Publications

Presuming reader familiarity with general works on Kenyan history and Kikuyu society, and more particularly with Mau Mau 'classics' such as Rosberg and Nottingham's 'The myth of Mau Mau' (New York, Praeger, 1966) and Barnett and Njama's 'Mau...

This literature study centres on Johan Galtung's 'A structural theory of imperialism' (1971), a theory which deals primarily with dominance relations between centre and periphery nations. The author applies a somewhat adjusted variant of the theory to the...

In 1976 a start was made with the setting up of a system of district planning based on consultation with the people at the village level. The intention was to replace a system of purely "top-down" planning with a system including strong elements of "bottom-up...

Abstr.: This case study from Eastern Zambia challenges the thesis that after independence an elite of privileged farmers entrenched itself through domination of the local political arena and a coalition with the civil service. It argues that such a view may be a reification...

This medium-sized irrigation project was one of the schemes undertaken to bring about structural changes in the colonial export economy and to bridge regional inequalities. The paper aims to demonstrate first why producers of use-values and migrant labourers should be...

Une première exploration, limitée à quelques pays africains et européens. De la relation entre l'Etat et la langue deux aspects juridiques sont traités: les possibilités de participation pour le citoyen et la protection offerte par l'Etat aux habitants qui parlent...

Les auteurs présentent leurs idées sur le sens de la conciliation dans le cadre du réglement d'un litige, afin de poser ainsi les premiers jalons d'une éventuelle étude comparative des procédures de conciliation dans diverses sociétés

The Protectorate Land Ordinance of 1927 was introduced to "simplify the law relating to the tenure of land by non-natives in the Protectorate". It was an attempt to regularize and unify existing practices, which in part were based on very old African customs around...

Aim of this paper is not to present a full description of ancestor veneration among the Nkoya. It concerns the extent to which an analytical theory of Afrian religious change is capable of explaining contemporary plurality of religious forms in selected areas of Africa as the...