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.

Unfortunately we no longer accept publications for our book series.

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A.J. Dietz; D.W.J. Foeken; S. Soeters; W. Klaver
Type of publication: Other
Keywords: agriculture, food security, Kenya
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 03 December 2015
M. van 't Wout
Type of publication: Book

This research project aims at understanding the expectations and motivations of young women in Ghana's Upper East region to start their own business. Supporting the owners of small-scale businesses in the informal economy has become a central objective of the global...

Keywords: employment creation, Ghana, informal sector, labour policy, poverty reduction, women entrepreneurs
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 08 June 2015
B. Oyeniyi; A. Akinyoade
Editors: P. Collinson; H. Macbeth
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Food in zones of conflict : cross-disciplinary perspectives
Keywords: Africa, conflict, food
Added to database: 09 April 2015
L. Mann; M. Graham; N. Friederici
Type of publication: Other

Internet connectivity is widely considered to be a game changer for knowledge economies of developing countries. The arrival of submarine fibre-optic underwater cables in East Africa in 2009 and 2010 is seen by many as a strong case in point. The fast evolution of the...

Keywords: development, information technology, internet, Kenya, Rwanda
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 12 March 2015
L. Taylor; J. Cowls; L. Mann; E. Meyer; R. Schroeder
Type of publication: Other

This white paper was produced by the Bellagio Big Data Workshop Participants; a group of activists, researchers and data experts who met at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Centre to discuss the question of whether, and how, big data is becoming a resource for...

Added to database: 12 March 2015
L. Mann
Type of publication: Review
In: Political studies review
Keywords: Africa, patronage, political systems
Added to database: 12 March 2015
L. Mann
Type of publication: Review
In: African affairs
Keywords: Africa, economic development, economic theories, governance, industrial policy
Added to database: 12 March 2015
L. Mann
Editors: M. Graham; W.H. Dutton
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Society and the internet : how networks of information and communication are changing our lives
Keywords: employment, information technology, labour market, Sudan
Added to database: 12 March 2015
L. Mann
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Review of African political economy

By tracking the changing nature of wasta, or personal intermediation, in the Khartoum labour market, this paper examines the impact of Islamist policies on state-society relations in Khartoum, Sudan. It argues that economic liberalisation and higher education expansion...

Keywords: economic policy, employment, higher education, politics, Sudan
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 12 March 2015
Z. Vlaminck; H. Huyse; R. Peels
Type of publication: Other
Keywords: developing countries, trade unions
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 25 February 2015
Z. Vlaminck
Type of publication: Other
Keywords: Africa, social protection, Social security
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 25 February 2015
Z. Vlaminck
Type of publication: Other
Keywords: Ghana
Added to database: 25 February 2015
I. Peša
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Journal of Southern African studies

Zambian political history has been viewed predominantly through the prism of the national, by focusing on high politics, official ideology and Big Men. The local level equally has to be taken into consideration, as local forces and interests have shaped the translation of...

Keywords: Lozi, Zambia
Added to database: 24 February 2015
I. Peša; A. Schrikker
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Itinerario : European journal of overseas history

In the first week of December 2013, Fred Cooper was in Leiden to participate in the conference "South Asia and the long 1930s: appropriations and afterlives. We caught him on the day that he was giving a public lecture on his current work, entitled Beyond Empire: France...

Keywords: Africa, historiography, interviews (form)
Added to database: 24 February 2015
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Internationale spectator : tijdschrift voor internationale politiek

Somalië zit nog steeds in de frontlijn van 'jihadisme', politieke instabiliteit en humanitaire crisis. In het proces naar politieke stabilisering is Al-Shabaab een enorme stoorzender. Deze beweging, eind 2005 ontstaan, heeft een overwegend criminele agenda, '...

Keywords: Islamic movements, Somalia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 06 February 2015
H. Muller; J.C.M. Damen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: African Research & Documentation

How can Africanists and information specialists in African research and documentation get the most out of Wikipedia, and how can they contribute to Wikipedia? This article argues that Wikipedia is useful both as a universally accessible - albeit not specifically academic -...

Open access: Full text
Added to database: 27 January 2015
Editors: A.J. Dietz; F. Veldkamp; N. de Vink
Type of publication: Other

In november 2014 was er opschudding over een bericht dat de Hogeschool van Amsterdam haar studenten niet naar Afrika liet reizen vanwege ebola en toenemende onveiligheid. Door het Afrika-Studiecentrum en in sociale media werd daar fel op gereageerd: het stigmatiseert Afrika....

Keywords: Africa
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 17 December 2014
G.C. van de Bruinhorst
Type of publication: Other
Keywords: autobiography, bibliography, collection development, heads of State, politicans, Tanzania
Added to database: 16 December 2014
Editors: R. Meyer; Y. Treis; A. Amha
Type of publication: Book

Explorations in Ethiopian Linguistics brings together twelve contributions on linguistic problems at the interface of morphosyntax and semantics/pragmatics in Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic languages of Ethiopia.The first section of the volume consists of two articles on...

Keywords: Ethiopa, linguistics
Added to database: 02 December 2014
A. Amha
Editors: R. Meyer; Y. Treis; A. Amha
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Explorations in Ethiopian linguistics: complex predicates, finiteness and interrogativity
Keywords: Ethiopa, linguistics
Added to database: 02 December 2014

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