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On 19 July 1982, Ugandan poet, novelist, and social anthropologist Okot p’Bitek died in Kampala at the age of 51. His three verse collections - Song of Lawino (1966), Song of Ocol (1970), and Two Songs (1971) - are considered to be among the best African poetry in print.

The new film Le spectre de Boko Haram focuses on daily life in the village of Kolofata in the Far North Region of Cameroon, near the border with Nigeria, where the Islamic terrorist movement of Boko Haram has been active since 2013. What makes the film remarkable is that it concentrates on the life of the children in the village.

On 12 July 2010, Cameroonian journalist and director of Le Messager Pius Njawé died in a car accident in Chesapeake, Virginia, US. Arrested over 100 times for his reporting, Njawé won several awards for his work, including the 1991 CPJ International Press Freedom Award and the 1993 Golden Pen of Freedom.

The possibility of bearing witness to (remember) the horrors, trauma, and destitution of the human condition and to consider its implication for human rights education is what this volume of essays is about. The editors cogently accentuate how human rights violations in South Africa and the Netherlands ought to be expiated through teaching and learning.

On 7 July, former President Kgalema Motlanthe of South Africa gave a public lecture at Campus The Hague about the economic transformation of Africa. The audience consisted of students and teachers, African ambassadors and diplomats, NGO staff and other people interested in Africa.