Wissenschaftliche Literatur Tanzania

Lisa Mackenrodt

Swahili Spirit Possession and Islamic Healing in Contemporary Tanzania

The Jinn Fly on Friday

Fern/Sehen: Perspektiven der Sozialanthropologie

This account embeds Swahili spirit possession and Islamic healing rituals into its particular geographical, cultural and historical context. It gives an overview of the historical development of the syncretistic Muslim-Swahili littoral in East Africa. A special emphasis is put on Afro-Arab history in relation to the development of Swahili culture and language. Traditional Muslim healers and their rituals form the central focus of this book. By presenting typical…

Livingstone Sewanyana

Comparative Experiences of NGO Regulatory Frameworks

Eastern and Southern Africa

Verfassungsrecht in Forschung und Praxis

The growth of NGOs in sub-Saharan countries beginning in the 1990s, can be attributed to the ’new wave of democracy’ that led to the rebirth of associational life thus creating new spaces for people to organise. Hitherto many countries amended their constitutions to allow for political reforms. In countries such as Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal and Uganda, “one party constitutions were amended to introduce a bill of rights. [...]

Irmela Gorges / Linda A. Winkler (Eds.)

Economy and Social Conditions in Transition

Probleme und Chancen der Globalisierung

This book is interdisciplinary in scope, written for economists, educators, and for individuals working on the fields of globalization, and its impacts on societal development. The book analyzes the current economic and social development in selected countries with different economic conditions relative to the impact of globalization and infrastructure development. The volume contains six selected papers presented at the annual conference of the Congress of Political…

Julia Terrapon-Pfaff

Nachhaltige Bioenergieoptionen für Afrika: Energetische Nutzung von Agrarreststoffen als Teil einer Transformationsstrategie hin zur nachhaltigeren Energieversorgung in Tansania

Potentialanalyse und multikriterielle Bewertung

GEOGRAPHICA – Schriftenreihe Geowissenschaften und Geographie

Im Rahmen der Diskussion über die Verknappung fossiler Energieträger, Klimawandel und der notwendigen Transformation unser Energiesysteme in Richtung nachhaltige Energieversorgung, hat moderne Bioenergie in den vergangene Jahren weltweit vermehrt Aufmerksamkeit erfahren. Gleichzeitig ist das Wissen über Potentiale, nachhaltige Nutzungs- und Produktionsformen und den damit verbundene Risiken jedoch begrenzt. Insbesondere der Energiepflanzenanbau birgt beträchtliche…

Michaela Triebel

Debt Relief as Panacea for Solving the Development Crisis of Sub-Saharan Africa

An Analysis of the HIPC Initiative

Wirtschaftspolitik in Forschung und Praxis

During the last years, poverty reduction has been in the centre of attention of all development agencies. While Latin America and East Asia as a region managed to significantly improve the living conditions of their people, the quality of life for most people in sub-Saharan Africa appears to only have improved marginally. Africa remains the least developed region of the world. Therefore, the development problem of the African continent has been subject to great concerns…

Constant Kpao Saré

Carl PETERS et l‘Afrique

Un mythe dans l‘opinion publique, la littérature et la propagande politique en Allemagne

Studien zur Germanistik

Cette thèse présente le personnage de Carl Peters (1856-1918) comme une sorte de «mythe» qui a continuellement accompagné les ambitions colonialistes de l’Allemagne de 1884 - début de la Conférence de Berlin sur le Congo - à la fin du nazisme et l’effondrement du rêve d’un «Empire colonial» en 1945. Ce furent d’abord les circonstances historiques favorables qui firent de Peters un personnage intéressant pour le public allemand. Bien vite cependant, Peters essaya de se…