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This international conference, organised by Prof. Chibuike Uche, wants to explore the diverse dynamics that impact on capital flows in Africa. Multinational companies are by far the largest source of both legal capital export and illegal capital leakage from the African continent. What about local companies?

Disappointed that there was no children's book on African history from an African perspective, South African historian Nomalanga Mkhize decided to write it herself. In Africa with Avi and Kumbi is a fully illustrated adventure book that covers the history of Africa from the first humans, who left their marks in rock art, to important figures during the period of independence. And it is the subject of our latest Library Highlight!

The ASCL is delighted that Emmanuel Akyeampong, Director of the Center for African Studies at Harvard University, will give the Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture 2019. Prof. Akyeampong will explore the nexus of spirituality, culture and political power in the connected lives of three first-generation African nationalist leaders: Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Sekou Touré of Guinea, and Leopold Senghor of Senegal. All welcome, please register!

Namibian beer is celebrated as an inextricable part of Namibian nationalism, both within its domestic borders and across global markets. But for decades on end, the same brew was not available to the black population as a consequence of colonial politics. This book by Tycho van der Hoog aims to explain how a European style beer has been transformed from an icon of white settlers into a symbol of the independent Namibian nation. It is based on Van der Hoog's thesis for the Research Master in African Studies at Leiden University. 

A new research project by Prof. Marleen Dekker aims to investigate the social norms that guide and constrain the financial decision-making of Zambian men and women. It also aims to explore ways of incorporating knowledge about these norms into financial services, financial literacy programmes and policy design. (Photo copyright: Financial Sector Deepening Zambia).