Stephen D. K. Ellis (Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands)

Submitted:  Tues, April 26, 2011


Dr. Stephen D.K. Ellis
Afrika-Studiecentrum
Leiden University
P.O. Box 9555
2300 RB
Leiden
The Netherlands

phone:   +31-71-5276601
fax:     +31-71-5273344
e-mail:  ellis@ascleiden.nl


Afrika-Studiecentrum Web site: http://www.ascleiden.nl


Mr. Stephen Ellis is a historian, specialising in contemporary African 
history.  Since December 2008, Stephen Ellis is working two days a week as 
a professor at the VU University of Amsterdam, where he occupies a Desmond 
Tutu chair of Youth, Sport and Reconciliation.


Publications -- Selected Books and Articles:

Season of Rains: Africa in the World.  London: Hurst and Co., 
Johannesburg: Jacana, 2011.

"The occult does not exist: a response to Terence Ranger," In: Africa:
journal of the International African Institute, vol. 69, no. 3, 
pp. 399-412, 2009

"'Campus cults' in Nigeria: the development of an anti-social movement,"
In: Ellis, S.D.K., Kessel, W.M.J. van: Movers and shakers : social 
movements in Africa.  Leiden: Brill, 2009

"West Africa's International Drug Trade,"  In: African affairs, vol. 108, 
no. 431, pp. 171-196, 2009.

With Solofo Randrianja
Madagascar : a short history.  Chicago : University of Chicago 
Press, 2009.
	
With Gerrie ter Haar
"Africa's Religious Resurgence and the Politics of Good and Evil,"
In: Current history, vol. 107, no. 708, pp. 180-185, 2008.
	
"The Okija Shrine: Death and Life in Nigerian politics," In: Journal of 
African History, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 445-466, 2008.

With Gerrie ter Haar
Worlds of power : religious thought and political practice in 
Africa.  New York: Oxford University Press, Series in contemporary 
history and world affairs 1, 2004.

The mask of anarchy : the destruction of Liberia and the religious 
dimension of an African civil war. Rev. and updated 2nd ed.
London : Hurst, 2007.

With J.F. Bayart and B. Hibou
The Criminalization of the State in Africa. Oxford / Portsmouth 
NH: James Currey / Heinemann, 1999.

With Gerrie ter Haar 
"Religion and politics in sub-Saharan Africa,"  In: The journal of modern 
African studies, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 175-201, 1998.

Editor 
Africa now. People, policies and institutions. James Currey, 
publishers, London, 1996.

Edited with Yves-A. Fauré
Entreprises et entrepreneurs africains.  Paris : Editions 
Karthala : Editions de l'ORSTOM, c1995.

With Tsepo Sechaba.
Comrades against apartheid : the ANC and the South African Communist 
Party in exile.  London : James Currey, 1991.

The rising of the Red Shawls : a revolt in Madagascar, 1895-1899.
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985.