Publications

Articles in journals

  • 2009. Krobo Queen Mothers: Gender, Power, and Contemporary Female Traditional Authority in Ghana. Africa Today 55 (3):105-123 (peer reviewed).
  • 2007. 'Making real Krobo women': Gender and the power of the performance of female initiation rites (dipo) in Ghana. LOVA. Tijdschrift voor Feministische Antropologie 28 (2).
  • 2002. 'A mighty obstacle to the gospel': Basel missionaries, Krobo women and conflicting ideas of gender and sexuality. Journal of Religion in Africa 32 (2):200-230 (peer reviewed).
  • 2000. Het vieren van Dipo in beeld (Speciaal nummer over thema ‘Feest’). LOVA. Tijdschrift voor Feministische Antropologie 21 (1):37-40.
  • 1997. "We don't do Dipo ... in our house". Christelijke Krobo en Initiatieriten voor Krobo meisjes in Ghana. LOVA. Tijdschrift voor Feministische Antropologie 18 (1):7-11.

Articles in edited volumes

  • 2012. Becoming 'real African Kings and Queens': Culture, Chieftaincy and Tourism in Ghana. In African Hosts and their Guests. Cultural Dynamics of Tourism, edited by Walter van Beek and Annette Schmidt. Suffolk, NY: James Currey, pp. 256-272.
  • 2011. Tani, Maame Grace Harris. In Dictionary of African Biography, edited by H. L. Gates, Jr. and E. Akyeampong. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • 2011. Ghana. In Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World, edited by M. Zeiss Stange, C. K. Oyster and G. Golson, J. Newbury Park, CA: SAGE Publications.
  • 2010. Queen Mothers in Ghana working for Development. In On the Subject of Labour. Essays in Memory of Frans Hüsken (edited by H. d. Jonge and T. v. Meijl). In de Walvis.
  • 2008. Development encounters: Westerners and chieftaincy in Southern Ghana. In Dilemmas of Development: conflicts of interest and their resolutions in modernizing Africa (228-241), edited by J. Abbink and A. v. Dokkum. Leiden: African Studies Centre.
  • 2008. Consulting the old lady. In Cultural styles of knowledge transmission: essays in honour of Ad Borsboom (145-148), edited by J. Kommers and E. Venbrux. Amsterdam: Aksant.
  • 2006. A 'license to indulge in premature sexual activities'? Krobo women and dipo. In Sex and gender in an era of AIDS. Ghana at the turn of the millenium (59-90), edited by C. Oppong, Y. Oppong and I. K. Odotei. Legon, Accra: Subsaharan Publishers.
  • 2006. 'White' chiefs and queens in Ghana: personification of development. In Chieftaincy in Africa. Culture, governance and development (603-620), edited by A. Awesoba and I. K. Odotei. Legon, Accra: Subsaharan Publishers.

Books

  • 2005. Dipo and the politics of culture in Ghana. Accra: Woeli Publishing Services.
  • 2004. Resilient Rituals. Krobo Initiation and the Politics of Culture in Ghana. Edited by P. Geschiere and B. Meyer, Modernity and Belonging. Münster: LITVerlag.

Reviews

  • Peer review manuscript African Diaspora, December 2010.
  • Peer review SANPAD voorstel 2008.
  • Review ‘The ABC of unsafe sex- Gendered sexualities of young people in Dakar (Senegal)’ (Anouka van Eerdewijk). NVAS Nieuwsbrief, 10(3), pp. 11-12, 2007.
  • Peer review manuscripten voor Anthropology and Medicine and The American Anthropologist (2006).
  • Review 'The bush burnt, the stones remain. Girl's initiation rites in Zambia’ (Thera Rasing). LOVA. Tijdschrift voor Feministische Antropologie 22(2), pp. 55-7, 2002.

Editorial experience

  • Editor NVAS Newletter (Dutch Association for Africanists) 2006-2013