Publications

This book brings together studies on the broad theme of elections and democratization in Africa since roughly 1989. It is based on a seminar held in The Netherlands in February 1997, and includes chapters on both electoral processes, especially the role of foreign observers...

Encounters between foreign tourists and people of different cultural background become very common in a globalized world. The nature of this exchange in cultural terms relates questions of identity construction and the emergence or creation of difference. This article...

The papers in this special issue, which is the result of a workshop in Oxford in 1999, analyse patterns of cultural variation in southern Ethiopia. They demonstrate that 'ethnic groups' or 'cultures' cannot be understood in isolation, but must be seen as...

This article examines the social and political background of escalating violence between ethnic groups in southwestern Ethiopia who until recently had customary and ritually sanctioned ways of resolving conflict. It focuses on the Maji area, a frontier region inhabited by two...

Land settlement is one of the major, if not the main, rural development activities at the Kenya Coast. Since independence 16 settlement schemes have been started with a total of 17,000 plots for an estimated135,000 inhabitants. The historical background of population and...

This is the concluding chapter of the Kenya Coast Handbook based on the 24 reviews by different authors on various political, economic and social issues. The epilogue emphasizes the mutual role of existing culture and available resources in the development of the region. The...

Despite its economic and cultural potential, the Kenya Coast finds itself in a marginal position. The Kenya Coast Handbook traces the causes behind this situation and analyses it from different angles: political, economic and social. The present text serves as introductory...

Despite its economic and cultural potential, the Kenya Coast finds itself in a marginal position. This collective volume traces the causes behind this situation and analyses it from different angles: political, economic and social. Most of the papers included in this volume...

Despite its economic and cultural potential, the Kenya Coast finds itself in a marginal position. This collective volume traces the causes behind this situation and analyses it from different angles: political, economic and social. Most of the papers included in this volume...

The case studies collected in this volume suggest that 'violence' is not a simple, universal urge, but is contingent and context-dependent, shaped by social relations of power, force and dominance. The contributions identify the symbolic and ritualized aspects of...

This report constitutes a synthesis of three case studies of intrastate conflicts in Africa. Research was conducted in the context of the Conflict Policy Research Project executed by the Netherlands Institute of International Relations 'Clingendael' for the...

The papers brought together in this volume were originally presented at a symposium on the culture, history and economy of the Otjiherero-speaking people - the Herero and the Himba - of Namibia, which was held in Siegberg, Germany, in September 1997. The papers are grouped in...