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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M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Anthropologica

Africa has been witnessing rapid changes in the social landscape over the past ten years. Processes of globalization and the advancement of new technologies have been impacting on local social networks significantly. This paper moves away from an analysis of networks as...

Keywords: Botswana, Cameroon, Mali
Added to database: 06 June 2014
A. Bochow; R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Journal Article

In many African societies today Christian churches, Pentecostals in particular, are an important source of information on sexuality, relationships, the body, and health, motivated in part by the HIV/AIDS pandemic but also related to globally circulating ideas and images that...

Keywords: gender relations, marriage, Pentecostalism, sexuality, Sub-Sahara Afrika, women
Added to database: 06 June 2014
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: The social life of connectivity in Africa
Keywords: Botswana, marriage rites, social relations, urban youth
Added to database: 06 June 2014
M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: The social life of connectivity in Africa
Keywords: Africa, communication, social change, social relations
Added to database: 06 June 2014
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book

This book marks the end of a collaborative research programme of the African Studies Centre Leiden on changing forms of connections in postglobal African society. Arguing that the nature of connections is often overlooked in social theory, the studies in the volume explore...

Keywords: Africa, communication, social change, social relations
Added to database: 06 June 2014

Omotic (2012)
A. Amha
Editors: Z. Fajzyngier; E. Shay
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: The Afroasiatic languages
Keywords: Ethiopia
Added to database: 18 March 2014
M.M. A. Kaag
Editors: R. Otayek; B.F. Soares
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Arabic translation of Islam and Muslim politics in Africa (with a new preface)
Keywords: Chad
Added to database: 06 March 2014
M.M. A. Kaag
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: The social life of connectivity in Africa
Keywords: Chad, Senegal
Added to database: 06 March 2014
H. Smits
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Occasional papers in the study of Sudanese languages
Added to database: 06 March 2014
M.A. Vinson
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Ethiopia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 25 February 2014
B. Kinuthia; A. Akinyoade
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Migration policy practice
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 06 February 2014
A. Akinyoade
Editors: B. Berendsen; A.J. Dietz; H.S. Nordholt; R. van der Veen
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Asian tigers, African lions: comparing the development performance of Southeast Asia and Africa
Added to database: 06 February 2014
A.J. Dietz
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: OneWorld magazine

February: 'Marokko: Blik op het Zuiden'; March: 'Nigeria heeft een imagoprobleem'; April: 'Cheetahs en schildpadden'; May: 'Mali: Khaddafi
neemt wraak'; June: 'Knettergek'; July: 'Zuid Afrika: Biertje?'; August: 'Afrikaans poldermodel'; September: 'Hoezo crisis in...

Keywords: Africa
Added to database: 20 January 2014
W.R. Adano; A.J. Dietz; K. Witsenburg; A.F.M. Zaal
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Journal of Peace Research
Keywords: Kenya
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 20 January 2014
A.J. Dietz
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Management scope
Keywords: Africa, history
Added to database: 17 January 2014
A.J. Dietz; B. van der Bijl
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Het nieuwe Afrika: Nederland en Afrika in de 21e eeuw
Keywords: Africa, development, international relations, Netherlands
Added to database: 17 January 2014
A.J. Dietz
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Het nieuwe Afrika: Nederland en Afrika in de 21e eeuw
Keywords: Africa, Netherlands
Added to database: 17 January 2014
A.J. Dietz
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Het nieuwe Afrika: Nederland en Afrika in de 21e eeuw
Keywords: African studies, Netherlands
Added to database: 17 January 2014
A.J. Dietz
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Het nieuwe Afrika: Nederland en Afrika in de 21e eeuw
Keywords: Africa, agriculture
Added to database: 17 January 2014
W.R. Adano; A.J. Dietz; K. Witsenburg
Editors: K. Witsenburg; F. Zaal
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Spaces of insecurity: human agency in violent conflicts in Kenya

The Horn of Africa is viewed as a battleground of violent conflicts which are prompted by growing resource scarcity and population increase. Such conflicts are argued to be particularly violent in poor regions where many ethnic groups have to compete for scarce natural...

Keywords: Kenya
Added to database: 17 January 2014

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