The ravages of time had nearly destroyed the invaluable collection of books and manuscripts kept in the Riyadha Mosque on Lamu in Kenya. A meticulous digitalization project has saved and preserved the material for future generations.

Political Corruption in AfricaExtraction and Power Preservation This book is analysing political corruption as a distinct but separate entity ...

This paper analyzes the institution of “scientific forestry” in the northern borderlands (“Frontier”) of British India ...

In India, the Schedule Tribes have remained on the fringes of growth, but less so in the majority tribal areas of the North East. This has increased ...

Corruption and illegal trafficking endanger the world’s biodiversity

Read the public address of Gen Salva Kiir Mayardit on his return from the official visit to the United States of America.

This evaluation addressed the experiences of Norwegian support to the protection of cultural heritage in developing countries. Norwegian support ...

This evaluation of the three Scandinavian Statistical Central Bureaus to Instituto Nacional Estatistico (INE) in Mozambique concludes that the ...

The World Bank identified judiciary among institutions which ran down during centralized governance. The Bank also expressed the need for and ...

Within Popo society in Pointe Noire, Congo, fishermen sell their fish to their wives at a price slightly below the local market price. The wives ...

The commemorations of historical figures, both public and private, have become a powerful tool for politicians and historians in Vietnam to ...

This article explores women's bargaining with a patriarchal Islamic state in Sudan. The article is situated within the realm of the ...

Since the end of the civil war in 2006, Nepal has been on the edge of a peaceful but truly revolutionary change to restructure the state along ...

The last decade has witnessed a major economic expansion of China, India, Brazil and South Africa in Africa. This has mainly been driven by ...

Under what circumstances can a state refuse refugee status to a person whose risk of persecution exists in only part of her country of origin? ...

Legal practices and ideas about law are undergoing dramatic change in Latin America. Today, a turn-of-the-century crop of constitutions grants ...

It is easy to document that the 2016 elections in Uganda were unfair. To combat the uneven playing field one needs to systematically assess ...

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is still a common practice in Sudan. Nine out of ten women have been subjected to this practice. In 2009, a ...

Legislating a minimum age of marriage at 18 has stirred counter-mobilization in some, but not all, countries where religious or traditional ...

In 2016, the ‘secret loans affair’ sprung on to the Mozambican political scene with the discovery that three government-owned companies ...