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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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Introduction (1994)
W. E. A.van Beek
Editors: W. E. A.van Beek; T. Blakely; D.L. Thomson
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Religion in Africa: Experience and expression
Keywords: 1986, Africa, African religions, conference papers (form), Subsaharan Africa
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W. E. A.van Beek
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Religieuze bewegingen in Nederland
Keywords: Dogon
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W. E. A.van Beek
Editors: W. E. A.van Beek; T. Blakely; D.L. Thomson
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: African religion: Experience and expression

This book stems from a conference entitled 'Religion in Africa: the variety of religious experience in sub-Saharan Africa', held in Provo, Utah, 22-25 October 1986. The first section of the book (Religion and its translatability) focuses on the effects of...

Keywords: 1986, Africa, African religions, conference papers (form), Dogon, Kapsiki, Subsaharan Africa, Zimbabwe
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
J.B. Gewald
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at 'Writing History. Identity and Society in Namibia', conference, Hannover, Germany, 5 May, 1994
Keywords: history, identity, Namibia
Added to database: 23 December 2011
J.B. Gewald
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Botswana notes and records

On the 12th of January 1904 a full-scale war broke out in what was then German South West Africa (present-day Namibia) between the Herero-speaking people of Namibia and imperial Germany. The war culminated in the issuing of the 'Vernichtungsbefehl', or extermination...

Keywords: Africa, colonialism, Germany, Herero, Herero revolt, Namibia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
J.B. Gewald
Type of publication: Book

From the mid-19th century onwards large numbers of Herero have lived in ethnically homogeneous communities beyond the confines of central Namibia. It has long been argued that these Herero constantly struggled to return to their homeland. This paper argues that, though...

Keywords: Africa, African studies, Herero, Namibia, South Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011
J.B. Gewald
Editors: J. van der Kle
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Proceedings
Keywords: Herero, history, identity
Added to database: 23 December 2011
J.W.M. van Dijk
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Focaal : tijdschrift voor antropologieFocaal
Keywords: animal husbandry, Fulani, Mali, poverty, social networks, Social security
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
D.W.J. Foeken; N. Tellegen
Type of publication: Book

This book examines the living conditions of farm labourers in Trans Nzoia, one of Kenya's large-scale farming districts. Based on a study conducted in 1989 among large farmers and farm labourers, an overview is given of wages, provisions, the various sources of income,...

Keywords: African studies, agricultural workers, farmers, food, household income, Kenya, large farms, rural households, social networks
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
D.W.J. Foeken; A.J. Dietz
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Geografie : vaktijdschrift voor geografen

Etniciteit heeft altijd een centrale rol gespeeld in de Afrikaanse politiek. Politieke leiders hebben in het verleden hun machtsbasis steeds gevonden binnen hun eigen volk. Vanwege de etnische tegenstellingen zijn velen pessimistisch over het welslagen van de golf van...

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Added to database: 23 December 2011
D.W.J. Foeken
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Eastern and Southern Africa geographical journal

The agricultural potential of land is largely determined by soil and climatological characteristics, notably temperature, annual rainfall and seasonal distribution of rainfall. The author deals in particular with the last factor, climatic seasonality, first as a measurable...

Keywords: climate, Kenya, seasonality
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
D. Merolla
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Encyclopédie berbère, vol. XIV
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
C.L.N. Schilder
Type of publication: Book

In this anthropological work, ethnicity is approached from the vantage point of one particular group, the Mundang of northern Cameroon. The author carried out a field study among the Mundang of Kaele region during fifteen months in 1988-1990. The first three chapters of the...

Keywords: anthropological research, Cameroon, Ethnic groups, ethnicity, history, Mundang, theses (form)
Added to database: 23 December 2011
T. Kuhlman
Type of publication: Book

Using the case of Ethiopian and Eritrean refugees in the Sudan, the author describes and analyses the factors that influence the economic integration of refugees in the country of asylum. These include characteristics of the refugees themselves, circumstances surrounding the...

Keywords: Eritrea, Ethiopia, refugees, right of asylum, Sudan, theses (form)
Added to database: 23 December 2011
B. Crousse; G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Politique africaine

Depuis 1983 la Mauritanie est engagée dans un processus de réforme foncière. Le système de la tenure foncière traditionnelle du sol est aboli. L'individualisation est de droit. La réforme a pour but la mise en valeur accélérée de la terre afin d'augmenter la...

Keywords: land reform, Mauritania
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T. Dijkstra; T.D. Magori
Type of publication: Book

Third part of a study undertaken within the framework of the Food and Nutrition Studies Programme (FNSP), a Kenyan-Dutch cooperation project. The study examined the production and marketing of horticultural commodities in selected districts in Kenya. Part 3 focuses on Taita...

Keywords: Agroforestry, horticulture, Kenya, marketing
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
P. Douma; M. Diop; L.J. de Haan
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: agricultural policy, animal husbandry, Burkina Faso, farmers' associations, Mali, natural resource management, Niger, pastoralists
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
P. Douma; M. Diop; L.J. de Haan
Type of publication: Book
Added to database: 23 December 2011
P. Douma; M. Diop; L.J. de Haan
Type of publication: Book
Added to database: 23 December 2011
T. Blakely; W. E. A.van Beek; D.L. Thomson
Type of publication: Book

This book stems from a conference entitled 'Religion in Africa: the variety of religious experience in sub-Saharan Africa', held in Provo, Utah, 22-25 October 1986. The first section of the book (Religion and its translatability) focuses on the effects of...

Keywords: 1986, Africa, African religions, conference papers (form), Subsaharan Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011

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