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The ASCL has a vibrant Visiting Fellows Programme. Selected fellows work together with ASCL colleagues, make use of the excellent African Library, and give a seminar with the CRG they work with. Learn more about our current three visiting fellows: Edwin Asa Adjei, Twasiima Bigirwa, and Jane Akinyi Ngala Oduor.

On 1 October, we celebrate International Coffee Day, a global celebration created by the International Coffee Organization, to bring coffee lovers around the world together for a single day dedicated to coffee. The occasion is also used to promote fair trade coffee and to raise awareness for the plight of the coffee growers.

Africa-China relations are made not only in ministries. They are also made through everyday encounters in the workplace. Research by Robel Mulat and Chong Zhang suggests that resistance does not always take the form of open confrontation; workers also resist through everyday actions that are easy to overlook.

This month's Library Highlight features Nigerian fiction writer, visual artist, and multi-award-winning author Akwaeke Emezi. Emezi is best known for the acclaimed novel Freshwater, but the African Library holds no less than ten of their books. Emezi's writing frequently puts LGBTQ+ themes at the centre of their work.

Last February, Carlien Donkor made a return visit to Nzulezo, Ghana, for her PhD research. The focus of the trip was to document the Indigenous craft of stilt construction unique to the community of Nzulezo, that have lived on and with water for more than five hundred years.