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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
12 February 2020
Annachiara Raia entered Mahmoud Mau’s library on Lamu island, 350 km from Mombasa, Kenya, for the first time in 2014. He became her primary informant as well as a fatherly figure. With his knowledge, she embarked on reading and deciphering nineteenth-century Swahili Islamic manuscript poems, which flourished in the Lamu archipelago. She gradually realized the value of Mahmoud Mau’s library as a living archive. Read Annachiara's post for the ASCL Africanist Blog!
12 February 2020
12 February 2020
11 February 2020
During the Namibian War of Independence, more than 400 Namibian children were relocated from various refugee camps to the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The children grew up in the GDR and only returned to their home country in 1990, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, at the onset of Namibian independence. In the film ‘Omulaule heisst schwarz’, a couple of these children look back on their childhood and youth. The film is the subject of our latest Library Highlight.
10 February 2020
Professor Lungisile Ntsebeza of the University of Cape Town was awarded an honorary doctorate during the Dies Natalis of Leiden University on 7 February. Honorary promotor was Jan-Bart Gewald, Professor of African History. In his laudatio Gewald highlighted Ntsebeza’s personal history. During the apartheid, Ntsebeza spent over five years in prison because of his battle against the repressive regime. After the apartheid, 'you stayed true to your calling as a teacher, scientist and liberator of people, regardless of their race or beliefs', Professor Gewald said.
10 February 2020
At the ‘Pushing Boundaries in Advocacy for Inclusion’ conference, organised on 29 January by the Liliane Foundation, the Dutch Coalition on Disability and Development and the ASCL, over 200 professionals, activists, policy makers, media and academics exchanged knowledge and experiences on advocacy for inclusion. Key themes were the success factors of advocacy, the importance of intersectionality and the roles of Northern and Southern organisations in advocacy networks.
10 February 2020
In preparation for the 'Africa 2020' workshop about The Nile on 20-21 February, Germa Seuren of the ASCL Library and PhD candidate Abeer Abazeed (co-organiser of the workshop) have compiled a web dossier about The Nile's governance and the distribution of its waters. It includes titles from the ASCL Library collection, the broader Leiden University Library collection, and the library of IHE Delft Institute for Water Education. Read the web dossier!