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Photographic exhibition of Ethiopian church wall paintings at ASC Leiden

An exhibition of photographs of colourful wall paintings in Northern Ethiopian churches is on display in the African Studies Centre Library, Leiden, until 1st July 2015. The photographs were taken by Pieter de Kleer and the paintings, which are several hundred years old, show scenes from the Old and New Testaments and from the history of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. For further information see http://www.ascleiden.nl/news/new-exhibition-photos-wall-paintings-ethiopian-churches .

50th issue of African Studies Abstract Online published

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African Studies Abstracts Online 50 (2015)

has been published and is now available at:

http://hdl.handle.net/1887/32658

In 2013 Marlene van Doorn wrote about “A half century of abstracting at the African Studies Centre Leiden” (publ. in African Research and Documentation 2013, 123, http://hdl.handle.net/1887/32653): “Since 1968 the African Studies Centre (ASC) in Leiden, The Netherlands, has published an abstracts journal, first under the title Documentatieblad (1968- 1993), subsequently renamed African Studies Abstracts. In 2003 African Studies Abstracts went online.”
The ASC Library staff is now proudly presenting the 50th issue  African Studies Abstracts Online, while at the same time presenting new alert possibilities:
1. Alerts on new titles on African countries and subjects: http://ascleiden.nl/content/library-alert-service-subscription-page   (via email or RSS, also containing links to e-publications)
2. New Acquisitions List http://ascleiden.nl/content/new-titles    New version, with a special category (free) Electronic Documents
Feedback is always welcome.
Earlier issues of ASAOnline can be found here: http://www.ascleiden.nl/content/asa-online (incl. search facilities in 90,000 abstracts)
Kind regards,
The Editors
All correspondence should be sent to:
African Studies Centre
PO Box 9555
2300 RB Leiden
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 71 527 33 54

Royal African Society Event

Tuesday 14 April 2015, 18:30-20:30

Djam Lecture Theatre, SOAS

Join the author and the panel as they discuss this powerful book documenting the impact of the Somali civil war on one man, who having been shorn of the things we have come to believe make us human, shares his dreams and desires and a need to leave something of permanence on this earth.

Speakers:

Jonny Steinberg, author & Associate Professor in African Criminology, Oxford University;  Ismail Einashe, journalist. Chaired by: Michela Wrong, writer & journalist.

To register :-

http://www.royalafricansociety.org/event/man-good-hope

Please note this is an event organised by the Royal African Society – please contact them – not Scolma – to register or with any queries or comments

 

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