Publications

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...

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...

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...

This photo-ethnography explores traces of war in Burundi. Bringing into view young people of Burundian heritage in Belgium and the Netherlands, the book reveals how war and (lost) homes reverberate in people, places and through ‘war repertoires’. Yet the young...

Land holds immense economic, cultural, religious, and political significance for most sub-Saharan African countries. However, customary patriarchal norms restrict land ownership to the male lineage, while women typically access land through relationships with men. Women...