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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A.J. Dietz; I. Spijkerman; P. Mertens; H. Wouters; C. Frederiks
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Kenya, Netherlands, West-Pokot
Added to database: 23 December 2011
S.D.K. Ellis
Type of publication: Review
In: The journal of African history
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 03 April 2012
S.D.K. Ellis
Type of publication: Review
In: African affairs : the journal of the Royal African Society
Keywords: politics
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 03 April 2012
Type of publication: Book

This report examines the trade in cocoa and coffee in North West and South West Province in Cameroon. It concentrates on the early stages of trade, from the moment of sale by the farmers till the time the produce is ready for shipment. The period reviewed goes back to 1978,...

Open access: Full text
Added to database: 02 April 2012
H.J. Tieleman
Type of publication: Book

An introduction is followed by 13 papers, most of them contributions to the seminar, illustrating the variety in research programmes on Swaziland being in operation at present. Attention is paid to the national economy (H. COPPENS, M.POMMEE, A. VREMAN), the quest for Swazi...

Keywords: 1986, conference papers (form), economic development, society, Swaziland
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
K. Schilder
Type of publication: Book

The purpose of this analytical bibliography is to provide an overview of the recently published social science literature on State formation, religion, and land tenure in Cameroon. The 800 entries have been arranged under the following subject headings: The Cameroon State (...

Keywords: Bibliographies (form), Cameroon, land law, nation, religion
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
J.M. Shimunika; W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book

This text of "The history of the Nkoya people" keeps as closely as possible to the original manuscript as written in the 1950s-1960s. (An English translation is included as part 3 in Wim van Binsbergen's 'Tears of rain: ethnicity and history in central...

Keywords: Ethnic groups, history, Nkoya, Nkoya language, Zambia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G. ter Haar; S.D.K. Ellis
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: African affairs : the journal of the Royal African Society

This article is based on research into the healing ministry of Monsignor Emmanuel Milingo, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lusaka from 1969 to 1983. On the basis of an analysis of a collection of some 250 letters written to the Archbishop in 1979 and 1980 by people in need of...

Keywords: African religions, Catholic Church, faith healing, spirit possession, Zambia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.M. Ruigu
Type of publication: Book

This paper examines policy issues relating to large-scale public irrigation schemes (the National Irrigation Board (NIB) schemes and the Bura scheme) in Kenya. First, it considers the need for intensified agricultural production given a declining land base and a rapidly...

Keywords: irrigation, Kenya
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
R. Niemeijer; J.C. Hoorweg
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Ecology of food and nutrition
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G. Breukers; M. de Hon; L.J. de Haan
Type of publication: Book

Inventaire régional de la province du Borgou, République populaire du Bénin, en cinq chapitres: Milieu naturel - Démographie - Structure sociale - Economie - Infrastructure. L'inventaire est le résultat des enquêtes menées dans le Borgou et à Cotonou de mi-avril jusqu...

Added to database: 23 December 2011
P.J.J. Konings
Type of publication: Book

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...

Keywords: Cameroon, workers
Added to database: 23 December 2011
P.J.J. Konings
Type of publication: Book
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.E.A. van Beek
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Religieuze bewegingen in Nederland
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.E.A. van Beek
Type of publication: Book

The Kapsiki of North Cameroon, called Higi in Nigeria, form a sizeable group of about 150,000 people, two thirds in Nigeria and one third in Cameroon. The main administrative village in Cameroon, Mogodé, provides the majority of the data for the present study of...

Keywords: Cameroon, colonialism, Kapsiki, modes of production, social change
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.E.A. van Beek
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Religieuze bewegingen in Nederland
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
W.E.A. van Beek
Editors: W.E.A. van Beek
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: The Quest for Purity
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
J.W.M. van Dijk; M.E. de Bruijn
Type of publication: Book
Added to database: 23 December 2011
D.W.J. Foeken; J.C. Hoorweg
Type of publication: Book

Second part of a series of reports on seasonality in Kwale and Kilifi Districts, Kenya. It presents a general introduction to the topic of seasonality in Africa and reviews existing socioeconomic knowledge about Kwale and Kilifi Districts

Keywords: Africa, food, Kenya, seasonality
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
H.A. Meilink; D.W.J. Foeken; A. van Haastrecht
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Kenya
Added to database: 23 December 2011

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