New titles

As of July 2019 the ASCL acquisition list is published monthly. The list includes (free) electronic documents, journal articles, books, films and radio programmes recently added to the collection of the ASCL Library and a link to the ASCL journal articles alert.

N.B. The next issue will be published on Monday 3 June 2024.

New acquisitions - week 25 2017

Week 25 2017

Articles

Mauritius
Contested terrain : identity and womens suffrage in Mauritius / Ramola Ramtohul. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of Southern African Studies : (2016), vol. 42, no. 6, p. 1225-1239
ASC Subject Headings: Mauritius ; political history ; right to vote ; women
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2016.1253928 (Restricted access)

Mozambique
'Hidrunisa samora' : invocations of a dead political leader in Maputo rap / Janne Rantala. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of Southern African Studies : (2016), vol. 42, no. 6, p. 1143-1160 : graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: heads of State ; hip hop ; memory ; Mozambique
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2016.1253929 (Restricted access)

South Africa
'The day that fell off the calendar' : 16 June, South African newspapers, and the making of a national holiday, 1977-1996 / Rachel E. Johnson. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of Southern African Studies : (2016), vol. 42, no. 6, p. 1143-1160
ASC Subject Headings: commemorations ; newspapers ; South Africa ; Soweto uprising
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2016.1256145 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Dangerous AIDS myths or preconceived perceptions? : a critical study of the meaning and impact of myths about HIV/AIDS in South Africa / Jonas Sivelä. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of Southern African Studies : (2016), vol. 42, no. 6, p. 1179-1191
ASC Subject Headings: AIDS ; popular beliefs ; South Africa ; Xhosa
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2016.1246225 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Falling through the cracks of South Africa's liberation : comrades' counter-memories of squatter resistance in the 1980s / Kim Wale. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of Southern African Studies : (2016), vol. 42, no. 6, p. 1193-1206
ASC Subject Headings: anti-apartheid resistance ; memory ; social status ; South Africa ; squatters
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2016.1249144 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Icons of the old regime : challenging South African public memory strategies in #RhodesMustFall / Carolyn E. Holmes & Melanie Loehwing. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of Southern African Studies : (2016), vol. 42, no. 6, p. 1207-1223
ASC Subject Headings: colonial period ; commemorations ; memory ; monuments ; protest ; South Africa ; students
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2016.1253927 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Making and unmaking 'African foreignness' : African settings, African migrants and the migrant detective in contemporary South African crime fiction / Rebecca Fasselt. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of Southern African Studies : (2016), vol. 42, no. 6, p. 1109-1124
ASC Subject Headings: crime novels ; migrants ; South Africa ; xenophobia
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2016.1253925 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Part special issue : Nadine Gordimer then and now / [edited by Dennis Walder]. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of Southern African Studies : (2016), vol. 42, no. 6, p. 1033-1094
ASC Subject Headings: literary criticism ; novels ; South Africa
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjss20/42/6 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Perceptions of Daisy de Melker : representations of a sensational trial / Bridget Grogan. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of Southern African Studies : (2016), vol. 42, no. 6, p. 1125-1142
ASC Subject Headings: 1930-1939 ; homicide ; images ; South Africa ; trials ; Whites ; women
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2016.1258822 (Restricted access)

South Africa
The idea of reading in early 20th-century South Africa / Corinne Sandwith. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of Southern African Studies : (2016), vol. 42, no. 6, p. 1095-1108
ASC Subject Headings: cultural history ; reading ; South Africa
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2016.1246223 (Restricted access)

Books

Africa
Mining in Africa : are local communities better off? / Punam Chuhan-Pole, Andrew L. Dabalen, and Bryan Christopher Land ; in collaboration with Michael Lewin, Aly Sanoh, Gregory Smith, and Anja Tolonen. - Washington, DC : World Bank, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; Burkina Faso ; community development ; Ghana ; gold mining ; Mali ; mining ; natural resources ; Tanzania

Africa
Re-thinking values in Africa : for collective well-being / Bawa Kuyini. - [S.l. : s.n.], 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African religions ; Christianity ; Dagomba ; Islam ; philosophy ; Yoruba

Africa
Trade unionism : towards convergelism : a neo-Marxist perspective / Olawale Olawepo. - Lagos : Senior Staff Association of Communications, Transport and Corporations, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; Caribbean ; globalization ; industrial organization ; labour policy ; Marxism ; trade unions

Algeria
Recompositions urbaines et nouveaux espaces de consommation en Algérie : les dynamiques commerciales aux périphéries des villes de l'Est algérien / Nadia Kerdoud. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Algeria ; commercial areas ; Consumption ; suburban areas ; urban development ; urban planning

Algeria
Vécu frontalier algéro-marocain depuis 1994 : quotidien d'une population séparée / Fatiha Daoudi. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Algeria ; boundaries ; boundary conflicts ; human trafficking ; illicit trade ; Morocco ; social life

Burkina Faso
Résiliences sociales et politiques publiques participatives / Siaka Coulibaly. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: associations ; Burkina Faso ; civil society ; local government ; political parties

Cameroon
Histoire et anthropologie du peuple bamiléké / Dieudonné Toukam. - Paris : L'Harmattan Cameroun, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Bamileke ; Cameroon ; customs ; ethnogenesis ; history ; traditional polities

Cameroon
Une société rizicole camerounaise : l'exemple de la SEMRY / Joseph Domo. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural projects ; agroindustry ; Cameroon ; rice ; rural development ; rural poverty

Cameroon
Récits sur mon village / Philippe Tchissakbé ; préf. de Clément Dili Palai ; postf. d'Alain Taino Kari. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; Mundang ; personal narratives (form) ; social life ; traditional society ; villages

Democratic Republic of Congo
Body and affect in the intercultural encounter / Rene Devisch. - Bamenda [etc.] : Langaa Research & Publishers CIG [etc.], 2017
ASC Subject Headings: anthropological research ; body ; culture contact ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; folk medicine ; missions ; Yaka (Angola,Democratic Republic of Congo)

Democratic Republic of Congo
La société congolaise face à la modernité (1700-2010) : mélanges eurafricains offerts à Jean-Luc Vellut / sous la dir. de Pamphile Mabiala Mantuba-Ngoma et Mathieu Zana Etambala. - (Abstract available) - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Belgium ; colonial history ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; festschrifts (form) ; social conditions ; social history

Democratic Republic of Congo
Ressources naturelles et développement : le paradoxe congolais / sous la dir. de Theodore Trefon et Thierry de Putter. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural production ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; forest resources ; mineral resources ; natural resource management ; petroleum ; water

Democratic Republic of Congo
Réalités sociales en République démocratique du Congo : analyse de quelques cas / Étienne Tshimanga-Kutangidiku. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; language usage ; social conditions

Democratic Republic of Congo
Congo-Zaire : les acteurs de l'histoire / Ngimbi Kalumvueziko. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; political action ; political history ; politicians ; resistance

Ethiopia
The bible in Ethiopia : the book of acts / by Curt Niccum. - Eugene, OR : Pickwick Publications, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Bible ; Ethiopia ; Ge'ez language ; manuscripts

Gabon
Les règles coutumières au Gabon : parenté, mariage, succession / Faviola Tapoyo. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: customary law ; Gabon ; kinship ; law of inheritance ; marriage law ; Mpongwe

Gabon
La bataille de Libreville : De Gaulle contre Pétain : 50 morts / Barthélémy Ntoma Mengome. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: colonial history ; France ; French Equatorial Africa ; Gabon ; military history ; military operations ; World War II

Guinea
Pour une véritable indemnisation des victimes : la sauvegarde de la dignité humaine / Amadou Thidiane Kaba ; préf. de Mamadou Lamine Fofana. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: compensation ; Guinea ; legal remedies ; offences against human rights ; victims

Guinea
Williams Sassine, itinéraires d'un indigné guinéen / Élisabeth Degon. - Paris : Éditions Karthala, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; Guinea ; writers

Kenya
A literature workbook on David Mulwa's play: Redemption / Anne Syomwene Kisilu, Charles Chumbe. - Saarbrücken : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: drama ; Kenya ; textbooks (form)

Malawi
Fake healing claims for HIV and AIDS in Malawi : traditional, christian and scientific / Klaus Fiedler. - Mzuzu : Mzuni Press, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: AIDS ; circumcision ; faith healing ; folk medicine ; Malawi

Mali
Le terroir du Bélédougou : un pays, des hommes, une civilisation / Mamadou Issa Tapo ; préf. d'Agota Kristof. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Bambara ; local history ; Mali ; political conditions ; social conditions ; traditional society

Niger
Risque et adaptation climatique dans la région de Tillabéri, Niger : pour renforcer les capacités d'analyse et d'évaluation / sous la dir. de Vieri Tarchiani et Maurizio Tiepolo. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: cartography ; climate change ; droughts ; environmental management ; floods ; Niger ; risk ; Sahel

Nigeria
Debating Nigeria : a collection of essays / by Jideofor Adibe. - London : Adonis & Abbey Publishers, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: economic conditions ; federalism ; Islamic movements ; journalists ; nation building ; newspapers ; Nigeria

Nigeria
Exactions of colonial governing : workplace anguish and pleasure in Northern Nigeria / Philip Atsu Afeadie. - Accra : Woeli Publishing Services, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: colonial administrators ; colonial history ; governance ; Nigeria ; Northern Nigeria

Nigeria
Arresting the arrester : an exposition of spiritual authority / D.K. Olukoya. - Lagos : Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministeries, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Bible ; cults ; Nigeria ; Pentecostalism ; witchcraft

Nigeria
Nigerian feminist theatre : essays on female axes in contemporary Nigerian drama / Mabel Tobrise. - Ibadan : Wits Publishing Ltd, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: drama ; feminism ; Nigeria ; women writers

Nigeria
The Nigerian civil service of the future : a prospective analysis / Tunji Olaopa. - Ibadan : Bookcraft, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: civil servants ; civil service ; civil service reform ; Nigeria ; public administration

Nigeria
The judgement day : signs, stages & proceedings / Zafaran Adeniyi. - Nigeria : Islamic Heritage Foundation, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Islam ; Nigeria

Nigeria
Dyed thoughts : a conversation in and from my country / Nwachukwu Egbunike. - Ibadan : Feathers & Ink, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: articles (form) ; attitudes ; journalists ; Nigeria

Nigeria
Guided destiny : an autobiography / Afolabi Soyode. - Ibadan : Leksilicon Publishing Company Ltd, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: academics ; autobiographies (form) ; educational management ; Nigeria ; universities

Nigeria
The fourteenth Commissar of Works : the life and labour of Rauf Aregbesola / Ayodeji Olukoju. - Lagos [etc.] : Bluesign Publications [etc.], 2007
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; infrastructure ; local government ; Nigeria ; politicians

Rwanda
Le problème des sectes et l'Église catholique au Rwanda / Tharcisse Semana. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Catholic Church ; Christianity ; religious movements ; Rwanda

Senegal
Suintements de couleurs sous fichues banderoles : essai sur l'art de l'in-vu - (Yiyaaka, Nanaaka/Gissuñu-ko, Degguñu-ko) / Abderrahmane Ngaide ; préf. de Babacar Mbaye Diop ; postf. de Kalidou Kassé. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: aesthetics ; exhibitions ; pictorial works (form) ; Senegal ; visual arts

Senegal
Créations et défis au Sénégal : Sembène, Diop, Diadji et Awadi / Hélène Colette Tissières. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: artists ; cinema ; hip hop ; literature ; protest ; Senegal ; social problems

Senegal
Trois romanciers sénégalais devant l'histoire : Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Abdoulaye Elimane Kane, Boubacar Boris Diop / Birahim Thioune ; préf. de Fallou Mbow. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: literary history ; literature ; philosophy ; Senegal ; writers

Senegal
Djibril Diop Mambety : la caméra au bout-- du nez / Nar Sene. - Paris : L'Harmattan [etc.], 2001
ASC Subject Headings: cinema ; filmmakers ; films ; Senegal

South Africa
Singing of slavery, performing the past : folk songs of the Cape coloured community as cultural memory of the South African slave past, 1657-present = Zingen over slavernij, het verleden beleven : volksliederen van de Kaapse kleurling gemeenschap als cultureel geheugen van het Zuid-Afrikaanse slavernijverleden, van 1657 tot heden / door Anne Marieke van der Wal-Rémy. - [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Afrikaans language ; Coloureds ; memory ; oral history ; popular music ; slavery ; South Africa

South Africa
Writing the city into being : essays on Johannesburg, 1998-2008 / Lindsay Bremner ; [edited by Bronwyn Law-Viljoen]. - Johannesburg : Fourthwall Books, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: architecture ; essays (form) ; pictorial works (form) ; South Africa ; towns ; urban planning ; urban sociology

Subsaharan Africa
Procréation médicale et mondialisation : expériences africaines / sous la dir. de Doris Bonnet & Véronique Duchesne. - (Abstract available) - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: family planning ; health care ; infertility ; reproductive health ; Subsaharan Africa

Tanzania
Painted devils and the land of ordinary men / Tuan Marais. - Greyton : Tuan Marais, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: 1964 ; biographies (form) ; revolutions ; Tanzania ; Zanzibar

Tunisia
Le chercheur, le diplomate et la révolution tunisienne : mémoires d'un directeur d'Institut français en Tunisie (2008-2013) / Pierre-Noel Denieuil. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Arab Spring ; France ; French ; research centres ; scientific cooperation ; social sciences ; social scientists ; Tunisia

Tunisia
Le prix de l'engagement politique dans la Tunisie autoritaire : gauchistes et islamistes sous Bourguiba et Ben Ali (1957-2011) / Michael Béchir-Ayari. - Paris [etc.] : Karthala [etc.], 2016
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; elite ; generations ; political action ; protest ; student movements ; Tunisia

West Africa
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa : corporate gangsters, multinationals & rogue politicians / Chernoh Alpha M. Bah. - Philadelphia : Africanist Press, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: diseases ; Ebola ; West Africa

Films

South Africa
Die wonder van 'n nuwe taal in Afrika / teks Jaap Steyn, eindred. Hermann Giliomee. - - [Vredekloof] : ULULA Produksies, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Afrikaans language ; documentary films (form) ; language history ; South Africa ; videos (form)

African Literature

Kenya
Redemption / David Mulwa. - Nairobi : Longman Kenya, 1991
ASC Subject Headings: Christianity ; drama (form) ; Kenya

Nigeria
Cupid's Catapult : a compilation of 12 romantic stories / Hannah Onoguwe. - Lagos : The Book Company Ltd, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Nigeria ; short stories (form)

South Africa
De vrouw in de blauwe mantel / Deon Meyer ; vertaald uit het Afrikaans door Martine Vosmaer en Karina van Santen. - [Amsterdam] : Stichting Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: crime novels (form) ; South Africa

South Africa
Die helder oomblik : kortverhale / John & Ria Smuts. - Kaapstad : Tafelberg, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: short stories (form) ; South Africa

South Africa
Lugkasteel / Annelie Botes. - Johannesburg : Penguin, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; South Africa

West Africa
Tabbara, la princesse de Bantoura / Sacké Kouyaté Kaba Diakité ; préf. de Damien Giot. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Bantu-speaking peoples ; folk tales (form) ; novels (form) ; West Africa ; women rulers