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.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Journal of Ethiopian studies

There is, as yet, still no adequate theoretical idiom to conceptualize, in an accepted, conventional manner, the processes conditioning ethnic naming and the political-economic embeddedness of cultural complexities. The traditional primordial-mobilization dichotomy in ethnic...

Keywords: Ethiopia, Ethnic groups, ethnicity, fieldwork, history, policy, politics
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Macht, mobilisatie en moskee: de diversiteit van de islam

In de Hoorn van Afrika - Ethiopië, Djibouti, Somalië - heerst een relatieve staat van interreligieuze harmonie. Voor Somalië en Djibouti is dit makkelijk te begrijpen, omdat hier bijna de gehele bevolking al vele eeuwen islamitisch is en bovendien tot één richting behoort, de...

Keywords: Church and State, Islam, Northeast Africa
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Book

Une analyse anthropo-historique du problème de l'"ethnogenèse" et du développement historique des Beta Esra'el (ou Falacha) d'Éthiopie est présentée ici à partir des traditions orales mythiques et légendaires concernant leur descendance et leur...

Keywords: Ethiopia, Falasha, oral traditions
Added to database: 23 December 2011
J.C. Hoorweg; R. Niemeijer; D.W.J. Foeken; W. Okello; W. Veerman
Type of publication: Book

This report is concerned with land distribution and rural development and presents the final results of a survey carried out in 1985-1986 in four settlement schemes: Diani and Ukunda in Kwale District and Roka and Mtwapa in Kilifi District, Coast Province, Kenya. In each...

Keywords: Agricultural development, children, Kenya, nutrition, policy, Rural, rural economy, settlement schemes
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
J.C. Hoorweg
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: East African Medical Journal
Keywords: children, Kenya
Added to database: 23 December 2011
H. Schoenmakers
Type of publication: Book

In dit boek wordt een beschrijving gegeven van het ontstaan en de ontwikkeling van een moderne koloniale en post-koloniale staat in Guiné-Bissau. De auteur analyseert de wijze waarop die staat intervenieert in plattelandsgemeenschappen met het doel deze te integreren in...

Keywords: Guinea-Bissau, nation building, politics, rural development, rural society
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
A. Molokomme
Type of publication: Book

This study is concerned with the laws regulating compensation for extramarital pregnancy and maintenance of extramarital children in Botswana. More specifically, it aims to comprehend the reasons for the increase in extramarital reproduction and its seeming tolerance by the...

Keywords: Botswana, illegitimate children, theses (form)
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
R. Niemeijer; D.W.J. Foeken; W. Klaver
Type of publication: Book

This is Part 4/5 of a series concerned with seasonality in the coastal lowlands of Kenya. Household surveys were carried out in six locations in Kwale and Kilifi Districts in 1985-1987. The present report deals with food consumption and the nutritional condition of the study...

Keywords: food, Kenya, seasonality
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
M. Maas; N. van Hekken
Type of publication: Book

Abstr.: Over the past 15 years the Kenyan government has pursued a policy to stimulate the participation of women in the process of development. Women's groups have been the main focus of government policies in this regard. This paper presents the results of research,...

Keywords: development, Kenya, women
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
P. Leegwater; J. Ngolo; J.C. Hoorweg
Type of publication: Book

The objectives of this study on dairy development in Kilifi District, Kenya, are, first, to assess the importance of - small-scale - intensive dairy farming as promoted by the Ministry of Livestock through the National Dairy Development Programme (DDP) compared with other...

Keywords: animal husbandry, dairy industry, food, Kenya
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
P. Leegwater; J. Ngolo; J.C. Hoorweg
Type of publication: Book
Added to database: 23 December 2011
L. van den Boogerd; T. Djedjebi; L.J. de Haan
Type of publication: Book

Ce rapport est le résultat d'une recherche sur le secteur informel de Malanville en République du Bénin. La recherche a eu lieu d'octobre 1990 jusqu'à février 1991 dont trois mois sur le terrain. Les auteurs ont examiné le fonctionnement des groupements déjà...

Added to database: 23 December 2011
L. van den Boogerd; T. Djedjebi; M. File; L.J. de Haan
Type of publication: Book

Ce rapport est le résultat d'un travail de recherche sur le secteur informel dans le cadre du Programme d'appui au développement de la circonscription de Kandi (Radec-Kandi) dans la République du Bénin. Les commerçants ne sont pas compris dans ce secteur, alors que...

Added to database: 23 December 2011
S. Vogel; I. Ebong; W. E. A.van Beek
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Africa, arts, pictorial works (form), Subsaharan Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011
A.H.M. Leliveld
Type of publication: Book

This paper discusses the concept of social security and criticizes the ILO definition of the concept as too limited to analyse non-Western social security systems. It develops an alternative definition which includes, firstly, the protection by society of individuals or...

Keywords: developing countries
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
P.J.J. Konings
Type of publication: Book
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Africa (1991)
K. van Walraven
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
Keywords: Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011
K. van Walraven
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
Keywords: Africa, politics
Added to database: 23 December 2011
K. van Walraven
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
Keywords: Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011
K. van Walraven
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Hague yearbook of international law
Keywords: Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011

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