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Het Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden is op zoek naar een managementassistent (0.8-1.0 fte) m.i.v. 1 december 2023. Tot de werkzaamheden behoren o.a. ondersteuning van de directeur (m.n. agendabeheer en correspondentie) en het uitvoeren van secretariële en logistieke werkzaamheden t.b.v. de organisatie.

On 30 September 2012, Somali poet and political activist, Mohamed Hashi Dhamac, better known as Gaarriye, died at a hospital in Norway. He is regarded as one of the most important Somali poets of the twentieth century.

On 20 September 1967, Nigerian poet, teacher, and librarian Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo died fighting for the independence of Biafra. He is today widely acknowledged as an outstanding postcolonial English-language poet and one of the major modernist writers of the 20th century.