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The dossiers deal with topical issues in African Studies and are usually published to coincide with a conference or event or with recent developments in Africa. They appear on average three or four times a year.
A web dossier typically consists of an introduction to the subject, a selection of titles - both books and articles - from the collection of the ASCL Library and annotated links to electronic resources and relevant websites. Titles are linked directly to the corresponding records in the online catalogue, which provides abstracts and lending information.
All material included in the dossiers can either be borrowed or accessed in the library.
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To mark the conferring of an honorary doctorate on human rights and child rights activist Graça Machel on 8 February 2021, the ASCL Library has compiled this web dossier on children’s rights in Africa. The dossier includes titles from the ASCL Library collection, extended with sources available through the broader Leiden University Library collection. The dossier is introduced by Ton Liefaard, professor of Children's Rights at Leiden University. Read the web dossier.