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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. 

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'.

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!

On 6 June 1936, Mozambican painter and poet Malangatana Valente Ngwenya was born in Matanala, a village in the south of Portuguese Mozambique. He was known for his large canvases and dramatic paintings and was also a sculptor. He frequently exhibited work under his first name alone, as Malangatana. 

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò is by now well known for his book 'Against Decolonization', which was recently translated into Dutch. The Professor of African Political Thought at Cornell University (USA) will give an ASCL Seminar on 7 September. The discourse on decolonisation is a distraction from Africa's much needed Second Freedom Struggle, Táíwò says.