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The African Studies Centre presented the last book by its renowned colleague Professor Stephen Ellis (1953-2015), This Present Darkness: A history of Nigerian organised crime, on 9 June. The book was published posthumously in April. Former colleagues and friends paid tribute to Ellis, who was regarded as one of the key researchers in African Studies in the world.

A new cohort of Muslim youth has arisen since the attacks of 9/11, facilitated by the proliferation of recent communication technologies and the Internet. By focusing on these young people as a heterogeneous global cohort, the contributors to this volume - coedited by senior researcher Benjamin Soares - show how the study of Muslim youth at this particular historical juncture is relevant to thinking about the anthropology of youth, the anthropology of Islamic and Muslim societies, and the post-9/11 world more generally.