Publications

This collection of articles aims to stimulate the exploration of African initiative and creativity and to go beyond immediate socio-economic and political circumstances by analyzing those initiatives that offer alternatives to the prevailing paradigms. It moves away from...

This chapter explores the ways in which the social background of migrants and their families inform their agency, identity and behaviour. It considers more specifically the extent to which the ascribed positions in the social hierarchy of Malian Fulbe society are an important...

Dreams are not a field of study usually associated with resistance. This chapter, however, offers a historical interpretation of transcripts of dream accounts put down on paper by a guerrilla fighter in northern Angola in 1961. The accounts were found among UPA (Union of the...

In deze inaugurele rede analyseert de auteur de betekenis van ritueel; met name karakteriseert hij de rite in contrast met sport. Sport en religie komen in onze huidige maatschappij steeds dichter bij elkaar te liggen, beïnvloeden elkaar, roepen vergelijkbare emoties op en...

In Ghanaian society, funerals and the elaborate festivities they usually entail require enormous investments on the part of relatives who need elaborate structures of support and reciprocity to cope with these events. In the Ghanaian migrant community in Botswana, Ghanaian...

Pentecostalism in Africa has developed a special relationship with the night as a time for conducting specific religious activities. Of these, the night vigil is the best known, with its underlying notions concerning darkness, invisible powers, faith and community. Ghanaian...