Publications

The African Studies Centre Leiden currently publishes eight different series. Books published in the ASCL Collection Series and Occasional Publications Series can be ordered from the Webshop or they can be purchased during a visit to the ASCL library, as long they are in stock. Book series published by Brill can be ordered directly from the publisher, or they can be purchased during a visit to the ASCL library, as long as they are in stock.

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Editors: D.F. Bryceson; D. Potts
Type of publication: Book

Are Africa's most populous and economically dominant cities a force to reckon with in the twenty-first century? This book analyzes the economies of East and Southern Africa's 'apex' cities, probing how they have altered structurally over time and their...

Keywords: Africa, Southern Africa, urban economy
Added to database: 23 December 2011
S. Luning; J. Jansen; B. Timmer; E. van Hoven
Editors: A. van der Kwaak; R. Spronk; K. Willemse
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: From modern myths to global encounters. Belonging and the dynamics of change in postcolonial Africa. A Liber Discipilorum in honour of Peter Geschiere
Keywords: Africa, change, myths
Added to database: 23 December 2011
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; J. Bouju
Type of publication: Book

La violence sociale qui fait l'objet des articles rassemblés dans ce numéro spécial du Bulletin d'APAD (Association euro-africaine pour l'anthropologie du changement social et du développement) se distingue par son caractère ordinaire, routinier et banal. Elle...

Keywords: Africa, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, domestic violence, Mali, street children, Tanzania, urban households, violence, Zimbabwe
Added to database: 23 December 2011
M.E. de Bruijn; L. Pelckmans
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Canadian journal of African studies
Keywords: Fulani, Mali, slaves, social inequality, social structure
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Chad (2005)
M.E. de Bruijn; J.W.M. van Dijk
Editors: A. Mehler; H. Melber; K. van Walraven
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Africa yearbook : politics, economy and society South of the Sahara in 2004
Keywords: Chad, politics
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
M.E. de Bruijn; J.W.M. van Dijk
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; J.W.M. van Dijk; M.M. A. Kaag; K. van Til
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Sahelian Pathways

This collective volume presents studies on local actors as loci of change and adaptation to climate variability and climate change in the Douentza-Bandiagara and Koutiala area in Mali. The focal point of the studies is the role of risk in decisionmaking. The decisionmaking...

Keywords: agriculture, climate, Dogon, environment, farmers, Fulani, Internal migration, livelihoods, Mali, migration, Rural
Added to database: 23 December 2011
K. van Walraven
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: The Journal of North African Studies

This article deals with the rebellion of 'Sawaba' against the PPN (Parti progressiste nigeI_rien) regime in Niger. Sawaba was a political party that represented a social movement and formed the first autonomous government of Niger during the last years of French...

Keywords: Algeria, colonialism, Country, France, Ghana, Mali, military intervention, Niger, opposition parties, rebellions
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
K. van Walraven
Editors: A. Mehler; H. Melber; K. van Walraven
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Africa yearbook : politics, economy and society South of the Sahara in 2004
Keywords: Africa, Central Africa, development, East Africa, politics, Southern Africa, Subsaharan Africa, West Africa
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

West Africa (2005)
K. van Walraven
Editors: A. Mehler; H. Melber; K. van Walraven
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Africa yearbook : politics, economy and society South of the Sahara in 2004
Keywords: development, politics, West Africa
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J.van Kessel
Type of publication: Book

Tussen 1831 en 1872 wierf Nederland ongeveer 3085 mannen in West-Afrika, grotendeels uit het grondgebied van het huidige Ghana en Burkina Faso, voor de militaire dienst in Nederlands-Indië. De Afrikaanse soldaten werden na hun opleiding op Java ingezet in koloniale...

Keywords: Ashanti polity, black soldiers, colonization, Ghana, Indonesia, military recruitment, Netherlands
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J.van Kessel
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Afrique & Histoire
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J.van Kessel
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Zuidelijk Afrika
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J.van Kessel
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Ghana Studies Council Newsletter
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J.van Kessel
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Zuidelijk Afrika
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J.van Kessel
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: De Indische Navorscher
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J.van Kessel
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Moesson
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
L.J. de Haan; A. Zoomers
Editors: G. Nijenhuis; A. Broekhuis; G. van Westen
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Space and place in development geography. Geographical perspectives on development in the 21st century
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
L.J. de Haan
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the 11th General Assembly of CODESRIA, 6-10 December 2005, Maputo

This paper examines how to research the changing outlines of African livelihoods in the present era of globalisation. After an analysis of the historical and theoretical context in which the modern livelihood approach developed, two trends in modern livelihood studies are...

Keywords: Africa, livelihoods, methodology, research methods
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
L.J. de Haan
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: CODESRIA Bulletin
Keywords: African studies
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
L.J. de Haan; A. Zoomers
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Development and change
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

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