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Researcher

Inge Brinkman

Awards & Distinctions

125 Results

2025

De broer en de zus

Inge BrinkmanEsther NjeriSandra Kawerama-Bleeker

Text translation

Monsters en hun gendered maaltijden : femicide in oger-verhalen uit Europa en Afrika

A2 Journal Article in ARMADA (AMSTERDAM)

2024

Ecological trauma in contemporary African literature in English

Christopher HebertInge BrinkmanStef Craps

Interview with Juma Rang’ombe, Kwale Arts Troupe, Kenya

Inge BrinkmanMark Obure-Morang'a

Kariba : a review by Inge Brinkman

Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, Decolonising the mind : the politics of language in African literature, 1986

A2 Journal Article in HISTORY OF HUMANITIES

Notes to the Oromo narratives by Rahis Siraj Abba Simal, 1, 2, 3

Inge BrinkmanMegersa RegassaTsehay Dinsa

On acorns and conviviality

Editorial material

Transcription and Translation of the Oromo Narratives By Rahis Siraj Abba Simal-1-2-3

Tsehay DinsaMegersa Regassa

Transcription of Swahili theatre play ‘Nzala ya ndugu si mutu’ by Kwale Arts Troupe

Inge BrinkmanMark Obure-Morang'aMaud Devos

Tree entanglements calendar

Inge BrinkmanJames WachiraMilkessa Edae-TufaSophie DierickxMercy AshepetVicky Van Bockhaven

2023

Gikuyu narrative by Esther Njeri, 1

Inge BrinkmanJames Wachira

Introduction to the Gikuyu language

Knowledge is power : politics and formal education in the sixteenth-century Kongo kingdom

A2 Journal Article in AFRIKA FOCUS

Kolonialisme en modern imperialisme (19e eeuw)

Koen BostoenBirgit ReusensMargot De MeyerInge Brinkman

Bookchapter in Sapiens 5 D (DO) leerboek

Notes to the Gikuyu narrative by Esther Njeri, 1

2022

Beyond the dead end : Gikuyus and Englishes in colonial and postcolonial debates on language and decolonizing (Kenya)

Bookchapter in African futures

Confinement and beyond : space, mobility, and connections in two Mau Mau detention memoirs

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF THE AFRICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION

Editorial material

Pearls and oysters : an introduction

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF THE AFRICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION

Who is at the centre? Gikuyu ogres, oral narrative and posthuman thinking

A4 Journal Article in NAIROBI JOURNAL OF LITERATURE

2021

Africa and the Indian Ocean World from early times to circa 1900

Kongo with a K : acoustic repertoires and hegemony in Kinshasa

Margot LuyckfasseelInge BrinkmanMichael Meeuwis

Social diary and news production : authorship and readership in social media during Kenya’s 2007 elections

Bookchapter in Publics in Africa in a digital age

2020

Editorial material

Evan Maina Mwangi, The postcolonial animal. African literature and posthuman ethics

History as hidden truth : imagining the Kongo past on religious websites

Inge BrinkmanMargot Luyckfasseel

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF AFRICAN CULTURAL STUDIES

Kikongo leenwoorden die boekdelen spreken

Koen BostoenInge Brinkman

Article in a magazine

Space, time, and culture on African/diaspora websites : a tangled web we weave

Inge BrinkmanDaniela Merolla

Editorial material

2019

Afrikaanse letterkunde : tradities, genres, auteurs en ontwikkelingen

Mineke SchipperDaniela MerollaInge Brinkman

Archambault, Julie Soleil. Mobile secrets : youth, intimacy, and the politics of pretense in Mozambique. xx, 183 pp., illus., bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2017

Social diary and news production : authorship and readership in social media during Kenya’s 2007 elections

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF EASTERN AFRICAN STUDIES

War, peace and nationhood : in between south-east Angola and Rundu, Namibia (1960s-2012)

A2 Journal Article in CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES

2018

Introduction: Cross- disciplinary approaches to Kongo history

Koen BostoenInge Brinkman

Bookchapter in The Kongo kingdom: the origins, dynamics and cosmopolitan culture of an African polity

Les provinces septentrionales du royaume Kongo d’après les sources historiques

Inge BrinkmanIgor Roland Matonda Sakala

Bookchapter in Une archéologie des provinces septentrionales du royaume Kongo

Representing performance : memories of song, music and dance in the autobiographical writing of Ngũgĩ and Wainaina

Bookchapter in Music and dance research in East Africa

Seventeenth-century Kikongo is not the ancestor of present-day Kikongo

Koen BostoenGilles-Maurice de Schryver

Bookchapter in The Kongo kingdom: the origins, dynamics and cosmopolitan culture of an African polity

The Kongo kingdom : the origins, dynamics and cosmopolitan culture of an African polity

‘Mobile phone communication in the mobile margins of Africa : The `communication revolution' evaluated from below’

Inge BrinkmanMirjam De Bruijn

Bookchapter in Palgrave Handbook for media and communications research in Africa

“To make book”: a conceptual historical approach to Kongo book cultures (sixteenth– nineteenth centuries)

Inge BrinkmanKoen Bostoen

Bookchapter in The Kongo kingdom: the origins, dynamics and cosmopolitan culture of an African polity

2017

"Congolese Wiskunde” tegen stereotypen over Afrika

Inge BrinkmanGilbert Braspenning

Editorial material

Een Afrikaanse stadsdichter in Granada

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Birth of a Dream Weaver. A Writer’s Awakening (London: Harvill Secker (Pinguin Vintage, 2016)

Porters in the Angolan nationalist war (1961-1974)

Bookchapter in Magnifying perspectives : contributions to history : a Festschrift for Robert Ross

The mobile phone and society in South Sudan : a critical historical-anthropological approach

Inge BrinkmanJonna BothMirjam de Bruijn

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF AFRICAN MEDIA STUDIES

2016

'De hemel zien en dan…'

'Een goede naam is meer waard dan rijkdom'

Erik Kennes & Miles Larmer, The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa

Het relaas van een boekhandel in Nairobi

Kwani? Een literair netwerk

PEN, Marilyn Monroe, Wole Soyinka en Ken Saro-Wiwa

Sabine Brandstätter, Travel literature on the African continent in the 19th century: Analysis of the various Influences on ‘Heart of Darkness’ and ‘Travels in West Africa’ (Saarbrücken: Akademikerverlag, 2014). ISBN-10: 363972030X. Bibliography, 6 figures. 100 pp.

Spaces of correlation: The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo

Inge BrinkmanBernard-Olivier Clist

The mobile phone, 'Modernity', and change in Khartoum, Sudan

Inge BrinkmanMirjam De BruijnHisham Bilal

Bookchapter in Mobile technologies : critical concepts in media and cultural studies

Van schrift naar mondeling: Kameme’s “Book Club” in Kenia

Virginie Mouanda Kibinde, Beneath the black sun of Cabinda (Stellenbosch: SUN Press 2015): Africa Book Link, Summer 2016

‘Kongo interpreters, travelling priests and political leaders in the Kongo Kingdom (15th-19th century)

A1 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES

2015

'The time of the leaflet': pamphlets and political communication in the UPA (Northern Angola, around 1961)

A1 Journal Article in AFRICA

Dans een verhaal

Het gevaar van een leesgroep in Angola

Jij verdient de Nobelprijs

Kennismaken met het kolonialisme

Terreur en literatuur

2013

Mau Mau Revolt (Africa)

Bookchapter in The Blackwell encyclopedia of social and political movements

Side@Ways: mobile margins and the dynamics of communication in Africa

‘Introduction : mobile margins and the dynamics of communication’

Inge BrinkmanMirjam De BruijnFrancis Nyamnjoh

Bookchapter in Side@Ways : mobile margins and the dynamics of communication in Africa

2012

Research practice in connections: travels and methods

Inge BrinkmanMirjam De Bruijn

Bookchapter in The social life of connectivity in Africa

The Nile connection. Effects and meaning of the mobile phone in a (post)war economy in Karima, Khartoum and Juba, Sudan

Inge BrinkmanMirjam de Bruijn

Town, village and bush: war and cultural landscapes in south-eastern Angola (1966-2002)

A2 Journal Article in AFRIKA FOCUS

2011

Changing concerns, changing messages: UPA pamphlets and politics in Northern Angola, 1960-62

A2 Journal Article in PORTUGESE STUDIES REVIEW

Communicating Africa: researching mobile communities, communication technologies and social transformation in Angola and Cameroon

A2 Journal Article in AUTRE PART (BESANCON)

Local stories, global discussions: websites, politics and identity in African contexts

Inge BrinkmanSiri LamoureauxDaniela MerollaMirjam De Bruijn

Bookchapter in Popular media, democracy and development in Africa

‘Sónia Silva, Along an African border. Angolan refugees and their divination baskets

2010

Bricks, mortar and capacity building: a socio-cultural history of SNV Netherlands development organisation

Inge BrinkmanAnne-Lot Hoek

Chabal, Patrick; Vidal, Nuno, ed., Angola: The Weight of History

2009

From 'lands at the end of the earth' to 'lands of progress'? Communication and mobility in South-Eastern Angola

Inge BrinkmanSilvia Alessi

Bookchapter in Communication technologies in Latin America and Africa : a multidisciplinary perspective

Introduction: mobile communities and new social spaces in Africa

Inge BrinkmanMirjam De Bruijnfrancis Nyamnjoh

Bookchapter in Mobile phones : the new talking drums of everyday Africa

Mobile phones: the new talking drums of everyday Africa

The mobile phone, 'modernity' and change in Khartoum, Sudan

Inge BrinkmanMirjam De BruijnHisham Bilal

Bookchapter in Mobile phones : the new talking drums of everyday Africa

2008

David Birmingham, Angola and its neighbors. Empire in Africa’

Landscape and nostalgia: Angolan refugees in Namibia remembering home and forced removals

Bookchapter in African landscapes : interdisciplinary approaches

Le Fait Missionaire Africa

Refugees on routes: Congo/Zaire and the war in Northern Angola (1961-1974)

Bookchapter in Angola on the move : transport routes, communications and history

Writing, oral traditions and the construction of ethnic identities

Bookchapter in Language contact, language change and history based on language sources in Africa : proceedings of the international workshop at Königswinter, March 28–30, 2007

2007

Beyond the 'development era': debates on colonialism, the Christian missions and development

Bookchapter in The Netherlands yearbook on international cooperation

Dreams and agency during Angola’s war for independence

Bookchapter in Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa

Mobility, immobility, marginality: Angolan civilians in wartime (1961-2002)

Bookchapter in Daily lives of civilians in wartime Africa : from slavery days to the diamond wars

2006

Routes and the war for independence in northern Angola (1961-74)

A2 Journal Article in CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES = REVUE CANADIENNE DES ETUDES AFRICAINES

2005

'A war for people' Civilians, mobility, and legitimacy in south-east Angola during the MPLA's war for independence

Rachel Brett and Irma Specht, Young soldiers: why they choose to fight

2004

Axel Fleisch and Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig, The Kavango peoples in the past. Local historiographies from Northern Namibia

Language, names and war: the case of Angola

A2 Journal Article in AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW

Minette Mans, Music as an instrument of diversity and unity: notes on a Namibian landscape

The Kavango peoples in the past: local historiographies from Northern Namibia

2003

Jean Allman, Susan Geiger, and Nakanyike Musisi (eds.), Women in African colonial histories

Kathleen E. Sheldon. Pounders of grain. A history of women, work, and politics in Mozambique

Page, Willie F., The encyclopedia of African History and Culture’

Teresa Cruz e Silva, Protestant churches and the formation of political consciousness in Southern Mozambique (1930-1974)

Bookchapter in Women writing Africa

War and identity in Angola: two case-studies

A2 Journal Article in LUSOTOPIE

War, witches and traitors: cases from the MPLA's Eastern Front in Angola (1966-1975)

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY

Women in African colonial histories

2002

Jacob K. Olupona (ed.), African spirituality. Forms, meanings and expressions

Marc Sommers, Fear in Bongoland. Burundi refugees in urban Tanzania

2001

'Menschen sind keine Fische: sie sollten frei sein': Migranten aus Südost-Angola in Nord-Namibia zu Fragen der Politik, Macht und Legitimität

Bookchapter in Transformationsprobleme im portugiesischsprachigen Afrika

Linda Heywood, Contested power in Angola: 1840s to the present

Luise White, speaking with vampires. Rumor and history in colonial Africa

Singing in the bush: MPLA songs during the war for independence in south-east Angola (1966-1975)

2000

Peter Gourevitch, We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: stories from Rwanda

Stadt, Land und Busch: Krieg, Identität und kulturelle Landschaft in Süd-Ost-Angola

A2 Journal Article in HISTORISCHE ANTHROPOLOGIE

Teresa A. Barnes, „We women worked so hard“. Gender, urbanization, and social reproduction in colonial Harare, Zimbabwe, 1930-1956

‘Ways of death: accounts of terror from Angolan refugees in Namibia’

A1 Journal Article in AFRICAN

1999

Christopher Clapham (ed.), African guerrillas

Grandmother’s footsteps : oral tradition and south-east Angolan narratives on the colonial encounter

Inge BrinkmanAxel Fleisch

Paul Hare, Angola’s last best chance for peace. An insider’s account of the peace process

Roberta Cohen and Francis M. Deng, Masses in flight

Suzette Heald, Manhood and morality. Sex, violence and ritual in Gisu society

Violence, exile and ethnicity: Nyemba refugees in Kaisosi and Kehemu (Rundu, Namibia)

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN STUDIES

1998

Ethnography and literature : troubled waters and Eharo lyahompa by Joseph Diescho

Bookchapter in Afrikaner schreiben zurück : Texte und Bilder afrikanischer Ethnographen

Frans Huyzendveld, Die ostafrikanische Schweiz: Plantages, planters en plattelandsontwikkeling in West-Usambara, Oost-Afrika, ca. 1870-1930

1997

Horst Drechsler, Südwestafrika unter deutscher Kolonialherrschaft. Die großen Land- und Minengesellschaften

1996

Kikuyu gender norms and narratives

1993

Bury my bones, but keep my words : geschiedenis en oraliteit in Afrika

A4 Journal Article in GRONIEK

Het gevecht om Mau Mau : censuur en geschiedenis in Kenia