Publications

This thesis is an analysis of two concurrent processes - the liberalisation of the economy and the expansion of the tertiary education system - by the National Islamic Front (NIF)/National Congress Party (NCP) in Khartoum, Sudan. It is based on 18 months fieldwork conducted...

Talmalezing 2012 : Één jaar Arabische Lente. Lezing in verkorte vorm uitgesproken op 13 januari 2012.

In an effort to embed diversity management in South African higher education, all Higher Education institutions are presently going through a transitional phase of transformation in which institutional cultures and identities are strongly contested. The ambiguity that comes...

(Reprint and translation): From camp to encompassment: discourses of transsubjectivity in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora.

Weddings in Botswana are increasingly being marked by emerging complexities for a younger generation in the way these events draw upon different social, cultural, economic, legal and moral sources and resources. Since this complexity represents a new mixture of sources that...

Studied is the 'embedded development thinking' in Ghanaian Pentecostal churches, who cater mainly the middle classes, particularly the Ghanaian migrant in Botswana. The author argues that the tools of development and economic growth are often being given by these churches...

Africa has been witnessing rapid changes in the social landscape over the past ten years. Processes of globalization and the advancement of new technologies have been impacting on local social networks significantly. This paper moves away from an analysis of networks as...

In many African societies today Christian churches, Pentecostals in particular, are an important source of information on sexuality, relationships, the body, and health, motivated in part by the HIV/AIDS pandemic but also related to globally circulating ideas and images that...

This book marks the end of a collaborative research programme of the African Studies Centre Leiden on changing forms of connections in postglobal African society. Arguing that the nature of connections is often overlooked in social theory, the studies in the volume explore...