Publications

La rivalité des deux éminences grises, le Libanais Jamil Said Mohammed et l'Israélien Shabta Kalmanovitch au Sierra Leone, est une illustration incontestable de la politique "dans les coulisses". On dit que, tout au long de son séjour au Sierra Leone,...

This is the first of a number of reports on social, economic and nutritional conditions in Kwale and Kilifi Districts, Coast Province, Kenya. The reports deal in particular with regional and seasonal fluctuations in food supply and nutrition. This part contains a description...

Review of current practices and recent developments in impact evaluation of nutrition programmes for preschool children in developing countries. A survey of the major types of nutrition programmes for young children - nutrition education, food supplementation, and nutrition...

The Kapsiki of North Cameroon, called Higi in Nigeria, form a sizeable group of about 150,000 people, two thirds in Nigeria and one third in Cameroon. The main administrative village in Cameroon, Mogodé, provides the majority of the data for the present study of...

Second part of a series of reports on seasonality in Kwale and Kilifi Districts, Kenya. It presents a general introduction to the topic of seasonality in Africa and reviews existing socioeconomic knowledge about Kwale and Kilifi Districts

An introduction is followed by 13 papers, most of them contributions to the seminar, illustrating the variety in research programmes on Swaziland being in operation at present. Attention is paid to the national economy (H. COPPENS, M.POMMEE, A. VREMAN), the quest for Swazi...

The purpose of this analytical bibliography is to provide an overview of the recently published social science literature on State formation, religion, and land tenure in Cameroon. The 800 entries have been arranged under the following subject headings: The Cameroon State (...

This text of "The history of the Nkoya people" keeps as closely as possible to the original manuscript as written in the 1950s-1960s. (An English translation is included as part 3 in Wim van Binsbergen's 'Tears of rain: ethnicity and history in central...

This article is based on research into the healing ministry of Monsignor Emmanuel Milingo, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lusaka from 1969 to 1983. On the basis of an analysis of a collection of some 250 letters written to the Archbishop in 1979 and 1980 by people in need of...

This paper examines policy issues relating to large-scale public irrigation schemes (the National Irrigation Board (NIB) schemes and the Bura scheme) in Kenya. First, it considers the need for intensified agricultural production given a declining land base and a rapidly...

Inventaire régional de la province du Borgou, République populaire du Bénin, en cinq chapitres: Milieu naturel - Démographie - Structure sociale - Economie - Infrastructure. L'inventaire est le résultat des enquêtes menées dans le Borgou et à Cotonou de mi-avril jusqu...

The Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC), a public enterprise with a permanent labour force of some 16,000 workers, is one of the oldest and certainly the largest agro-industrial enterprise in Cameroon. In order to maximize labour productivity, output, and capital...