Publications

In this inaugural address the author, director of the African Studies Centre Leiden since 2010, first gives an impression of how Africans themselves perceive change and development, based on recent research in Ghana and Burkina Faso. He then presents some positive statistical...

Most of what is written about Africa is framed in terms that have been out of date for years. Too often it is seen as heading for either disaster or salvation; the realities are more subtle, more complicated than this binary opposition suggests. The continent has over the...

In Ethiopia, as in other parts of Africa, relations between Christians and Muslims show a new dynamic under the impact of both state policies and global connections. Religious identities are becoming more dominant as people’s primary public identity, and...

In 1916 a warlord named Oorlog - 'war', in Afrikaans - moved into the Kaokoveld in the far north-west of what is now Namibia, and drove off the original inhabitants. Shortly after, Oorlog was formally recognized as a chief by the newly established South African...

This collective volume explores the ways in which Africa's engagements with an increasingly multipolar world are being reshaped, and, on whose terms. Ch. 2-7 examine new trends in Africa. Ch. 8-13 address the forces, in particular interventions by China, India and the US...

Afrika heeft in de afgelopen eeuw de snelste bevolkingsgroei beleefd in de geschiedenis van onze planeet. Dit heeft niet alleen geleid tot een enorme druk op mens en milieu, maar het heeft ook immense verandering gebracht in de economische logica van het continent. Een...

Although communities are still often conceptually bound to geographical place, transnational studies in the 1990s have led to viewing a community more as a network than as a place. This contribution expands this argument by developing the idea of "strings of people...

This book reflects the intellectual encounter over the years between a group of Dutch scholars studying the relations between Ancient Greece, Egypt and Africa and Martin Gardiner Bernal who, from the 1980s onwards, has claimed that the roots of Western civilization are to be...

De bevolking van het Afrikaanse continent is de laatste vijftig jaar extreem snel gegroeid, van 289 miljoen inwoners in 1961 tot meer dan 1 miljard op dit moment. Dat is een groei van 350% in een halve eeuw. Het aantal stedelingen is nog veel sneller gegroeid: van 65 miljoen...