ASC Working Papers
Working papers can be considered as ‘work in progress’. The series is open to all Dutch africanists as well as African scholars affiliated to a Dutch academic institution. They are free of charge if they are for personal use; copies can be downloaded, or as printed copy ordered from:asc@ascleiden.nl. For bookshops we have to charge € 5,- per printed copy, shipping costs not included.
Will Sub-Saharan Africa follow North Africa? Backgrounds and preconditions of popular revolt in the light of the 'Arab spring'
S. Bouhdiba
(ASC working paper; Issue: 109, 2013)
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Is khat a social ill? Ethical argument about a stimulant among the learned Ethiopians
G. Dessie
(ASC working paper; Issue: 108, 2013)
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Water interventions for the urban poor : the case of Homa Bay, Kenya
S.O. Owuor; D.W.J. Foeken
(ASC working paper; Issue: 107, 2012)
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Assessing the effect of off-farm income diversification on agricultural production in rural Nigeria
R.O. Babatunde
(ASC working paper; Issue: 106, 2012)
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Power analysis: a study of participation at the local level in Tanzania
A. Kamanzi; P. Rabé
(ASC working paper; Issue: 105, 2012)
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"They needed an ethnographer: that is why they missed it!" Exploring the value of bananas among the Haya people of Bukoba, northwestern Tanzania
A. Kamanzi
(ASC working paper; Issue: 104, 2012)
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Enriching ethnographic studies with anchoring vignette methodology
A. Kamanzi
(ASC working paper; Issue: 103, 2012)
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Can we construct differently from an experience of the degrading environment as function of the discourse of modernity? The answer is yes!
A. Kamanzi
(ASC working paper; Issue: 102, 2012)
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From patronage to neopatrimonialism: postcolonial governance in Sub-Sahara Africa and beyond
D. Beekers; B. van Gool
(ASC working paper; Issue: 101, 2012)
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Scholarly publishing: The challenges facing the African university press
S. Ngobeni
(ASC working paper; Issue: 100, 2012)
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The Nile connection : effects and meaning of the mobile phone in a (post)war economy in Karima, Khartoum and Juba, Sudan
M.E. de Bruijn; I. Brinkman; H. Bilal; P.T. Wani
(ASC working paper; Issue: 99, 2012)
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A virtual community? SADF veterans' digital memories and dissenting discourses
G. Baines
(ASC working paper; Issue: 98, 2012)
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Mobilités nouvelles et insécurités dans les sociétés nomades Fulbé (peules) : étude de plusieurs pays en Afrique Centrale de l'ouest (Niger-Nigeria)
M.E. Bruijn; K. Oostrum; O. Obono; A. Oumarou; D. Boureima
(ASC working paper; Issue: 97, 2011)
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New mobilities and insecurities in Fulbe nomadic societies: a multi-country study in west-central Africa (Niger-Nigeria)
M.E. Bruijn; K. Oostrum; O. Obono; A. Oumarou; D. Boureima
(ASC working paper; Issue: 96, 2011)
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A history of SNV from a Zambian perspective. 1965-2005
M. Hinfelaar
(ASC working paper; Issue: 95, 2011)
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Coping with Zimbabwe's economic crisis: small-scale farmers and livelihoods under stress
M. Dekker; B. Kinsey
(ASC working paper; Issue: 93, 2011)
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Underweight or stunting as an indicator of the MDG on poverty and hunger
W. Klaver
(ASC working paper; Issue: 92, 2010)
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Legitimizing corruption in government : Security votes in Nigeria
O. Egbo; I. Nwakoby; J. Onwumere; C. Uche
(ASC working paper; Issue: 91, 2010)
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The formation of community based organizations in sub-Saharan Africa: an analysis of a quasi-experiment
A. Barr; M. Dekker; M. Fafchamps
(ASC working paper; Issue: 90, 2010)
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La société civile et la lutte contre la corruption au Nigeria: Le cas des ONG anti-corruption
D.U. Enweremadu
(ASC working paper; Issue: 89, 2010)
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Tax regimes in emerging Africa: Can corporate tax rates boost FDI in sub-Sahara Africa?
E.W. Stapper
(ASC working paper; Issue: 88, 2010)
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Bridging the gender divide: an experimental analysis of group formation in African villages
A. Barr; M. Dekker; M. Fafchamps
(ASC working paper; Issue: 87, 2009)
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Espace public et technologies numériques en Afrique : emergence, dynamique et gouvernance du cyberspace sénégalais
F. Diallo
(ASC working paper; Issue: 86, 2009)
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Mouvement Nsilulu : rupture ou continuité historique des messianismes congolais (1998-2003)
E. Ngodi
(ASC working paper; Issue: 85, 2009)
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The total Somali clan genealogy (second edition)
J. Abbink
(ASC working paper; Issue: 84, 2009)
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Water reforms and interventions in urban Kenya. Institutional set-up, emerging impact and challenges
S.O. Owuor; D.W.J. Foeken
(ASC working paper; Issue: 83, 2009)
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Conflict, mobility and language : the case of migrant Hadjaraye of Guéra to neighboring regions of Chari-Baguirmi and Salamat (Chad)
K. Alio
(ASC working paper; Issue: 82, 2008)
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Cameroonian feymen and Nigerian '419' scammers : two examples of Africa's 'reinvention' of the global capitalism
B. Ndjio
(ASC working paper; Issue: 81, 2008)
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Risk sharing relations and enforcement mechanisms
A. Barr; M. Dekker; M. Fafchamps
(ASC working paper; Issue: 80, 2008)
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Decolonising the social sciences in the global South : Claude Ake and the praxis of knowledge production in Africa
J.A. Arowosegbe
(ASC working paper; Issue: 79, 2008)
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Le partenariat Union Européenne-Afrique dans l'impasse? : le cas des accords de pêche
Z.O.A. Salem
(ASC working paper; Issue: 78, 2008)
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Spanish influenza in Africa : some comments regarding source material and future research
J.B. Gewald
(ASC working paper; Issue: 77, 2007)
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School farming and school feeding in Nakuru town, Kenya : practice and potential
D.W.J. Foeken; S.O. Owuor; A.M. Mwangi
(ASC working paper; Issue: 76, 2007)
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Researching and writing in the twilight of an imagined conquest : anthropology in Northern Rhodesia 1930-1960
J.B. Gewald
(ASC working paper; Issue: 75, 2007)
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Transport transforming society : towards a history of transport in Zambia, 1890-1930
J.B. Gewald
(ASC working paper; Issue: 74, 2007)
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Giving Africa voice within global governance: oral history, human rights and the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council
S.J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
(ASC working paper; Issue: 73, 2007)
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Tracking the historical roots of post-apartheid citizenship problems : the Native Club, restless natives, panicking settlers and the politics of nativism in South Africa
S.J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
(ASC working paper; Issue: 72, 2007)
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Necrophilia and elite politics : the case of Nigeria
W. Adebanwi
(ASC working paper; Issue: 71, 2007)
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Divorced, separated and widowed female workers in rural Mozambique
J. Sender; C. Oya
(ASC working paper; Issue: 70, 2007)
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Development as modernity, modernity as development
L.S. Lushaba
(ASC working paper; Issue: 69, 2006)
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"My bones shall rise again" : war veterans, spirits and land reform in Zimbabwe
T. Shoko
(ASC working paper; Issue: 68, 2006)
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Shallow wells: a sustainable and inexpensive alternative to boreholes in Kenya
M.M.E.M. Rutten
(ASC working paper; Issue: 66, 2005)
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Urban agriculture in East Africa as a tool for poverty reduction : a legal and policy dilemma?
D.W.J. Foeken
(ASC working paper; Issue: 65, 2004)
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South Africa, NEPAD and the African Renaissance
A. Ezeoha; C. Uche
(ASC working paper; Issue: 64, 2005)
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Colonial warfare : Hehe and World War One, the wars besides Maji Maji in south-western Tanzania
J.B. Gewald
(ASC working paper; Issue: 63, 2005)
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Unequal prospects: Disparities in the quantity and quality of labour supply in sub-Saharan Africa
J. Sender; C. Oya; C. Cramer
(ASC working paper; Issue: 62, 2005)
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The impact of motor-vehicles in Africa in the twentieth century : towards a socio-historical case study
J.B. Gewald
(ASC working paper; Issue: 61, 2005)
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Learning to wage and win wars in Africa : a provisional history of German military activity in Congo, Tanzania, China and Namibia
J.B. Gewald
(ASC working paper; Issue: 60, 2005)
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Can negotiated land reforms deliver? : a case of Kenya's, South Africa's and Zimbabwe's land reform policy debates
S.M. Kariuki
(ASC working paper; Issue: 59, 2004)
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Failing to learn from failed programmes? : South Africa's Communal Land Rights Act (CLRA 2004)
S.M. Kariuki
(ASC working paper; Issue: 58, 2004)
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Partnerships in community-based ecotourism projects: experiences from the Maasai Region, Kenya: volume 1
M.M.E.M. Rutten
(ASC working paper; Issue: 57, 2004)
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Creating the black commercial farmers in South Africa
S.M. Kariuki
(ASC working paper; Issue: 56, 2004)
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Reconstructing Southern Sudan in the post-war era: challenges and prospects of 'Quick Impact Programmes'
J. Abbink
(ASC working paper; Issue: 55, 2004)
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Oil and the politics of revenue allocation in Nigeria
C.U. Uche; O.C. Uche
(ASC working paper; Issue: 54, 2004)
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Structural adjustment programmes on the African continent : the theoretical foundations of IMF/World Bank reform policies
H.A. Meilink
(ASC working paper; Issue: 53, 2003)
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Rural livelihood sources for urban households : a study of Nakuru town, Kenya
S.O. Owuor
(ASC working paper; Issue: 51, 2003)
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Crop cultivation in Nakuru town, Kenya : practice and potential
D.W.J. Foeken; S.O. Owuor; W. Klaver
(ASC working paper; Issue: 50, 2002)
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Localising anxieties : Ghanaian and Malawian immigrants, rising xenophobia, and social capital in Botswana
R.A. Dijk
(ASC working paper; Issue: 49, 2002)
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Variations climatiques, insécurité alimentaire et stratégies paysannes : les réponses du paysan nigérien : perspectives historiques
B.A. Gado
(ASC working paper; Issue: 48, 2001)
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Export diversification in Uganda : developments in non-traditional agricultural exports
T. Dijkstra
(ASC working paper; Issue: 47, 2001)
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Busy work or real business : revaluing the role of non-agricultural activities in African rural development
P.O. Pedersen
(ASC working paper; Issue: 46, 2001)
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Urban farmers in Nakuru, Kenya
D.W.J. Foeken; S.O. Owuor
(ASC working paper; Issue: 45, 2000)
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Female-headed households : their survival strategies in Tanzania
A. Vuuren
(ASC working paper; Issue: 44, 2000)
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Sub-Saharan Africa betwixt and between : rural livelihood practices and policies
D.F. Bryceson
(ASC working paper; Issue: 43, 1999)
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Cocoa farming and income diversification in south-western Nigeria
A.R. Mustapha
(ASC working paper; Issue: 42, 1999)
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The total Somali clan genealogy : a preliminary sketch
J. Abbink
(ASC working paper; Issue: 41, 1999)
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If the drumming changes, the dance also changes : de-agrarianisation and rural non-farm employment in the Nigerian savanna
K. Meagher
(ASC working paper; Issue: 40, 1999)
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Income diversification in the semi-arid zone of Nigeria : a study of Gigane, Sokoto, north-west Nigeria
M.A. Iliya
(ASC working paper; Issue: 39, 1999)
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Not farms alone : a study of rural livelihoods in the Middle Belt of Nigeria
M.B. Yunusa
(ASC working paper; Issue: 38, 1999)
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De-agrarianisation and rural employment in Igboland, south-eastern Nigeria
B. Chukwuezi
(ASC working paper; Issue: 37, 1999)
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The politics of survival : towards a global, long-term and reflexive interpretation of the African contemporary experience
E. Rijnierse
(ASC working paper; Issue: 36, 1999)
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African rural labour, income diversification and livelihood approaches : a long-term development perspective
D.F. Bryceson
(ASC working paper; Issue: 35, 1999)
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No visible means of subsistence : rural livelihoods, gender and social change in Mooiplaas, Eastern Cape 1950-1998
L. Bank; L. Qambata
(ASC working paper; Issue: 34, 1999)
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Agriculture and co-operative labour in Shixini, Transkei, South Africa
P. MacAllister
(ASC working paper; Issue: 33, 1999)
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De-agrarianisation and the urbanisation of a rural economy : agrarian patterns in Melani village in the Eastern Cape
C. Manona
(ASC working paper; Issue: 32, 1999)
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Food consumption and nutrition in the Kenya Coast
W. Klaver; R.N.M. Mwadime
(ASC working paper; Issue: 31, 1998)
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Farming in the city of Nairobi
D.W.J. Foeken; A. Mboganie-Mwangi
(ASC working paper; Issue: 30, 1998)
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Changing village land, labour and livelihoods : Rungwe and Kyela districts, Tanzania
D. Mwamfupe
(ASC working paper; Issue: 29, 1998)
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The dynamics of population, land scarcity, agriculture and non-agricultural activities : West Usambara mountains, Lushoto District, Tanzania
G. Jambiya
(ASC working paper; Issue: 28, 1998)
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Changing lifestyles in farming societies of Sukumaland : Kwimba District, Tanzania
N.F. Madulu
(ASC working paper; Issue: 27, 1998)
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Coming full circle : agriculture, non-farm activities and the resurgence of out-migration in Njombe district, Tanzania
C.G. Mung'ong'o
(ASC working paper; Issue: 26, 1998)
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Rural non-farm activities in impoverished agricultural communities : the case of North Shoa Ethiopia
M. Demeke
(ASC working paper; Issue: 25, 1997)
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Backing two horses: interaction of agricultural and non-agricultural household activities in a Zimbabwean communal area
R.J.A. Berkvens
(ASC working paper; Issue: 24, 1997)
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Working for the future: elite women's strategies in Brazzaville
P. Paravano
(ASC working paper; Issue: 23, 1997)
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Food trade and urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa: from the Early Stone Age to the Structural Adjustment Era
T. Dijkstra
(ASC working paper; Issue: 22, 1995)
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Lightening the load : women's labour and appropriate rural technology in Sub-Saharan Africa
D.F. Bryceson; M. MacCall
(ASC working paper; Issue: 21, 1994)
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De-agrarianization in Africa : proceedings of the "De-agrarianization and rural employment" workshop held at the Afrika-Studiecentrum, Leiden, May 1994
D.F. Bryceson; C. Laan
(ASC working paper; Issue: 20, 1994)
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De-agrarianization and rural employment generation in sub-Saharan Africa : process and prospects
D.F. Bryceson
(ASC working paper; Issue: 19, 1993)
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Rural employment in Sub-Saharan Africa : a bibliography
N. Tellegen
(ASC working paper; Issue: 18, 1993)
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Demokratisering in Afrika ten zuiden van de Sahara (1989-1992).
R. Buijtenhuijs; E.A.M. Rijnierse
(ASC Working Paper; Issue: 17, 1993)
Easing rural womens' working day in Sub-Saharan Africa
D.F. Bryceson
(ASC working paper; Issue: 16, 1993)
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Rural household transport in Africa: reducing the burden on women?
D.F. Bryceson; J. Howe
(ASC working paper; Issue: 15, 1993)
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The revolutionary potential of African peasantries : some tentative remarks
R. Buijtenhuijs
(ASC working paper; Issue: 14, 1991)
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African marketing boards under structural adjustment : the experience of Sub-Saharan Africa during the 1980s
H.Lvan Laan; W.T.M. Haaren
(ASC working paper; Issue: 13, 1990)
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Palm tree justice in the Bertoua court of appeal : the witchcraft cases
C.F. Fisiy
(ASC working paper; Issue: 12, 1990)
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Cocoa and coffee buying in Cameroon : the role of the marketing board in the south west and north west provinces, 1978-1987
H.Lvan Laan
(ASC working paper; Issue: 11, 1988)
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Cameroon's main marketing board: history and scope of the ONCPB
H.Lvan Laan
(ASC working paper; Issue: 10, 1987)
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Zonder bloed geen vliegen : geschilsbeslechting bij het Kantonhoofd in Gando (Noord-Togo): een onoplosbaar conflict binnen de lineage
B. Merx
(ASC working paper; Issue: 9, 1986)
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La Parcelle du gendre comploteur : manières coutumières et modernes d'acquérir des droits sur la terre, a N'Zara (Nord-Togo)
E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal; E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal
(ASC working paper; Issue: 8, 1982)
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Produce marketing co-operatives in West Africa
C.A. Muntjewerff
(ASC working paper; Issue: 7, 1982)
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The producers' price system and the coffee and cocoa trade at village level in West Africa
C.A. Muntjewerff
(ASC working paper; Issue: 6, 1982)
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Peasantry and state in Ghana : the example of the Vea irrigation project in the upper region of Ghana
P.J.J. Konings
(ASC working paper; Issue: 5, 1981)
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Conciliation et la qualité des relations sociales chez les Anufòm du Nord-Togo en Afrique de l'Ouest
E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal; E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal
(ASC working paper; Issue: 4, 1981)
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Etat et langue en Afrique : esquisse d'une étude juridique comparative
G.S.C.M. Hesseling
(ASC working paper; Issue: 3, 1981)
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Relations paysans-pêcheurs, capitalisme, état : une étude d'une lutte de classe en Casamance (Sud-Sénégal)
Kde Jonge
(ASC working paper; Issue: 2, 1980)
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Modern inland transport and the European trading firms in colonial West Africa
H.Lvan Laan
(ASC working paper; Issue: 1, 1980)
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