Publications

The African Studies Centre Leiden currently publishes eight different series. Books published in the ASCL Collection Series and Occasional Publications Series can be ordered from the Webshop or they can be purchased during a visit to the ASCL library, as long they are in stock. Book series published by Brill can be ordered directly from the publisher, or they can be purchased during a visit to the ASCL library, as long as they are in stock.
If you have questions about publishing with the ASCL, please contact Dr. Klaas van Walraven (k.van.walraven@asc.leidenuniv.nl).

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V.A. February
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Afrikaans Vandag
Added to database: 20 June 2012
M.E. de Bruijn
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Focaal : tijdschrift voor antropologie
Added to database: 20 June 2012
Type of publication: Book

Ce document est le rapport de synthèse de la Conférence régionale sur la problématique foncière et la décentralisation au Sahel. Tenue à Praia, capitale de la République du Cap-Vert, du 20 au 24 juin 1994, et organisée par le Comité inter-États de lutte contre la sécheresse...

Keywords: 1994, conference papers (form), customary law, decentralization, land law, natural resource management, Sahel
Added to database: 20 June 2012
G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Type of publication: Conference Paper
Keywords: 1994, Sahel
Added to database: 19 June 2012
J.K. van Donge
Type of publication: Review
In: Sociologia ruralis
Added to database: 03 April 2012
J.K. van Donge
Type of publication: Review
In: African affairs : the journal of the Royal African Society
Added to database: 03 April 2012
J.K. van Donge
Type of publication: Review
In: African affairs : the journal of the Royal African Society
Keywords: Tanzania
Added to database: 03 April 2012
G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Type of publication: Review
In: Sociologische Gids
Added to database: 03 April 2012
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Review
In: Critique of anthropology
Added to database: 03 April 2012
S. Ellis
Type of publication: Review
In: Africa : journal of the International African Institute
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 03 April 2012
J.W.M. van Dijk
Type of publication: Review
In: Focaal : tijdschrift voor antropologie
Added to database: 03 April 2012
J.W.M. van Dijk
Type of publication: Review
In: Man
Added to database: 03 April 2012
J.B. Gewald
Type of publication: Review
In: Leidschrift
Keywords: Africa, history
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 03 April 2012
D.F. Bryceson; C. van der Laan
Type of publication: Book

In Africa, agriculture still dominates, but its relative share has been declining since the 1970s, without any prior increase in agricultural productivity or in urban employment. A process of 'de-agrarianization' can be observed in the rural areas involving 1)...

Keywords: Africa
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 02 April 2012
D.F. Bryceson; M. MacCall
Type of publication: Book

This paper questions the assumptions of the rural technology debate, reassessing if and how technological interventions and initiatives are potentially valuable to rural women in sub-Saharan Africa. This entails examining what kinds of technologies are being promoted, and for...

Keywords: Africa
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 02 April 2012
V.A. February
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Stilet, Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
Added to database: 23 December 2011
V.A. February
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Concept
Added to database: 23 December 2011
Editors: G.S.C.M. Hesseling; B.M. Ba; P. Mathieu; M.S. Freudenberger; S. Soumare
Type of publication: Book

Les milieux ruraux et urbains du Sahel connaissent une mosaïque de micro-régimes fonciers qui coexistent, et dont les pièces constitutives peuvent prendre de nouvelles apparences selon les transformations qui affectent les sociétés sahéliennes. Le présent rapport est le...

Keywords: customary law, land law, Mali, Sahel
Added to database: 23 December 2011
Editors: G.S.C.M. Hesseling; B.M. Ba; P. Mathieu; M.S. Freudenberger; S. Soumare
Type of publication: Book

This report is the outcome of an action programme on land tenure in the Sahel, prepared by the CILSS (Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel) and the Club du Sahel in April 1990 in Ouagadougou, with the collaboration of the Land Tenure Center of...

Keywords: Country, customary law, Guinea-Bissau, land law, Mali, policy, Sahel, Senegal
Added to database: 23 December 2011
S. Ellis
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: African affairs : the journal of the Royal African Society

Using four official investigations by the ANC into human rights abuses perpetrated by the organization during its years in exile, as well as a number of other sources, this article summarizes what has been established concerning the ANC's security apparatus in the 1980s...

Keywords: African National Congress, defence, South Africa
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

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