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The ASCL Library compiled an experimental web dossier which combines the components of a classical ASCL web dossier with features offered by Wikidata. The web dossier focuses on Southern African women writers and their publications. Special feature is the interactive Wikidata map that provides links to the writer’s publications in the ASCL catalogue and to her English Wikipedia article. Check out the web dossier!

This article by Agnieszka Kazimierczuk in Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews provides a review of the latest status and policy framework for wind energy in Africa. It takes a close look at Kenya, one of the most successful African countries in terms of attracting renewable energy investments, including the largest wind farm on the continent. However, international private participation is critical in wind energy expansion in Kenya.

This new article by Mayke Kaag (ASCL) and Griet Steel (Utrecht University) in Built Environment highlights the role of transnational migrants in urban land investments and claim making on urban land. Using case studies in Khartoum and Dakar, the authors investigate the ways in which transnational migrants contribute to speculation, rising land values and processes of socio-spatial inclusion and exclusion.

How can the development of mega-projects and large-scale infrastructure help us understand the emergence of new forms of governance as well as changing ideas and practices related to citizenship across Africa? In recent years, governments from Morocco to Nigeria, and from Kenya to Cameroon have embarked on a series of ambitious billion-euro projects to overhaul their countries’ urban infrastructure on an unprecedented scale. With the help of global as well as regional investors and foreign technical experts, a host of spectacular ‘mega-projects’ aims to radically transform natural, economic, and social landscapes. This workshop brings together colleagues working in different national contexts across the African continent to reflect together on the common challenges and divergent approaches to such accelerating phenomena.

In less than a hundred days, more than 800,000 Rwandese people were murdered in a deliberate and well-organized act of genocide, 25 years ago. How did the genocide come to be and why did it happen? Could it have been prevented if the international community had done more? This seminar at the The Hague Campus will address these and other questions. Speakers: Bert Ingelaere and Filip Reyntjens, University of Antwerp.

On the occasion of the NVAS Africa Day 2019 on 16 March in Utrecht, the ASCL Library has compiled a web dossier about “Performing arts in West Africa”. It focuses on theatre, dance and hiphop in West Africa and contains titles from the ASCL Library catalogue. Check out the web dossier!