African Engagements
Africa Negotiating an Emerging Multipolar World
Ton Dietz, Kjell Havnevik, Mayke Kaag, Terje Oestigaard (eds.)
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Biographical note
Ton Dietz is Director of the African Studies Centre and Professor of African Development at Leiden University and Professor of Human Geography at the University of Amsterdam. He recently published Silverlining Africa, his inaugural lecture at Leiden University (2011).
Kjell Havnevik is Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, and Professor at the University of Agder, Norway. His most recent book is Biofuels, Land Grabbing and Food Security in Africa, edited with Prosper Matondi and Atakilte Beyene (Zed Books 2011).
Mayke Kaag is Researcher at the African Studies Centre in Leiden and Assistant Professor of International Development Studies at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on African transnational relations, including engagements with the diaspora and transnational Islamic NGOs.
Terje Oestigaard is Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden. His particular research interests are water studies in the past and present and the archaeology of religion.
Kjell Havnevik is Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, and Professor at the University of Agder, Norway. His most recent book is Biofuels, Land Grabbing and Food Security in Africa, edited with Prosper Matondi and Atakilte Beyene (Zed Books 2011).
Mayke Kaag is Researcher at the African Studies Centre in Leiden and Assistant Professor of International Development Studies at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on African transnational relations, including engagements with the diaspora and transnational Islamic NGOs.
Terje Oestigaard is Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden. His particular research interests are water studies in the past and present and the archaeology of religion.
Readership
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