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New acquisitions - week 16 2017

HIV and AIDS in Africa : Christian reflection, public health, social transformationWeek 16 2017

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Articles

Africa
Africans are not black : why the use of the term "black" for Africans should be abandoned / Kwesi Tsri. - (Abstract available)
In: African Identities : (2016), vol. 14, no. 2, p. 147-160
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; Blacks ; ethnological names ; race relations ; Whites
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2015.1113120 (Restricted access)

Africa
Frantz Fanon : Africana existentialist philosopher / Tendayi Sithole. - (Abstract available)
In: African Identities : (2016), vol. 14, no. 2, p. 177-190
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; philosophy
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2015.1117385 (Restricted access)

Angola
Individualization and the ethopolitics of conflict in rural Angola / João Afonso Baptista. - (Abstract available)
In: African Identities : (2016), vol. 14, no. 2, p. 161-176 : foto's
ASC Subject Headings: Angola ; Communalism ; conflict ; individualization ; villages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2015.1117384 (Restricted access)

Ethiopia
Gojjam (Ethiopia) : peopling, Christianization, and identity / Temesgen Gebeyehu Baye. - (Abstract available)
In: African Identities : (2016), vol. 14, no. 3, p. 255-272 : foto's, krt
ASC Subject Headings: Christianity ; Ethiopia ; ethnic groups ; interreligious relations ; migrants ; social history
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2015.1128805 (Restricted access)

Guinea
Stability in deeply divided societies : escaping ethnic-based armed conflict in Guinea / Mamadou Diouma Bah. - (Abstract available)
In: African Identities : (2016), vol. 14, no. 4, p. 291-307
ASC Subject Headings: conflict prevention ; ethnic relations ; Guinea ; political conditions
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2016.1143800 (Restricted access)

Indian Ocean islands
Colloque "Élites dans les pays de l'Indianocéanie (XVIIIe-XXe siècles)" / Prosper Eve ... [et al.]. - (Abstract available)
In: Revue historique de l'océan Indien : (2016), no. 13, p. 153-414 : ill., krt
ASC Subject Headings: elite ; Indian Ocean islands ; Mauritius ; political history ; Réunion ; social history
 

Indian Ocean islands
Esclavage : nouvelles approches / Prosper Eve ... [et al.]. - (Abstract available)
In: Revue historique de l'océan Indien : (2016), no. 13, p. 417-478 : graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: Indian Ocean islands ; Madagascar ; Mauritius ; music ; Réunion ; slavery ; slaves
 

Indian Ocean islands
Esclavage : nouvelles approches / Prosper Eve ... [et al.]. - (Abstract available)
In: Revue historique de l'océan Indien : (2015), no. 12, p. 153-223 : ill., krt
ASC Subject Headings: Indian Ocean islands ; music ; novels ; rituals ; Réunion ; slavery ; slaves ; terminology
 

Indian Ocean islands
La Grande Guerre et les pays de l'Indianocéanie / Prosper Eve ... [et al.]. - (Abstract available)
In: Revue historique de l'océan Indien : (2015), no. 12, p. 11-151 : ill
ASC Subject Headings: 2014 ; conference papers (form) ; Indian Ocean islands ; Mauritius ; Réunion ; World War I
 

Indian Ocean islands
Esclavage : nouvelles approches / Prosper Eve ... [et al.]. - (Abstract available)
In: Revue historique de l'océan Indien : (2014), no. 11, p. 552-624 : ill., tab
ASC Subject Headings: 2013 ; conference papers (form) ; Indian Ocean islands ; Mauritius ; music ; Réunion ; slavery ; slaves ; social history
 

Nigeria
Names and naming characters in African-language dramaturgy : the Yoruba example / Akintunde Akinyemi. - (Abstract available)
In: African Identities : (2016), vol. 14, no. 3, p. 242-254
ASC Subject Headings: drama ; names ; Nigeria ; writers
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2015.1128802 (Restricted access)

Nigeria
Peace and conflict are two sides of this "coin" : explaining the persistence of identity-based conflagrations in Nigeria / Daniel A. Tonwe and Surulola James Eke. - (Abstract available)
In: African Identities : (2016), vol. 14, no. 3, p. 209-221
ASC Subject Headings: conflict prevention ; ethnic relations ; Nigeria
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2015.1128803 (Restricted access)

Réunion
Les ruptures dans l'histoire de La Réunion / Prosper Eve ... [et al.]. -
In: Revue historique de l'océan Indien : (2016), no. 13, p. 9-150 : ill., krt
ASC Subject Headings: Church ; economic development ; poetry ; revolutions ; Réunion ; science ; transport
 

Somalia
Many Somalia(s), multiple memories : remembrances as present politics, past politics as remembrances in war-torn Somali discourses / Mohamed Haji Ingiriis. - (Abstract available)
In: African Identities : (2016), vol. 14, no. 4, p. 348-369
ASC Subject Headings: civil wars ; memory ; Somalia ; violence
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2016.1143804 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Blue Lagoon : race, class, space and the making of Indian masculinities / Deevia Bhana and Imraan Buccus. - (Abstract available)
In: African Identities : (2016), vol. 14, no. 4, p. 321-331
ASC Subject Headings: class relations ; Indians ; race relations ; South Africa ; space
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2016.1143802 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Bodybuilding as identity in South Africa / Rosabelle Boswell. - (Abstract available)
In: African Identities : (2016), vol. 14, no. 4, p. 384-395
ASC Subject Headings: body ; ethnic identity ; race relations ; South Africa ; sports
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2016.1195250 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Journaling engagements with literature on racism : a critical race theoretic approach / Marthinus Conradie and Mariza Brooks. - (Abstract available)
In: African Identities : (2016), vol. 14, no. 3, p. 222-241
ASC Subject Headings: attitudes ; literary education ; race relations ; racism ; South Africa ; students ; Whites
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2015.1128804 (Restricted access)

Southern Africa
The edge of the periphery : situating the Khomani San of the Southern Kalahari in the political economy of Southern Africa / Suzanne Francis, Michael Francis, and Adeoye Akinola. - (Abstract available)
In: African Identities : (2016), vol. 14, no. 4, p. 370-383
ASC Subject Headings: attitudes ; development ; Kalahari Desert ; San ; Southern Africa
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2016.1154813 (Restricted access)

Tanzania
The pragmatics of friendship : support and speculation among young street traders in Tanzania / Katrijn Asselberg. - (Abstract available)
In: African Identities : (2016), vol. 14, no. 4, p. 308-320
ASC Subject Headings: friendship ; market vendors ; Tanzania
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2016.1143801 (Restricted access)

Zimbabwe
History, migration and identity in contemporary Zimbabwean biography as reflected in Peter Orner and Annie Holmes' (2010) "Hope deferred: narratives of Zimbabwean lives" / Terrence Musanga and Irikidzayi Manase. - (Abstract available)
In: African Identities : (2016), vol. 14, no. 3, p. 273-287
ASC Subject Headings: biography ; images ; political conditions ; Zimbabwe
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2015.1128806 (Restricted access)

Electronic documents

Morocco
La circulation des productions culturelles : cinémas, informations et séries télévisées dans les mondes arabes et musulmans / Dominique Marchetti (dir.). - Rabat [etc.] : Centre Jacques-Berque [etc.], 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Arab countries ; cinema ; communication ; information dissemination ; Morocco ; television ; Tunisia ; Turkey
http://books.openedition.org/cjb/1201

Books

Africa
Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of African Linguistics, Buea, 17-21 August 2012 / ed. by Gratien Atindogbé and Evelyn Fogwe Chibaka. - (Abstract available) - Mankon : Langaa Research and Publishing CIG, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: 2012 ; Africa ; African languages ; Cameroon ; conference papers (form) ; linguistics ; sociolinguistics
 

Africa
HIV and AIDS in Africa : Christian reflection, public health, social transformation / ed. by Jacquineau Azetsop. - (Abstract available) - Maryknoll, NY : Orbis Books, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; AIDS ; Bible ; Christian theology ; Church ; spirituality
 

Africa
The rise of Africa's middle class : myths, realities and critical engagements / ed. by Henning Melber. - London [etc.] : Zed Books [etc.], 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; economic development ; middle class ; social change
 

Africa
Fashion illustration Africa : a new generation / Tapiwa Matsinde ; introduction by Zakirah Rabaney. - [S.l.] : Shoko Press, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; artists ; clothing industry ; pictorial works (form)
 

Africa
Sociologie critique de la mondialisation : un regard africain / Jean-Prosper Sengi Bangama Likondo ; préf. de Mwayila Tshiyembe. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; development ; economic conditions ; globalization
 

Arab countries
Cultural encounters in the Arab world : on media, the modern and the everyday / Tarik Sabry. - London : I.B. Tauris, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: Arab countries ; Egypt ; mass media ; modernization ; Morocco ; popular culture ; social change ; social life
 

Cameroon
L'Est-Cameroun de 1905 à 1960 : de la mise en valeur à la marginalisation / Lucie Zouya Mimbang ; préf. de Michel Hau. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; decolonization ; economic conditions ; history ; social conditions ; structural adjustment
 

Cameroon
Bidonvilles : development of dysfunctional urban systems in Cameroon / von Simon Elate Som. - Aachen : Shaker Verlag, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; informal settlements ; urban housing ; urbanization
 

Comoros
La société coloniale de Bambao : Comores (1893-1975) / Mouhssini Hassani-El-Barwane. - Moroni : KomEDIT, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural policy ; colonial period ; Comoros ; enterprises ; land acquisition ; plantations
 

Congo (Brazzaville)
De la novation politique en République du Congo / Bienvenu Okiemy ; préf. d'Aimé Emmanuel Yoka. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Congo (Brazzaville) ; constitutional reform ; constitutions
 

Congo (Brazzaville)
Population, éducation et développement au Congo-Brazzaville : actes des [deuxièmes] journées scientifiques des 3 et 4 décembre 2013 [sur "Population et développement", à Brazzaville] / [organisées par le Laboratoire de formation et de recherche en population et développement (LAPODEV)] ; sous la dir. de Gertrude Ndeko, Joseph Mbandza, Daniel Loumouamou. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: AIDS ; Congo (Brazzaville) ; education ; educational reform ; gender inequality ; pupils ; sexuality
 

Côte d'Ivoire
Chemin d'avenir : Côte d'Ivoire, la paix soit avec toi! / Francis Barbey ; préf. de Clément Molo Mumvwela. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: civil wars ; colonialism ; Côte d'Ivoire ; France ; international relations ; political conditions
 

Egypt
Alexandrie dans les récits de voyage, VIe-XVIIIe siècles : documents pour l'histoire ou sources historiques? / Oueded Sennoune. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Egypt ; historical sources ; travel ; travel books (form) ; urban history
 

Ethiopia
Provinces équatoriales d'Abyssinie : expédition du Dédjaz Comte N. de Léontieff ; photographies chasses / Nikolai Stepanovich Leontev. - Paris : Chambrelent, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: 1899 ; Ethiopia ; expeditions ; hunting ; material culture ; travel
 

France
Jacques Foccart : dans l'ombre du pouvoir / Frédéric Turpin. - Paris : CNRS éditions, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; foreign policy ; France ; French-speaking Africa ; politics
 

France
Langue, espace et (re)composition identitaire dans les oeuvres de Mehdi Charef, Tony Gatlif et Farid Boudjellal / Ramona Mielusel. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: films ; France ; identity ; immigrants ; literature ; Maghrebians
 

Guinea
La Guinée a eu 55 ans : et maintenant? / Thierno Bah. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: associations ; civil society ; diasporas ; France ; Guinea ; international relations
 

Maghreb
Communication publique et territoriale au Maghreb : enjeux d'une valorisation et défis pour les acteurs / sous la dir. de Aissa Merah et Vincent Meyer ; préf. de Michel Durampart ; postf. de Dominique Mégard. - (Abstract available) - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Algeria ; communication ; Maghreb ; Morocco ; rural development ; Tunisia ; urban development
 

Morocco
La mixité urbaine et l'espace public à Rabat / Khadija Karibi ; préf. de Daniel Pinson. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: capitals ; Morocco ; social conditions ; urban planning
 

Nigeria
Ay Bamgboe : a linguist without borders / [Niyi Osundare ... [et al.]. - Ibadan : DB Mortoy Books, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: academics ; African languages ; festschrifts (form) ; linguistics ; Nigeria ; universities
 

Nigeria
Yakubu Gowon : soldier-statesman. - Ibadan : Sketch Publishing, 1970
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; memorial volumes (form) ; military personnel ; Nigeria ; Nigerian-Biafran War
 

Senegal
La sexualité féminine africaine en mutation : l'exemple du Sénégal / Awa Thiam ; préf. d'Amady Aly Dieng. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: abortion ; contraception ; female circumcision ; infanticide ; Senegal ; social conditions
 

South Africa
Currents of power : state broadcasting in South Africa / edited by Ruth Tomaselli, Keyan Tomaselli, Johan Muller. - Denver, CO : Academic Books, International Academic Publishers, 2001
ASC Subject Headings: broadcasting ; radio ; South Africa ; television
 

Southern Africa
Pan-Africanism and integration in Africa / Ibbo Mandaza and Dani Wadada Nabudere (editors). - Harare : SAPES Books, 2001
ASC Subject Headings: economic integration ; free trade areas ; globalization ; land reform ; pan-Africanism ; SADC ; Southern Africa
 

Subsaharan Africa
De l'analogique au numérique : cinémas et spectateurs d'Afrique subsaharienne francophone à l'épreuve du changement / Delphe Kifouani ; avant-propos de François Fronty. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: audiences ; cinema ; electronic resources ; French-speaking Africa ; government policy ; Internet ; Subsaharan Africa
 

Subsaharan Africa
Bildung in Afrika südlich der Sahara : unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Universitäten Nigerias / Farouq Lawan. - Hamburg : Verlag Dr. Kova, 2004
ASC Subject Headings: dissertations (form) ; educational systems ; elite ; higher education ; Nigeria ; Subsaharan Africa ; universities
 

Sudan
Federalism as conflict-management device for multiethnic and multicultural societies : the case of Sudan / Omer Awadalla Ali Gasmelseid. - Bâle [etc.] : Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 2006
ASC Subject Headings: dissertations (form) ; ethnic conflicts ; federalism ; nation building ; political systems ; Sudan
 

Uganda
Conflict transformation and social change in Uganda : remembering after violence / Susanne Buckley-Zistel. - Basingstoke [etc.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
ASC Subject Headings: conflict ; memory ; peacebuilding ; rebellions ; Teso ; Uganda ; violence
 

Zanzibar
Life and poems of Bi Zainab Himid (1920-2002) : in Swahili with English translation = Maisha na tungo za Bi Zainab Himid (1920-2002) : kwa Kiswahili na tafsiri yake kwa Kiingereza / Sauda Barwani & Ludwig Gerhardt. - Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; interviews (form) ; poetry ; songs ; Swahili ; Tanzania ; women artists ; Zanzibar

Journals

Subsaharan Africa
The Botswana journal of economics : the journal of the Botswana Economics Association. - Gaborone : Botswana Economics Association
ASC Subject Headings: Botswana ; economics ; Subsaharan Africa

Films

Mali
River nomads = Les nomades du fleuve / a film by Eric Komlavi Hahonou and Lotte Pelckmans. - (Abstract available) - [S.l. : s.n.], 2016
ASC Subject Headings: documentary films (form) ; fishermen ; labour migration ; Mali ; Niger ; Nigerians ; rivers ; videos (form)

South Sudan
A haunting history : torn by the war of South Sudan / a film by Ilse and Femke van Velzen. - (Abstract available) - Amsterdam : IF productions, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: attitudes ; civil wars ; documentary films (form) ; lawyers ; peacebuilding ; South Sudan ; transitional justice
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African Literature

Côte d'Ivoire
Là où il fait si clair en moi / Tanella S. Boni. - Paris : Bruno Doucey, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Côte d'Ivoire ; poetry (form)
 

Mauritius
Petit éloge des fantômes / Nathacha Appanah. - [Paris] : Gallimard, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Mauritius ; memory ; personal narratives (form) ; short stories (form)
 

Nigeria
Naked truth : poems / Chris Anyokwu. - Ibadan : Kraft Books Limited, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: economic development ; Nigeria ; poetry (form) ; social conditions
 

Nigeria
Saving Dapo : a novel / by Seun Odukoya. - [S.l : author], 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Nigeria ; novels (form)
 

Nigeria
My gazar with my geisha (a novel of magic realism) / Yemi D. Ogunyemi (Yemi D. Prince). - Denver, CO : Outskirts Press, 2008
ASC Subject Headings: Japan ; Nigeria ; novels (form) ; romantic relationships
 

Rwanda
Le feu sous la soutane : un prêtre au coeur du génocide rwandais / Benjamin Sehene. - Paris : Esprit frappeur, 2005
ASC Subject Headings: genocide ; novels (form) ; Rwanda
 

South Africa
Modern Rasputin : poems / by Rosa Lyster. - Cape Town : uHlanga, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: poetry (form) ; South Africa
 

South Africa
Three plays / Craig Higginson. - London : Oberon Books, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: drama (form) ; South Africa
 

South Africa
Dub steps / by Andrew Miller. - Auckland Park : Jacana, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; South Africa
 

Uganda
The switch / Mary Karooro Okurut. - Kampala : FEMRITE, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: female circumcision ; novels (form) ; Uganda
 

Zimbabwe
Like the untouchable wind : an anthology of poems / edited by Makhosazana Xaba. - Cape Town : Modjaji Books, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: lesbianism ; LGBT ; poetry (form) ; Zimbabwe

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