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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
04 April 2017
In the presence of familiy and former colleagues of our late researcher Stephen Ellis (who died in 2015) and with a personal video message of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Bert Koenders, the Stephen Ellis Chair in the Governance of Finance and Integrity in Africa was officially launched on Tuesday 4 April at Leiden University.
04 April 2017
Current land tenure literature is mostly geared towards the various regimes of tenure, land registration, and establishing a cadastre in order to reduce transaction costs and guarantee investor confidence. The crucial role played by land brokers is rarely mentioned. Indeed, the term ‘land broker’ or equivalent is entirely missing from the land tenure lexicon. In this working paper, Marcel Rutten and Moses Mwangi share the most recent experiences in the emergence of formal land markets, and examine the underrated role of brokers in the transfer of land in Kenya.
24 March 2017
Marcel Rutten writes about the little attention development cooperation with Africa received in the Dutch election campaign. The Dutch Party for the Animals did point to climate change causing people to suffer most from weather vagaries, as witnessed in Africa's drylands. The party has also called for the protection of wildlife. By doing so it touches on a dilemma: the expansion of land set aside for wild animals makes a growing nomadic pastoralist population less resilient. Read Rutten's blog.
10 March 2017
On the occasion of the seminar on ‘The Beeker Method: Planning and Working on the Redevelopment of the African City’, jointly organized by the ASCL and African Architecture Matters on 23 March, the ASCL Library has compiled a web dossier on urban architecture and urban planning. The dossier opens with an introduction by Dr. Antoni Folkers (African Architecture Matters), and concludes with links to relevant websites. Read the web dossier.
10 March 2017
Turtle 1: building a car in Africa tells the story of the Turtle, a car built entirely from reused or hand-made car parts, in Suame Magazine, an industrial zone in Kumasi, Ghana. This car-building project, initiated by visual artist Melle Smets and researcher Joost van Onna, is at the cutting edge of action research and art. It is the subject of our latest Library Highlight!
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