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Prof. Peter Little (Emory University, USA) will give an ASCL Seminar on 5 October, in which he will address 'the litany of different development approaches' from the perspectives of marginal populations and geographies in rural Africa.

On 31 July 1945, Cape Verdean writer, publisher and lawyer Germano de Almeida (also known as Germano Almeida) was born on the island of Boa Vista, Portuguese Cape Verde. After completing elementary school on Boa Vista, he attended various secondary schools in the capital Praia (on the island of Santiago) and on the island of São Vicente.

Mohamed Hassan Abdulaziz, known as the 'father of Swahili and African linguistics', died on 10 July in Nairobi at the age of 91. His book Muyaka: 19th Century Swahili Popular Poetry has become the reference book that every student of Swahili literature in Europe and East Africa must have been asked to study carefully, writes Annachiara Raia.