Jos Damen

@ASCLibrary

Interested in Africa, Open Access & Wiki. From: African Studies Centre, Leiden (The Netherlands)

Leiden, The Netherlands
ascleiden.nl
Joined September 2010
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    May 15

    Our edited collection Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa is now ! The book features case studies on poor and working class whites in Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe, and these can now all be read online for free:

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  2. May 14

    Art historian Alice Procter is on a mission to museums and galleries in her 'Uncomfortable Art Tours'

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    May 13

    Sign up now for the free web-launch of Israel in Africa: Security, Migration, Interstate Politics by . Held in conjunction with the and on 3 June. Secure your place now:

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  4. May 11

    Public in the Netherlands opening up

    Wachtenden in de rij vanmorgen om 10 uur bij Bibliotheek Neude ⁦⁩ . WE ZIJN OPEN!!
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    May 11

    This little 18thC Gospel of St John was recently digitised for the Ethiopian manuscript project. The small parchment manuscript is bound in leather over wooden boards with tooled decoration typical of Ethiopian bindings

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  6. May 11

    Beautiful pictures from Africa 1961-62 , from a trip by Dutch students in DAF trucks from to . Photos now in . Photo: Tomb of the Mahdi, Omdurman & school girls Khartoum 1961

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    May 11

    List of new acquisitions by the including a biographical dictionary of Zambian music legends and articles on Congolese law. Books can be requested via the ASCL catalogue and picked up at four locations in Leiden or The Hague.

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    May 10

    challenge: articulating the first and last paragraphs of the thesis is harder than writing itself!! Can i use the cliche: the is the longest river & indispensable resource🤓

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  9. May 7

    Library in times of corona:

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    May 7

    Live now! PhD defence by Yinebeb Nigatu Tessema : 'Political Discourses and the Securitization of Democracy in Post-1991 Ethiopia' 👉🏽 (Yinebeb below right)

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  11. May 4

    Bye, Amazon -'s own story why he left . "We don’t need to invent anything new; a combination of antitrust and living-wage and worker-empowerment legislation, rigorously enforced, offers a clear path forward"

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    May 4

    Blog by Ton Dietz, + , about an article in the : ‘Only victory in Africa can end the pandemic everywhere.' Surprise about the European (e.g. Dutch ) & African leaders that signed it:

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  13. May 4

    Amazon VP Tim Bray Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers

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  14. May 4

    Very interesting piece on literature from Sierra Leone by Miriam Conteh-Morgan ("a [digital] revitalisation of our oral literary culture", "African literature has exploded in terms of its creative energy and global reach in the last 20 years")

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  15. May 2

    Rare gem: photo album of in the 1890s from the collection of Amsterdam. 36 photographs, including a church of the Basler Mission and dances for a dead King Bell.

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  16. Apr 30

    So sad to see libraries in times of corona (like this one -without visitors- at )

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  17. Apr 30

    Why paper books still matter: just fulfilled an email request from the US, from a 1985 book about -in this case from Faso

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    Apr 22

    Proud of Research Master student Tikam Sall, whose paper 'Remembering the 1987 Dakar Conference: Prospects for South Africa’s Relations with Senegal' was published by

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  19. Apr 22

    Least we forget: the last flu epidemic in the Netherlands (start 2018) caused 9,444 extra deaths . The coronavirus has up till now caused 3,916 extra deaths in the Netherlands

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    Apr 21

    It's up! How the Spanish flu affected Kenya - and its similarities to coronavirus .

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