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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W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper read at the Department of the Philosophy of Man and Culture, Philosophical Faculty, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 28 June, 2004
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper read at, 'The Garden of Eating: Experiencing the thought of Gilles Deleuze in cultural practices', 29 May 2004, Rotterdam: Faculties of Philosophy / History and Art; convenor: Rick Dolphijn , 2004
Keywords: history
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Editors: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture

This introductory chapter sketches globalization and Africa in broad theoretical terms, examining the meaning of the term globalization; the impact of globalization on daily life in Africa in economic as well as sociocultural terms; globalization as a historical phenomenon;...

Keywords: Africa, globalization, migration, social change
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture

This introductory chapter sketches globalization and Africa in broad theoretical terms, examining the meaning of the term globalization; the impact of globalization on daily life in Africa in economic as well as sociocultural terms; globalization as a historical phenomenon;...

Keywords: Africa, African culture, information technology, migration, Subsaharan Africa
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: T. Young
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Readings in African Politics

This reader on African politics contains texts from journals and books published in the 1980s and 1990s, arranged in sections on the modern African State (contributions by Aristide Zolberg, Robert H. Bates, Goran Hyden, Robert H. Jackson & Carl G. Rosberg, Robert Fatton,...

Keywords: Africa, Botswana, Cameroon, democratization, Ethiopia, gender, Kenya, political change, politics, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Editoral (2004)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Quest: An African Journal of Philosophy
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Vrede en Veiligheid
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture

Rev. Mensa Otabil, the founder of the International Central Gospel Church in Accra, is considered an influential representative of a new Pentecostal-inspired Pan-Africanist ideology. His book 'Beyond the Rivers of Ethiopia' lays the foundations of a Pentecostal...

Keywords: Africa, Baptist Church, diasporas, Ghana, Netherlands, pan-Africanism
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
K.van der Geest; A.J. Dietz
Editors: A.J. Dietz; R. Ruben; A. Verhagen
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: The impact of climate change on drylands, with a focus on West Africa
Keywords: Africa
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
J. van Beurden; J.B. Gewald
Type of publication: Book
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
N. Jua; P.J.J. Konings
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Cahiers d'études africaines

This article examines the historical process leading to the emergence of Anglophone nationalism in public space during the liberalisation process in the 1990s in Cameroon. Anglophone nationalism poses a severe threat to the post-colonial State's nation-building project...

Keywords: Cameroon, nationalism, separatism
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
Editors: P.H. Salazar; S. Osha; W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book

Democracy is about competing "truths". This is why "rhetoric"- the study of public deliberation and the training in public debate and argumentation - is part of democracy in development. This volume acclimatizes "rhetoric" to the philosophical...

Keywords: Africa, commissions of inquiry, democracy, offences against human rights, oratory, South Africa
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
K.van der Geest
Type of publication: Book

This book is a result of the climate change project.

Keywords: agriculture, climate change, Dagari, droughts, Ghana, livelihoods, rural households
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
J.G. Njogu
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: biodiversity, environmental policy, forestry, Kenya, nature conservation, popular participation, social conflicts, Taita, wild animals
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
Editors: A. Reeves; M.C.A. van Winden
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: African studies, annual reports (form), Netherlands
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
I. Brinkman
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: African studies review : the journal of the African Studies AssociationAfrican studies review

This article examines the links between naming practices and war. The focus is on MPLA names used during the struggle for independence in Angola (1961-1975). These names are framed in the wider context of the relations between language and war. In many African contexts, names...

Keywords: Angola, history, identity, MPLA, national liberation struggles
Added to database: 23 December 2011
A.H.M. Leliveld
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Uganda
Added to database: 23 December 2011
A.H.M. Leliveld
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: WOTRO/CERES Workshop 'Social Security in Developing Countries', Amsterdam, 16 December, 2004
Keywords: developing countries
Added to database: 23 December 2011
A.H.M. Leliveld
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at Expertmeeting Plan Netherlands / Stop Aids Now on 'Strengthening Community Based Social Care Systems in a Context if HIV/Aids', Leiden, 11 Oktober, 2004
Keywords: Aids, Netherlands, Uganda
Added to database: 23 December 2011
M.E. de Bruijn; J.W.M. van Dijk
Editors: R.M.A. Bedaux; J.D. van der Waals
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Regards sur les Dogon du Mali
Keywords: Dogon, Mali
Added to database: 23 December 2011

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