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Nigerian writer Elechi Amadi died on 29 June at the age of eighty-two. He was among the first generation of African writers and novelists, and most of his work was published in the famous, now classical, Heinemann African Writers Series, which has also become available as an online resource (restricted access).

The 7th European Conference on African Studies, organised by AEGIS, wiil be held 29 June - 1 July 2017 in Basel. The conference theme will be 'Urban Africa - Urban Africans: New encounters of the rural and the urban'. How do urbanization processes in Africa transform conventional objects of African Studies and how do scholars of Africa gear up to face such changes? This is the question which the Centre for African Studies at the University of Basel in Switzerland wishes to invite scholars of Africa to engage with. Deadline: 18 August.

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.