New publications
New publications by ASCL staff and affiliates, and new books in our series, are frequently highlighted on this website. You may also use this RSS feed to keep informed. All recently added publications can be found in our database.
This book by Bert van Pinxteren shows that maintaining former colonial languages as medium of instruction in education will become impossible to sustain. Over the next decade, some African countries will have to transition to African languages. This will bolster the new, decolonised cultural traditions already taking shape on the continent.
Post date: 29 July 2022
Jon Abbink produced a new bibliography on Ethiopian-Eritrean studies in society and history. It is a by- product of research he did on these countries in the past five years and is the ultimate volume in the series. It contains all the crucial references to recent work in history, archaeology, sociology, anthropology, economics, agricultural studies, politics, environmental studies etc.
Post date: 25 July 2022
The ASCL Annual Report for 2021 is out now! In addition to an excellent list of publications by our researchers, you will find other highlights such as the Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture on African feminism by Nanjala Nyabola, the Comenius Award for André Leliveld, and the Library acquisition trip to Rwanda.
Post date: 21 July 2022
Post date: 14 July 2022
Since the democratic transition of 1994, increasing numbers of ‘Khoisan revivalists’ in South Africa are rejecting their coloured identity and engaging in activism as indigenous people. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Cape Town, this book by Rafael Verbuyst takes an unprecedented bottom-up approach.
Post date: 01 July 2022
Post date: 27 June 2022
Post date: 27 June 2022
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Posted on 28 November 2016, last modified on 23 December 2016