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On 23 January, Zimbabwean musician, businessman, philanthropist, human rights activist and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi died in Harare at the age of 66. His lyrics often carried social messages about HIV/Aids and coded political commentary.

The African Studies Centre Leiden is delighted to announce the ASCL Seminar Series speakers for 2024. The ASCL Seminars are invited lectures given by some of the most prominent researchers in the field of African Studies. The series will be kicked off by Dr Sandra Calkins (University of Twente) with a lecture on human-plant futures in Uganda. 

On 9 January 2020, Tanzanian novelist, poet, and scholar Euphrase Kezilahabi died at the age of 75 in Dar es Salaam. He was one of the first African writers to publish a collection of free verse poetry in Swahili. 

The ASCL will move to a new building in Leiden in May-June 2024. The name for the new building, formerly referred to as 'Cluster Zuid', was announced on 1 February: it will be called the 'Herta Mohr Building', named after the young Egyptologist that studied in Leiden in the late 1930s.