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Karin Nijenhuis has been awarded a Comenius Senior Fellowship. The Comenius programme contributes to innovation and improvement of higher education in the Netherlands. Karin Nijenhuis receives the Senior Fellowship for the project 'Feel connected! The integration of dialogue as a teaching method in higher education to improve student well-being'.

On 18 June 2019, Nigerian poet, critic, editor, feminist and activist Omolara Ogundipe-Leslie, also known as Molara Ogundipe, died at the age of 78 in Ijebu Igbo. Considered one of the foremost writers on African feminism, gender studies and literary theory, she was a social critic who came to be recognised as a viable authority on African women among black feminists and feminists in general. 

The 9th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) took place from 31 May to 3 June in Cologne, Germany. More than 30 researchers from the ASCL and Leiden University convened a panel or presented a paper. Read the report about their contributions!