Publications

This study focuses on the khat phenomenon by analyzing experiences and the thinking of learned Ethiopians towards this substance using a phenomenographic method. The educated bracket of Ethiopian society is exposed to chewing during the high school and university years. A...

ASA Online provides a quarterly overview of journal articles and edited works on Africa in the field of the social sciences and the humanities available in the ASC library. Issue 41 (2013). African Studies Centre, Leiden.

This thesis is an analysis of two concurrent processes - the liberalisation of the economy and the expansion of the tertiary education system - by the National Islamic Front (NIF)/National Congress Party (NCP) in Khartoum, Sudan. It is based on 18 months fieldwork conducted...

Talmalezing 2012 : Één jaar Arabische Lente. Lezing in verkorte vorm uitgesproken op 13 januari 2012.

In an effort to embed diversity management in South African higher education, all Higher Education institutions are presently going through a transitional phase of transformation in which institutional cultures and identities are strongly contested. The ambiguity that comes...

(Reprint and translation): From camp to encompassment: discourses of transsubjectivity in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora.

Weddings in Botswana are increasingly being marked by emerging complexities for a younger generation in the way these events draw upon different social, cultural, economic, legal and moral sources and resources. Since this complexity represents a new mixture of sources that...

Studied is the 'embedded development thinking' in Ghanaian Pentecostal churches, who cater mainly the middle classes, particularly the Ghanaian migrant in Botswana. The author argues that the tools of development and economic growth are often being given by these churches...