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.
If you have questions about publishing with the ASCL, please contact Dr. Klaas van Walraven (k.van.walraven@asc.leidenuniv.nl).

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G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Editors: P. Mathieu; P.J. Laurent; J.C. Willame
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Démocratie, enjeux fonciers et pratiques locales en Afrique : conflits, gouvernance et turbulences en Afrique de l'Ouest et centrale

Dans cet article l'auteur explore les possibilités et les limites d'une loi foncière pour résoudre les problèmes fonciers constatés dans une société donnée. Après avoir dénoncé l'approche instrumentaliste en matière législative, qui consiste à croire qu'il...

Keywords: land reform, Senegal
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Editors: H. Secher Marcussen
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Improved natural resource management : the role of formal organisations and informal networks and institutions

This chapter explores the possibilities and limits of law and institutions as instruments for generating changes in environmental behaviour. First, an overview of the different schools of thought on law and natural resources is presented. It appears that the overall trend...

Keywords: Africa, customary law, land law, natural resource management
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.S.C.M. Hesseling; H. Kraemer
Type of publication: Book

Strategisch gelegen aan het westelijk uiteinde van het Afrikaanse continent zijn Senegal and Gambia sinds eeuwen een kruispunt van culturen. Arabische en Europese invloeden komen er samen met de culturen van Afrika. In beide landen vond in 1994 een ingrijpende gebeurtenis...

Keywords: country studies (form), Gambia, Senegal
Added to database: 23 December 2011
S.D.K. Ellis
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Hérodote
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
S.D.K. Ellis
Type of publication: Book

Commissioned by the Dutch Minister for Development Cooperation and intended for discussion at the 1995 Global Coalition for Africa plenary meeting on 'Africa's future and the world', held in Maastricht in November, this book reviews some of the main political,...

Keywords: Africa, agriculture, development cooperation, economic conditions, ethnicity, migration, policy, political systems, politics, violence
Added to database: 23 December 2011
S.D.K. Ellis
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Development and change

Fundamental changes are taking place within the African State system which is still, in essence, the one created by the colonial powers and inherited at independence by the governments of modern Africa. Powerful forces in the industrialized world continue to have a crucial...

Keywords: Africa, democratization, institutional change, policy, political change, political economy, politics
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
S.D.K. Ellis
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: African affairs : the journal of the Royal African Society

This article traces the development of corruption in one part of Africa - Seychelles - in a global context. It demonstrates how the ease with which capital can be transferred and commodities bought and sold and the speed of modern communication in general have been given...

Keywords: Africa, corruption, foreign intervention, Seychelles, South Africa
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
S.D.K. Ellis; J. MacGaffey
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: African studies review : the journal of the African Studies AssociationAfrican studies review

This paper describes some of the methodological and conceptual problems in researching aspects of sub-Saharan Africa's international 'underground' trade, meaning commercial transactions which are conducted across international frontiers but which are unrecorded...

Keywords: Africa, illicit trade, international trade, Subsaharan Africa
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
S.D.K. Ellis
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Africa Insight
Added to database: 23 December 2011
S.D.K. Ellis
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Anthropology in Action
Keywords: Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.J. Abbink
Editors: X. van der Stappen
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Aethiopia,Volkeren van Ethiopië: Geschiedenis, Bevolking, Geloof, Kunst en Ambacht
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.J. Abbink
Editors: H. Habtamu Wondimu
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Research Papers on the Situation of Children and Adolescents in Ethiopia
Keywords: children, education, Ethiopia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The Falasha (1996)
G.J. Abbink
Editors: J. Middleton; A. Rassam
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Encyclopedia of World Cultures 9 (Africa / Middle East)
Keywords: Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The Suri (1996)
G.J. Abbink
Editors: J. Middleton; A. Rassam
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Encyclopedia of World Cultures 9 (Africa / Middle East)
Keywords: Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.J. Abbink
Editors: G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Societies of Fear
Keywords: Africa, ethnicity, violence
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: De Baboab
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Facta
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Facta
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Book

This bibliography on Ethiopia and Eritrea is a sequel to 'Ethiopian society and history: a bibliography of Ethiopian studies 1957-1990' (1990). The present volume, which covers the period 1990-1995, contains c. 2000 items. Books, journal articles, and articles from...

Keywords: 1991, Bibliographies (form), education, Eritrea, Ethiopia, gender, history, material culture, modernization, oral traditions, policy, politics, refugees, religion, Resettlement, Rural
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
J.C. Hoorweg; D.W.J. Foeken; W. Klaver; W. Okello; W. Veerman
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Ecology of food and nutrition
Keywords: Agricultural development, Kenya
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Added to database: 23 December 2011

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