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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
11 May 2020
11 May 2020
Nationalism is often seen as emerging from European historical developments, also in postcolonial countries outside Europe. Yet the precolonial Kingdom of Barue in what is now Mozambique already showed characteristics generally associated with nationalism, giving the country great resilience against colonial encroachment. Postcolonial Mozambique, on the other hand, has so far not succeeded in creating national coherence. This book by André van Dokkum has been published in the Afrika-Studiecentrum Series by Brill.
08 May 2020
06 May 2020
Establishing a university specialised in the Nile affairs from an interdisciplinary perspective; Creating basin-wide legislations on the environment; Launching a sustainable farming catalogue and forming a basin cooperative for small farmers. These are just some of the future strategies that were developed during the workshop on water and land acquisition in the riparian countries of the Nile, that took place on 20-21 February.
06 May 2020
Spouses in Eastern Province, Zambia, are willing to compromise household-level earnings in order to maintain individual control over money. Wives, but not husbands, are more likely to compromise household-level earnings in order to maintain individual control over money, when they can keep that money and their actions hidden from their spouses. These are some of the preliminary findings of the project 'Financial decision-making, gender and social norms in Zambia' by Prof. Marleen Dekker and others.
06 May 2020
Just before the corona crisis, the ASCL Library acquired a number of books from CERDOTOLA (International Centre for research and documentation on African traditions and languages), based in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Volume 2 of the Atlas linguistique du Cameroun is a bibliography on Cameroonian languages that includes references to works of different disciplines. And in the collective work The Grassfields of Cameroon researchers examine the construction of the identity or maybe identities of this region. Read the latest Library Highlight!