Publications

This article provides brief background information on the Afrika-Studiecentrum (African Studies Centre, ASC) in Leiden, the Netherlands, its origins, aims, organizational structure and research activities, followed by a more detailed description of the Library and...

De film 'Democratisch avontuur in Togo: traditionele leiders bekneld tussen staat en volk' vormt een geintegreerd onderdeel van een onderzoek naar de relatie tussen staatsbestuur en neotraditionele vormen van lokaal gezag in Togo, dat de auteur in 1987 begon. Het...

The objective of this study is to determine to what extent the land law reform which was implemented in Cameroon in 1974 caused dislocations of local norms, and to what extent it gave the State better control and management of land. More specifically, the author's aim is...

This study, carried out in 1989, is a support study for a larger survey of the nutritional situation in the households of labourers on large farms in Trans Nzoia, Kenya. Three categories were distinguished: permanent labourers, casual labourers living on the farm and casual...

This is the final report in a series of four regarding household resources and nutrition of farm labourers in Trans Nzoia District, Kenya. In the first three reports the findings of three surveys, carried out in 1989, were presented and discussed (Labour conditions on large...

Two-thirds of the area of Nyandarua (Central Province, Kenya) is suited for horticulture and the district's farmers have developed a flourishing horticultural industry. In 1990, a farm survey was carried out among 240 rural households in eight sublocations to study the...

This article highlights the fallacy of the market as an abstract idea, arguing that any market is created in a particular form through social behaviour. It focuses on a specific group of people, Waluguru traders in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, originating from Mgeta, about 200...

This article describes social and economic change over the last thirty years in the Mgeta division of Morogoro rural district in Tanzania's Uluguru mountains. Over this period, Mgeta has become more and more involved in wider networks of economic exchange. The area faces...

This paper examines how the labour migration of Swazi homestead members to South Africa affects the homestead as a solidarity group. After an introduction in which he discusses the conditions which make a group a solidarity group and their applicability to the Swazi homestead...

This thesis gives an overview of the Maasai livestock economy as it has developed between 1890 and 1990. Particularly, it analyses the processes and policies of land use and landownership of the Maasai pastoral areas in Kajiado district, Kenya, from the arrival of the...