Africa 2020: Further reading

General

ASCL Thematic map: Africa at 60 / Ton Dietz and Nel de Vink. - Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2020.

ASCL Web dossier: African leaders of independence / Germa Seuren, ASCL Library, 2020.

ASCL Timeline: African leaders of independence / Germa Seuren, ASCL Library, 2020.

Article (interactive) : A continent remade : reflections on 1960, the Year of Africa / Veronica Chambers (ed.), NY Times, 2020. 

Video: The story of Africa. - BBC World Service (2001)

Benin

Timeline: Benin profile - BBC News. Last updated 2019.

ASCL Infosheet: Benin at 60 / Ton Dietz, David Ehrhardt, Fenneken Veldkamp. - Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2020.

Article: Benin. South African History Online. Produced 21 March 2011. Last Updated 17 October 2019

Publication: The legacies of transition governments in Africa: the cases of Benin and Togo / Jennifer C. Seely. - New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009.

Publication: Analyse de la dynamique de l’économie informelle au Bénin / Kassim Assouma. - Cotonou: FES Benin, 2019.

Burkina Faso

Timeline: Burkina Faso profile - BBC News. Last updated 2018.

ASCL Infosheet: Burkina Faso at 60 / Ton Dietz, David Ehrhardt, Fenneken Veldkamp. - Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2020.

Publication: Historical Dictionary of Burkina Faso / Daniel Miles McFarland and Lawrence Rupley. - Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1998. See chronology and introduction (pages xxvii-4) for independence history.

Publication: From Upper Volta to Burkina Faso: a study of the politics of reaction and reform in a post-colonial African nation-state, 1960-1987 / Bryan J. Williamson. Scholar Commons, Graduate Theses and Dissertations (2013)

Publication: Tinder to the fire: Burkina Faso in the conflict zone / Rahmane Idrissa. RLS Research papers on peace and conflict studies in West and Central Africa, no. 02 (2019)

Podcast: Spéciale Archives d'Afrique - Maurice Yameogo (1-4) - RFI (2010)
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Cameroon

Timeline : Cameroon profile - BBC News. Last updated 2018.

ASCL Infosheet: Cameroon at 60 / Ton Dietz, David Ehrhardt, Fenneken Veldkamp. - Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2020.

Publication: The Political Evolution of Cameroon, 1884-1961 / Victor Julius Ngoh. - Portland: Portland State University, 1979

Publication: Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon / Mark Dike DeLancey, Rebecca Neh Mbuh, Mark W. DeLancey. - Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2010. See chronology and introduction (pages 32-56) for independence history.

Publication: An ethnographic study on mobile money attitudes, perceptions and usages in Cameroon, Congo DRC, Senegal and Zambia / M.E. de Bruijn, I.C. Butter & A.S. Fall. Leiden: Leiden University, 2017.

Blog: Disposable people 2 Cameroon The Anglophone crisis escalates Counter Voices in Africa / Mirjam de Bruijn (2018)

Podcast : Spéciale Archives d'Afrique - Ahmadou Ahidjo (1-8) - RFI (2010)
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Video: Spécial 60 ans de l'indépendance du Cameroun / RFI, YouTube Channel (2020)

Central African Republic

Timeline: Central African Republic profile.- BBC News. Last updated 2018.

ASCL Infosheet: Central African Republic at 60 / Ton Dietz, David Ehrhardt, Fenneken Veldkamp. - Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2020.

ASCL Publication: The historical long-term in the politics of the Central African Republic insights from the biography of Barthélémy Boganda / K. van Walraven.  ASC Working Paper 146 (2019)

Publication: Central African Republic (1960-present). University of Central Arkansas, Political Science Department. Last updated 2019.

Blog: Rumours on the Ubangui / C. Wilson (2018)

Podcast : Spéciale Archives d'Afrique - Barthélémy Boganda (1-6). - RFI (2010)
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Podcast : Spéciale Archives d'Afrique - David Dacko (1-6) - RFI (2010)
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Chad

Timeline: Chad profile - BBC News. Last updated 2018.

ASCL Infosheet: Chad at 60 / Ton Dietz, David Ehrhardt, Fenneken Veldkamp. - Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2020.

Article: Tchad brève histoire politique jusqu’à 1990. Église de Mongo (2008)

Article: Chad. South African History Online. Produced 21 March 2011. Last Updated 25 November 2019.

Publication: Youth between state and rebel (dis) orders contesting legitimacy from below in Sub-Sahara Africa / Mirjam de Bruijn and Jonna Both. In: Small wars and insurgencies, vol. 28 (2017) nos. 4-5, pp 779-798.

Blog by Mirjam de Bruijn - Articles on Chad.

Video: Africa... States of Independence - Chad - Al Jazeera English YouTube Channel (2010)

Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville)

Timeline: Republic of Congo profile - BBC News. Last updated 2018.

ASCL Infosheet: Republic of the Congo at 60 / Ton Dietz, David Ehrhardt, Fenneken Veldkamp. - Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2020.

Publication: Historical Dictionary of Republic of Congo / John F. Clark, Samuel Decalo. - Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2012. (via Google Books) See introduction (pages 1-28) for independence history.

ASCL Blog: Spirits and Love under the Mango Trees: Dutch-Congolese Heritage at a Cemetery in Brazzaville / Klaas van Walraven (2020)

Podcast: Spéciale Archives d'Afrique - Fulbert Youlou (1-10) - RFI (2010)
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Côte d'Ivoire

Timeline: Ivory Coast profile - BBC News. Last updated 2019.

ASCL Infosheet: Côte d'Ivoire at 60 / Ton Dietz, David Ehrhardt, Fenneken Veldkamp. - Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2020.

Publication: Historical Dictionary of Cote d'Ivoire (The Ivory Coast) / Cyril K. Daddieh. - Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2016. (via Google Books) See chronology and introduction (pages xxix-44) for independence history.

ASCL Publication: Militarized youths in Western Côte d'Ivoire : local processes of mobilization, demobilization, and related humanitarian interventions (2002-2007) / Magali Chelpi-den Hamer. Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2007.

Podcast : Spéciale Archives d'Afrique - Félix Houphouët-Boigny (1-6) - RFI (2010)
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Video: Africa... States of Independence - Ivory Coast - Al Jazeera English YouTube Channel (2010)

Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa)

Timeline: Democratic Republic of Congo profile - BBC News (2019)

ASCL Infosheet: D.R. Congo at 60 / Ton Dietz, David Ehrhardt, Fenneken Veldkamp. - Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2020.

Publication: Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo / Emizet François Kisangani and F. Scott Bobb. - Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2010. See chronology and introduction (pages 32-93) for independence history.

Publication: La pensée politique de Patrice Emery Lumumba / Par Jean-Paul Sartre (1963)

Publication: Conflict (im)mobiles : biographies of mobility along the Ubangi River in Central Africa / Catherina Wilson. [The Netherlands] : [publisher not identified], [2019]

Podcast : Spéciale Archives d'Afrique - Patrice Emery Lumumba (1-4) - RFI (2010)
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Video: Africa ... States of Independence - DR Congo - Al Jazeera English YouTube Channel (2010)

Gabon

Timeline: Gabon profile - BBC News. Last updated 2019.

ASCL Infosheet: Gabon at 60 / Ton Dietz, David Ehrhardt, Fenneken Veldkamp. - Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2020.

Article: Gabon. South African History Online. Produced 21 March 2011. Last Updated 17 December 2019.

Publication: Politics and the longue durée of African oil communities: rentierism, hybrid governance, and anomie in Gamba (Gabon), c. 1950s - 2015 (and beyond) / Joseph N. Mangarella. - [The Netherlands] : [publisher not identified], [2019]

Podcast: Spéciale Archives d'Afrique - Léon Mba (1-2) - RFI (2010)
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Madagascar

Timeline: Madagascar profile - BBC News. Last updated 2018.

ASCL Infosheet: Madagascar at 60 / Ton Dietz, David Ehrhardt, Fenneken Veldkamp. - Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2020.

Article: Madagascar’s fight for independence / Masika sipa. Mada Magazine. Accessed 9-1-2020.

Publication: Political Change in Madagascar: populist democracy or neopatrimonialism by another name? / Richard R. Marcus. ISS Paper 89 (August 2004)

Publication: Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Madagascar / Philip M. Allen and Maureen Covell. - Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2005. See chronology and introduction (pages 29-85) for independence history.

Podcast: Portrait de Philibert Tsiranana (1-2) - RFI (2013).
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Mali

Timeline: Mali profile - BBC News. Last updated 2018.

ASCL Infosheet: Mali at 60 / Ton Dietz, David Ehrhardt, Fenneken Veldkamp. - Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2020.

Publication: Old homes and new homelands: imagining the nation and remembering expulsion in the wake of the Mali Federation’s collapse / Marie Rodet and Brandon County. In: Africa: Journal of the International Africa Institute, 88 (3). pp. 469-491.

ASCL Publication: Sahelian pathways: climate and society in Central and South Mali / Mirjam de Bruijn, Han van Dijk, Mayke Kaag, Kiky van Til (eds.). - Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2005.

ASCL Publication: Disputed desert: decolonisation, competing nationalisms and Tuareg rebellions in Northern Mali / Baz Lecocq. - Leiden: Brill, 2010.

Blog by Mirjam de Bruijn - Articles on Mali.

Podcast: Spéciale Archives d'Afrique - Modibo Keïta (1-6) - RFI (2010)
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Mauritania

Timeline: Mauritania profile - BBC News. Last updated 2018.

ASCL Infosheet: Mauritania at 60 / Ton Dietz, David Ehrhardt, Fenneken Veldkamp. - Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2020.

Article: Mauritania's past doesn't want to go away / Elemine Mustapha, Francisco Freire. Africa is a country (2019)

Publication: Mauritania: a country study / Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, ed. by Robert Earl Handloff. Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. : Federal Research Divsion, Library of Congress, 1990.

Podcast: Archives d'Afrique - Portrait de Moktar Ould Daddah (1-4) - RFI (2010)
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Niger

Timeline: Niger profile - BBC News. Last updated 2018.

ASCL Infosheet: Niger at 60 / Ton Dietz, David Ehrhardt, Fenneken Veldkamp. - Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2020.

ASCL Publication: The yearning for relief: a history of the Sawaba movement in Niger / Klaas van Walraven. Leiden: Brill, 2013.

Podcast: Spéciale Archives d'Afrique - Hamani Diori (1-4)
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Podcast : Archives d’Afrique - Hamani Diori ou l'indépendance du Niger - RFI (2019)

Nigeria

Timeline: Nigeria profile - BBC News. Last updated 2019.

ASCL Infosheet: Nigeria at 60 / Ton Dietz, David Ehrhardt, Fenneken Veldkamp. - Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2020.

Article: Impact of nationalist movement on the actualization of Nigerian independence, 1914-1960 / Kelechi Chika Ubaku, Chikezie Anyalewachi Emeh, Chinenye Nkiruhttp Anyikwa. In: International Journal of History and Philosophical Research vol.2 (2014), no.1, pp 54-67.

Publication: Historical Dictionary of Nigeria / Toyin Falola and Ann Genova. - Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2009. See chronology and introduction (pages xix-xlii) for independence history.

ASCL Publication: Dangote cement: an African success story? / Akinyinka Akinyoade & Chibuike Uche. Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2016.

Video: Africa ... States of Independence - Nigeria - Al Jazeera YouTube Channel (2010)

Senegal

Timeline: Senegal profile - BBC News. Last updated 2018.

ASCL Infosheet: Senegal at 60 / Ton Dietz, David Ehrhardt, Fenneken Veldkamp. - Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2020.

ASCL Publication: Islam et engagements au Sénégal / sous la direction de Mayke Kaag. - Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2011.

Podcast: Spéciale Archives d'Afrique - Portrait de Léopold Sédar Senghor (1-16) - RFI (2012)
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Video: Africa... States of Independence - Senegal - Al Jazeera English YouTube Channel (2010) 

Somalia

Timeline: Somalia profile - BBC News. Last updated 2018.

ASCL Infosheet: Somalia at 60 / Ton Dietz, David Ehrhardt, Fenneken Veldkamp. - Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2020.

Article: Somalia. South African History Online. Produced 05 September 2016. Last Updated 18 April 2019.

Publication: Historical Dictionary of Somalia / Mohamed Haji Mukhta. - Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2003. See chronology and introduction (pages xxv-9) for independence history.

ASCL Publication: The Islamic Courts Union: the ebb and flow of a Somali Islamist movement / Jon Abbink. In: Movers and shakers : social movements in Africa. Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2009.

ASCL Web dossier: Somali literature

Togo

Timeline: Togo profile - BBC News. Last updated  2018.

ASCL Infosheet: Togo at 60 / Ton Dietz, David Ehrhardt, Fenneken Veldkamp. - Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2020.

Article: Togo. South African History Online. Produced 21 March 2011. Last Updated 17 October 2019.

Publication: Political History of Togo / Djifa Kothor. Center for African Studies. University of Illinois, African Students Organization (2012)

Publication: The legacies of transition governments in Africa: the cases of Benin and Togo / Jennifer C. Seely. - New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009.

Podcast: Portrait de Sylvanus Olympio (1-8) - RFI (2010)
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