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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. 

The ASCL is deeply saddened by the news that its former colleague Marieke van Winden passed away on 23 November. Marieke was the ASCL’s communications officer until she retired in June 2019, and still after that, she co-organised the Africa Knows conference. Marieke will be missed tremendously by her former colleagues.

On 23 November 1948, South African-Scottish author and academic  Zoë Wicomb was born near Vanrhynsdorp, Western Cape, in South Africa. In 2013, she was awarded the inaugural Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for her fiction.

On 15 November 1996, Ugandan climate justice activist Vanessa Nakate was born in Kampala. She became a celebrity in December 2018 after becoming concerned about the unusually high temperatures in her country.