Africa

Netherlands

Dr.

Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

ellis@ascleiden.nl

Afrika-Studiecentrum
Leiden University
P.O. Box 9555
2300 RB
Leiden
The Netherlands

phone: +31-71-5276601
fax: +31-71-5273344

http://www.ascleiden.nl

South Africa

Mr. Stephen Ellis is a historian, specializing in contemporary African
history.

Since December 2008, Stephen Ellis is working two days a week as
a professor at the VU University of Amsterdam, where he occupies a Desmond
Tutu chair of Youth, Sport and Reconciliation.

-- Selected Books and Articles:

Season of Rains: Africa in the World. London: Hurst and Co.,
Johannesburg: Jacana, 2011.

"The occult does not exist: a response to Terence Ranger," In: Africa:
journal of the International African Institute, vol. 69, no. 3,
pp. 399-412, 2009

"'Campus cults' in Nigeria: the development of an anti-social movement,"
In: Ellis, S.D.K., Kessel, W.M.J. van: Movers and shakers : social
movements in Africa. Leiden: Brill, 2009

"West Africa's International Drug Trade," In: African affairs, vol. 108,
no. 431, pp. 171-196, 2009.

With Solofo Randrianja
Madagascar : a short history. Chicago : University of Chicago
Press, 2009.

With Gerrie ter Haar
"Africa's Religious Resurgence and the Politics of Good and Evil,"
In: Current history, vol. 107, no. 708, pp. 180-185, 2008.

"The Okija Shrine: Death and Life in Nigerian politics," In: Journal of
African History, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 445-466, 2008.

With Gerrie ter Haar
Worlds of power : religious thought and political practice in
Africa. New York: Oxford University Press, Series in contemporary
history and world affairs 1, 2004.

The mask of anarchy : the destruction of Liberia and the religious
dimension of an African civil war. Rev. and updated 2nd ed.
London : Hurst, 2007.

With J.F. Bayart and B. Hibou
The Criminalization of the State in Africa. Oxford / Portsmouth
NH: James Currey / Heinemann, 1999.

With Gerrie ter Haar
"Religion and politics in sub-Saharan Africa," In: The journal of modern
African studies, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 175-201, 1998.

Editor
Africa now. People, policies and institutions. James Currey,
publishers, London, 1996.

Edited with Yves-A. Fauré
Entreprises et entrepreneurs africains. Paris : Editions
Karthala : Editions de l'ORSTOM, c1995.

With Tsepo Sechaba.
Comrades against apartheid : the ANC and the South African Communist
Party in exile. London : James Currey, 1991.

The rising of the Red Shawls : a revolt in Madagascar, 1895-1899.
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985.

African history ; contemporary history.