Publications

Les articles présentés ici font suite à une conférence organisée par le Centre d'études africaines de Leyde en collaboration avec le MESIRES (ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur, de l'Informatique et de la Recherche scientifique) de Yaoundé sur l'...

This article is an editorial introduction to the five contributions to a two-day Dutch-Belgian workshop on ethnicity in Africa (Leiden, The Netherlands, December 1991) selected for publication in the present issue of 'Afrika Focus'. It highlights various aspects of...

It has proved possible and worthwhile to organize regular auctions for a few African export crops, namely tea, tobacco and coffee. Such auctions were first introduced in British East Africa in the 1930s and today, East Africa and the former British territories (Kenya,...

The Mijikenda are a Bantu people living in the hinterland of southern Kenya. This paper examines two key resources of Mijikenda agriculture that have undergone profound transformations during the period under study (1850-1985): land and labour. External pressures and internal...

Ce rapport présente un aperçu de la littérature sur la démocratisation en Afrique au sud du Sahara (1989-1992). D'abord, les auteurs évoquent un certain nombre de traits dominants de la vie politique en Afrique qui forment l'arrière-plan nécessaire à comprendre les...

This report gives an overview of the literature on recent democratization processes in sub-Saharan Africa (1989-1992). The authors first deal with the basic features of African politics that can serve as a framework within which present-day democratization developments can be...

This report is a historical-anthropological study of the survival strategies of urban women in the town of Bamenda in West Cameroon, insofar as they are related to changing access to land. The emphasis is on historical developments from the sixties on, a period in which the...

This article describes the interaction between citizens and the State legal system in the Uluguru mountains of Tanzania, an area where the higher rainfall allows for more intensive agriculture than in the surrounding plains, and where higher population densities and declining...

This article explains why people in Mgeta Division in the Uluguru mountains, Morogoro District, Tanzania, become locked in long and expensive land disputes. These disputes cannot be explained as rational choice strategies: the value of the land involved bears no relation to...

This PhD thesis consists of six scientific journal articles, presenting a sociological analysis of economic life in Mgeta, Uluguru mountains, Tanzania. Research was carried out over the period 1985-1989, with a return visit in November 1991. After the introduction, ch. 2...

This book, which is based on field research carried out in 1985-1987, deals with labour control and labour resistance within the largest agroindustrial enterprise of Cameroon, the Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC), over a period of forty years (1947-1987). Chapter 1...

De invoering van Structurele aanpassingsprogramma's (SAP's) in Afrika is vaak gepaard gegaan met een versterking van de autoritaire tendensen van de Afrikaanse regimes. De levensstandaard en werkgelegenheid van de stedelijke arbeiders zijn door de SAP's ernstig...

Contract farming schemes associated with agro-industrial enterprises have been of a more limited scope in Cameroon than in several other Third World countries, and largely unsuccessful. The Cameroonian experience with contract farming therefore poses an interesting challenge...