Publications

La majorité de la population de Ziguinchor (Sénégal) appartient au groupe diola. Ce sont des 'autochtones' vis-à-vis des gens du nord, en particulier des Wolof, dont la présence paraît liée à l'action de l'État sénégalais et de son administration...

Exploring the penetration of the state into the region of the Kapsiki (and Higi) of North Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria, the author shows that the marginalization of the Kapsiki was not caused by geographical factors, but was mainly the product of interaction with state-...

Het boek beschrijft de 10 jaren van groots opgezette expedities, politieke misleiding en het tegen elkaar uitspelen van de Europese grootmachten, die vooraf gingen aan het uitroepen van de nieuwe staat in 1885. Dankzij zijn geld, zijn sluwheid en zijn doorzettingsvermogen...

From the 1850's to mid 1890's Africans were employed in top positions in the embryonic West African colonial services. This book contains the biographies of three of them: Ferguson on the Gold Coast, Lawson in Sierra Leone and Payne in Nigeria. All three had in...

Literatuuronderzoek over politieke ontwikkelingen in dit land. Er werd gekozen voor een beperkt aantal cruciale staatsinstanties, gegeven het historische feit dat bij het ontstaan en de verdere ontwikkeling van de staat Guiné-Bissau de politieke partij PAIGC een dominerende...

Summ.: An inventory of government-regulated producer prices in tropical Africa for the period 1960-1980. Statistical data are presented for 29 countries and 11 major crops (seven export crops and four food crops). A review of price movements indicate that: there has been a...

An account of the events leading up to independence in Mwase Lundazi, a chieftainship in the eastern province of Zambia, based on research carried out in 1977-1978, including 19 interviews with politicians or people with a history in politics in the area. The case of Mwase...

Through his own work in Mwasi Lundazi, the author discovered the relevance of the studies produced by social scientists working at the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute in Lusaka for an understanding of contemporary Zambia. Although the fieldwork was done and written up in the...

The main manifest function of Chama Cha Mapundizi (CCM), Tanzania's one party, is political recruitment. It is an institution to generate candidates for public office. Anybody who aspires towards a political position must seek support in the party. With this in mind, the...

Reviews the findings of available studies and reports thought to be of relevance to policy makers. A discussion of the institutional framework, of criteria used in price-setting procedures, and of scope and objectives of the agricultural pricing policies is folowed by an...

This collection of papers on theoretical and methodological perspectives in the study of African religion is the outcome of a conference held at the African Studies Centre, Leiden, in 1979. It reviews the major classic and contemporary theoretical approaches to African...