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Affiliation Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

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Mailing Address African Studies Centre Leiden University P.O. Box 9555 2300 RB Leiden The Netherlands

Phone/Fax Number(s) phone: +31 71 527 3370 Fax: +31 71 527 3344

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Countries of Specialization Namibia ; South Africa ; Botswana ; Eritrea.

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Research Interests Southern African History, with strong regional interest in West African and Ethiopian/Eritrean history. Researched and published on the history of Namibia, South Africa, Botswana, and Eritrea. Within the group "Agency in Africa" at the ASC, he is currently working on a project dealing with the social history of the motor car in Zambia in the 20th century. He was recently awarded funding by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research for a five year inter-institutional multi-disciplinary research programme within the social sciences and humanities entitled, "ICE in Africa: the relationship between people and the Internal Combustion Engine in Africa."

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Publications * With S. Soeters "African miners and shape shifting flight capital: the case of Baluba Luanshya," In: M. Larmer and A. Fraser, Zambia, mining, and neoliberalism boom and bust on the globalized copperbelt, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 155-184, 2010. "Gold the true motor of West African history: an overview of the importance of gold in West Africa and its relations with the wider world," In: C. Panella, Worlds of debts: interdisciplinary perspectives on gold mining in West Africa. Amsterdam: Rozenberg publishers, 2010. "People, mines and cars: towards a revision of Zambian History, 1890-1930," In: Walraven, K van, Luning, Sabine, Gewald, J-B. (eds.): The speed of change : motor vehicles and people in Africa, 1890-2000. pp. 21-47, Leiden: Brill, 2009. Edited with Sabine Luning and K. van Walraven The speed of change : motor vehicles and people in Africa, 1890-2000. Leiden : Brill, Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; vol. 13, 2009. "From the Old Location to Bishops Hill: the politics of urban planning and landscape history in Windhoek, Namibia," In: M. Bollig ; O. Bubenzer (eds.) African Landscapes: Interdisciplinary Approaches, New York: Springer, pp. 255-274, 2008. Edited with M. Hinfelaar and G. Macola One Zambia, many histories : towards a history of post-colonial Zambia. Leiden : Brill, Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; vol. 12, 2008. Edited with M. Bollig People, Cattle and Land: Transformations of a pastoral society in southwestern Africa. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, p. xii + 540, 2001. "We thought we would be free ..." : socio-cultural aspects of Herero history in Namibia, 1915-1940. Köln: Köppe, History, cultural traditions and innovations in Southern Africa; vol. 8, 2000. Herero heroes : a socio-political history of the Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923. Oxford: James Currey, 1999.

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