Publications

This article explores the reasons for, and the repercussions of, a virulent and protracted crisis in the South West Province of anglophone Cameroon during the 1990s caused by the emergence of a Pentecostalism-inspired revival movement within the Roman Catholic Church. The so-...

This chapter examines the opposition of Bakweri chiefs in Anglophone Cameroon to the government announcement, on 15 July 1994, of the privatization of the Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC), one of the oldest and largest agroindustrial parastatals of the country. The...

This article examines the impact of current neoliberal political reforms on trade union performance in West and Central Africa. To what extent have trade unions been involved in the political restructuring of the State? Has political liberalization constrained or enhanced...

Privatization has become a cornerstone of the linkage between good governance and structural adjustment as formulated by Western donors and creditors. This case study of Cameroon, however, shows that privatization schemes have often failed to promote any transparency and...

De religie van de Dogon (Mali) kenmerkt zich door een ingewikkelde serie riten op alle niveaus van het sociale leven. Dit artikel beschrijft het jaarfeest ('buro'), dat zich vlak voor de regentijd afspeelt, het offercomplex en de rol van het huisaltaar, rituelen...

Reizigers komen al heel lang naar het Dogongebied in Mali. Het eerste hotel in Sangha bijvoorbeeld dateert al van vóór de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Door zijn visuele rijkdom en de erkenning als Werelderfgoed door de UNESCO is het Dogongebied een bezienswaardigheid geworden. Tot...

Between 1904 and 1908 imperial Germany pursued an active policy of genocide in German South West Africa, present-day Namibia. This chapter analyses the manner in which, during the course of the twentieth century, numerous people in varying contexts have sought to use the...

La violence a été omniprésente dans l'Afrique du XXe siècle, et si son impact politique a été vu sous l'angle de l'État, la portée sociale et culturelle de la violence, elle, a été minimisée. Or la violence telle qu'elle se manifeste actuellement en...

Namibian politics and society are today dominated by people who trace their descent from the settlements and homesteads of Ovamboland in southern Angola and northern Namibia. Yet, prior to 1915, very few Ovambo had settled in areas to the south of the Etosha Pan. In 1915, a...