Harrie M Leyten Author

Walter E.A. van Beek held a joint appointment as Professor of Anthropology of Religion at Tilburg University and the African Studies Centre Leiden. Now retired from Tilburg, he continues as Senior Researcher at the ASCL. His books include (with Oumar Ongoiba and Atime Saye) Singing with the Dogon Prophet (2022). Harrie M. Leyten taught at several Dutch Universities and was Africa curator at the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam 1975-95. For UNESCO he conducted missions to Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Mozambique. His books include From Idol to Art, African objects-with-power (2015). He died in March 2023.