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The ASCL Annual Report for 2023 is out now! Read all about our publications, collaborations with African studies colleagues around the world, the INCLUDE Platform's new research agenda, and the ASCL Library achievements, including their partnership in the ERC project on African Literary Metadata (ALMEDA).

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.