Publications

The National Land Act of 1964, designed to unify legislation concerning land, formally abolished the various local systems of land law in Senegal. The implementation of the various urban land regulations and the efforts to restructure and regulate the spontaneous settlements...

Publication to accompany the exposition Africa explores, held simultaneously at the Center for African Art and the New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York, May 16-Aug. 1991, and later travelling to other venues - Includes bibliographical references and index

Sommaire: Avant-propos (D. Barreteau, H. Tourneux) - Discours d'ouverture (A. Marliac) - Introduction (Y. Moñino) - Observations sur le nom du fer et de la forge dans le bassin du lac Tchad (H. Tourneux) - Les migrations des forgerons djorok chez les Massa du Cameroun (J...

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 1983, the Ministry of Planning and National Development (MPND) of Kenya and the African Studies Centre, Leiden, started a programme of mutual studies whose objective was to analyse current developments concerning food and nutrition in Kenya. The main subject areas are...

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: '...