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.

Browse our publications and those by our staff members using the simple search form below.

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K. van Walraven
Editors: K. van Walraven; S. Luning; J.B. Gewald
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: The speed of change : motor vehicles and people in Africa, 1890-2000
Added to database: 23 December 2011
K. van Walraven
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Journal of African History
Added to database: 23 December 2011
P.J.J. Konings
Editors: C.L. Phelan
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Trade unionism since 1945: towards a global history . Vol. 1, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East
Added to database: 23 December 2011
S. Ellis
Editors: Colectivo Maloka
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: La Economía de las drogas ilícitas: escenarios de conflictos y derechos humanos
Added to database: 23 December 2011
I. Brinkman; S. Alessi
Editors: M. Fernández-Ardèvol; A. Ros Híjar
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Communication Technologies in Latin America and Africa: a multidisciplinary perspective
Added to database: 23 December 2011
L.A. de Vries; E. Hazard; M.A. Barry; A.A. Anouan; N. Pinaud
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: The World Economy
Added to database: 23 December 2011
M.E. de Bruijn
Type of publication: Audiovisual

The past decade mobile phone technology has spread rapidly into remote areas of Africa. These areas are often depicted as being marginal, marginality related to geography, economy and politics. The people inhabiting these areas also define themselves as marginal vis-à-vis the...

Keywords: Africa, mobile telephone, telecommunications
Added to database: 23 December 2011
Type of publication: Other

Ook voor Afrika blijven de gevolgen van de kredietcrisis niet uit. In eerste instantie leken de financiële markten in Afrika minder gevoelig voor de kredietcrisis. Maar inmiddels zijn ook Afrikaanse beurzen onderuit gegaan. Daarnaast zal de wereldwijde recessie, die...

Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
S. Randrianja; S. Ellis
Type of publication: Book

A general history of Madagascar, organized in seven chapters: Settlement (400-1099) - Transforming the island (1100-1599) - Royalty and the rise of kingdoms (1600-1699) - The slave-trader kings (1700-1816) - The Kingdom of Madagascar (1817-1895) - The French period (1896-1972...

Keywords: history, Madagascar
Added to database: 23 December 2011
S. Ellis
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: African affairs

Since the publication in 2007 of a UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) report on West Africa's role in the illegal cocaine trade from Latin America to Europe, considerable media attention has focused on Guinea-Bissau as a country infiltrated by drug...

Keywords: drug trafficking, Nigeria, West Africa
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
S. Ellis; G. ter Haar
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Journal of modern African studies
Keywords: politics
Added to database: 23 December 2011
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: F. Becker; P.W. Geizzler
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Aids and Religious Practice in Africa
Keywords: Africa, Aids, Pentecostalism, religion and medicine
Added to database: 23 December 2011
R. Prince; P. Denis; R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Africa today
Keywords: Africa
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: G. Hüwelmeier; K. Krause
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Traveling spirits: migrants, markets and mobilities
Keywords: mobility
Added to database: 23 December 2011
J.C.M. Damen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: De Boekenwereld
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
A.J. Dietz
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Geografie
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
V.A. February
Editors: E. van den Berg; T. Kraan
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: collected works (form), literature, South Africa
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
Editors: G. Petit; A. Reeves; M.C.A. van Winden
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: African studies, annual reports (form), Netherlands
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011
G.C. van de Bruinhorst
Editors: K. Larsen
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Knowledge, Renewal and Religion: Repositioning and changing ideological and material circumstances among the Swahili on the East African Coast

This chapter describes how an Islamic ritual linked to the hajj (the annual pilgrimage to Mecca) is used to express and to deal with deeply felt political and social unease among Muslims in Tanzania. The Day of Arafa is together with the Day of Sacrifice the most important...

Keywords: Islam, protest, sacrifical rites, Tanzania
Added to database: 23 December 2011
J.C.M. Damen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: African research and documentation
Keywords: Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011

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