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This book is based on an ethnographic study during an ongoing civil war in northern Uganda. It examines children's suffering as well as their attempts to restore normality. Data shows that there is a high burden of illnesses among the children, both infectious diseases...

This Masters thesis is the winner of the ASC's Africa Thesis Award 2009. It examines the decision-making process of Senegalese men to make use of the dangerous boat journey to the Canary Islands in an effort to reach Europe. Moving beyond conventional micro- and macro-...

Religion is alive, especially - and increasingly - in the global South. What impact does religion have in everyday life as provider of normative orientations? This research investigates the role of religion in disputing processes in Gorongosa, Mozambique, where both...

Participation in local development has been one emphasis of decentralisation policy in Tanzania. With this policy, it is believed that the government sees the involvement of the people as a means and an important strategy for local development. However, since the independence...

In this farewell lecture on the occasion of his departure as Professor of Development in sub-Saharan Africa at Leiden University and Director of the African Studies Centre (ASC), Leiden, the author starts with the vuvuzela issue as an illustration of the lack of confidence...

This is the third volume in a series of three bibliographies of the social science and history literature on Ethiopia and Eritrea. The previous volumes were published in 1991 and 1995. The present volume gives an update of the literature published in the last fifteen years....

'Migrations in the southwest', pp. 175-77, 'Migrations from late 19th cent. untill today', pp. 177-178, 'Possession cults', pp. 183-185, 'Qallicha', pp. 255, 'Sacrifice', pp. 442-444'Säpänhi', pp. 532-533, '...