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This paper examines strategies used by rural households in Ntcheu District, Malawi, to cope with a decreasing fuelwood availability. Fieldwork was carried out in 1990 and 1991. With increasing distance to woodlands, households initially collected further away, spending more...

Dit cahier, uitgegeven ter gelegenheid van de 65e verjaardag in 1997 van de Nederlandse Afrikanist Laurens van der Laan, bevat - na een inleiding door Gerti Hesseling, directeur van het Afrika-Studiecentrum te Leiden - de volgende bijdragen: Afrikanist in vogelvlucht (Maja...

L'Afrique noire semble sur la pente d'une criminalisation préoccupante de l'État: fraudes et trafics en grand, exploitation sauvage des ressources, économie en pillage, privatisation des institutions, multiplication des milices armées, extension de la guerre....

Dit cahier bevat bijdragen van verschillende auteurs. Na een algemene inleiding over democratiseringsprocessen en de rol van de media in Afrika, volgt een aantal landenoverzichten die met name aandacht besteden aan de recente ontwikkelingen binnen pers, radio en televisie,...

Confronted with high unemployment figures and widespread poverty among the black population, one of the priorities of the first postapartheid government of South Africa has been to combat poverty among its population by enlarging employment opportunities. It is generally...

The root of the 'anglophone problem' in Cameroon may be traced back to 1961, when the political elites of two territories with different colonial legacies - one French and the other British - agreed on the formation of a federal State. Contrary to expectations, this...

This report analyses whether and to what extent international organizations have formulated and implemented strategies of conflict prevention and, to this purpose, early warning mechanisms. It also assesses the related and underlying concepts of security as used by those...

This book draws attention to the basic distinction between nomadic pastoralists who formed and dominated States in the past and those who kept their distance from States and lived in more decentralized segmentary structures. It analyses the implications of State formation or...

This study deals with the development of banana exports from Africa during the interwar period, with special attention being paid to the development of specialized sea transport. It investigates similarities and differences between the banana projects which emerged in various...