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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
11 December 2023
On 28 December 2018, Malian writer and politician, Seydou Badian Kouyaté died in Bamako at the age of 90. He wrote the lyrics to the Malian national anthem, "Le Mali".
11 December 2023
The first ASCL Seminar of 2024 will be given by Sandra Calkins, associate professor at the University of Twente, on 1 February. She will examine forms of human-plant intimacy emerging in a transnational research project that aims to introduce nutritionally improved banana plants to Uganda.
08 December 2023
05 December 2023
On the occasion of the Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture, to be given by Dr Mercy Iroaganachi on 7 December, the ASCL Library has created a web dossier on African archives. The web dossier starts with a selection of titles on archives in Africa, followed by a list of African archives which are available online.
04 December 2023
Applications for the GROW Research Programme are now open! Within GROW (Graduate Research on Worldwide Challenges) Leiden University and four other Dutch universities will appoint 51 PhD candidates to conduct solution-oriented research for and with the African continent. Application deadline: 31 January.
04 December 2023
On 7 December 1963, Nigerian author Daniel Olorunfẹmi Fágúnwà drowned, suddenly falling into the Kaduna River while waiting to cross by ferry. Fagunwa’s first novel, Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmọlẹ̀, is widely considered the first full-length novel published in the Yoruba language.
28 November 2023
On 1 December 2014, Kenyan publisher and writer Asenath Bole Odaga died in Kisumu, Kenya at the age of 77. Odaga promoted literature in Kenyan languages and the study of oral literature by writing in Luo and co-authoring a guide to oral literature for students.
27 November 2023