Publications

Abridged abstract: Antagonism between older and younger men constitutes a striking feature of a rural community in post-independent Zambia. In the local political processes surrounding the 1973 Zambia general elections, a small group of young men organised themselves within a...

Zambian ethnicity cannot be regarded as an independent input variable, based on ascriptive membership of a rural "tribe" and determining social relations and processes, as Central African sociological and historical research to date has tended to think. On the...

Beschrijving en analyse van de traditionele Westafrikaanse samenleving en haar arbeidsverhoudingen, de veranderingen door de inlijving in het zich wereldwijd verbreidende kapitalistische systeem, het ontstaan van vakbonden, de verschillen tussen de vakbeweging in Frans West-...

Reviews briefly the role of population growth in economic growth theory and makes a few critical remarks on the applied methodology and the underlying assumptions. Emphasis is laid on the possible relationships between population and economic growth in the developing...

Explores some of the main characteristics of the legal system of the present-day Nkoya of Zambia, and relates this system on the one hand to the official legel system as it is mainly represented among the Nkoya, by the local court, on the other hand to the general structure...

The high incidence of malnutrition in Uganda among children of pre-school age must be attributed, to a considerable extent, to feeding habits. Various organisations try to improve the nutritional status of children through education programmes aiming at changing infant...