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This year's annual meeting of the European Librarians in African Studies (ELIAS), entitled African collections: from collecting to sharing and repatriating was held in Prague on 24 June. It was an inspiring opportunity to exchange information, connect with professionals in the field, and to discuss developments in information and library science. 

In April 2023 violence erupted in Sudan between the armed forces and the RSF. Since then, the violence has taken the lives of more than 150,000 people and displaced over 12,000. In the media this conflict has received limited attention. The African Library has been keeping track of selected resources.

On 7 July, we celebrate World Kiswahili Language Day. Swahili is one of the most widely spoken languages of the African linguistic family and the most commonly used language in sub-Saharan Africa. It ranks among the top-ten most spoken languages in the world. 

After four days of exchanging knowledge, networking, and gathering new ideas at the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS, 25-28 June), the ASCL delegation left Prague more than inspired. ECAS 2025 engaged with 'African, Afropolitan and Afropean forms of belonging and positioning'.

In this book, John Kegel places the final phase of the four-year civil war that formed the immediate context of the Rwandan Genocide, at the heart of the narrative. Kegel contends that it forms the bedrock of a real understanding of Rwanda between 1990 and 1994, and beyond.

On 20 June 1990, the Senegalese writer Mohamed Mbougar Sarr was born in Dakar, Senegal. Sarr is the author of four novels as well as a number of award-winning short stories. He won the 2021 Prix Goncourt for his novel The Most Secret Memory of Men, becoming the first Sub-Saharan African to do so.