Library

This month’s Library Highlight showcases 23 zines from the Swahili region of Lamu, Kenya, which the African Library recently acquired. The booklets were produced in January 2025 as part of the Lamu Maktaba Ya Sanaa Project, initiated by Karin Voogd. The recently acquired zines are currently exhibited at the African Studies Centre.

In light of the recent advance of the M23 rebel movement in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the African Library has created a list of web resources on this conflict, containing online articles, blogs, infographics, podcasts and videos, most of which are freely accessible.

On 27 April 1941, the Senegalese novelist Aminata Sow Fall was born. She is considered the first published woman novelist from francophone Africa.