Publications

This essay discusses the continued importance that religion holds in African life, not only in terms of numbers of believers, but also regarding the varieties of religious experience and its links with politics and the "public sphere(s)". Coinciding with the wave of...

Aunque Sudáfrica tiene 11 lenguas oficiales reconocidas por la Constitución (inglés, afrikáaner y nueve precoloniales), en la práctica se utilizan dos o tres en cada región, con el inglés como lengua franca. El país se debate hoy entre los valores modernos y los derechos...

Eind 2013 sloot de bibliotheek van het Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen in Amsterdam haar deuren. De meer dan tien kilometer collecties waren toen al verdwenen uit het KIT-gebouw aan de Mauritskade, en de vijftig personeelsleden van de bibliotheek ontslagen. Oud-...

This volume attempts to dig deeper into what is currently happening in Africa's agricultural and rural sector and to convince policymakers and others that it is important to look at the current African rural dynamics in ways that connect metropolitan demands for food with...

The voices of orphans and other vulnerable children and young people and of their carers and professional development workers are documented and analysed to both criticise the inadequacies of current social development work and to create a new, alternative theory and practice...

The overall trend in increasing volumes of cross-border financial flows is positive. It is also encouraging that the volume of private financiers, whether from commercial or non-commercial origins, is picking up. The trend in Sub-Saharan Africa is not so clear-cut but with...

The Dutch government has been supporting higher education in developing countries through cooperation between Dutch higher education and training institutes and partner organizations in the developing countries since the late 1960s.Various programmes have been implemented but...

The overall challenge of Dutch bilateral sustainable diplomacy in Africa is to manage a complex portfolio of bilateral country relations that can build on the strength of different stakeholders. In addition to this there are also multilateral and regional channels through...