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ASC Leiden receives 3000 books from KIT Amsterdam

The African Studies Centre Library, Leiden, has received 3000 books from the library of KIT (Royal Insitute of the Tropics) in Amsterdam following its closure at the end of 2013. The books, all about Africa, mainly in English and not held in any other library in the Netherlands, are already in the ASC library cataloge and available to researchers. Other books from KIT have been donated to Leiden University Library and Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt. See http://www.ascleiden.nl/?q=news/more-3000-books-kit-given-asc-leiden for further information.

Mandela and more

Mandela and more

The blog ‘Africa at LSE’ has much to offer the Africanist. Regular, well-informed posts on people and issues in the news, book reviews, a list of LSE experts, video, audio and podcasts and useful links. This week of course, there is much on Mandela, also an interesting piece on Jomo Kenyatta at LSE.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/

Stephen Ellis writes about Mandela on the website of the African Studies Centre Leiden

http://www.ascleiden.nl/?q=news/memoriam-nelson-mandela-18-july-1918-5-december-2013

A tribute in posters from SAHA collections

A tribute in posters from SAHA collections

As the world mourns the loss of a renowned icon, Nelson Mandela, SAHA has pulled out some of the best Madiba posters from its archive to say “siyabulela Tata, ulale ngoxolo!” (thank you father, may you rest in peace’ – translated from his native language, isiXhosa).
> See the gallery

“Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.”

-Nelson Mandela