| 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." |
| 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. |
