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This paper attempts to assess to what extent the growth of the manufacturing sector in Kenya has contributed to a process of integrated and widespread economic development. The first section reviews the general arguments of development theory to promote industrial development...

De in deze bundel gepresenteerde studies sluiten aan bij de theorieën van Franse marxistische antropologen, zoals Meillassoux, Godelier, Rey en Terray. Met behulp van deze theorieën kunnen de resultaten van antropologisch veldwerk in Afrika verbonden worden met wijdere...

Aim of this research report is to present a picture of anthropological work on sub-Saharan Africa as undertaken in the Netherlands during the 1970s. After an introduction follows, in section 2, a discussion of the discipline and its predicaments. In section 3 the author...

Doel van dit artikel is te verkennen in hoeverre het marxistisch paradigma van de koppeling van produktiewijzen licht werpt op een religieus verschijnsel, n.l. de Bituma ziekte-cultus in Lusaka, beoefend door migranten uit het Kaoma district. Met behulp van de...

Deze studie behandelt het staatsrecht in Senegal in historisch perspectief, met nadruk op de receptie van het Franse staatsrecht. In hfdst. 1 wordt ingegaan op het verschijnsel receptie van het staatsrecht. Hfdst. 2 geeft achtergrondinformatie over de geopolitieke context, de...

During the course of 1978, the three Family Life Training Centres studied admitted 273 women accompanied by 674 children. Women with malnourished children (and their siblings) are admitted to these centres for a 3-week course consisting primarily of nutrition and health...

Pour analyser les diverses formes d'éducation au Cameroun, les responsables de cet ouvrage collectif, qui comporte 31 articles différents, ont fait appel à vingt-cinq spécialistes d'origine et de discipline diverses. Vingt-huit articles du recueil sont classés en...

Presuming reader familiarity with general works on Kenyan history and Kikuyu society, and more particularly with Mau Mau 'classics' such as Rosberg and Nottingham's 'The myth of Mau Mau' (New York, Praeger, 1966) and Barnett and Njama's 'Mau...

This literature study centres on Johan Galtung's 'A structural theory of imperialism' (1971), a theory which deals primarily with dominance relations between centre and periphery nations. The author applies a somewhat adjusted variant of the theory to the...

In 1976 a start was made with the setting up of a system of district planning based on consultation with the people at the village level. The intention was to replace a system of purely "top-down" planning with a system including strong elements of "bottom-up...

Abstr.: This case study from Eastern Zambia challenges the thesis that after independence an elite of privileged farmers entrenched itself through domination of the local political arena and a coalition with the civil service. It argues that such a view may be a reification...