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In the past few weeks thirteen students of the Master and Research Master African Studies graduated. During an online graduation ceremony on 3 November Christen Faver, Shannon Lorimer, Femke van Zeijl and Mira Demirdirek all graduated cum laude. And on 10 November Marly van den Boom, Daniel Okiror, Bernardo Tiberi Venturucci (Research Master), Diene de Jong, Jochem Scheelings, Junyang Shen, Janina Hubmann, Marcia Semedo Gonçalvez and Samantha da Luz graduated in the Academy Building in Leiden, the last three of whom cum laude. Congratulations!

The African Studies Centre Leiden has two vacancies. For the project 'Decoding Digital Media in African Regions of Conflict' (DDMAC) we are looking for a junior researcher. The key goal of the DDMAC project is to gather empirical evidence defining and demonstrating the use, spread, content and agenda setting role of social media in regions of conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa. For the Knowledge Platform INCLUDE we are looking for a student-assistant.

In September 2021, Elvire Eijkman and Gerard van de Bruinhorst from the ASCL Library were able to make an acquisition trip to Rwanda. Some titles that were acquired have already been made available by ASCL Library staff. Take a sneak preview in the new Library Highlight!

Elvire Eijkman and Gerard van de Bruinhorst from the ASCL Library were permitted to make an acquisition trip to Rwanda in the last week of September 2021. It was the library's first acquisition trip to this country, and they were particularly curious to know how the country’s new language policy had shaped the publication landscape of this formerly francophone country. And of course, many book titles in the bookshops they visit, refer to the genocide that took place in 1994.