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The library will undergo major maintenance, and will be temporarily relocated to the neighbouring Library of Social Sciences. The ASCL Library will return to its own location at FSW at the beginning of March. Another relocation the ASCL Library has faced is the temporary move of some 30,000 books from the ASCL collection to the Leiden University Libraries at the Witte Singel 27. All books can be requested and picked up at the ASCL Library (2-day service) or at the Witte Singel (1-hour service).

This presentation explores the role of service-learning in enhancing students’ employability skills. In service-learning, students engage in voluntary community service activities with the aim of learning from the experience while providing service to help the recipients.

On 5 October, Ousmane Dan Galadima, a leader of the Sawaba movement and commander of its guerrilla army, died in Madaoua, Niger. Dan Galadima was one of the most important leaders of Sawaba, the nationalist movement that formed Niger’s first autonomous government during the struggle for independence. 'Niger has lost a remarkable son', Sawaba expert Klaas van Walraven writes in the ASCL Africanist Blog.