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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
06 December 2022
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary conference of the NVAS (Netherlands Association for African Studies) on 9 and 10 December, the ASCL Library compiled a web dossier on language, conciliation and conflict in Africa.
05 December 2022
On 8 December 1961, Santomean poet and journalist, Maria da Conceição de Deus Lima, also known as Conceição Lima, was born in Santana on São Tomé. According to Santomean literary critic Inocência Mata, Conceição Lima's poetry is a conscious voice that addresses Europe with an accusation of the suffering that has occurred for centuries in Santomean society.
05 December 2022
After a bloody war of independence in the 1950s and 1960s, Algeria became independent from France in 1962. Read about the country's recent history, demographic and social-economic developments, urbanisation, agricultural developments, and regional inequality.
02 December 2022
28 November 2022
On 30 November 2015, Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist Fatema Mernissi died in Rabat at the age of 75. Her legacy can be greatly attributed to her scholarly and literary contributions to the early Islamic feminist movement. She tackled issues such as Eurocentrism, intersectionality, transnationalism and global feminism in her publications and public lectures.