The African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) of Leiden University is an academic institute for research and education on Africa. The activities of the ASCL library include collecting and distributing free images and supplying textual information on African studies and Africa via Wikimedia websites.[1] By 2024, ASCL had uploaded some 6500 of its own and donors' images to Wikimedia Commons.[2] Wikidata, the Wikimedia knowledge base, is used to illustrate the Web dossiers of the ASCL,[3] for example the web dossier on Southern African women writers.[4] For further overviews of the ASCL photo collections please refer to Commons:Collections of the African Studies Centre (Leiden). ASCL contributed 100+ new articles about Africa on various language Wikipedias.