Book launch: The Dancing Dead. Ritual and Religion among the Kapsiki/Higi of North Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria

The Cameroonian ambassador, Her Excellency Ms. Odette Melono, will officially receive the first copy of the newest book of Prof. Wouter van Beek (African Studies Centre), entitled:

The Dancing Dead. Ritual and Religion among the Kapsiki/Higi of North Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria, New York, Oxford University Press 2012

Programme:

11.00-11.10 welcoming address by Ton Dietz, ASC director
11.10-11.40 overview of Cameroon studies at the ASC and Leiden University

General discussion about plans for the future in Cameroon.

11.40-11.50 presentation by Wouter van Beek of his book The Dancing Dead. Ritual and Religion among the Kapsiki/Higi of North Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria
11.50-12.00 response by H.E. Ms. Odette Melono, ambassador of Cameroon in the Netherlands

You are all very welcome.

The ceremony will be followed, at 15.00, by the PhD defense of Haman Unusa at the Leiden University. His dissertation is entitled The new pastoralism. Absentee owners, new Technologies, economic change and natural resource management in the Sahelian region of North Cameroon. The defense is open to everyone.