Publications

Built around a corpus of ‘classic thinkers’ such as Carl von Clausewitz, the field of strategic studies has a decidedly Eurocentric basis that is entirely devoid of African thinkers and case studies. In contrast, this article shows that there is a rich tradition...

Field visits are common phenomena with non-governmental organisations in Uganda. During these visits, Ugandan national staff guide visitors on series of meetings and interactions in the field. Following an actor-oriented approach and drawing on ethnographic data on 14 field...

The 1970s marked a turning point in the history of the peasantry of the Sahel, the arid and semi-arid band immediately south of the Sahara that spans the breadth of Africa. That decade began with a humanitarian catastrophe, whose origins apparently lay in a protracted period...

The story of the Rwandan Genocide has been told many times by scholars and journalists. Over the course of a hundred days in the spring and summer of 1994, about eight hundred thousand Tutsi and moderate Hutu were murdered by their extremist Hutu compatriots. Those hundred...

Trust and Trust-Making in Africa’s Global Connections is a thought-provoking book contributing to both African Studies and the study of trust in society. The volume provides rich ethnographic insights into the ways trust and trust-making shape Africans’ global...

The study combines domain expertise and computational community detection to uncover what role citizen journalists and social media platforms play in mediating the dynamics of conflict in Mali. Under conditions of the growing conflict in Mali, citizen journalists are opening...

‘De kracht van Afrika’ biedt een fascinerende blik op de rijke en complexe geschiedenis van het Afrikaanse continent, vanaf de prekoloniale tijd tot aan het einde van de 20ste eeuw. Auteur Jan Ruyssenaars neemt je mee op reis door de opkomst en ondergang van oude...

Using the Netherlands as a case study and materials partly from Dutch government archives, this paper critiques the development of African Studies after the Second World War and the role the state, business interests, and Official Development Assistance played in this process...