Publications

This book offers an interpretation of the divergent ways in which Kikuyu gender norms are imagined. Imagination relates to concept and fantasy, interpretation and metaphor. This multiple meaning accounts for the wide variety of channels in which imaginations are expressed....

This book draws attention to the basic distinction between nomadic pastoralists who formed and dominated States in the past and those who kept their distance from States and lived in more decentralized segmentary structures. It analyses the implications of State formation or...

This study deals with the development of banana exports from Africa during the interwar period, with special attention being paid to the development of specialized sea transport. It investigates similarities and differences between the banana projects which emerged in various...

This article considers the extent to which farming activities undertaken by low-income dwellers in Nairobi, Kenya, play a role in the food security and nutritional status of the households involved. It compares three low-income groups - two in Korogocho, viz. those who...

Inleidende beschrijving van Kenya. Inhoud: Inleiding - 1. Geschiedenis: nomaden, landbouwers en kolonisten (migratie, Britse kolonisatie, onafhankelijkheid, politiek, etnische groepen en mensenrechten) - 2. Sociaal-culturele verhoudingen: de ethnische gevoeligheid (Een...

Peut-on considérer que les Fulbe forment un peuple unique, malgré leur dispersion, dans la mesure où ils partagent la même langue? En comparant le discours des anthropologues et des linguistes à propos du concept de 'pulaaku', les auteurs soulèvent la question de la...

A la suite de la libéralisation politique au Cameroun au début des années 1990, une partie de l'élite anglophone a commencé à s'organiser en de nombreuses associations et groupes de pression pour protester contre la prétendue position subordonnée de la minorité...

This article focuses on the regional anglophone opposition in Cameroon which arose after 15 July 1994, when the government was forced by international donors to announce the privatization of 15 public enterprises, notably in the transport and agroindustrial sectors. The most...

Contrary to the studies of ethnic authorities in the Zambian and Ghanaian mines by A.L. Epstein (1958), J. Crisp (1984), and C. Lentz and V. Erlmann (1989), the present study demonstrates that chieftaincy has continued to play an important mediating role between capital and...

This study shows that the neoliberal project propagated in the 1990s by the Western donors and the international financial institutions has not yet made much progress in Cameroon. It argues that this is not surprising, given the class character of the Cameroonian postcolonial...