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Articles

Africa
The role of African universities in the protection of the rights of indigenous peoples : a development agenda / Dejo Olowu. - (Abstract available)
In: International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity : (2016), vol. 11, no. 1, p. 64-83
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; human rights ; indigenous peoples ; universities
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2016.1212470 (Restricted access)

Africa
Towards a critical realist perspective on African conflicts / S. Yirenkyi-Boateng. - (Abstract available)
In: International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity : (2016), vol. 11, no. 1, p. 103-122
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; ethnic conflicts ; philosophy ; political conflicts
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2016.1212476 (Restricted access)

Burundi
Media-state relations in Burundi : overview of a post-traumatic media ecology / Oumar Kane and Aimé-Jules Bizimana. - (Abstract available)
In: Communicatio : (2016), vol. 42, no. 2, p. 155-169
ASC Subject Headings: Burundi ; freedom of the press ; mass media ; media policy
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02500167.2016.1167753 (Restricted access)

Cameroon
Views about modern museums in the palaces of the western Grassfields, Cameroon / Mathias A. Fubah. - (Abstract available)
In: International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity : (2016), vol. 11, no. 1, p. 84-102 : foto's, tab
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; conservation of cultural heritage ; museums ; public opinion
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2016.1212471 (Restricted access)

Ethiopia
The Ethiopian root of Thomas More's 'Utopia' / Meskerem L. Debele. - (Abstract available)
In: International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity : (2016), vol. 11, no. 1, p. 22-33
ASC Subject Headings: Christianity ; Ethiopia ; Great Britain ; literary criticism ; novels
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2016.1212461 (Restricted access)

Lesotho
Compiling an evidence-based improvement plan for the support of distance-education students at a southern African university / Bothephana Makhakhane, Annette C. Wilkinson, and Charity N. Ndeya-Ndereya. -
In: Africa Education Review : (2016), vol. 13, no. 1, p. 20-36 : ill., tab
ASC Subject Headings: adult education ; distance education ; evaluation ; Lesotho
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2016.1186421 (Restricted access)

Rwanda
'Imihigo': a hybrid model associating traditional and modern logics in public policy implementation in Rwanda / Masengesho Kamuzinzi. - (Abstract available)
In: International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity : (2016), vol. 11, no. 1, p. 123-141
ASC Subject Headings: government policy ; management ; public administration ; Rwanda
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2016.1212477 (Restricted access)

South Africa
A case study : cultural preferences concerning the willingness of Batswana students to use ICT in distance education at North-West University / Charlene Du Toit-Brits. -
In: Africa Education Review : (2016), vol. 13, no. 1, p. 37-50
ASC Subject Headings: distance education ; higher education ; information technology ; South Africa ; students ; Tswana
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2016.1183872 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Alleviating poverty through resource provision : the case of a South African agricultural project / Beatrice Maphosa. - (Abstract available)
In: International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity : (2016), vol. 11, no. 1, p. 45-63
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural projects ; food security ; poverty reduction ; South Africa
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2016.1212463 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Dangerous othering in Meg Vandermerwes 'Zebra crossing' : Ubuntu - ideals and realities of the 2010 FIFA World Cup / Robyn Wilkinson. -
In: International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity : (2016), vol. 11, no. 1, p. 34-44
ASC Subject Headings: 2010 ; football ; literary criticism ; novels ; South Africa ; xenophobia ; Zimbabweans
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2016.1212462 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Deaf to women : Rhodes's refusal to hear women or his own feminine voice within - a reading of Schreiner's 'Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland' / Rajendra Chetty and Matthew Curr. - (Abstract available)
In: International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity : (2016), vol. 11, no. 1, p. 5-21
ASC Subject Headings: gender ; literary criticism ; novels ; South Africa
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2016.1212460 (Restricted access)

South Africa
E-learning and technologies for open distance learning in Management Accounting / Trust Kashora, Huibrecht M. van der Poll, and John A. van der Poll. -
In: Africa Education Review : (2016), vol. 13, no. 1, p. 1-19 : graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: accounting ; distance education ; higher education ; information technology ; South Africa
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2016.1186863 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Insurance of politically motivated risks including terrorism : the case of South Africa / Albert Mushai and Agata MacGregor. - (Abstract available)
In: Economic History of Developing Regions : (2016), vol. 31, no. 2-3, p. 277-302 : graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: insurance ; rebellions ; risk ; South Africa ; strikes ; terrorism
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2016.1180957 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Representations of crime, power and social decay in the South African post-colony in the film "Gangster's paradise: Jerusalema" (2008) / Khatija Khan. - (Abstract available)
In: Communicatio : (2016), vol. 42, no. 2, p. 210-220
ASC Subject Headings: films ; political conditions ; race relations ; social inequality ; South Africa
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02500167.2016.1167754 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Voting void? : young South Africans, elections and the media / Vanessa Malila. - (Abstract available)
In: Communicatio : (2016), vol. 42, no. 2, p. 170-190
ASC Subject Headings: mass media ; political participation ; South Africa ; voting ; youth
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02500167.2016.1167750 (Restricted access)

Togo
The role of stakeholders in the historical evolution of microfinance in Togo / Arvind Ashta, Isabelle Demay, and Mawuli Couchoro. - (Abstract available)
In: Economic History of Developing Regions : (2016), vol. 31, no. 2-3, p. 303-344 : ill., graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: credit cooperatives ; economic history ; microfinance ; Togo
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2015.1114413 (Restricted access)

Uganda
The association between Ugandan adolescents' viewing of specific television genres and sex-related normative beliefs and behaviours / Ann Neville Miller ... [et al.]. - (Abstract available)
In: Communicatio : (2016), vol. 42, no. 2, p. 221-237 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: AIDS ; audiences ; sexuality ; television ; Uganda ; youth
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02500167.2016.1187187 (Restricted access)

Electronic documents

Africa
The role of information and communication technology (ICT) in Africas sustainable and inclusive development: understanding the capacity challenges / Saulos Klaus Chilimam. - Harare : African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; information technology ; Malawi
http://elibrary.acbfpact.org/acbf/collect/acbf/index/assoc/HASH9819.dir/...

Botswana
Fiscal histories of Sub-Saharan Africa : the case of Botswana / Thatshisiwe Ndlovu. - [Johannesburg] : Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI), 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Botswana ; economic history ; tax administration ; taxation
http://pari.org.za/wp-content/uploads/160826-Fiscal-Histories-Botswana-f...

Chad
Les mutilations genitales feminines dans les regions de Hadjar Lamis et du Guera (Tchad) = Improving the national agriculture investment plans of Burkina Faso, Burundi, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Tanzania / consultants Alhascari Solkem, Olivier Guiryanan. - Nairobi : Agency for Co-operation and Research in Development (ACORD), 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Chad ; female circumcision ; Hadjerai
http://www.acordinternational.org/silo/files/les-mutilations-gnitales-fm...

Kenya
AfriCOG citizen perception survey 2016 / Africa Centre for Open Governance (AfriCOG). - Nairobi : AfriCOG, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: 2016 ; attitudes ; constitutions ; governance ; Kenya ; surveys
http://africog.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/AFRICOG-INFOTRAK-CITIZENS-...

Kenya
Gains and gaps : gender mainstreaming in public sector in Kenya : status report 2013-2015 / National Gender and Equality Commission (NGEC). - Nairobi : National Gender and Equality Commission, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: gender inequality ; Kenya ; public sector
http://www.ngeckenya.org/Downloads/Gains%20&%20Gaps%20Report.pdf

Kenya
Child budget analysis in Kenya : national government and six county governments / by: John Mutua, Raphael Muya, Duncan Otieno. - Nairobi : Institute of Economic Affairs, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: child care ; Kenya ; national budget
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/408428856.pdf

Kenya
Domestic prosecution of international crimes : lessons for Kenya / Kenyans for peace with truth and justice (KPTJ). - Nairobi : Africa Centre for Open Governance, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: administration of justice ; international criminal courts ; Kenya ; political violence ; Sierra Leone ; Uganda
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/408445998.pdf

Kenya
Implementing the constitutional two-thirds gender principle : the cost of representation. - Nairobi : The National Women's Steering Committee in partnership with Institute of Economic Affairs, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: gender inequality ; Kenya ; parliamentary representation ; women parliamentarians
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/408436832.pdf

Kenya
Review of status of public participation, and county information dissemination frameworks : a case study of Isiolo Kisumu Makueni and Turkana Counties / written by : Chrispine Oduor, Rose Wanjiru and Festus L. Kisamwa. - Nairobi : Institute of Economic Affairs, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Kenya ; local government ; popular participation
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/408437677.pdf

Kenya
A guide to public interest litigation in Kenya / Kenyans for Peace with Truth & Justice, Africa Centre for Open Governance, and the Katiba Institute. - Nairobi : Kenyans for Peace with Truth and Justice and Africa Centre for Open Governance, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: handbooks (form) ; Kenya ; lawsuits ; legal procedure
http://kptj.africog.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/PIL-24032015.pdf

Nigeria
The future and relevance of Nigerian universities and other tertiary institutions / edited by Michael O. Faborode and Omano Edigheji. - Dakar : TrustAfrica, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: higher education ; Nigeria ; universities
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/408425180.pdf http://www.trustafrica.org/en/resource/news/item/3279-the-future-and-rel...

Tanzania
Access to family planning services in rural Tanzania / Flora Kessy. - Dar es Salaam : REPOA, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: access to health care ; family planning ; Tanzania
http://www.repoa.or.tz/documents/REPOA_SP_16_1.pdf

Tanzania
Strategic significance of national oil companies: lessons for Tanzania / Donald Mmari , Sufian Bukurura. - Dar es Salaam : Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA), 2016
ASC Subject Headings: hydrocarbon policy ; oil companies ; Tanzania
http://www.repoa.or.tz/documents/REPOA_WP_16.3.pdf

Uganda
NRM Manifesto 2016-2021 : steady progress: taking Uganda to modernity through jobs-creation & inclusive development / Yoweri K. Museveni. - Kampala : NRM Secretariat, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: National Resistance Movement ; party programmes ; political parties ; Uganda
https://www.nrm.ug/sites/default/files/manifestoes/NRM%20Manifesto%20201...

Uganda
The non-governmental organisations act, 2016 / The Republic of Uganda. - [Kampala] : The Republic of Uganda, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: laws (form) ; NGO ; Uganda
http://chapterfouruganda.com/sites/default/files/downloads/The-Non-Gover...

Books

Africa
Sociology : current and African perspectives / ed. by Asamu F. Femi, Babatunde B. Ekundayo. - (Abstract available) - Ilorin : Integrity publication, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; globalization ; Nigeria ; research methods ; science and technology ; social conditions ; sociological research ; sociology
 

Africa
Return to the kingdom of childhood : re-envisioning the legacy and philosophical relevance of Negritude / Cheikh Thiam. - Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; decolonization ; Negritude ; philosophy ; Senegal
 

Cameroon
Kotoko vissers in de Logone vloedvlakte / door Els van der Zee. - [Leiden : Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Leiden University], 1987
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; environmental degradation ; fishermen ; Kotoko ; natural resource management ; river basins
 

Chad
L'affaire Hissène Habré : une première tentative de mise en uvre de la compétence universelle en Afrique / Amoulgam Azé Kerté ; préf. de Bernard-Raymond Guimdo Dongmo. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Chad ; criminal courts ; criminal law ; heads of State ; international courts ; international criminal law ; offences against human rights ; Rwanda ; Senegal
 

Côte d'Ivoire
African miracle, African mirage : transnational politics and the paradox of modernization in Ivory Coast / Abou B. Bamba. - Athens [etc.] : Ohio University Press, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: 1950-1959 ; 1960-1969 ; 1970-1979 ; Côte d'Ivoire ; development projects ; economic development ; economic history ; France ; United States
 

Côte d'Ivoire
Laurent Gbagbo : la foi en la démocratie : l'élection présidentielle de l'an 2000 / Sébastien Dano Djedje. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: 2000 ; Côte d'Ivoire ; elections ; presidential elections
 

Mauritania
Kleinschalige irrigatie en bedrijfssysteem in Medina Gaia (Mauritanie) / J.J. Speelman. - Wageningen : [s.n.], 1987
ASC Subject Headings: irrigation ; land use ; Mauritania ; theses (form) ; Wolof
 

Namibia
Nachhaltige Entwicklung im Bergrecht Namibias / Natalie A. Renkhoff. - Baden-Baden : Nomos, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: environmental law ; Germany ; mining law ; Namibia ; sustainable development
 

Nigeria
Die geraubten Mädchen : Boko Haram und der Terror im Herzen Afrikas / Wolfgang Bauer ; Fotos von Andy Spyra. - Berlin : Suhrkamp, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Islamic movements ; Nigeria ; personal narratives (form) ; sexual offences ; terrorism ; women
 

Nigeria
Humor, silence, and civil society in Nigeria / Ebenezer Obadare. - Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: civil society ; humour ; Nigeria ; political action
 

Nigeria
African philosophy : an ontologico-existential hermeneutic approach to classical and contemporary issues / by Kanu, Ikechukwu Anthony, OSA, Ph.D. - Jos : Augustinian Publications, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: cosmology ; democracy ; Nigeria ; philosophy ; religion
 

Nigeria
Insurgency / by Ade Abolurin. - Ejioku : Golden-Gems Unique Multiventures, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Arab countries ; Arab Spring ; Asia ; Egypt ; Islamic movements ; Mali ; Nigeria ; rebellions ; terrorism ; Tunisia
 

Nigeria
Cradle of ideas : a compendium of speeches and writings of Omo N'Oba Erediauwa of Great Benin / ed. by Osarhieme Benson Osadolor. - Ibadan : Ibadan University Press, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: articles (form) ; Nigeria ; speeches (form) ; traditional rulers
 

Nigeria
We served our generation : perspectives and reflections on Western Nigeria civil service / Association of Retired Heads of Service and Permanent Secretaries of Oyo and Osun States of Nigeria. - Ibadan : HEBN Publishers PLc, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: civil servants ; civil service ; civil service reform ; managers ; Nigeria ; women managers
 

Nigeria
Cross and scalpel : Jean-Marie Coquard among the Egba of Yorubaland / Edmund M. Hogan. - Ibadan : HEBN Publishers, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: Catholic Church ; doctors ; Egbado ; France ; missionary history ; missions ; Nigeria
 

Nigeria
Local government administration in Nigeria : a comparative perspective / Augustine Nduka Eneanya. - Yaba : University of Lagos Press, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: decentralization ; local government ; Nigeria ; public administration ; Subsaharan Africa ; world
 

Nigeria
PDP : corruption incorporated / Bamidele A. Sobowale. - Ibadan : Aike Books, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: corruption ; heads of State ; Nigeria ; People's Democratic Party ; political history
 

Nigeria
The man : Adetokunbo Lucas / ed. by Bolanle Awo, Oyinade Olurin, Kayode Oyediran. - Ibadan : BookBuilders, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: academics ; diseases ; medical sciences ; memorial volumes (form) ; Nigeria ; public health
 

Nigeria
Obama - big bang / Omokhogie Adamu. - Edo State : Bookwork Company, 2008
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; articles (form) ; Nigeria ; pan-Africanism ; race relations ; regional security
 

Nigeria
My journey through life : an autobiography / Florence Aduke Ajao. - Ibadan [etc.] : BookBuilders, 2005
ASC Subject Headings: academics ; autobiographies (form) ; Nigeria ; United States ; women teachers ; Yoruba
 

Nigeria
Criminal code / Olakanmi Olajide. - Abuja [etc.] : LawLords publications, 2004
ASC Subject Headings: criminal law ; judgments ; jurisprudence ; legislation ; Nigeria
 

Nigeria
The Kwagh-hir theatre : (a metaphor of resistance) / Iyorwuese Hagher. - Ibadan : Caltop Publications, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: Nigeria ; puppet theatre ; Tiv
 

Nigeria
A study of the court systems of northern Nigeria : with a proposal for the creation of lower Sharia courts in some northern states / by Philip Ostien. - Jos : Centre for Develpoment Studies, University of Jos, 1999
ASC Subject Headings: courts ; Islamic law ; Nigeria ; Northern Nigeria
 

Nigeria
Gerillapilot i Biafra / av Gunnar Haglund. - Stockholm : Allt om Hobby, 1988
ASC Subject Headings: air force ; Biafran conflict ; mercenaries ; military operations ; Nigeria ; personal narratives (form) ; Swedes
 

South Africa
Making it happen : selected case studies of institutional reforms in South Africa / Asad Alam, Renosi Mokate, and Kathrin A. Plangemann, editors. - (Abstract available) - Washington, DC : World Bank, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: civil service reform ; fiscal law ; governance ; government policy ; national budget ; South Africa ; taxation
 

South Africa
The chronicles of the historical claim to the lands of Thovhele Davhana Ramabulana / Carol J. Carnerly. - [Thohoyandou : University of Venda], 1994
ASC Subject Headings: land rights ; local history ; South Africa ; Venda
 

Subsaharan Africa
The masque of Africa : glimpses of African belief / V.S. Naipaul. - London [etc.] : Picador, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: religion ; Subsaharan Africa ; travel books (form)
 

West Africa
Capitaine Émile Coquibus : journaux d'Afrique (1901-1910) / présentation, chronologie et sources de Lucie Moriceau. - Paris : L'Harmattan/ECPAD, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: colonial administrators ; colonial conquest ; colonial history ; diaries (form) ; Guinea ; Niger ; photography ; Senegal ; West Africa
 

World
Neoliberalism and Imperialism : dissecting the dynamics of global oppression / Tatah Mentan. - Mankon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: developing countries ; economic inequality ; global economy ; liberalism ; world
 

Zimbabwe
African music, power, and being in colonial Zimbabwe / Mhoze Chikowero . - Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: colonial period ; music history ; popular music ; Zimbabwe

Films

Mali
They will have to kill us first : Malian music in exile / producer, Sarah Mosses [and 3 others] ; directed by Johanna Schwartz ; written by Johanna Schwartz, Andy Morgan. - - [London ] : Mojo Music in association with Together Films and Spring Films, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: exile ; fundamentalism ; Islam ; Mali ; musicians ; popular music ; Tuareg
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African Literature

Nigeria
To Sam / by Jim Disu. - Pittsburg, PA : Rosedog Boogs, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: anthologies (form) ; articles (form) ; journalists ; Nigeria
 

Nigeria
After the Biafran war! / by Doris Fred. - Lagos : Doris Fred Communications, 2008
ASC Subject Headings: Biafran conflict ; Nigeria ; novels (form)
 

Nigeria
The shadow speaker / Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu. - New York : Jump at the Sun, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: Nigeria ; novels (form)
 

Nigeria
Scoundrels of deferral : poems to redeem reflection / Toyin Falola and Vivek Bahl. - Durham, NC : Carolina Academic Press, 2006
ASC Subject Headings: Nigeria ; photography ; poetry (form) ; world
 

Nigeria
Trail of sacrifice : fiction / by Abubakar Gimba. - Ibadan : Kraft Books, 2006
ASC Subject Headings: Nigeria ; novels (form)

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