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Dear Colleagues, The Call for Papers is now open for the upcoming VAD2022 (Association for African Studies in Germany – Vereinigung für Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland) conference Africa-Europe: reciprocal perspectives. The conference will take place on June 7 – 10, 2022 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, hosted by the newly founded Africa Centre for Transregional Research

You would like to publish your book Open Access, but are uncertain due to the lack of standards?
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Are you aware of the AEGIS (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies) series published by Brill? The books in this series are available open access (with an embargo of two years).

The African Studies Library (also known as “Fachinformationsdienst Afrikastudien” in German) has recently licensed an e-book package from the African Books Collective. Registered users have access to a searchable database of more than 1500 titles from African publishers.

The Association for African Studies in Germany e.V. (VAD) organizes an international and interdisciplinary conference every two years. The next VAD conference entitled “Africa-Europe: Reciprocal Perspectives” will take place from 07.-10.06.2022 in Freiburg im Breisgau. It will be organized by the newly founded Africa Centre for Transregional Research (ACT) of the Albert Ludwig University of

This week in the African Studies Toolbox, we recommend the open access books on African languages from Language Science Press.

The E-Books of the African Books Collective (ABC) are available through a licence in Germany.

Scholars based on the African continent do not have to pay for access to Taylor & Francis journals due to the STAR initiative.

Namibia is living through a humanitarian catastrophe. The country had long had low Covid-19 infection rates, but the Southern winter has brought a very rapid increase in infections, serious illnesses and deaths.