Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Institute of Asian and African Studies

Publications

 

Books

2019 Identités sahéliennes en temps de crise:
Histoires, enjeux et perspectives. (Berlin, LIT, Reihe: Afrikanische Studien/African Studies, Band 60). Link
2010 Disputed Desert: Decolonisation, Competing Nationalisms and Tuareg Rebellions in Mali. (Leiden, Brill Academic Publishers, Afrika-Studiecentrum Series). Link

 

Peer reviewed Articles and Book Sections

2018 -, M. Larmer, ‘Historicising Nationalism in Africa’, Nations and Nationalism, 24-4, 893-917.
2018 -, G. Klute, 'Tuareg Separatism in Mali and Niger', in, Lotje de Vries, Pierre Engelbert & Mareike Schomerus (eds.), Secessionism in Africa: Aspiration, Grievance, Performance, Disenchantment. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 23-57.
2015 'Awad el Djouh and the dynamics of Post Slavery', International Journal of African Historical Studies 48-2, 193-208.
2015 'Distant Shores: a Historiographic View on the Sahel Sahara Divide', Journal of African History 56-1, 23-36.
2013 'Mali: This is only the Beginning', Georgetown Journal of International Affairs summer/fall, 59-69.
2013  -, G. Mann, B. Whitehouse, D. Badi, L. Pelckmans, N. Belalimat, B. Hall, W. Lacher, 'One Hippopotamus and Eight Blind Analysts: A Multivocal Analysis of the 2012 Political Crisis in the Divided Republic of Mali', Review of African Political Economy 40-137, 343-357.
2012 'The Hajj From West Africa From a Global Historical Perspective (19th and 20th Centuries)', African Diaspora 5-2, 187-214.
2010 ‘Tuareg City Blues – Cultural Capital in a Global Cosmopole’, in, Anja Fischer and Ines Kohl (eds.), Tuareg Society Within a Globalized World: Saharan Life in Transition. London: I.B. Tauris Press, 41-58.
2007 –, G. Mann, “Between Empire, umma, and Muslim Third World: The French Union and African Pilgrims to Mecca, 1946-1958”, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 27-2, 167-183.
2007 -, P. Schrijver, ‘ The War on Terror in a Haze of Dust – Potholes and Pitfalls on the Saharan Front’, Journal of Contemporary African Studies 25-1, 141-166.
2005 'The Bellah Question: Slave Emancipation, Race and Social Categories in Late Twentieth- Century Northern Mali', Canadian Journal of African Studies 39-3,42-67.
2004      

'Unemployed Intellectuals in the Sahara: The Teshumara Nationalist Movement and the Revolutions in Tuareg Society', in Baud, M., R. Rutten (eds.), Popular Intellectuals and Social Movements: Framing Protest in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. International Review of Social History 49-supplement 12, 87-109.
2003 'From Colonialism to Keita: Comparing Pre- and Post-Independence Regimes (1946-1968)', Mande Studies 5, 29-48.
2003 'This Country is Your Country: Territory, Borders and Decentralisation in Tuareg Politics', Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas Histories, 27-1, 58-78.

 

Non peer reviewed Articles and Book Sections

2018 ‘On Detailed Fieldwork Observations and Primordial Histories of Pastoral Animal Husbandry – The Cattle Line from the Neolithic to Present’, in, Hüsken, Thomas, Alexander Solyga, Dida Badi (eds.) The Multiplicity of Orders and Practices: A Tribute to Georg Klute. München, Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, xxx-xxx.
2017 ‘Awad el Djouh: A Story of Slave Trade in the Mid Twentieth Century’, in, Peša, Iva & Jan-Bart Gewald (eds.) Magnifying Perspectives: Contributions to History: A Festschrift for Robert Ross. Leiden: African Studies Centre, 149-165.
2015 -, Eric Hahonou, 'Introduction: Exploring Post-Slavery in Contemporary Africa', International Journal of African Historical Studies 48-2, 181-192.
2014 'A Rough Guide to Politics in Northern Mali', in Jean-Christophe Hoste and Julie Godin (eds.), Time for a New Approach on Terror in Africa? Gent: Academia Press, 11-15.
2013 —, G. Klute, 'Tuareg Separatism in Mali', International Journal: Canada's Journal of Global Policy Analysis 68-4, 1-11.
2013 Georg Klute, —, 'Separatistische Bestrebungen der Tuareg in Mali', in Martin Hofbauer and Philipp Münch (eds.), Wegweiser zur Geschichte: Mali. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 123-137.
2013 'Northern Mali: A long and complicated conflict', ZiF Mitteillungen 3, 21-26.
2011 'Keita, Modibo', in, Akyeampong, E., H. Gates (eds.) Dictionary of African Biography, vol. 3, 1st edition (Oxford University Press), 325-27.2011       'Keita, Modibo', Akyeampnong, E., H. Gates (eds.) Dictionary of African Biography, vol. 3, 1st edition (Oxford University Press), 325-27.
2009 'Mali,' Sagar, D. (ed.), Political Parties of the World, 7th edition (John Harper), 380-82.
2009 'Mauritania,' Sagar, D. (ed.), Political Parties of the World, 7th edition (John Harper), 385-87.
2009 'Niger', in, Sagar, D. (ed.), Political Parties of the World, 7th edition (John Harper), 434-36.
2007 E. Bähre, – (eds.), ‘The Drama of Development: The Skirmishes Behind High Modernist Schemes in Africa’, African Studies 66-1, 1-8.
2006 –, P. Schrijver, ‘De oorlog tegen terreur’, Zemzem – Tijdschrift over het Midden-Oosten, Noord Afrika, en islam 2-3, 55-61.
2005 'Mali,' Szajkowski, B. (ed.), Political Parties of the World, 6th edition (John Harper), 402-04. B2
2005 'Niger', in, Szajkowski, B. (ed.), Political Parties of the World, 6th edition (John Harper), 446- 47.
2004 'Mali', in, Szajkowski, B. (ed.), Revolutionary and Dissident Movements of the World, 6th edition (John Harper), 312-13.
2004 'Niger', in, Szajkowski, B. (ed.), Revolutionary and Dissident Movements of the World (John Harper), 358-59.
2003 –, Gregory Mann, ' Writing histories of an African post-colony, Modibo Keita’s Mali, 1960- 1968', Mande Studies 5, 1-8.
2002 'Fieldwork ain't always fun - Public and hidden discourse on fieldwork', History in Africa - A Journal of Method 29, 273-282.
1999 'Het conflict tussen de Toeareg en de staat in Mali', Midden-Oosten Tijdschrift Soera, 7-3/4. A3 1996        'L'arbre du Tenere', De Baobab, tijdschrift van Afrika-Stichting De Baobab, 12-1.
1996 'Origins and causes of the conflict between state and Tuareg-society in Mali', Saharan Studies Association - Newsletter, 4-2.
1996 'Teshumara: waar werkloze jongeren toe in staat zijn', De Baobab, tijdschrift van Afrika- Stichting De Baobab, 12-2.

 

Book Reviews

2018

Vaughan, C. Darfur: Colonial Violence, Sultanic Legacies and Local Politics, 1916 – 1956 (Oxford: James Currey); in Africa, 88-2.
2016 Double review of Mann, G. From Empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) & Rossi, B. From Slavery to Aid (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press); in Neue Politische Literatur 2016, 61-2.
2012 Hall, B., A History of Race in Muslim West Africa (1600-1960) (Cambridge: CAmbridge University Press);in Islamic Africa 2012, 3-2.
2012 Pelckmans, L. Travelling hirarchies: Roads in and out of slave status in a Central Malian Fulbe network (Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2011); in NVAS Newsletter 2012, 2.
2011 Grémont, Ch. Les Touaregs Iwellemmedan (1647-1896) (Karthala, 2010); in Politique africaine, 121.
2011 Olivier de Sardan, J-P, and M Tidjani Alou (eds.), Les pouvoirs locaux au Niger. Tome 1: À la veille de la décentralisation (CODESRIA Karthala 2009); in Africa.
2010 Lydon, G. On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Western Africa (Cambridge University Press 2009); in The Journal of African History, 51-1.
2008 Soares, B. (ed.), Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa (Brill 2006); in The Journal of African History, 49-2.
2003

Hunwick, J., Troutt Pouwels, E., The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam

(Princeton 2002); in Midden-Oosten Tijdschrift Soera, XI-1.
2001 Levtzion, N., J. Pouwels (eds.), The History of Islam in Africa (Athens 2001); in Midden- Oosten Tijdschrift Soera, IX-2.
2001

Ike Udogu, E. (ed)., The Issue of Political Ethnicity in Africa (Ashgate 2001); in The Global Review of Ethnopolitics I-1.

 

Academic Blogs and op eds

2013, June 12

Hot Spot Mali: Serval in the Sahara.

https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/3238903
2013, May 14 "Mali: Which way forward?", African Argument. http://africanarguments.org/2013/05/14/mali-which-way-forward-a-chat-with-bruce-hall-baz-lecocq-gregory-mann-and-bruce-whitehouse/
2013, January 26 "De vage grenzen van de oorlog in Mali", De Standaard
2012, July 11 "Salafisten wilden einde aan vakanties in Timboektoe", NRC Handelsblad
2012, July 7 "Timboektoe is meer dan verwoest erfgoed", De Standaard
2012, April 5

"Mali – How bad can it get?", African Arguments

http://africanarguments.org/2012/04/05/mali-how-bad-can-it-get-a-conversation-with-isaie-dougnon-bruce-hall-baz-lecocq-gregory-mann-and-bruce-whitehouse/
2012, April 5

"Northern Mali – The things we assume", E-International Relations

http://www.e-ir.info/2012/04/05/northern-mali-the-things-we-assume/
2012, March 30

"Mali – The Hot Season is Coming", African Argument.

http://africanarguments.org/2012/03/30/mali-the-hot-season-is-coming-by-baz-lecocq/
2012, Feb. 28

"The Tuareg: Between Armed Uprising And Drought", African Arguments.

http://africanarguments.org/2012/02/28/the-tuareg-between-armed-uprising-and-drought-baz-lecocq-and-nadia-belalimat/
2011, October 31

"Global Insider: Tuareg Rebel Groups", World Politics Review.

http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trend-lines/10508/global-insider-tuareg-rebel-groups

 

Editorial Work

2015 Eric Hahonou, -, Guest Editors, Post-Slavery in African Societies, International Journal of African Historical Studies 48-2.
2011 Editor H-West Africa (Part of H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online)
2007 Erik Bähre, —, Guest Editors, The Drama of African Development: The state, conflict, and modernization in the 20th century, African Studies 66-1.
2003 –, Gregory Mann, Guest Editors, Modibo Keita’s Mali: 1960-1968, Mande Studies 5.