Nicholas De Genova, Assistant Professor at anthropology at the university of Columbia, made some critical remarks about the war in Iraq. He called for the defeat of U.S. forces in Iraq and told an anti-war gathering that he wanted to see "a million Mogadishus" -- a reference to an operation in Somalia in 1993 in which elite U.S. Army Rangers and Delta Force units were pinned down in a fierce firefight. Now 104 Republican House members are urging the firing of the professor, reports Newsday. But meanwhile Lee C. Bollinger, the president of Columbia, repeated on Wednesday an earlier statement that while he was horrfied by Mr. De Genova's remarks, they were protected by academic freedom, reports the New York Times. The case is discussed with great agitation in the american press.

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African Studies Abstracts Online is the new electronic journal of the African Studies Centre in Leiden. Like its printed predecessor (African Studies Abstracts), African Studies Abstracts Online provides an overview of articles from periodicals and edited works on Africa in the field of the social sciences and the humanities available in the library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden. Each issue contains up to 450 titles with abstracts of collective volumes, journal articles and chapters from edited works, arranged geographically. Each issue also contains a geographical index, a subject index, an author index, and a list of journals and edited works abstracted in that issue. Almost 240 journals are scanned on a regular and systematic basis. This includes all the leading journals in the field of African studies, as well as a number of journals dealing with third world countries and development studies in general. Just under the half are published in Africa. A selection of edited works is also accessed and abstracted on a chapter-by-chapter basis. All publications covered are available at the African Studies Centre library in Leiden.

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