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 Mrs. Maaike Westra (m.a.westra@asc.leidenuniv.nl).

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N. Jua
Type of publication: Book

This study examines the economic management strategies adopted by the Government of Cameroon. Economic planning in Cameroon has been anchored to the principles of planned liberalism, self-reliant development, balanced development and social justice. These concepts are...

Keywords: Cameroon, economic conditions, economic policy
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
A. Jakobson-Widding; W.E.A. van Beek
Type of publication: Book

Most of the papers included in this volume were presented at a symposium held at Uppsala University, Sweden, in August 1987. An introduction by A. Jacobson-Widding and W. van Beek on the theme developed in the book, African folk models of fertility, is followed by three parts...

Keywords: 1987, Africa, conference papers (form), fertility, philosophy
Added to database: 23 December 2011
J.K. van Donge; A.J. Liviga
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: The journal of commonwealth & comparative politics

In order to understand the ways in which democratization can come about, this article analyses the case of Zanzibar, which has embraced democracy successfully despite a history of violent sectional strife. Only after the fall of Aboud Jumbe in 1984 did democracy extend itself...

Keywords: democratization, history, mobility, Tanzania, violence
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W. Klaver; R. Niemeijer
Editors: D.W.J. Foeken; A.P. den Hartog
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Seasons, food supply and nutrition in Africa : contributions to a workshop held in Wageningen on December 14, 1988

Seasonality research can offer an explanation for the persistent poverty in the rural areas of Third World countries. Besides, it offers a framework in which research questions originating from a variety of disciplines can be included. This book contains five lectures...

Keywords: 1988, Africa, African studies, children, conference papers (form), food, nutrition, seasonality, Subsaharan Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.E.A. van Beek
Editors: R. Bonsen; H. Marks; J. Miedema
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: The ambiguity of rapprochement: reflections of anthropologists on their controversial relationship with missionaries
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
J.B. Gewald
Type of publication: Book

Between 8 and 13 December 1958 the first All-African Peoples Conference (AAPC) was held in Accra, Ghana. Under the motto 'Forward to independence now!' more than 200 delegates from 62 delegations spent a week discussing issues relating to Africa's common future...

Keywords: Africa, Country, Ghana
Added to database: 23 December 2011
D.W.J. Foeken; A.P. den Hartog
Type of publication: Book

Seasonality research can offer an explanation for the persistent poverty in the rural areas of Third World countries. Besides, it offers a framework in which research questions originating from a variety of disciplines can be included. This book contains five lectures...

Keywords: 1988, Africa, African studies, children, conference papers (form), Country, food, nutrition, Rural, seasonality, Subsaharan Africa, Zimbabwe
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
D.W.J. Foeken; K. van der Meulen
Type of publication: Book

Een bloemlezing van eet- en drinkervaringen van Nederlandse afrikanisten, gegarneerd met toepasselijke recepten, samengesteld ter gelegenheid van het afscheid van Gerrit Grootenhuis als algemeen secretaris van het Afrika-Studiecentrum, Leiden (Nederland), in december 1990....

Added to database: 23 December 2011
D.W.J. Foeken
Editors: D.W.J. Foeken; A.P. den Hartog
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Seasons, food supply and nutrition in Africa : contributions to a workshop held in Wageningen on December 14, 1988

This article offers an overview - based on existing literature - of aspects of seasonality in sub-Saharan Africa. The discussion starts with climatic seasonality. Other seasonal aspects as they are derived from climatic seasonality are described next (the agricultural cycle,...

Keywords: Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011
M.M.E.M. Rutten
Editors: D. Simon
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Third World regional development: A reappraisal
Keywords: Kenya, policy, Rural
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
H.A. Meilink
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Beyond adjustment : sub-Saharan Africa

This contribution to the Africa seminar 'Beyond adjustment', organized by the Directorate General for International Cooperation of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Maastricht, The Netherlands, on June 30, 1990, summarizes the distinctive features of the...

Keywords: Africa, economic policy, economic recession, food policy, Netherlands, policy, Subsaharan Africa
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
H.A. Meilink
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Spectrum Jaarboek 1989
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
H.A. Meilink
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Mali, Senegal, Sudan, Zambia
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: D.W.J. Foeken; K. van der Meulen
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Eten met Gerrit: Een bloemlezing van eet- en drinkerveraringen van Nederlandse afrikanisten, gegarneerd met toepasselijke recepten; samengesteld ter gelegenheid van het afscheid van Gerrit Grootenhuis als algemeen secretaris van het Afrika-Studiecentrum
Keywords: Africa, Botswana, cookery books (form), social scientists
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the 6h Satterthwaite Colloquium on African Religion and Ritual, Cumbria (U.K.), 21-24 april 1990, 58 pp.
Keywords: Botswana
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: CentREpol-VU (Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics, Free University, Amsterdam) formal lecture, 22nd June 1990, 31 pp.
Keywords: Botswana, ethnicity, politics
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the 8th Convention on Medical Sociology and Anthropology, Netherlands Anthropological and Sociological Association, Amsterdam, 23 November 1990, 23 pp.
Keywords: Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the conference on Power and Prayer, Institute for the Study of Politics and religion, Free University, Amsterdam, 10-14 December 1990, 44 pp.; also seminar paper, Botswana Society, Gaborone, July 1991; and seminar paper, African Studies
Keywords: 1991, African studies, Botswana, politics
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Type of publication: Book
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Type of publication: Book
Added to database: 23 December 2011

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