Publications

En 1895, Madagascar est occupé par l'armée française chargée de veiller à la mise en place du protectorat. Dans la campagne autour de la capitale malgache d'Antananarivo, des bandes armées, se dénommant elles-mêmes menalamba, essayaient de chasser les envahisseurs...

This study is a contribution to the analysis of the interplay of myth, legend, history and identity of the Beta Esra'el or Falasha of Ethiopia from a historical-anthropological perspective. The focus is on the issue of their ethnogenesis, or origin history, and its...

This article has two purposes: 1) to provide a first historical outline of the Tishana or Me'en, a small 'tribal' group living in southwestern Ethiopia, and 2) to illustrate the importance of a political economy approach for the explanation of such a process....

Comprehensive overview of publications on Ethiopia published between c. 1957 up to 1990. The 5433 entries are arranged according to the following broad subject areas: Bibliographies - History of Ethiopianist studies - Studies on manuscripts, documents, archives and library...

This article describes a phenomenon known all over Africa, for which there is no really satisfactory term in English but which is summed up in the French term 'radio trottoir', literally 'pavement radio'. It may be defined as the popular and unofficial...

In this monograph three major types of intervention in child nutrition are examined: nutrition education, food supplementation and nutrition rehabilitation. Detailed evaluations were carried out, between 1976 and 1979, of programmes in Central Kenya operating under different...

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...

Third part of a five-part study on seasonal fluctuations in food supply and nutrition in the coastal lowlands of Kenya. Household surveys were carried out in six locations in Kwale and Kilifi Districts in 1985-1987. The present report offers a description of the socioeconomic...

This bibliography provides a selection from the literature on some aspects of the apartheid State. The number of entries - books, articles in periodicals and some conference papers - totals about 850. The first two chapters consist of a list of bibliographies, inventories,...