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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
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'Van Walraven set out to write a fundamentally social history, centering the voices and experiences of individual people. (...) It is satisfying to imagine him reporting back to the aging Sawabists he interviewed for his research, reassuring them that their stories will not be forgotten.' Louise Mueller wrote an excellent book review of Le Désir de calme, the French translation - by Rahmane Idrissa - of Klaas van Walraven's The yearning for relief: a history of the Sawaba Movement in Niger.
09 June 2017
08 June 2017
South African Deon Meyer is the author of De Vrouw in de Blauwe Mantel (The Lady in the Blue Coat), the gift book for this year's Crime & Thriller Book Weeks ('Spannende Boeken Weken') that run in the Netherlands from Friday 9 to Sunday 25 June. Deon Meyer’s thrillers are part of the ASCL Library's collection of African crime fiction. Check out our latest Library Highlight!
07 June 2017
This book is based on Tanja Hendriks' Master's thesis ‘Home is always home’. (Former) Street Youth in Blantyre, Malawi, and the Fluidity of Constructing Home, winner of the 2016 African Thesis Award. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Blantyre, the author argues for a conceptualization of ‘home’ as a fluid field of tensions (re)created in the everyday. As such, home leaves space for people’s life roots and routes.
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