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The African Studies Centre Leiden is sad to report that Gerrit Grootenhuis died on 18 April 2019. Grootenhuis led the African Studies Centre as general secretary from 1969 to 1990. With Grootenhuis the ASC entered a new period, in which research became paramount. He steered the African Studies Centre through a difficult period, in which the societal upheaval of the 1960s was also felt in scientific institutions.

Micro-franchising by big multinationals is increasingly heralded as the big thing in poverty eradication in Africa. But as a poverty eradication model for the informal sector, it does not offer anything new or innovative. It more or less replicates traditional African apprenticeship models, writes Harrison Awuh in the latest contribution to the ASCL Africanist Blog.

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts houses a large collection of ancient Nubian archaeological artefacts. End of 2018 more than 300 objects from the Boston collection travelled to the Netherlands where they are on display in the Drents Museum in Assen. A recent publication by the Boston museum Arts of Ancient Nubia and a Dutch-language catalogue that accompanied the exhibition are now in the ASCL collection. 'Exploring Ancient Nubia' is the subject of our latest Library Highlight!