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By tracking the changing nature of wasta, or personal intermediation, in the Khartoum labour market, this paper examines the impact of Islamist policies on state-society relations in Khartoum, Sudan. It argues that economic liberalisation and higher education expansion...

Zambian political history has been viewed predominantly through the prism of the national, by focusing on high politics, official ideology and Big Men. The local level equally has to be taken into consideration, as local forces and interests have shaped the translation of...

In the first week of December 2013, Fred Cooper was in Leiden to participate in the conference "South Asia and the long 1930s: appropriations and afterlives. We caught him on the day that he was giving a public lecture on his current work, entitled Beyond Empire: France...

Somalië zit nog steeds in de frontlijn van 'jihadisme', politieke instabiliteit en humanitaire crisis. In het proces naar politieke stabilisering is Al-Shabaab een enorme stoorzender. Deze beweging, eind 2005 ontstaan, heeft een overwegend criminele agenda, '...

How can Africanists and information specialists in African research and documentation get the most out of Wikipedia, and how can they contribute to Wikipedia? This article argues that Wikipedia is useful both as a universally accessible - albeit not specifically academic -...

In november 2014 was er opschudding over een bericht dat de Hogeschool van Amsterdam haar studenten niet naar Afrika liet reizen vanwege ebola en toenemende onveiligheid. Door het Afrika-Studiecentrum en in sociale media werd daar fel op gereageerd: het stigmatiseert Afrika....

Explorations in Ethiopian Linguistics brings together twelve contributions on linguistic problems at the interface of morphosyntax and semantics/pragmatics in Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic languages of Ethiopia.The first section of the volume consists of two articles on...

This essay discusses the continued importance that religion holds in African life, not only in terms of numbers of believers, but also regarding the varieties of religious experience and its links with politics and the "public sphere(s)". Coinciding with the wave of...

Aunque Sudáfrica tiene 11 lenguas oficiales reconocidas por la Constitución (inglés, afrikáaner y nueve precoloniales), en la práctica se utilizan dos o tres en cada región, con el inglés como lengua franca. El país se debate hoy entre los valores modernos y los derechos...

Eind 2013 sloot de bibliotheek van het Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen in Amsterdam haar deuren. De meer dan tien kilometer collecties waren toen al verdwenen uit het KIT-gebouw aan de Mauritskade, en de vijftig personeelsleden van de bibliotheek ontslagen. Oud-...

This volume attempts to dig deeper into what is currently happening in Africa's agricultural and rural sector and to convince policymakers and others that it is important to look at the current African rural dynamics in ways that connect metropolitan demands for food with...

The voices of orphans and other vulnerable children and young people and of their carers and professional development workers are documented and analysed to both criticise the inadequacies of current social development work and to create a new, alternative theory and practice...