The Cameroonian ambassador, Her Excellency Ms. Odette Melono, will officially receive the first copy of the newest book of Prof. Wouter van Beek (African Studies Centre): The Dancing Dead. Ritual and Religion among the Kapsiki/Higi of North Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria. Please register, see site. The ceremony will be followed, at 15.00, by the PhD defense of Haman Usuna. His dissertation is entitled The new pastoralism. Absentee owners, new Technologies, economic change and natural resource management in the Sahelian region of North Cameroon.

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