Publications

Publication to accompany the exposition Africa explores, held simultaneously at the Center for African Art and the New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York, May 16-Aug. 1991, and later travelling to other venues - Includes bibliographical references and index

Sommaire: Avant-propos (D. Barreteau, H. Tourneux) - Discours d'ouverture (A. Marliac) - Introduction (Y. Moñino) - Observations sur le nom du fer et de la forge dans le bassin du lac Tchad (H. Tourneux) - Les migrations des forgerons djorok chez les Massa du Cameroun (J...

Most of the papers included in this volume were presented at a symposium held at Uppsala University, Sweden, in August 1987. An introduction by A. Jacobson-Widding and W. van Beek on the theme developed in the book, African folk models of fertility, is followed by three parts...

In 1983, the Ministry of Planning and National Development (MPND) of Kenya and the African Studies Centre, Leiden, started a programme of mutual studies whose objective was to analyse current developments concerning food and nutrition in Kenya. The main subject areas are...

This paper examines thirty witchcraft cases reviewed by the Court of Appeal of Bertoua (East Province, Cameroon) during the period 1981-1984. The basic aim is to highlight the nature and sources of witchcraft accusations, the process of securing a conviction (i.e. proof), and...

Sum.: The economic policy of structural adjustment, which was initiated in most African countries during the 1980s, posed a serious threat to agricultural marketing boards in sub-Saharan Africa. Two elements of structural adjustment were particularly ominous: '...

Between 8 and 13 December 1958 the first All-African Peoples Conference (AAPC) was held in Accra, Ghana. Under the motto 'Forward to independence now!' more than 200 delegates from 62 delegations spent a week discussing issues relating to Africa's common future...

Seasonality research can offer an explanation for the persistent poverty in the rural areas of Third World countries. Besides, it offers a framework in which research questions originating from a variety of disciplines can be included. This book contains five lectures...

Een bloemlezing van eet- en drinkervaringen van Nederlandse afrikanisten, gegarneerd met toepasselijke recepten, samengesteld ter gelegenheid van het afscheid van Gerrit Grootenhuis als algemeen secretaris van het Afrika-Studiecentrum, Leiden (Nederland), in december 1990....

This article offers an overview - based on existing literature - of aspects of seasonality in sub-Saharan Africa. The discussion starts with climatic seasonality. Other seasonal aspects as they are derived from climatic seasonality are described next (the agricultural cycle,...

En 1895, Madagascar est occupé par l'armée française chargée de veiller à la mise en place du protectorat. Dans la campagne autour de la capitale malgache d'Antananarivo, des bandes armées, se dénommant elles-mêmes menalamba, essayaient de chasser les envahisseurs...