becoming part of daily life across Sub Saharan Africa. They have brought with them enormous economic opportunities, but just as many challenges. This lecture will focus on how ICTs are being embraced across the continent and the growing role they play in the process of state building and broader economic and social development.

Jan-Bart Gewald, Professor of African History, is the new director of the African Studies Centre Leiden. In this interview he talks about the importance of studying the history of Africa, the 'where is the "African" in African Studies' debate, disparities in South Africa, and the future of the African Studies Centre Leiden. Read the interview.

This is the latest volume in the African Dynamics series, published by the ASCL and Brill. Chapters in this volume contribute to our understanding of the theory, structure and practice of entrepreneurship in diverse African countries. Case studies examined include African multinational banks and businesses, female entrepreneurs, culture and entrepreneurship, finance and entrepreneurship and SMEs. Editors: Akinyinka Akinyoade, Ton Dietz and Chibuike Uche.

To coincide with the Week of the Afrikaans Novel (29 September-8 October), the Library of the ASCL has compiled a new web dossier. In addition to titles on Afrikaans literature and on the six South African writers participating in this year’s literary festival (Amy Jephta, Andries Bezuidenhout, Ingrid Winterbach, Rudie van Rensburg, Suzie Matlhola and Willem Anker), the dossier contains titles of Afrikaans novels, short stories, poetry, prose and drama published since 2010. All titles are available in the ASCL Library. Read the new web dossier!