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.

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D.W.J. Foeken; N. Tellegen
Type of publication: Book

This book examines the living conditions of farm labourers in Trans Nzoia, one of Kenya's large-scale farming districts. Based on a study conducted in 1989 among large farmers and farm labourers, an overview is given of wages, provisions, the various sources of income,...

Keywords: African studies, agricultural workers, farmers, food, household income, Kenya, large farms, rural households, social networks
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
D.W.J. Foeken; A.J. Dietz
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Geografie : vaktijdschrift voor geografen

Etniciteit heeft altijd een centrale rol gespeeld in de Afrikaanse politiek. Politieke leiders hebben in het verleden hun machtsbasis steeds gevonden binnen hun eigen volk. Vanwege de etnische tegenstellingen zijn velen pessimistisch over het welslagen van de golf van...

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Added to database: 23 December 2011
D.W.J. Foeken
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Eastern and Southern Africa geographical journal

The agricultural potential of land is largely determined by soil and climatological characteristics, notably temperature, annual rainfall and seasonal distribution of rainfall. The author deals in particular with the last factor, climatic seasonality, first as a measurable...

Keywords: climate, Kenya, seasonality
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
D. Merolla
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Encyclopédie berbère, vol. XIV
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
M.E. de Bruijn; J.W.M. van Dijk
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Cahiers d'Etudes africaines
Keywords: droughts, Fulani, Mali, social structure
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
M.E. de Bruijn; J.W.M. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Proceedings of the Conference on Social security in Sub-Saharan Africa: old age, accident and unemployment. Berlin, 7-21 november 1993
Keywords: Africa, Social security
Added to database: 23 December 2011
M.E. de Bruijn
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Focaal : tijdschrift voor antropologieFocaal

This paper examines how poor members of Fulbe society, a group of agropastoralists in the Sahel, central Mali, are surviving after two decades of environmental disaster. The focus is on the Jalloube of the Hayre in central Mali. Social security relations and institutions...

Keywords: fieldwork, Fulani, history, Islam, Mali, poverty, Sahel, social networks, Social security
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Added to database: 23 December 2011

Africa (1994)
K. van Walraven
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
Keywords: Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J.van Kessel
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Internationale Samenwerking
Keywords: Zimbabwe
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J.van Kessel
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Het Parool
Added to database: 23 December 2011
L.J. de Haan; J. Berkhout
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Raakvlak
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
L.J. de Haan; A. Klaasse Bos; C. Lutz
Editors: C. Custers; P. Stunnenberg
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Incorporation and integration in developing countries
Keywords: Africa, developing countries, food policy, food production, food trade, international economic relations, West Africa
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
L.J. de Haan; P. Ton
Type of publication: Book

This review of Dutch research on environmental issues in sub-Saharan Africa is based on an inventory of some 80 research programmes carried out in the Netherlands during the 1990s. An analysis of the research themes indicates that most of the research concentrates on the...

Keywords: Africa, Netherlands, policy, research, Subsaharan Africa
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
L.J. de Haan
Editors: A. Harts-Broekhuis; A. Verkoren
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: No easy way out: essays on Thrid World development
Keywords: geographical research, geography, Netherlands, policy
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
A.J. Dietz; A. van Haastrecht; S. Dima
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Agroforestry, Kenya, Woodfuel
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
A.J. Dietz; Ch. Okidi
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Educational assistance, Environmental studies, Kenya, MOI-University,Kenya
Added to database: 23 December 2011
A.J. Dietz; Ch. Okidi
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Educational assistance, Environmental studies, Kenya, MOI-University,Kenya
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
A.J. Dietz
Editors: O. Verkoren; A. Harts-Broekhuis
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: No easy way out: essays on Third World development in honour of Jan Hinderink
Keywords: developing countries, development economy
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
A.J. Dietz
Editors: G. Custers; P. Stunnenberg
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Incorporation and integration in developing countries
Keywords: change, Country, developing countries
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Added to database: 23 December 2011
C.L.N. Schilder
Type of publication: Book

In this anthropological work, ethnicity is approached from the vantage point of one particular group, the Mundang of northern Cameroon. The author carried out a field study among the Mundang of Kaele region during fifteen months in 1988-1990. The first three chapters of the...

Keywords: anthropological research, Cameroon, Ethnic groups, ethnicity, history, Mundang, theses (form)
Added to database: 23 December 2011

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