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African Studies Abstracts Online: number 45, 2014 (2014)
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: abstracts journals (form), Africa, African studies, ASC, social sciences
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 08 January 2014

Obama made in Kenya : appropriating the American dream in Kogelo (2013)
K.L. van Bemmel
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Africa today

In November 2008, millions of Kenyan citizens expressed their happiness about the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States. Four years later, people still cheered upon receiving the news of his reelection, but their enthusiasm was nowhere near the euphoria...

Keywords: elections, Kenya, United States
Added to database: 11 January 2019

Sub-Saharan Africa (2013)
K. van Walraven; A. Mehler; H. Melber
Editors: A. Mehler; H. Melber; K. van Walraven
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Africa yearbook: politics, economy and society South of the Sahara in 2012
Added to database: 29 January 2018

West Africa (2013)
K. van Walraven
Editors: A. Mehler; H. Melber; K. van Walraven
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Africa yearbook : politics, economy and society South of the Sahara in 2012
Keywords: West Africa
Added to database: 29 January 2018

Niger (2013)
K. van Walraven
Editors: A. Mehler; H. Melber; K. van Walraven
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Africa yearbook : politics, economy and society South of the Sahara in 2012
Added to database: 29 January 2018

'Keeping this land safe' : stakeholder conceptualisations of protection in the context of a Mijikenda (Kenya) world heritage site (2013)
F. Krijtenburg
Editors: S.J.T.M. Evers; C. Seagle; F. Krijtenburg
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Africa for sale? : positioning the state, land and society in foreign large-scale land acquisitions in Africa

This discussion explores stakeholder conceptualisations of 'keeping this land safe' in the context of ten Mijikenda kayas, which became World Heritage in 2008. It was set against the wider background of high pressure on Kenya's coastal land as a result of large-...

Keywords: conservation of cultural heritage, Kenya, Nyika
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 14 November 2017

Reviewing reality : dynamics of African divination (2013)
Editors: W.E.A. van Beek; P.M. Peek
Type of publication: Book

This collection reveals the diversity and complexity of African divination systems, focusing on (self-)knowledge and healing (section 1), social reality (section 2), and intercultural and historical relations (section 3). Contributions: Of divinatory 'co-naissance' among the...

Keywords: Africa, Anufo, Anyi, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, divination, Kapsiki, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Togo, Uduk, Xhosa, Yaka, yélé, Yoruba
Added to database: 08 December 2015

Agricultural dynamics and food security trends in Nigeria (2013)
A. Akinyoade; A.J. Dietz; D.W.J. Foeken; W. Klaver
Type of publication: Other
Keywords: agriculture, food security, Nigeria
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 03 December 2015

Agricultural dynamics and food security trends in Tanzania (2013)
A.H.M. Leliveld; A.J. Dietz; W. Klaver; B. Kilama; D.W.J. Foeken
Type of publication: Other
Keywords: agriculture, food security, Tanzania
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 03 December 2015

Agricultural dynamics and food security trends in Uganda (2013)
A.H.M. Leliveld; A.J. Dietz; D.W.J. Foeken; W. Klaver
Type of publication: Other
Keywords: agriculture, food security, Uganda
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 03 December 2015

A half century of abstracting at the African Studies Centre Leiden (2013)
M.C.A. van Doorn
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: African Research & Documentation

The article discusses the history of the abstracts and indexing journal originally known as 'Documentatieblad,' which was renamed to 'African Studies Abstracts (ASA)' and later to 'African Studies Abstracts Online' (ASAO), published by the African...

Keywords: Africa, African Studies centres, documentation centres, information services, Netherlands
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 02 April 2015

Imagining a Silicon Valley : technological and conceptual connectivity in Kenya's BPO and software development sectors (2013)
M. Graham; L. Mann
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Electronic journal of information systems in developing countries

This is a paper about expectations surrounding a potentially highly transformative moment in East Africa's history: the arrival of underwater fibre-optic broadband communications cables into the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa. It combines a media content analysis with findings...

Keywords: information technology, Kenya
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 12 March 2015

'We do our bit in our own space' : DAL Group and the development of a curiously Sudanese enclave economy (2013)
L. Mann
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Journal of modern African studies

The family firm, DAL Group, is Sudan's largest and most diversified company. Its growth has concentrated on consumer goods, rather than on state concessions or exports. It has developed its own training programmes, construction units, transportation networks and market...

Keywords: business organization, labour recruitment, private enterprises, Sudan
Added to database: 12 March 2015

Constantijn Huygens en toekomstvisie op de bibliotheek (2013)
J.C.M. Damen
Type of publication: Review
In: IP: vakblad voor informatieprofessionals

Bien étonnés de se trouver ensemble? Een collectie van een 17e-eeuwse Grote Nederlander en een Amerikaanse toekomstvisie op bibliotheken hebben op het eerste gezicht weinig met elkaar te maken. Maar voor bibliotheken zijn speciale collecties net zo belangrijk...

Open access: Full text
Added to database: 20 November 2014

Bibliotheken worden kapot bezuinigd - en dat is deels hun eigen schuld (2013)
J.C.M. Damen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: IP: vakblad voor informatieprofessionals

De overheid bezuinigt op bibliotheken. Openbare bibliotheken vangen dat op door filialen te sluiten en met uitleenautomaten en minder mensen hetzelfde te doen als vroeger. Bij wetenschappelijke bibliotheken verdwijnt alle franje en worden facultaire bibliotheken gesloten.

Open access: Full text
Added to database: 20 November 2014

Big data en handschriften van Christiaan Huygens (2013)
J.C.M. Damen
Type of publication: Review
In: IP: vakblad voor informatieprofessionals

In de achtste aflevering van een serie combinatiebesprekingen (digitaal & speciaal) schenkt Jos Damen aandacht aan een onderzoek naar big data van bibliotheekcatalogi en een catalogus van het werk van het Nederlandse genie Christiaan Huygens.

Open access: Full text
Added to database: 20 November 2014

Geschiedschrijving of zelffelicitatie?: universiteitsbibliotheken van Leiden en Groningen geboekstaafd (2013)
J.C.M. Damen
Type of publication: Review
In: IP: vakblad voor informatieprofessionals

Nederlandse bibliotheken zijn te bescheiden. Ze spelen een belangrijke rol in de Nederlandse maatschappij, maar scheppen daar nauwelijks over op, vindt Jos Damen. De onlangs verschenen boeken over de geschiedenis van de universiteitsbibliotheken in Groningen en Leiden maken...

Open access: Full text
Added to database: 20 November 2014

Diversification strategies in the Netherlands agricultural sector (2013)
M. Spierenburg; H. Wels
Editors: F. Hendricks; L. Ntsebeza; K. Helliker
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: The promise of land: undoing a century of dispossession in South Africa
Keywords: agriculture, Netherlands
Added to database: 09 July 2014

Whispering empathy: transdisciplinary reflections on research methodology (2013)
H. Wels
Editors: B. Musschenga; A. van Harskamp
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: What makes us moral?: on the capacities and conditions for being moral

According to world famous primatologist Frans de Waal we live in 'the age of empathy'. De Waal is part of a long tradition of biologists who have argued for recognizing individual emotions, altruism and morality in human and non-human animals alike. This is an intellectual...

Added to database: 09 July 2014

Editorial introduction: sexuality, intimacy and counselling: perspectives from Africa (2013)
E. Moyer; M. Burchardt; R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Culture, health and sexuality
Keywords: Africa, counselling, sexuality
Added to database: 06 June 2014

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