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In 2024 the Asante commemorate the 150^th anniversary of the Sagrenti War, and the Silver Jubilee of king Otumfuo Osei Tutu II. During these events, Asante artefacts were returned from Western museums.  On this occasion the ASCL Library has updated its 2002 web dossier about the Asante Kingdom.

Last May we bid farewell to our colleague Ella Verkaik-Steenvoorden. She had worked at the Library of the ASCL for more than 40 years, and went into early retirement as she was moving to the eastern part of the Netherlands. Sadly, life took a different turn. Ella passed away in her new house in Delden, on 14 July.

On 12 September 1977, South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died as a consequence of state violence following his arrest. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s.