Publications

This paper examines thirty witchcraft cases reviewed by the Court of Appeal of Bertoua (East Province, Cameroon) during the period 1981-1984. The basic aim is to highlight the nature and sources of witchcraft accusations, the process of securing a conviction (i.e. proof), and...

Sum.: The economic policy of structural adjustment, which was initiated in most African countries during the 1980s, posed a serious threat to agricultural marketing boards in sub-Saharan Africa. Two elements of structural adjustment were particularly ominous: '...

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...

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...

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....

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,...

This study is about cults in northwestern Tunisia. A cult is defined as a religious grouping which exhibits several distinctive characteristics: the number of participants is limited, exclusivism is absent, the beliefs and practices are biased on one or several specific...

This report on the role of local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the improvement of the socioeconomic position of women in Zambia is based on anthropological fieldwork carried out in 1988 and 1989, and a consultancy mission undertaken on behalf of the Organization of...

The Free University in Amsterdam has undertaken several research projects in the Sudan. One programme (1983-1986) was aimed at comparing spontaneous and organized settlement of refugees as roads towards integration; the locations studied were in the region of Gedaref, in the...

This report, which is based on field research carried out in 1988, examines the marketing arrangements for raw cotton, cotton lint and cotton seed in Kenya, as well as the relationships and conflicts between the actors involved. The report starts with the history of cotton...

This research report traces all the main developments in IMF-World Bank policies in Uganda. Most of the material concerns the three IMF standby arrangements with Uganda for 1981-1984 and the World Bank Group's Structural Adjustment Programmes. These programmes introduced...

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...

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...

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...

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...