Completed research projects

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Research takes place in, or otherwise involves the following countries:

Project by the following research staff members:

A History of Nigerian organized crime

Keywords: crime ; politics

Countries, location: Nigeria

Africa’s food and nutrition security: 2010-2050

Keywords: food basket ; population ; hunger ; undernutrition ; overnutrition ; agriculture ; access ; distribution ; food prices ; income ; economic value ; scenario studies ; water ; environment ; private sector ; gender ; food policy

Researchers: Akinyinka Akinyoade

Being young in times of duress in the Central African Republic

Keywords: childhood, youth, chronic insecurity, violence, reintegration, biographic narratives

Countries, location: Central African Republic, Chad

Researchers: Mirjam de Bruijn

Cooperation:

Département d’Anthropologie, Université de Bangui

External affiliates: Dr Jean Bruno Ngouflo, Département d’anthropologie de l’Université de Bangui, Crépin Marius Mouguia

Funding:

UNICEF Nederland
Nederlandse Postcode Loterij

Breaking down barriers to exclusion. Building capacity for lobby and advocacy for children with disabilities

Researchers: Willem Elbers

Cooperation:

Liliane Foundation.

Funding:

Liliane Foundation.

Community based health insurance and the well-being of children and households in Plan communities in Togo

Keywords: Health insurance ; reproductive health ; children

Countries, location: Togo

Researchers: Marleen Dekker, André Leliveld

Funding:

Plan Nederland Plan Togo

Community-based health insurance in Ethiopia

Keywords: health insurance ; reproductive health ; health shocks

Countries, location: Ethiopia

Researchers: Marleen Dekker

External affiliates: Arjun Bedi (ISS), Zelalem Debebe (ISS), Anagaw Mebratie (ISS), Robert Sparrow (WUR), Getnet Alemu (Addis Ababa University)

Funding:

NWO Health Systems

Connecting in times of duress: understanding communication and conflict in Middle Africa’s mobile margins

Keywords: new communication and information technology ; conflict ; connections ; africa ; historical ethnography

Countries, location: Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic

Researchers: Mirjam de Bruijn

PhD Affiliates: Inge Butter

External affiliates: Leonie Meester

Funding:

WOTRO

Coping with economic crisis in Zimbabwe

Keywords: economic crisis ; social networks ; livelihoods

Countries, location: Zimbabwe

Researchers: Marleen Dekker

CORPAFROAS: Corpus Orale en Langues Afroasiatiques, Analyse Prosodique et Morphosyntaxique

Keywords: Linguistic Copora, Afroasiatic, Wolaitta, Omotic, Morphosyntax

Countries, location: Ethiopia

Researchers: Azeb Amha

DigiDogon: Digitizing Dogon heritage. The legacy of Abirè, the Dogon prophet

Keywords: Dogon, intangible cultural heritage, digital heritage, song cycle, oral traditions

Countries, location: Mali

Researchers: Wouter van Beek, Jan-Bart Gewald

Cooperation:

International project between African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) and University College London (UCL).

Other partners: Musée National du Mali in Bamako, Ginna Dogon, UNESCO office in Mali.

External affiliates: Michael Rowlands (University College London) , Amadou Salif Guindo (Université des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines de Bamako), Daouda Keita (Université des Sciences Sociales et de Gestion de Bamako), Issa Sagara (Université des Sciences Sociales et de Gestion de Bamako), Roberto Beneduce (University of Turin)

Funding:

JPI on Cultural Heritage

EAB - East African borders

Countries, location: East Africa

ECOTAF - ecotourism in Africa

Countries, location: Kenya, Tanzania

ELKEN - elections in Kenya

Countries, location: Kenya

Ethnographic Study on Mobile Money in Africa

Keywords: Mobile money, financial inclusion, unbanked, technology, mobility, connectivity, economic growth, development, bottom of the pyramid, Microfinance Institutions (MFIs), Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), Mobile Financial Services (MFS)

Countries, location: Senegal, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa), Zambia, Cameroon

Researchers: Mirjam de Bruijn

PhD Affiliates: Inge Butter

Cooperation:

SAIPAR, LARTES-IFAN

External affiliates: Senegal (LARTES-IFAN): Prof. Abdou Salam Fall (Principal investigator/Team leader), Moustapha Seye (Assistant co-ordinator), Khadidiatou Diagne, Mame Diarra Boussou Ndiaye , Zambia (SAIPAR): Dr. Marja Hinfelaar (Team leader), Caesar Cheelo, Edna Kabala-Litana , Congo DRC: Dr. Sylvie Ayimpang (Team leader), Dr. Olivier Kahola Tabu, Cameroon: Dr. Walter Gam Nkwi (Team leader), Emmanuel Ngang

Funding:

International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group) & MasterCard Foundation.

FADRO – famine and drought planning among Maasai pastoralists

Grounding land governance

Keywords: land governance ; post-conflict situations ; decentralization ; land tenure ; IDPs ; institutions

Countries, location: South Sudan, Burundi, Uganda

Researchers: Han van Dijk

PhD Affiliates: Peter Justin, Doreen Kobusingye , Rosine Tchatchoua Djomo

External affiliates: Mathijs van Leeuwen

Funding:

WOTRO

Household efficiency and polygamy in rural Nigeria

Keywords: Polygamy, Intra-household collaboration, Nigeria, Behavioral experiment

Countries, location: Nigeria

Researchers: Marleen Dekker

Cooperation:

VU University Amsterdam, the University of East Anglia and the University of Nottingham.

Funding:

ASC
Amsterdam Institute for International Development
Nottingham School of Economics
University of East Anglia

Initiating and sustaining developmental regimes in Africa

Keywords: Subsaharan Africa; Asia; development; research

Countries, location: Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria

Researchers: Ton Dietz, André Leliveld

Cooperation:

Overseas Development Institute (ODI) [et al.]

External affiliates: David Henley (Leiden University), David Booth (APPP/ODI Research Fellow), Tim Kelsall (APPP Senior Researcher)

Funding:

Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs

IS Academy

Researchers: Jan Abbink, Ton Dietz

Cooperation:

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

External affiliates: Matthias Olthaar (RUG)

Islam in colonial and postcolonial Mali

Keywords: religion ; islam ; history

Countries, location: Mali

Islam, politics and society in Senegal

Keywords: Islam ; politics

Countries, location: Senegal

Researchers: Mayke Kaag

Funding:

IRP

MAALAND - Maasai pastoralism losing ground

Countries, location: Kenya

MADIS - Maasai and disability

Countries, location: Kenya

MINA - migration to Nairobi by Maasai pastoralists

Countries, location: Kenya

Mobile Africa revisited, communication, marginality and society in West, Central and Southern Africa

Keywords: mobility ; marginality ; information and communication technology ; identity ; inequality

Countries, location: Chad, Cameroon, Mali, Senegal, Angola, Namibia, South Africa

Researchers: Mirjam de Bruijn

External affiliates: Francis Nyamnjoh (UCT), Imke Gooskens (UCT), Leonie Meester, Mayke Lolkema

Funding:

NWO Wotro SANPAD (coordinated in UCT)

Mobility, networks and institutions in the management of natural resources in contemporary Africa (phase 2)

Keywords: mobility ; resources ; South ; African elites

Countries, location: Cameroon, Tanzania, Namibia

Researchers: Mirjam de Bruijn

External affiliates: Christopher Tankou (CML), Sara de Wit, Emmanuel Ngang

Funding:

Volkswagen Stiftung

Navigating collaboration and confrontation: success factors and constraints for CSOs in negotiation inclusion in land deals in Kenya, in the context of increased private sector importance

Keywords: Civil society organisations, advocacy, inclusive development, land deals

Countries, location: Kenya

Researchers: Marleen Dekker

Cooperation:

Radboud University Nijmegen

Moi University, Eldoret (Kenya)

ActionAid Netherlands

ActionAid Kenya

Funding:

NWO-WOTRO Assumptions Programme

New Muslim public figures and changing Muslim socialities in Africa

Keywords: Islam ; politics ; social theory

Nomads facing change: political mobilisation among Sahelian pastoralists

Keywords: Fulani, nomads, pastoralists, political participation, jihadism, conflict, resistance, ICT's, criminal networks

Countries, location: Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Sahel

Researchers: Mirjam de Bruijn, Han van Dijk

Cooperation:

Groupe Observation des Dynamiques Sociales Spatiales et Expertise Endogène (ODYSSEE), Mali
Institute de Recherche et de Promotion des Alternatives de Développement en Afrique (IRPAD/AFRIQUE), Mali

Foreign staff involved
Oumarou Adamou (Laboratoire d’études et recherches sur les dynamiques sociales et le développement local)
Mamadou Goita (IRPAD-Afrique)
Amagoin Keita (groupe ODYSSEE)
Boukary Sangaré (ODYSSEE)

Funding:

NWO-WOTRO: programme ‘Security and the Rule of Law’

PADev, participatory assessment of development: Ghana, Burkina Faso, Kenya

Keywords: Ghana ; Burkina Faso ; Kenya

Countries, location: Kenya

Researchers: Ton Dietz

Cooperation:

University of Amsterdam Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam research partners in Burkina Faso and Ghana

Funding:

ICCO Woord en Daad Prisma

Post-Apartheid South Africa: trajectories of the transition

Keywords: identity ; social networks ; social structure ; South Africa ; youth

Countries, location: South Africa

Researchers: Ineke van Kessel

Society and Change in Northern Ghana: Dagomba, Gonja, and the Regional Perspective on Ghanaian History

Keywords: Dagomba, Gonja, regional history, migration history, social history, state formation, conflict, colonial society, post-colonial society, culture, heritage

Countries, location: Ghana

Cooperation:

- Leiden University
- Institute of African Studies & Department of History, University of Ghana at Legon
- Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Integrated Development Studies, University for Development Studies, Tamale/Wa, Ghana

Associate partners in the project:
- Institute Globalisation Studies Groningen, University of Groningen
- Department of International Relations and International Organisation, University of Groningen

Funding:

African Tiger Holding Ltd.