"Tradition" has neither been static or blissful, nor are colonial powers to be blamed entirely for its "decline". The historical analyses of the marriage ...

Informal trade in pre-colonial Africa, sometimes in the form of barter, wasone of the mechanisms of social interaction between various ethnic groupsand ...

Since achieving independence, Sudan has been burdened with many conflicts which have hindered its economic, social and cultural development. While some ...

This article uses the Norway East Africa Trading company in Zanzibar as an example of how increased facility of communication aided small businesses in ...

African colonial history suggests that British colonial rule may have undermined state centralisation due to legacies of ethnic segregation and stronger ...

The report historically traces the social construction of the Indian prostitute, which misrepresented and degraded the imagery of an accomplished courtesan ...

The study focuses on the Tunisian post-colonial process of modernization and its effects on Tunisians of different generations, gender, and educational ...

The association between British colonial rule and lower levels of corruption is often emphasized in legal origins literature (La Porta et al., 2008). ...

African women have a long history of political involvement. Yet, the fervour with which they participated in anti-colonial struggles and supported national ...

Political polarisation, colonial inequalities and the crisis of modernity in Venezuela Iselin Åsedot

Ethnicity has received increased attention in studies of Africa's economic and institutional development. We present evidence on the long-term effects ...

Public services are essential for development. However, their provision varies greatly across communities within developing countries. Although local ...

To begivenheter kommer til å prege Afrika i år: fotball-VM i Sør-Afrika, og markeringen av 50 års uavhengighet i flere tidligere ...

Poll (‘head'''') tax has been the most common form of direct mass taxation in many sub-Saharan African countries since colonial times. Until very ...

In her book on The Adivasis of Bangladesh, Senior researcher Tone Bleie brings together a discussion of minority and indigenous rights with a social science analysis of how ethnic discrimination impacts on poverty processes and outcomes. She argues that colonial and post-colonial states compulsively produce majorities and minorities, marginalizing minorities with scant citizenship rights.

The Israeli colonial project is 'spacio-cidal' targeting land to render an inevitable 'voluntary' transfer of the Palestinian population. Professor Sari Hanafi is visiting scholar at CMI.

CMI presents the first report in a series of three qualitative studies on poverty in Mozambique. The study looks into people's own emic perceptions of poverty, and offers a host of policy implications.

Forest governance in the Philippines during the post-colonial period has involved protracted efforts to arrest and reverse patterns of overexploitation ...

After more than twenty years of devastating civil war, Angola is slowly moving toward peace and reconciliation. In this accessible introduction to one ...

The Sudan is a vast and varied country in terms of its geography and people, defining its social and political relations from the colonial era through ...