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 21 2017

Week 21 2017

Articles

Democratic Republic of Congo
Ethnic associations in Katanga province, the Democratic Republic of Congo: multi-tier system, shifting identities and the relativity of autochthony / Erik Gobbers. - (Abstract available)
In: The Journal of Modern African Studies : (2016), vol. 54, no. 2, p. 211-236 : fig., tab
ASC Subject Headings: associations ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; ethnic relations ; ethnicity ; rural-urban migration
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X16000185 (Restricted access)

Democratic Republic of Congo
The pursuit of pleasurable women in the war-ridden city of Butembo, eastern DR Congo / Kristien Geenen. - (Abstract available)
In: The Journal of Modern African Studies : (2016), vol. 54, no. 2, p. 191-210
ASC Subject Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; leisure ; prostitution ; sexuality ; urban life
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X1600001X (Restricted access)

Ghana
"Kakube has come to stay" : the making of a cultural festival in Northern Ghana, 1989-2015 / Carola Lentz and Trevor Wiggins. - (Abstract available)
In: Africa / International African Institute : (2017), vol. 87, no. 1, p. 180-210 : foto's
ASC Subject Headings: cultural change ; festivals ; Ghana ; performing arts
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972016000759 (Restricted access)

Ghana
Negotiating eldercare in Akuapem, Ghana : care-scripts and the role of non-kin / Cati Coe. - (Abstract available)
In: Africa / International African Institute : (2017), vol. 87, no. 1, p. 137-154
ASC Subject Headings: care of the aged ; Ghana ; kinship
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972016000735 (Restricted access)

Lesotho
The role of the non-farm sector in rural development in Lesotho / Tsepiso A. Rantso. - (Abstract available)
In: The Journal of Modern African Studies : (2016), vol. 54, no. 2, p. 317-338 : graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: Lesotho ; livelihoods ; rural development
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X16000197 (Restricted access)

Liberia
Post-conflict women's movements in turmoil: the challenges of success in Liberia in the 2005-aftermath / Petra Debusscher and Maria Martin de Almagro. - (Abstract available)
In: The Journal of Modern African Studies : (2016), vol. 54, no. 2, p. 293-316
ASC Subject Headings: international relations ; Liberia ; peacebuilding ; women's organizations
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X16000173 (Restricted access)

Niger
Rivalries of proximity beyond the household in Niger : political elites and the 'baab-izey' pattern / Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan. - (Abstract available)
In: Africa / International African Institute : (2017), vol. 87, no. 1, p. 120-136
ASC Subject Headings: family ; Niger ; political conditions ; social relations
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972016000723 (Restricted access)

Nigeria
D.A. Obasa (1879-1945) : a Yoruba poet, culture activist and local intellectual in colonial Nigeria / Akintunde Akinymi. - (Abstract available)
In: Africa / International African Institute : (2017), vol. 87, no. 1, p. 1-15 : foto's, tab
ASC Subject Headings: Nigeria ; oral traditions ; poetry ; writers ; Yoruba
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972016000668 (Restricted access)

Nigeria
Two poems by D.A. basa / Akintunde Akinymi. - (Abstract available)
In: Africa / International African Institute : (2017), vol. 87, no. 1, p. 16-26
ASC Subject Headings: Nigeria ; poetry (form) ; writers
https://www.cambridge.org/core/article/two-poems-by-d-a-obasa/ 539A6DD2FD0C4A55801C4DA4EF45A869 (Restricted access)

Rwanda
The making of a "superstar" : the politics of playback and live performance in post-genocide Rwanda / Andrea Mariko Grant. - (Abstract available)
In: Africa / International African Institute : (2017), vol. 87, no. 1, p. 155-179
ASC Subject Headings: nation building ; popular music ; Rwanda ; television
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972016000747 (Restricted access)

South Africa
An analysis of the library and information science (LIS) job market in South Africa / Dennis Ocholla and Mzwandile Shongwe. - (Abstract available)
In: South African Journal of Libraries & Information Science : (2013), vol. 79, no. 1, p. 35-43 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: employment ; information science education ; library and information science ; South Africa
https://login.ezproxy.leidenuniv.nl:2443/login?URL=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=99291889&site=ehost- live;http://dx.doi.org/10.7553/79-1-113 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Back to the original: incidences of web citations in South African electronic legal journals for the period 2005 to 2012 / Solomon Bopape. - (Abstract available)
In: South African Journal of Libraries & Information Science : (2013), vol. 79, no. 2, p. 1-9 : fig., graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: electronic resources ; Internet ; law ; periodicals ; South Africa
https://login.ezproxy.leidenuniv.nl:2443/login?URL=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=99291893&site=ehost- live;http://dx.doi.org/10.7553/79-2-138 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Book circulation in Saldanha Bay Municipality libraries, South Africa, during the 2008/2009 economic recession / Lara Skelly. - (Abstract available)
In: South African Journal of Libraries & Information Science : (2013), vol. 79, no. 2, p. 18-26 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: libraries ; South Africa
https://login.ezproxy.leidenuniv.nl:2443/login?URL=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=99291895&site=ehost- live;http://dx.doi.org/10.7553/79-2-143. (Restricted access)

South Africa
From borders and landscape to ecosystem: reconfiguring library services to meet the needs of South African youth / Genevieve Hart and Mary Nassimbeni. - (Abstract available)
In: South African Journal of Libraries & Information Science : (2013), vol. 79, no. 1, p. 13-21
ASC Subject Headings: libraries ; schools ; South Africa
https://login.ezproxy.leidenuniv.nl:2443/login?URL=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=99291887&site=ehost- live;http://dx.doi.org/10.7553/79-1-106 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Issues related to the adoption of e-books in academic libraries: a literature review / Michelle Kahn and Peter G. Underwood. -
In: South African Journal of Libraries & Information Science : (2013), vol. 79, no. 2, p. 10-17
ASC Subject Headings: electronic resources ; South Africa ; university libraries
https://login.ezproxy.leidenuniv.nl:2443/login?URL=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=99291894&site=ehost- live;http://dx.doi.org/10.7553/79-2-141 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Research support through the lens of transformation in academic libraries with reference to the case of Stellenbosch University Libraries / Reggie Raju and Lucia Schoombee. - (Abstract available)
In: South African Journal of Libraries & Information Science : (2013), vol. 79, no. 2, p. 27-38 : fig
ASC Subject Headings: information technology ; South Africa ; university libraries
https://login.ezproxy.leidenuniv.nl:2443/login?URL=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=99291897&site=ehost- live;http://dx.doi.org/10.7553/79-2-155. (Restricted access)

South Africa
South Africa as an information and knowledge society: the benefit to informal sector women entrepreneurs / Glenrose V. Jiyane, Mabel K. Majanja, Bertha J. Mostert and Dennis Ocholla. - (Abstract available)
In: South African Journal of Libraries & Information Science : (2013), vol. 79, no. 1, p. 1-12 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: informal sector ; information technology ; South Africa ; women entrepreneurs
https://login.ezproxy.leidenuniv.nl:2443/login?URL=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=99291890&site=ehost- live;http://dx.doi.org/10.7553/79-1-115 (Restricted access)

South Sudan
Everything changes to remain the same? State and tax reform in South Sudan / Rens Twijnstra and Kristof Titeca. - (Abstract available)
In: The Journal of Modern African Studies : (2016), vol. 54, no. 2, p. 263-292 : krt
ASC Subject Headings: private sector ; regulatory agencies ; South Sudan ; taxation
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X16000033 (Restricted access)

Subsaharan Africa
Work across Africa : labour exploitation and mobility in Southern, Eastern and Western Africa / Stefano Bellucci and Bill Freund (eds.). - (Abstract available)
In: Africa / International African Institute : (2017), vol. 87, no. 1, p. 27-119 : ill
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural workers ; Ethiopia ; gender division of labour ; labour ; labour migration ; Mozambique ; South Africa ; Subsaharan Africa
https://doi.org/10.1017/S000197201600067X (Restricted access)

Uganda
Who are the 'Lonetia'? : findings from southern Karamoja, Uganda / Elizabeth Stites and Anastasia Marshak. - (Abstract available)
In: The Journal of Modern African Studies : (2016), vol. 54, no. 2, p. 237-262 : graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: adolescents ; crime ; men ; Uganda ; violence
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X16000021 (Restricted access)

West Africa
Studying Islam and Christianity in Africa : moving beyond a bifurcated field / Marloes Janson and Birgit Meyer (eds.). - (Abstract available)
In: Africa / International African Institute : (2016), p. 615-722
ASC Subject Headings: African studies ; Christianity ; interreligious relations ; Islam ; Lord's Resistance Army ; Nigeria ; religious movements ; Uganda ; West Africa
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972016000553 (Restricted access)

Electronic documents

Africa
Culture, the making, unmaking and remaking of an anthropological concept / Carola Lentz. - Mainz : Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; anthropology ; culture
http://www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/Dateien/AP166.pdf

Benin
"On se débrouille : How to be a good judge when the State lets you down? / Sophie Andreetta and Annalena Kolloch. - Mainz : Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Benin ; judges ; professional ethics ; social status ; strikes
http://www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/Dateien/AP_171.pdf

Central Africa
L'Afrique centrale : une région en retard? : premier rapport d'évaluation stratégique sous-régionale du PNUD / Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement. - [S.l.] : Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement (PNUD), 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Central Africa ; human security ; poverty ; regional development ; regional economic relations
http://www.africa.undp.org/content/dam/rba/docs/Reports/UNDP_RBA_Central...

French-speaking Africa
In the crossfire of commemoration: Entangled histories of the tirailleurs africains as heroes in national-day parades in francophone Africa and France / Konstanze NGuessan and Mareike Späth. - Mainz : Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: black soldiers ; commemorations ; France ; French-speaking Africa ; heroes
http://www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/Dateien/AP%20169.pdf

Libya
Libyen nach Gaddaffi: ein Land im post-revolutionären Umbruch : ursachen, Beteiligte und untwicklungspolitische Herausforderungen / Jonas Schröder. - Mainz : Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: development ; international cooperation ; Libya ; political stability ; social disorganization
http://www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/Dateien/AP_168.pdf

Nigeria
A Kulung vocabulary compiled by the missionary Ira McBride / Jörg Adelberger and Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer. - Mainz : Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Jarawa language ; missionary history ; Nigeria ; vocabulary
http://www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/Dateien/AP167.pdf

Nigeria
Igbo nationalism and Biafra / Johannes Harnischfeger. - [S.l. : s.n.], 2011
ASC Subject Headings: ethnic identity ; Igbo ; Nigeria ; Nigerian-Biafran War
http://www.afrikanistik-aegyptologie-online.de/archiv/2011/3042/Igbo

Nigeria
We are Nigerians: civics and history for primary schools : teacher's guide five / Aminat Adeola, Simidile Dosekun. - Lagos : Farafina, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: history education ; Nigeria ; primary education ; social studies
http://www.kachifo.com/Uploads/Teacher%27s%20Guide%20(Book%205).pdf

Nigeria
We are Nigerians: civics and history for primary schools : teacher's guide four / Aminat Adeola, Simidile Dosekun. - Lagos : Farafina, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: history education ; Nigeria ; primary education ; social studies
http://www.kachifo.com/Uploads/Teacher%27s%20Guide%20(Book%204).pdf

Nigeria
We are Nigerians: civics and history for primary schools : teacher's guide one / Aminat Adeola, Simidile Dosekun. - Lagos : Farafina, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: history education ; Nigeria ; primary education ; social studies ; teaching methods ; textbooks (form)
http://www.kachifo.com/Uploads/Teacher%27s%20Guide%20(Book%201).pdf

Nigeria
We are Nigerians: civics and history for primary schools : teacher's guide six / Aminat Adeola, Simidile Dosekun. - Lagos : Farafina, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: history education ; Nigeria ; primary education ; social studies
http://www.kachifo.com/Uploads/Teacher%27s%20Guide%20(Book%206).pdf

Nigeria
We are Nigerians: civics and history for primary schools : teacher's guide two / Aminat Adeola, Simidile Dosekun. - Lagos : Farafina, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: history education ; Nigeria ; primary education ; social studies
http://www.kachifo.com/Uploads/Teacher%27s%20Guide%20(Book%202).pdf

Nigeria
Sunset in Biafra / Elechi Amadi. - Oxford : Heinemann, 1982
ASC Subject Headings: Nigeria ; Nigerian-Biafran War ; novels (form)
http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver... (Restricted access)

Subsaharan Africa
Africa since 1960 : continuities, dislocations, perspectives / Thomas Bierschenk, Eva Spies. - Mainz : Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: cultural change ; economic conditions ; political conditions ; social change ; Subsaharan Africa
http://www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/Dateien/AP165.pdf

Tanzania
Father of the Nation : Tanzania's independence jubilee and the Nyerere myth / Veronika Nad. - Mainz : Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: commemorations ; heads of State ; images ; independence ; legitimacy ; national identity ; Tanzania
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/410715948.pdf

Books

Africa
The letters of Ignatius Sancho / ed. with introduction and notes / [by] S.E. Ogude. - Lagos : Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization (CBAAC), 2002
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; Great Britain ; letters (form) ; musicians ; race relations

Burundi
Des tambours sur l'oreille d'un sourd : Burundi / photos Teddy Mazina ; préface Frédéric Jacquemin ; textes Ketty Nivyabandi, Roland Rugero. - Bruxelles : Africalia [etc.], 2015
ASC Subject Headings: 2010 ; Burundi ; elections ; photography ; pictorial works (form) ; political action ; protest

Ghana
A decade of Ghana : politict, economy and society 2004-2013 / by Michael Amoah, Kwesi Aning, Nancy Annan, Paul Nugent. - Leiden : Brill, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: economic conditions ; Ghana ; political conditions

Maghreb
L'orientalisme après la querelle : dans les pas de François Pouillon / Guy Barthèlemy ... [et al.] (éd.). - Paris : Karthala, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: cultural history ; culture contact ; festschrifts (form) ; images ; Maghreb ; Middle East

Nigeria
History of Obosi : from the earliest times to the present / C.C. Agbodike... [ et al.] ; forew. by Emeka Anyaoku. - Ibadan : Mosuro Publishers, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Nigeria ; towns ; urban history

Nigeria
The president who never ruled : the true-life story of an African self-made billionaire / Jamiu Abiola. - Beirut : Arab Scientific Publishers Inc, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: 1993 ; entrepreneurs ; Nigeria ; novels (form) ; politicians ; presidential elections

Nigeria
Jonathan's second-term bid ... and the lessons from Gandhi / by Ukeje Jona Nwokeforo. - Ibadan [etc.] : Wisdom Publishers Limited, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: heads of State ; India ; Nigeria

Nigeria
Problems of personal income tax in Nigeria / Josephine Aladi Achor Agbonika. - Sango, Ibadan : Ababa Press Ltd, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: fiscal law ; fiscal policy ; income tax ; Nigeria ; tax administration ; taxation

Nigeria
We are Nigerians : civics and history for primary schools / Aminat Adeola. - Lagos : Farafina Educational, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: history education ; Nigeria ; primary education ; social studies

Nigeria
We are Nigerians : civics and history for primary schools / Aminat Adeola. - Lagos : Faradina Educational, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: history education ; Nigeria ; primary education ; social studies

Nigeria
We are Nigerians : civics and history for primary schools / Aminat Adeola. - Lagos : Farafina Educational, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: history education ; Nigeria ; primary education

Nigeria
Awùjal : the autobiography of ba Síkírù Káydé Adétnà gbágbá II CFR / Sikiru Kayode Adetona. - Ibadan : Mosuro, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: autobiographies (form) ; Ijebu ; Nigeria ; traditional rulers

Nigeria
Nimi D. Briggs : thoughts on university education in Nigeria. - Ibadan [etc.] : Spectrum Books, 2006
ASC Subject Headings: academics ; educational management ; higher education ; Nigeria ; speeches (form)

Nigeria
Issues in Nigeria's 1999 general elections / ed. by 'Lai Olurode & Remi Anifowoshe. - Ikeja [etc.] : John West Publications [etc.], 2004
ASC Subject Headings: 1999 ; elections ; Nigeria

Nigeria
The growth of Christ Apostolic Church in Nigeria / Olu Olusunmbola. - Ibadan : O. Olusunmbola, 2001
ASC Subject Headings: Church history ; Nigeria ; Pentecostalism

Nigeria
Victory over satanic dreams / D.K. Olukoya. - Lagos : Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministeries, 1996
ASC Subject Headings: Christianity ; dreams ; motivational literature ; Nigeria

Southern Africa
Understanding everyday Setswana : a vocabulary and reference book = Tlotlofoko le kumako buka / comp. by Pam Wilken ; transl. by R. Malimabe. - Cape Town : Maskew Miller Longman, 1994
ASC Subject Headings: dictionaries (form) ; Southern Africa ; Tswana language