Publications

This paper gives an outline for a research project to study the historical and actual functioning of the so-called traditional social security system in Swaziland and its relationship with processes of socioeconomic differentiation and nuclearization. The traditional social...

This book concerns the early years of German colonial rule in Cameroon. It focuses on the North-Western Province. When Cameroon was declared a German protectorate in 1884 a systematic effort was made to penetrate the hinterlands and to impose German rule. The gradual...

This research report on disability and rehabilitation among the Shona in Goromonzi district, Zimbabwe, consists of two parts. The first part gives a summary of the literature study and consists of four chapters. Chapter 2 provides an introduction to the fieldwork area, its...

This collection comprises the papers, opening speeches, and discussants' notes presented at the conference 'The political economy of Cameroon - historical perspectives', which was held at Leiden from 1-4 June, 1988. The 34 papers were presented in ten sessions...

This study examines agricultural production and off-farm employment among the rural population in Kwale District Kenya. Research was carried out in two villages, located in different agro-ecological zones: Kibandaongo, in the low-potential livestock-millet zone, inhabited by...

Le mode de vie traditionnelle des Peulh dans le sud-est du district de Ségbana dans la République du Bénin a changé à cause des processus de transformation qui sont intervenus depuis les années '70. La sécheresse, la croissance de la population, l'introduction de la...

The 1985 parliamentary elections in Tanzania attracted 1145 candidates to contest 119 constituencies. Such intensive competition may show patterns of conflict and change in a political system where interest articulation and aggregation are hidden in the consensus of a single...

The Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC), a public enterprise with a permanent labour force of some 16,000 workers, is one of the oldest and certainly the largest agro-industrial enterprise in Cameroon. In order to maximize labour productivity, output, and capital...

Critical reassessment of the events leading up to the Battle of Dithakong in South Africa on June 26, 1823. The author argues that the Battle of Dithakong, which is generally seen in connection with the 'African Mfecane', a process of social, political and military...

This paper critically examines the sections of the 'Diary of Henry Francis Fynn' (ed. by J. Stuart and D. Malcolm, 1950) dealing with the Zulu king Shaka, with the aim of assessing the validity of the Diary as a historical source. The sections examined deal with...