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This book is based on Tanja Hendriks' Master's thesis ‘Home is always home’. (Former) Street Youth in Blantyre, Malawi, and the Fluidity of Constructing Home, winner of the 2016 African Thesis Award. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Blantyre, the author argues for a conceptualization of ‘home’ as a fluid field of tensions (re)created in the everyday. As such, home leaves space for people’s life roots and routes.

The student protest movements to decolonise universities and to bring about free education in South Africa have produced some of the most striking images that capture the zeitgeist of the post-apartheid state. During the seminar on 15 June Kylie Thomas (University of the Free State, South Africa) will focus on photographs taken by the students, and will argue that their images draw on the philosophy of black consciousness and form part of the movement to decolonise both institutions and ways of thinking.

Fifty years ago, one of the bloodiest wars in modern human history was fought on the African continent. On the occasion of this anniversary the ASCL Library has compiled a web dossier on the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970), also known as the Biafran War. Far from being an exhaustive or even representative overview of the record of scholarship that has appeared on this topic, this dossier is an attempt to highlight different discourses reflected in the ASCL Library’s collection. Check out the web dossier.

This book by ASCL Honorary fellows Martin Doornbos and Wim van Binsbergen illuminates key aspects of how, historically, the dynamics of power and identity interact in the African context, generating the kind of political structures and collective actions that have often appeared characteristic for the continent. It examines some salient dimensions of the broader frameworks of hegemony and power imposed upon African societies in the context of larger geopolitical and historical processes.