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 Mrs. Maaike Westra (m.a.westra@asc.leidenuniv.nl).

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S.D.K. Ellis
Type of publication: Review
In: The journal of African history
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 03 April 2012
R. Buijtenhuijs
Type of publication: Book

Much has been written on African peasantries in general and on 'peasant wars' in Africa in particular, and yet there is a remarkable gap in the existing literature. On the one hand, literature on peasant wars in general tends to ignore Africa South of the Sahara; on...

Keywords: Africa, peasant rebellions, Subsaharan Africa
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 02 April 2012
H. Schoenmakers
Type of publication: Book

In dit boek wordt een beschrijving gegeven van het ontstaan en de ontwikkeling van een moderne koloniale en post-koloniale staat in Guiné-Bissau. De auteur analyseert de wijze waarop die staat intervenieert in plattelandsgemeenschappen met het doel deze te integreren in...

Keywords: Guinea-Bissau, nation building, politics, rural development, rural society
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
A. Molokomme
Type of publication: Book

This study is concerned with the laws regulating compensation for extramarital pregnancy and maintenance of extramarital children in Botswana. More specifically, it aims to comprehend the reasons for the increase in extramarital reproduction and its seeming tolerance by the...

Keywords: Botswana, illegitimate children, theses (form)
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
R. Niemeijer; D.W.J. Foeken; W. Klaver
Type of publication: Book

This is Part 4/5 of a series concerned with seasonality in the coastal lowlands of Kenya. Household surveys were carried out in six locations in Kwale and Kilifi Districts in 1985-1987. The present report deals with food consumption and the nutritional condition of the study...

Keywords: food, Kenya, seasonality
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
M. Maas; N. van Hekken
Type of publication: Book

Abstr.: Over the past 15 years the Kenyan government has pursued a policy to stimulate the participation of women in the process of development. Women's groups have been the main focus of government policies in this regard. This paper presents the results of research,...

Keywords: development, Kenya, women
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
P. Leegwater; J. Ngolo; J.C. Hoorweg
Type of publication: Book

The objectives of this study on dairy development in Kilifi District, Kenya, are, first, to assess the importance of - small-scale - intensive dairy farming as promoted by the Ministry of Livestock through the National Dairy Development Programme (DDP) compared with other...

Keywords: animal husbandry, dairy industry, food, Kenya
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
P. Leegwater; J. Ngolo; J.C. Hoorweg
Type of publication: Book
Added to database: 23 December 2011
L. van den Boogerd; T. Djedjebi; L.J. de Haan
Type of publication: Book

Ce rapport est le résultat d'une recherche sur le secteur informel de Malanville en République du Bénin. La recherche a eu lieu d'octobre 1990 jusqu'à février 1991 dont trois mois sur le terrain. Les auteurs ont examiné le fonctionnement des groupements déjà...

Added to database: 23 December 2011
L. van den Boogerd; T. Djedjebi; M. File; L.J. de Haan
Type of publication: Book

Ce rapport est le résultat d'un travail de recherche sur le secteur informel dans le cadre du Programme d'appui au développement de la circonscription de Kandi (Radec-Kandi) dans la République du Bénin. Les commerçants ne sont pas compris dans ce secteur, alors que...

Added to database: 23 December 2011
S. Vogel; I. Ebong; W. E. A.van Beek
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Africa, arts, pictorial works (form), Subsaharan Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011
A.H.M. Leliveld
Type of publication: Book

This paper discusses the concept of social security and criticizes the ILO definition of the concept as too limited to analyse non-Western social security systems. It develops an alternative definition which includes, firstly, the protection by society of individuals or...

Keywords: developing countries
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
P.J.J. Konings
Type of publication: Book
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W. E. A.van Beek
Editors: S. Benjamin
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Africa explores: 20th Century African Art

Publication to accompany the exposition Africa explores, held simultaneously at the Center for African Art and the New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York, May 16-Aug. 1991, and later travelling to other venues - Includes bibliographical references and index

Keywords: 1991, Africa, arts, pictorial works (form), Subsaharan Africa
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W. E. A.van Beek
Editors: Y. Moñino
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Forge et forgeronsForge et forgerons

Sommaire: Avant-propos (D. Barreteau, H. Tourneux) - Discours d'ouverture (A. Marliac) - Introduction (Y. Moñino) - Observations sur le nom du fer et de la forge dans le bassin du lac Tchad (H. Tourneux) - Les migrations des forgerons djorok chez les Massa du Cameroun (J...

Keywords: 1988, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, conference papers (form), iron forging, Niger, Nigeria
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W. E. A.van Beek
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Canadian journal of African studies
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W. E. A.van Beek
Editors: P.J.M. Nas; W. Prins
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Huis, cultuur en ontwikkeling
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W. E. A.van Beek
Editors: A. Jakobson-Widding; W. E. A.van Beek
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: The creative communion: African folk models of fertility and the regeneration of life

Most of the papers included in this volume were presented at a symposium held at Uppsala University, Sweden, in August 1987. An introduction by A. Jacobson-Widding and W. van Beek on the theme developed in the book, African folk models of fertility, is followed by three parts...

Keywords: 1987, Africa, Cameroon, conference papers (form), Dogon, Ethiopia, fertility, Ghana, Kapsiki, Mali, philosophy, Tanzania, Uganda
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W. E. A.van Beek
Editors: A. Jakobson-Widding; W. E. A.van Beek
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: The creative communion: African folk models of fertility and the regeneration of life
Keywords: 1987, Africa, conference papers (form), fertility, philosophy
Added to database: 23 December 2011
D.W.J. Foeken; J.C. Hoorweg
Type of publication: Book

In 1983, the Ministry of Planning and National Development (MPND) of Kenya and the African Studies Centre, Leiden, started a programme of mutual studies whose objective was to analyse current developments concerning food and nutrition in Kenya. The main subject areas are...

Keywords: 1990, African studies, conference papers (form), economic development, food, Kenya, nutrition, Rural
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

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