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This paper attempts to clarify the trend in the inverse relationship in increasing age at first marriage and simultaneously declining fertility rates generally in Ghana, using examples of two coastal Ghanaian communities - Brenu Akyinim(Central region) and Abuesi (Western...

Paper for the nternational seminar on Chinese & Western cooperation with the D.R. Congo, Leuven, 6th December 2011, HIVA (Higher Institute for Work and Society).

One of the core principles instituted by the post-1991 government in Ethiopia that took power after a successful armed struggle was ethnic-based federalism, informed by a neo-Leninist political model called revolutionary democracy. In this model, devised by the reigning...

This chapter revisits the issue of elections and democracy in Africa, a theme that emerged as dominant in scholarly discussions in African Studies in the 1990s. The trigger for featuring Ethiopia as a case study was the May 2010 parliamentary elections when the incumbent...

De recente droogte en hongersnood in Noordoost-Afrika zijn de trieste uitkomst van fysischgeografische én politiek-maatschappelijke factoren. Zolang dat niet onderkend wordt - ook in het Westen - verdampen alle kansen voor de bevolking op een betere toekomst.

This paper discusses the search for hidden post-colonial archives on Africanist research and ways of making these available to scholars and the general public. These are diverse sets of archives: the personal archives of the scholar that are often hidden in 'trunks'...

De auteurs geven een praktijkvoorbeeld van verzoening als omgang met het kwaad. Het speelt in de academische wereld van Zuid-Afrika, die de apartheid maar moeizaam van zich af blijkt te schudden. Jonathan Jansen, de eerste zwarte rector van de Universiteit van de Vrijstaat,...

Waiting is a common feature of everyday encounters between individuals and organisations. Government officials and private sector workers make us wait for decisions, wait for services and times, simply wait our turn. Yet, little attention has beendevoted to theorising and...

The papers in this special issue were first presented at a workshop at Stellenbosch University in October 2009. The theme of the workshop was the concept of liminality, denoting the middle phase of any ritual process, as developed by Victor Turner (1920-1983), as well as its...

The Great Limpopo is one of the largest Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCAs) in the world, encompassing vast areas in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique. The TFCA concept is embraced by practically all (international) conservation agencies. The rationale for the...

The article investigates the increasingly important connections between the private sector and nature conservation agencies. It looks specifically at the connections between two important philanthropists, the late Anton Rupert, a South African business tycoon, and the late...

Saving the world's flora and fauna, especially high-profile examples such as chimpanzees, whales and the tropical rain forests, is big business. Individuals and companies channel their resources to the preservation of nature through various ways, one of which is the...

Africa has a wide array of polities that are characterized by extremely diverging leadership styles. How can the same continent house a Mugabe and a Bokassa, but also a Nyerere and a Mandela? Based on the Bourdieu notion of types of capital as thebasis for inequality in...