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Asian Tigers, African Lions is an anthology of contributions by scholars and diplomats about the ‘Tracking Development’ research project. This project, coordinated by the African Studies Centre and KITLV in Leiden, compared the performance of growth and development of countries in Southeast Asia and Sub-Sahara Africa during the last sixty years. How could two regions with comparable levels of income per capita in the 1950s diverge so rapidly? Why are there so many Asian tigers and not yet so many African lions?
The Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa – all related to 2012. Several researchers of the African Studies Centre in Leiden have contributed to the Yearbook, while the editors are from different African Studies centres in Europe: Klaas van Walraven (Leiden), Andreas Mehler (Hamburg) and Henning Melber (Uppsala). The book aims at students, politicians, diplomats, journalists, teachers, development aid workers as well as business people.
This book is about the history of consumption and social change from 1840 until 1980 in Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Angola. Topics range from the social history of firearms to the perception of the railway and include contributions on sewing machines, traders and advertising. By looking at the socio-economic, political and cultural meaning and impact of goods, the history of Central Africa is reassessed.