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As a result of increasing globalisation the public sphere has expanded over the recent decades. Consequently Qur'an translations exhibit a highly pluralised concept of religious authority, demonstrating an eclectic use of sources as authors respond simultaneously to local...

In Kenya, insecure land tenure and inequitable access to land, forest and water resources have contributed to conflict and violence, which has in turn exacerbated food insecurity. To address these interlinked problems, a new set of laws and policies on food security and land...

Rede uitgesproken bij de aanvaarding van het ambt van Bijzonder hoogleraar Religie en Seksualiteit in Afrika aan de Faculteit der Maatschappij- en Gedragswetenschappen van de Universiteit van Amsterdam op woensdag 24 juni 2015

This study compares the development trajectories of Indonesia and Nigeria in the period 1966-1999, and identifies the key factors that drove rapid socio-economic development and economic stagnation observed in both countries respectively. An assessment is made of the extent...

This book examines trends related to power, sovereignty, conflict, peace, development, and changing social dynamics in the African context. It analyses the significance of many of the uncharted dimensions of Africa's intenational relations, such as the respatialisation of...

This paper reviews the Dutch development cooperation policies for the years 2010-2015 with a particular attention to the private sector development (PSD). Historical perspective is also added to this review. Dutch government has been strongly supporting policies and...

William C. Olsen, Walter E. A. van Beek, and the contributors to this volume seek to understand how Africans have confronted evil around them. Grouped around notions of evil as a cognitive or experiential problem, evil as malevolent process, and evil as an inversion of...

This book brings together in a comparative analysis the results of studies of the various cultural, social, economic and historical aspects that are formative in African societies' experiences of how people negotiated the spaces and times of being in transit on the road...

This study examines transience in the route to prosperity of the latter-day arrivals in Ghana, specifically in Accra. This is done with special reference to Jerusalem House, a compound accommodating 50-100 persons at any given time (according to accounts of the landlord and...

This study examines the claim that Nigerian girls working in the unregulated parts of the Dutch sex market are trafficked victims for commercial sexual exploitation. In the last decade, various discourses (Aghatise 2004; Monzini 2005) have arisen on how women of Nigerian...

Le présent livre part du constat qu'avec l'avènement et la massification des NTIC et singulièrement de la téléphonie filaire et mobile en Afrique - libéralisation économique et internationalisation des échanges,...

Two developments in Africa have generated an extensive literature. The first focuses on investment and land grabbing and the second on the formalization of rural property rights. Less has been written on the impact of formalization on land grabbing and of land grabbing on...

Departing from events at a funeral (the funeral ended abruptly after a participant had shouted "such is the taste of death" and the deceased was quickly put in a shallow grave), this chapter deals with the practice of magical revenge among the Kapsiki and Higi of...

Throughout Africa one craft among many stands out: that of the blacksmith. In many African cultures, smiths occupy a significant position, not just as artisans engaging in a difficult craft but also as special people. Often they perform other crafts, as well, and make up a...