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Mozambican author Mia Couto has been awarded the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. This biennial award is sponsored by the University of Oklahoma and its international literary magazine, World Literature Today. Like the Nobel Prize for Literature, to which it is often compared, the prize is awarded for an entire oeuvre. Read the Acquisition Highlight we wrote about Mia Couto.

Interested in how our Research Masters students are doing? David Drengk wrote the latest contribution to the Research Masters blog: 'Interdisciplinarity for critical Africanists of tomorrow!' Beware: Drengk dares to state that the era of single disciplinary research approach has come to an end.

Due to the closure of the Library of the KIT (Royal Institute of the Tropics, Amsterdam) all 450,000 books that belonged to this institute have been transferred to other libraries at the end of 2013. More than 3,000 books of the KIT collection have been given to the African Studies Centre. They are unique copies: no other library in the Netherlands has any of these books. The titles of all 3,029 books have immediately been made available via the library catalogue of the ASC and are available for loan.

The ASC has published three new thematic maps: Africa’s economic growth from a labour perspective; Sanitation in Africa; and Drinking water in Africa. The three maps visualize themes that are high on the development agenda. They can be viewed in Open Access on our website.