Working Papers

W. Klaver
Underweight or stunting as an indicator of the MDG on poverty and hunger
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 92, 2010.
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O. Egbo, I. Nwakoby, J. Onwumere and C. Uche
Legitimizing corruption in government : Security votes in Nigeria
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 91, 2010.
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A. Barr, M. Dekker and M Fafchamps
The formation of community based organizations in sub-Saharan Africa: An analysis of a quasi-experiment
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 90, 2010.
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D.U. Enweremadu
La société civile et la lutte contre la corruption au Nigeria: Le cas des ONG anti-corruption
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 89, 2010.
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E.W. Stapper
Tax regimes in emerging Africa: Can corporate tax rates boost FDI in sub-Sahara Africa?
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 88, 2010.
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A. Barr, M. Dekker and M. Fafchamps
Bridging the gender divide: an experimental analysis of group formation in African villages
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 87, 2009.
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F. Diallo
Espace public et technologies numériques en Afrique : emergence, dynamique et gouvernance du cyberspace sénégalais
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 86, 2009.
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E. Ngodi
Mouvement Nsilulu : rupture ou continuité historique des messianismes congolais (1998-2003)
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 85, 2009.
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G.J. Abbink
The Total Somali Clan Genealogy (second edition)
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 84, 2009.
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S.O. Owuor and D.W.J. Foeken
Water reforms and interventions in urban Kenya. Institutional set-up, emerging impact and challenges
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 83, 2009.
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K. Alio
Conflict, mobility and language : the case of migrant Hadjaraye of Guéra to neighboring regions of Chari-Baguirmi and Salamat (Chad)
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 82, 2008.
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B. Ndjio
Cameroonian feymen and Nigerian '419' scammers : two examples of Africa's 'reinvention' of the global capitalism
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 81, 2008.
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A. Barr, M. Dekker and M Fafchamps
Risk sharing relations and enforcement mechanisms
Leiden: Afrika Studiecentrum, ASC working paper 80, 2008.
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J.A. Arowosegbe
Decolonising the social sciences in the global South : Claude Ake and the praxis of knowledge production in Africa
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 79, 2008.
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Z.O.A. Salem
Le partenariat Union Européenne-Afrique dans l'impasse? : le cas des accords de pêche
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 78, 2008.
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J.B. Gewald
Spanish influenza in Africa : some comments regarding source material and future research
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 77, 2007.
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D.W.J. Foeken, S.O. Owuor and A.M. Mwangi
School farming and school feeding in Nakuru town, Kenya : practice and potential
Leiden: Afrika-Studiecentrum, ASC working paper 76, 2007.
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J.B. Gewald
Researching and writing in the twilight of an imagined conquest : anthropology in Northern Rhodesia 1930-1960
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 75, 2007.
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J.B. Gewald
Transport transforming society : towards a history of transport in Zambia, 1890-1930
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 74, 2007.
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S.J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Giving Africa voice within global governance: oral history, human rights and the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 73, 2007.
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S.J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Tracking the historical roots of post-apartheid citizenship problems : the Native Club, restless natives, panicking settlers and the politics of nativism in South Africa
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 72, 2007.
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Wale Adebanwi
Necrophilia and Elite Politics: The Case of Nigeria
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 71, 2007.
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J. Sender
Divorced, separated and widowed female workers in rural Mozambique
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 70, 2007.
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L.S. Lushaba
Development as modernity, modernity as development
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 69, 2006.
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T. Shoko
"My bones shall rise again" : war veterans, spirits and land reform in Zimbabwe
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 68, 2006.
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J.van de Looy
Africa and China: a strategic partnership?
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 67, 2006.
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M.M.E.M. Rutten
Shallow wells: a sustainable and inexpensive alternative to boreholes in Kenya
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 66, 2005.
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D.W.J. Foeken
Urban agriculture in East Africa as a tool for poverty reduction : a legal and policy dilemma?
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 65, 2004.
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Abel Ezeoha and Chibuike Uche
South Africa, NEPAD and the African Renaissance
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 64, 2005.
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J.B. Gewald
Colonial warfare : Hehe and World War One, the wars besides Maji Maji in south-western Tanzania
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 63, 2005.
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J. Sender
Unequal prospects: Disparities in the quantity and quality of labour supply in sub-Saharan Africa
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 62, 2005.
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J.B. Gewald
The impact of motor-vehicles in Africa in the twentieth century : towards a socio-historical case study
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 61, 2005.
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J.B. Gewald
Learning to wage and win wars in Africa : a provisional history of German military activity in Congo, Tanzania, China and Namibia
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 60, 2005.
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Samuel M. Kariuki
Can negotiated land reforms deliver? : a case of Kenya's, South Africa's and Zimbabwe's land reform policy debates
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 59, 2004.
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Samuel M. Kariuki
Failing to learn from failed programmes? : South Africa's Communal Land Rights Act (CLRA 2004)
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 58, 2004.
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M.M.E.M. Rutten
Partnerships in community-based ecotourism projects: experiences from the Maasai Region, Kenya: volume 1
Leiden [etc.]: African Studies Centre [etc.], ASC working paper 57, 2004.
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Samuel M. Kariuki
Creating the black commercial farmers in South Africa
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 56, 2004.
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G.J. Abbink
Reconstructing Southern Sudan in the post-war era: challenges and prospects of 'Quick Impact Programmes'
Leiden [etc.]: African Studies Centre [etc.], ASC working paper 55, 2004.
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Chibuike U. Uche and Ogbonnaya C. Uche
Oil and the politics of revenue allocation in Nigeria
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 54, 2004.
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H.A. Meilink
Structural adjustment programmes on the African continent : the theoretical foundations of IMF/World Bank reform policies
Leiden [etc.]: African Studies Centre [etc.], ASC working paper 53, 2003.
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G.J. Abbink
A bibliography on Christianity in Ethiopia
Leiden: Afrika-Studiecentrum, ASC working paper 52, 2003.
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Samuel O. Owuor
Rural livelihood sources for urban households : a study of Nakuru town, Kenya
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 51, 2003.
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D.W.J. Foeken, S.O. Owuor and W. Klaver
Crop cultivation in Nakuru town, Kenya : practice and potential
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 50, 2002.
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R.A. van Dijk
Localising anxieties : Ghanaian and Malawian immigrants, rising xenophobia, and social capital in Botswana
Leiden: Afrika-Studiecentrum, ASC working paper 49, 2002.
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Boureima Alpha Gado
Variations climatiques, insécurité alimentaire et stratégies paysannes : les réponses du paysan nigérien : perspectives historiques
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 48, 2001.
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Tjalling Dijkstra
Export diversification in Uganda : developments in non-traditional agricultural exports
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 47, 2001.
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Poul Ove Pedersen
Busy work or real business : revaluing the role of non-agricultural activities in African rural development
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 46, 2001.
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D.W.J. Foeken and S.O. Owuor
Urban farmers in Nakuru, Kenya
Leiden: Afrika-Studiecentrum, ASC working paper 45, 2000.
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Anke van Vuuren
Female-headed households : their survival strategies in Tanzania
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 44, 2000.
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Deborah Fahy Bryceson
Sub-Saharan Africa betwixt and between : rural livelihood practices and policies
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 43, 1999.
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Abdul Raufu Mustapha
Cocoa farming and income diversification in south-western Nigeria
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 42, 1999.
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G.J. Abbink
The total Somali clan genealogy : a preliminary sketch
Leiden: Afrika-Studiecentrum, ASC working paper 41, 1999.
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Kate Meagher
If the drumming changes, the dance also changes : de-agrarianisation and rural non-farm employment in the Nigerian savanna
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 40, 1999.
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M.A. Iliya
Income diversification in the semi-arid zone of Nigeria : a study of Gigane, Sokoto, north-west Nigeria
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 39, 1999.
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Mohammed Bello Yunusa
Not farms alone : a study of rural livelihoods in the Middle Belt of Nigeria
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 38, 1999.
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Barth Chukwuezi
De-agrarianisation and rural employment in Igboland, south-eastern Nigeria
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 37, 1999.
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Elly Rijnierse
The politics of survival : towards a global, long-term and reflexive interpretation of the African contemporary experience
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 36, 1999.
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Deborah Fahy Bryceson
African rural labour, income diversification and livelihood approaches : a long-term development perspective
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 35, 1999.
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Leslie Bank
No visible means of subsistence : rural livelihoods, gender and social change in Mooiplaas, Eastern Cape 1950-1998
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 34, 1999.
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Pat MacAllister
Agriculture and co-operative labour in Shixini, Transkei, South Africa
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 33, 1999.
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Cecil Manona
De-agrarianisation and the urbanisation of a rural economy : agrarian patterns in Melani village in the Eastern Cape
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 32, 1999.
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W. Klaver and R.N.M. Mwadime
Food consumption and nutrition in the Kenya Coast
Leiden: Afrika-Studiecentrum, ASC working paper 31, 1998.
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D.W.J. Foeken and A. Mboganie-Mwangi
Farming in the city of Nairobi
Leiden: Afrika-Studiecentrum, ASC working paper 30, 1998.
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Davis Mwamfupe
Changing village land, labour and livelihoods : Rungwe and Kyela districts, Tanzania
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 29, 1998.
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George Jambiya
The dynamics of population, land scarcity, agriculture and non-agricultural activities : West Usambara mountains, Lushoto District, Tanzania
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 28, 1998.
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Ndalahwa F. Madulu
Changing lifestyles in farming societies of Sukumaland : Kwimba District, Tanzania
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 27, 1998.
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C.G. Mung'ong'o
Coming full circle : agriculture, non-farm activities and the resurgence of out-migration in Njombe district, Tanzania
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 26, 1998.
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Mulat Demeke
Rural non-farm activities in impoverished agricultural communities : the case of North Shoa Ethiopia
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 25, 1997.
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Ronald J.A. Berkvens
Backing two horses: interaction of agricultural and non-agricultural household activities in a Zimbabwean communal area
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 24, 1997.
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Patricia Paravano
Working for the future: elite women's strategies in Brazzaville
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 23, 1997.
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Tjalling Dijkstra
Food trade and urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa: from the Early Stone Age to the Structural Adjustment Era
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 22, 1995.
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M. McCall and D.F. Bryceson
Lightening the Load: Women's Labour and Appropriate Rural Technology in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 21, 1994.
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Deborah Fahy Bryceson and Michael MacCall
Lightening the load : women's labour and appropriate rural technology in Sub-Saharan Africa
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 21, 1994.
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Deborah Fahy Bryceson and Corina van der Laan
De-agrarianization in Africa : proceedings of the "De-agrarianization and rural employment" workshop held at the Afrika-Studiecentrum, Leiden, May 1994
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 20, 1994.
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Deborah Fahy Bryceson
De-agrarianization and rural employment generation in sub-Saharan Africa : process and prospects
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 19, 1993.
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Nina Tellegen
Rural employment in Sub-Saharan Africa : a bibliography
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 18, 1993.
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R. Buijtenhuijs and E.A.M. Rijnierse
Demokratisering in Afrika ten zuiden van de Sahara (1989-1992). Deel 1: Een bekommentarieerd overzicht van de literatuur. Deel 2: Onderzoekscapaciteiten in Afrika en in het Westen.
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 17, 1993.

Deborah Fahy Bryceson
Easing rural womens' working day in Sub-Saharan Africa
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 16, 1993.
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Deborah Fahy Bryceson and John Howe
Rural household transport in Africa: reducing the burden on women?
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 15, 1993.
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Robert Buijtenhuijs
The revolutionary potential of African peasantries : some tentative remarks
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 14, 1991.
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H.L. Laan and W.T.M. Haaren
African marketing boards under structural adjustment : the experience of Sub-Saharan Africa during the 1980s
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 13, 1990.
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C.F. Fisiy
Palm Tree Justice in the Bertoua Court of Appeal: The Witchcraft Cases.
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 12, 1990.
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C.F. Fisiy
Palm tree justice in the Bertoua court of appeal : the witchcraft cases
Yaoundé: Institut des Sciences Humaines, ASC working paper 12, 1990.
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H.Laurens van der Laan
Cocoa and coffee buying in Cameroon : the role of the marketing board in the south west and north west provinces, 1978-1987
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 11, 1988.
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H.Laurens van der Laan
Cameroon's main marketing board: history and scope of the ONCPB
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 10, 1987.
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Berto Merx
Zonder bloed geen vliegen : geschilsbeslechting bij het Kantonhoofd in Gando (Noord-Togo): een onoplosbaar conflict binnen de lineage
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 9, 1986.
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E.A.B. Rouveroy van Nieuwaal and E.A. Rouveroy van Nieuwaal-Baerends
La Parcelle du gendre comploteur : manières coutumières et modernes d'acquérir des droits sur la terre, a N'Zara (Nord-Togo)
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 8, 1982.
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C.A. Muntjewerff
Produce marketing co-operatives in West Africa
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 7, 1982.
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C.A. Muntjewerff
The producers' price system and the coffee and cocoa trade at village level in West Africa
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 6, 1982.
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P.J.J. Konings
Peasantry and state in Ghana : the example of the Vea irrigation project in the upper region of Ghana
Leiden: Afrika-Studiecentrum, Working papers ; no. 5, 1981.
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E.A. Rouveroy van Nieuwaal-Baerends and E.A.B. Rouveroy van Nieuwaal
Conciliation et la qualité des relations sociales chez les Anufòm du Nord-Togo en Afrique de l'Ouest
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 4, 1981.
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G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Etat et langue en Afrique : esquisse d'une étude juridique comparative
Leiden: African Studies Centre, Working papers ; no. 3, 1981.
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Klaas de Jonge
Relations paysans-pêcheurs, capitalisme, état : une étude d'une lutte de classe en Casamance (Sud-Sénégal)
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 2, 1980.
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H.Laurens van der Laan
Modern inland transport and the European trading firms in colonial West Africa
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 1, 1980.
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