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To mark the 65th birthday of the Dutch economist and Africanist Laurens van der Laan, a symposium was held in Leiden in November 1997 on 'Agricultural marketing in tropical Africa'. This book contains the seven papers presented at the symposium as well as four...

Using the example of Kenya, the author assesses whether tourism is a viable development strategy for Africa. More specifically, he assesses the contribution of tourism to development; documents the development of tourism in Kenya; examines the impact of international tourism...

Many local tenure arrangements in Niger were largely implicit, not recorded in any codified form. In the process of codification now underway, chiefs are regarded as the key interpreters of tradition, mutating the implicit into the explicit. Land tenure reform is not without...

The contributions in this collective volume explore the overlay of different chiefly power bases (imposed and imagined) in contemporary African society, and how African chieftaincy has been affected by the recurrent experiments in nationbuilding and by ideologies of democracy...

This book is out of print. The papers collected in this volume were first presented at a conference on 'Globalization, development and the making of consumers: what are collective identities for?' which was held in The Hague, The Netherlands, on 13-16 March 1997....

Fraud and smuggling on a major scale, the plundering of natural resources, the privatization of State institutions, the development of an economy of plunder, the growth of private arms - all of these features of public life in Africa suggest that the State itself is becoming...

En dépit de ses succès, le modèle démocratique sud-africain traverse une phase délicate. La succession du président Nelson Mandela annonce une possible crispation du pouvoir, en raison notamment des tendances autoritaires de Thabo Mbeki. Incapable de s'affirmer sur la...

This bibliography is a listing of all materials that have ever been published or written on the subject of urban agriculture in Africa up to 1998. It records all books, chapters in books, discussion and conference papers, periodical literature and all types of academic theses...