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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
08 June 2015
Information Specialist Heleen Smits (ASC Library) gave a lecture at the Faculty of Arts, University of Khartoum (Sudan). The subject was in line with the research she conducts on the grammar of the Lumun language, which is her PhD subject at Leiden University. Heleen also purchased some 25 books at the Khartoum university's bookshop for the ASC Library.
04 June 2015
In recognition of the Month of the Exciting Book (a theme month organized by the Dutch Book Promotion Foundation), the ASC Library has purchased a new set of African crime novels covering contemporary African crime writers from across the continent, such as Malla Nunn, Michael Stanley (the duo of Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip) and Kwei Quartey. Among these recently acquired novels are Blood Rose by Margie Orford and Zulu by Caryl Férey. They form the subject of our latest Acquisition Highlight!
04 June 2015
South African photographer Pieter Hugo was guest editor of the latest issue of the 'De Luxe' magazine of Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad (Magazine #24, Juni 2015). In this magazine, pictures were shown from books by Pieter Hugo and other South African photographers. Many of these books can be borrowed from the ASC Library.
03 June 2015
01 June 2015
On 28 May, the Dutch parliamentarian Martin Bosma published a book entitled Minderheid in eigen land: Hoe progressieve strijd ontaardt in genocide en ANC-apartheid (Bibliotheca Africana Formicae, Amsterdam). Mr Bosma’s book draws heavily on work by senior researcher Prof. Stephen Ellis of the African Studies Centre, including his prize-winning 2012 book External Mission: The ANC in exile, 1960-1990 (C. Hurst & Co., London). Prof. Ellis says many of these references are bizarre and some invented. Ellis: ‘More than once Martin Bosma attributes to me the statement that “het ANC is een criminele organisatie” (in English: “the ANC is a criminal organisation”), which I am said to have made at a meeting in January 2013. In fact I have never made such a statement and it is not my opinion. Anyone who wants to know my views on the ANC should read my book’, Prof. Ellis says.
29 May 2015
In 2013, one of Lampedusa's beaches was rated the most beautiful in the world. It is also the place where more than 500 Eritreans drowned. The island's link to migration from Africa reflects African and European political decisions; media consistently link the island with tragedy. Local people launch new tourism ventures. During the ASC seminar on 2 July, Anna Arnone (SOAS, London) will reveal that the encounter of different types of movement creates new openings for solidarity between people.
26 May 2015
Sixty years ago, delegations from 29 Asian and African countries convened in Bandung, Indonesia, for a major diplomatic conference. The intention was to outline the shared futures of Asia and Africa. This Asian-African Conference brought together leaders that sought to participate in the making of an emerging Third World. On 18 June, several Leiden based institutes will co-organize a conference that examines how the 1955 Bandung Conference may inform us on the current interactions between the two continents, and on the continuing aspirations for an alternative ‘southern’ development model.
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