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W.M.J.van Kessel
Type of publication: Review
In: Zuidelijk Afrika
Keywords: Africa, South Africa
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Added to database: 03 April 2012
J.W.M. van Dijk
Type of publication: Review
In: Development and change
Added to database: 03 April 2012
W.M.J.van Kessel
Type of publication: Review
In: Onze Wereld
Added to database: 03 April 2012
J.W.M. van Dijk
Type of publication: Review
In: African affairs : the journal of the Royal African Society
Added to database: 03 April 2012
Type of publication: Other

This report discusses some of the findings of exploratory research among Ghanaian and Malawian migrants in Gaborone, Botswana, which was carried out in March and November 2001. Over the last two decades, Botswana has been the focus of immigration from Ghana and Malawi. In...

Keywords: Baptist Church, Botswana, Ghana, Ghanaians, immigrants, Malawians, Pentecostalism
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Added to database: 02 April 2012
D.W.J. Foeken; W. Klaver
Type of publication: Other

In Nakuru town (northwest of Nairobi, Kenya), two out of five households were living in conditions of absolute poverty in 1997. Farming in town is one of the ways people employ to cope with this problem. Based on a survey held in 1999 among almost 600 households, it is...

Keywords: Africa, food crops, Kenya, urban agriculture
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Added to database: 02 April 2012
A.J. Dietz
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Ghana
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Added to database: 18 January 2012
M.E. de Bruijn; J.O. Hunwick; C. Alu Booyi
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; J.W.M. van Dijk; C. Angenent; A. Breedveld
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Les rois des tambours au Haayre : Récitée par Aamadu Baa Digi, griot des Fulbe à Dalla (Mali)
Keywords: Fulani, griots, history, Mali, oral history, traditional polities
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
K. van Walraven; P. Thomas; C. Thiriot
Type of publication: Book

This publication is a follow-up of two earlier reviews of the literature on democratization in sub-Saharan Africa, covering the periods 1989-1992 and 1992-1995. The present volume focuses on the latter part of 1995 and 1996 and includes more than 800 references. The first...

Keywords: Africa, Bibliographies (form), democracy, democratization, ethnicity, politics, Subsaharan Africa, violence
Added to database: 23 December 2011
K. van Walraven
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Journal of contemporary African studies

In the presidential and legislative elections held in Ghana in December 2000 the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), which had been in power for eight years, was decisively beaten. After presenting and analysing the main trends in the results of the parliamentary and...

Keywords: 2000, democratization, elections, Ghana, politics, presidential elections
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
K. van Walraven; C. Thiriot; C. Miginiac
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Bibliographies (form), democracy, Subsaharan Africa, violence
Added to database: 23 December 2011
Editors: W.M.J.van Kessel
Type of publication: Book

The contributions to this volume commemorating three hundred years of diplomatic relations between Ghana and the Netherlands are grouped under three headings - merchants and merchandise, missionaries, and voluntary and involuntary migrants - reflecting the three most...

Keywords: African studies, colonization, diaspora, emigrants, Ghana, mercantile history, migration, missionary history, Netherlands, women
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J.van Kessel
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Quest
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J.van Kessel
Editors: W.M.J.van Kessel
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Merchants, missionaries & migrants : 300 years of Dutch-Ghanaian relations

Between 1831 and 1872 some 3,000 African recruits sailed from Elmina (Gold Coast, now Ghana) to Batavia, the capital of the Netherlands East Indies. They had been recruited to serve in the Dutch colonial army, which throughout most of the 19th century experienced a chronic...

Keywords: colonial armies, colonization, Ghana, Indonesia, military recruitment, Netherlands
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J.van Kessel
Type of publication: Book Chapter

The contributions to this volume commemorating three hundred years of diplomatic relations between Ghana and the Netherlands are grouped under three headings - merchants and merchandise, missionaries, and voluntary and involuntary migrants - reflecting the three most...

Keywords: diaspora, Ghana, India, migration, Netherlands, women
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J.van Kessel
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Een trapgevel in Potsdam : monumentenzorg over grenzen
Keywords: African culture, colonization, culture contact, Ghana, Indonesia, Netherlands, Suriname, Western culture
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J.van Kessel
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the University of Gent, Belgium, 19 November, 2002
Keywords: Belgium
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J.van Kessel
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Armamentaria : jaarboek Legermuseum
Keywords: black soldiers, colonization, Ghana, Indonesia, military recruitment, Netherlands
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J.van Kessel
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Trouw
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
L.J. de Haan; P. Quarles van Ufford
Editors: I.S.A. Baud
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Re-aligning actors in a urbanizing world : governance and institutions from a development perspective
Keywords: Benin, food trade, livelihoods, rural-urban relations, traders, West Africa
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Added to database: 23 December 2011

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