Publications

The African Studies Centre Leiden currently publishes eight different series. Books published in the ASCL Collection Series and Occasional Publications Series can be ordered from the Webshop or they can be purchased during a visit to the ASCL library, as long they are in stock. Book series published by Brill can be ordered directly from the publisher, or they can be purchased during a visit to the ASCL library, as long as they are in stock.

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The timelessness of sexist garbage (2024)
J. Rana; L.W. Oudenhuijsen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: LOVA journal of feminist anthropology and gender studies
Keywords: academia, gender discrimination, gender equality, Netherlands, women's rights
Added to database: 30 January 2025

Camel ownership as a passage to adulthood in Omani Bedouin culture (2024)
I. Alwahaibi; V. Dauletova; H. Wels
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Anthrozoös

The development of adolescent humans through child–pet interaction and attachment is the focus of the current study. The context is the Omani Bedouin culture, which is inseparably linked to camel culture. This culture promotes the importance of nurturing relationships...

Keywords: camel ownership, child development, child-pet attachment, human-animal interaction, Oman, Omani Bedouin culture
Added to database: 29 January 2025

Book review of Gabrielle Hecht, "Residual governance: how South Africa foretells planetary futures" (Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2023. hardback ISBN 9781478020288, paperback 9781478024941) (2024)
J.B. Gewald
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Africa
Keywords: book review (form), South Africa
Added to database: 29 January 2025

Stephen Ellis Archive inventory (2024)
S. Ellis; T. T.A. van der Hoog
Type of publication: Other

This collection is the personal research archive of Stephen Ellis. It covers his entire working life, from his PhD research at the University of Oxford in the late 1970s until his untimely death in 2015, when he was working as a senior researcher at the African Studies Centre...

Keywords: Africa, African National Congress (South Africa), anti-apartheid resistance, civil wars, crime, Liberia, Madagascar, Nigeria, personal archives (form), Sierra Leone, South Africa, Stephen Ellis (1953-2015)
Added to database: 27 January 2025

North Korea and the liberation of Southern Africa, 1960-2020 (2024)
T. T.A. van der Hoog
Type of publication: Book

This thesis explores North Korea’s influential role in the liberation of Southern Africa. Specifically, it examines the question of how political elites in Southern Africa benefitted from North Korean support, from 1960 until 2020. The main argument of this book is that...

Keywords: cold war, contemporary history, heritage, Liberation movements, North Korea, Southern Africa
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 27 January 2025

Afrika en de nieuwe Koude Oorlog (2024)
T. T.A. van der Hoog
Type of publication: Other
Keywords: Africa, diplomatic relations, foreign policy, foreign relations, Russia
Added to database: 27 January 2025

Russia's position in Africa isn't as strong as it looks (2024)
D.J. Money; T. T.A. van der Hoog
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: World Politics Review (WPR)
Keywords: Africa, diplomatic relations, foreign policy, foreign relations, Russia
Added to database: 27 January 2025

Das Ende des Dogon-Mythos: eine neue Interpretation ihrer Kunst (2024)
W.E.A. van Beek
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Kultur und Kontext
Keywords: Dogon, Mali
Added to database: 24 January 2025

Word of welcome (2024)
M. Dekker
Editors: F. Veldkamp; G. Seuren
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: A window on Africa: African Studies Centre Leiden's 75th anniversary celebration
Keywords: Africa, African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), Netherlands
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 22 January 2025

From periphery to centre: the development of the ASCL research agenda over seven decades (2024)
G.J. Abbink
Editors: F. Veldkamp; G. Seuren
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: A window on Africa: Afrian Studies Centre Leiden's 75th anniversary celebration
Keywords: Africa, African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), African Studies centres, scientific research, The Netherlands
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 22 January 2025

From 100 to 100.000 books and a digital library in 75 years: the library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden, 1947-2022 (2024)
J.C.M. Damen
Editors: F. Veldkamp; G. Seuren
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: A window on Africa: African Studies Centre Leiden's 75th anniversary celebration
Keywords: Africa, African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), African Studies centres, collection development, Netherlands, university libraries
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 22 January 2025

From economic to development and back to economic: the changing explanations for the study of Africa (2024)
C.U. Uche
Editors: F. Veldkamp; G. Seuren
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: A window on Africa: African studies Centre Leiden's 75th anniversary celebration
Keywords: Africa, African studies, African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), economic development, Europe
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 22 January 2025

Titles and subject headings: about daily activities in the ASCL library (2024)
H. Smits
Editors: F. Veldkamp; G. Seuren
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: A window on Africa: Afirxcan Studies Centre Leiden's 75th anniversary celebration
Keywords: Africa, African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), cataloguing, subject headings, university libraries
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 22 January 2025

Gatekeeper, gateway, gate-opener?: 75 years of ASCL collection development (2024)
G.C. van de Bruinhorst
Editors: F. Veldkamp; G. Seuren
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: A window on Africa: African Studies Centre Leiden's 75th anniversary celebration
Keywords: Africa, African studies, African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), African Studies centres, collection development, university libraries
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 21 January 2025

Eternal periphery?: toward a socio-political history of Maji, an Ethiopian frontier town, 1898-2020 - with photo illustrations (2024)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: SocArXiv
Keywords: development, Ethiopia, history, small towns
Added to database: 20 January 2025

In memoriam David Turton (1941-2023) (2024)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Ethiopian journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities (EJOSSAH)
Keywords: Ethiopia, in memoriams (form), Turton, David (1941-2023)
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 17 January 2025

Political culture and cyclical conflict in Ethiopia: exploring the generative dynamics of political crisis in the 2020s (2024)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Journal of Asian and African studies
Keywords: conflict, constitutional development, Ethiopia, ethnic politics, ethno-federalism, political culture
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 17 January 2025

Preserving reason: a rationalist defense of the ‘Western telos’ in social science and the humanities (2024)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Kulturní Studia / Cultural Studies

I discuss some of the current challenges to the social sciences/humanities and contend that their impact, marked by epistemological confusion and ill-founded accusatory discourse against the basics of open scientific debate and empirical methods, is damaging and undermining...

Keywords: anti-science movements, epistemology, rationalism, scientific method, Western telos
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 15 January 2025

A luta pela libertação da Guiné-Bissau: vista pelos olhos de um jovem médico neerlandês, Roel Coutinho (2024)
R. Coutinho; J.C.M. Damen
Type of publication: Miscellaneous
Keywords: Angola, doctors, Guinea-Bissau, national liberation struggles, Netherlands, photography, pictorial works (form), Portugal
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 09 January 2025

Médico na Guiné-Bissau em 1974: testemunha ocular do fim do colonialismo português em África (2024)
J.C.M. Damen
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: A luta pela libertação da Guiné-Bissau: vista pelos olhos de um jovem médico neerlandês, Roel Coutinho
Keywords: Angola, doctors, Guinea-Bissau, national liberation struggles, Netherlands, photography, Portugal
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 19 December 2024

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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 6 October 2025