<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>New titles ASC Leiden</title><description>ASC Leiden RSS feed</description><link>http://www.asclibrary.nl/rss/NewtitlesASCLeiden.xml</link><item><category>Book</category><link>https://catalogue.leidenuniv.nl/permalink/31UKB_LEU/s5ab2f/alma9940719967302711</link><title>Creature of air and still water / by Malaika Cheney-Coker.</title><description><![CDATA[Minneapolis, Minnesota : Flexible Press, 2025. Abstract: &#8220;Seth is cursed by recurring nightmares of a creature in a swamp, visions Seth&#8217;s psychiatrist has an easy answer for: Bipolar II. But Seth has doubts. Upending his successful life in Atlanta, he seeks to find peace in his native Sierra Leone. There he&#8217;s rejected by his distant mother, Evelyn. Evelyn is trying to cope with the death of her oldest, Sam, Seth&#8217;s brother. Seth&#8217;s return stirs painful memories for her, leading her to seek answers about his life from Sam&#8217;s widow and child in the U.S. But Atlanta is not Freetown, and Evelyn struggles to accept the strange ways and unsettling quiet of the new household. Meanwhile, Seth finds some relief from his malady through a non-medical cure. Refreshed and hopeful, he wants to make a difference in his home country by starting and educational summer camp. But in a society with limited career choices, is asking kids to dream and think for themselves a step too far? And is his cure temporary or permanent? In the end, no matte how fast or far Seth and Evelyn run, they cannot escape their own personal swamp.&#8221; &#8211;page [4] of cover  ASC Subject Headings: Sierra Leone. ; diasporas. ; novels (form) ; ]]></description><category>Sierra Leone.</category><category>diasporas.</category><category>novels (form)</category><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:15:49 +0000</pubDate></item><item>
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<title>&#8220;Kungathi silahliwe lana&#8221;: Estrangement and the diminishment of amandla among institutionalised elders in Mlozane, rural KwaZulu-Natal</title>  <source url="https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rasa20?af=R">Routledge: Anthropology Southern Africa: Table of Contents</source>
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<link>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12132-026-09569-6</link>
<title>Beyond the &#8220;Sustain What?&#8221; Critique: a Healing-first Framework for Urban Assessment in the Global South&#8212;the Case of Burri Al-Sharif, Khartoum, Sudan</title>  <source url="http://rd.springer.com">Latest Results for Urban Forum</source>
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<link>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2026.2713698?af=R</link>
<title>Sounding girlhood at the margins: community radio, black rural young women and everyday identity work in Limpopo, South Africa</title>  <source url="https://www.tandfonline.com/feed/rss/cafi20">tandf: African Identities: Table of Contents</source>
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<link>https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajer/article/view/331637</link>
<title>Migration, Remittances and Real Exchange Rate in Nigeria: A Two-fold Analysis</title>  <source url="https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajer">African Journal of Economic Review</source>
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<![CDATA[Despite huge empirical research examining the impact of international migration on real exchange rates, few studies have isolated and analysed the effects of emigration and remittances. In view of this, we examine how these factors contribute to long-run changes of real exchange rate in migrants&#8217; country of origin. Using time-series data from 1990-2023 of alternate measures of real exchange rates from Nigeria and Dynamic Ordinary Least Square (DOLS) estimation technique, our results indicate that a percentage point increase in emigration and remittances appreciate the long-run real exchange rate in Nigeria by 2.4% and 0.5% respectively. This suggest that increase in both emigration and remittances appreciate the real exchange rate in the long run, which erodes export competitiveness of the country. A further analysis of sectoral impacts of emigration and remittances in the long run show that both factors lead to inefficient reallocation of resources against growth of agricultural sector.]]>
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<link>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02589001.2026.2695721?af=R</link>
<title>Agricultural commercialisation and its implications for rural livelihoods and human welfare: lessons from Zimbabwe&#8217;s post-land reform context</title>  <source url="https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cjca20?af=R">Routledge: Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Table of Contents</source>
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<link>https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajer/article/view/331282</link>
<title>Migration, Remittances and Real Exchange Rate in Nigeria: A Two-fold Analysis</title>  <source url="https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajer">African Journal of Economic Review</source>
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<![CDATA[Despite huge empirical research examining the impact of international migration on real exchange rates, few studies have isolated and analysed the effects of emigration and remittances. In view of this, we examine how these factors contribute to long-run changes of real exchange rate in migrants&#8217; country of origin. Using time-series data from 1990-2023 of alternate measures of real exchange rates from Nigeria and Dynamic Ordinary Least Square (DOLS) estimation technique, our results indicate that a percentage point increase in emigration and remittances appreciate the long-run real exchange rate in Nigeria by 2.4% and 0.5% respectively. This suggest that increase in both emigration and remittances appreciate the real exchange rate in the long run, which erodes export competitiveness of the country. A further analysis of sectoral impacts of emigration and remittances in the long run show that both factors lead to inefficient reallocation of resources against growth of agricultural sector.]]>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:25:26 +02:00</pubDate>
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