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On the occasion of the Africa 2020 year, the ASCL Library has compiled a web dossier about African leaders of independence. It is a ‘growing’ web dossier that will be expanded monthly. It has now been updated with sections on Gabon, Senegal and Nigeria. Also have a look at the corresponding interactive timeline. Enjoy the web dossier!

In the 1960s, there was an African ambition to build modern states based on ‘national development’. But in the late 1980s, national development was dismissed - in most cases under compulsion from the international financial institutions. And without national development project, there are really no states in Africa, Rahmane Idrissa writes, only regimes. In the Sahel, this paved the way for the establishment of the ‘Islamic state’. Read the latest blog post!

Purchased on 9 November 2019 in Abuja and already available to ASCL library users! Thirteen recently published books from Nigeria, by established writers like Wole Soyinka and debut novelists like Ever Obi, can be loaned now. This was made possible thanks to the support of Nigerian Wikimedian Uzoma Ozurumba and the good teamwork at the ASCL Library. Discover them all and enjoy reading!