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From 18 to 20 March 2025 Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will go on a three-day state visit to Kenya. The visit has evoked strong criticism in Kenya and the Netherlands. In this reading list, the African Library has assembled resources on the state visit, recent protests, and Kenyan politics and human rights.

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 21 March 1940, South African photographer Ernest Levi Tsoloane Cole was born. In the early 1960s, he started to freelance for clients such as Drum magazine, the Rand Daily Mail, and the Sunday Express. This made him South Africa's first black freelance photographer.