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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 6 May 2024.

New acquisitions - week 26 2016

Week 26 2016

Articles

Eritrea
Literature, power, translation, and Eritrea : in memoriam : Beyene Haile and Isayas Tsegai / Charles Cantalupo. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of Eritrean Studies : (2014), vol. VI, no. 2, p. 1-39
ASC Subject Headings: African languages ; Eritrea ; indigenous languages ; literature ; translation

Eritrea
Recruiting 'askaris' (1885-1896) : military requirements and jurisdiction in Italian official documents and personal memoirs / Alessandro Volterra. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of Eritrean Studies : (2014), vol. VI, no. 2, p. 77-96
ASC Subject Headings: black soldiers ; colonial period ; Eritrea ; Italy ; military recruitment

Eritrea
Tobacco use and control : a national survey of students in Eritrea / Zemenfes Tsighe ... [et al.]. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of Eritrean Studies : (2014), vol. VI, no. 2, p. 97-141 : fig., graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: attitudes ; Eritrea ; smoking ; students ; tobacco

Eritrea
Towards a sustained use of Adhanet improved biomass cook stove : issues in dissemination / Khalid Mohammed Idris. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of Eritrean Studies : (2014), vol. VI, no. 2, p. 41-76 : fig., foto's, tab
ASC Subject Headings: Eritrea ; stoves

Ethiopia
Spectacles of illegality : mapping Ethiopia's show trials / Awol Allo and Beza Tesfaye. - (Abstract available)
In: African Identities : (2015), vol. 13, no. 4, p. 279-296
ASC Subject Headings: Ethiopia ; judicial system ; offences against national security ; political repression ; trials
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2015.1087305 (Restricted access)

Ghana
Affordable housing options for all in a context of developing capitalism can housing transformations play a role in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana? / Louis Awanyo, Michelle McCarron, and Emmanuel Morgan Attua. - (Abstract available)
In: African Geographical Review : (2016), vol. 35, no. 1, p. 35-52 : krt., tab
ASC Subject Headings: Ghana ; housing ; housing construction
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2014.943774 (Restricted access)

Ghana
Nature-based tourism in Mole National Park, Ghana / Emmanuel Acquah, Philip Dearden, and Rick Rollins. - (Abstract available)
In: African Geographical Review : (2016), vol. 35, no. 1, p. 53-69 : krt., tab
ASC Subject Headings: ecotourism ; Ghana ; national parks and reserves
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2015.1088389 (Restricted access)

Kenya
Effective use of mixed methods in African livelihoods research / Court Gallaher and Antoinette M. G. A. WinklerPrins. - (Abstract available)
In: African Geographical Review : (2016), vol. 35, no. 1, p. 83-93 : fig., foto's, tab
ASC Subject Headings: Kenya ; livelihoods ; research methods ; urban agriculture
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2015.1105141 (Restricted access)

Kenya
One community's journey to lobby for water in an environment of privatized water : is Usoma too poor for the pro-poor program? / Elijah Bisung ... [et al.]. - (Abstract available)
In: African Geographical Review : (2016), vol. 35, no. 1, p. 70-82 : krt
ASC Subject Headings: drinking water ; Kenya ; sanitation ; water management ; water supply
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2015.1088391 (Restricted access)

Malawi
Chattering classes: radio, rhythm and resistance in 'multi-party' Malawi, 1994 - 2014 / John Lwanda. - (Abstract available)
In: The Society of Malawi Journal : (2014), vol. 67, no. 2, p. 19-33 : ill
ASC Subject Headings: broadcasting ; Internet ; Malawi ; radio ; social inequality

Sierra Leone
A critical reading of Blood Diamond (2006) in the context of transnationalism / Uchenna Onuzulike. - (Abstract available)
In: African Identities : (2015), vol. 13, no. 4, p. 297-309
ASC Subject Headings: diamonds ; films ; Sierra Leone
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2015.1087306 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Welcoming refugees in the rainbow nation : contemporary attitudes towards refugees in South Africa / Steven Lawrence Gordon. - (Abstract available)
In: African Geographical Review : (2016), vol. 35, no. 1, p. 1-17 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: public opinion ; refugees ; South Africa
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2014.933705 (Restricted access)

South Africa
'Cross-identification' : identity games and the performance of South Africanness by Ndebele-speaking migrants in Johannesburg / Gugulethu Siziba. - (Abstract available)
In: African Identities : (2015), vol. 13, no. 4, p. 262-278
ASC Subject Headings: identity ; immigrants ; Ndebele language (Zimbabwe) ; sociolinguistics ; South Africa ; Zimbabweans
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2015.1087303 (Restricted access)

South Africa
'Poof! a'm heppily saving the Lord...' : multimodality and evaluative discourses in male toilet graffiti at the University of the Western Cape / Fiona S. Ferris and Felix Banda. - (Abstract available)
In: African Identities : (2015), vol. 13, no. 4, p. 243-261
ASC Subject Headings: mural art ; sanitation ; South Africa ; universities
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2015.1087302 (Restricted access)

South Africa
The memory of Pringle as Prospero, or the cannibal that faked Caliban : issues of authority and representation in Thomas Pringle's ethnographic poetry / Michael Kgomotso Masemola. - (Abstract available)
In: African Identities : (2015), vol. 13, no. 4, p. 310-322
ASC Subject Headings: literary criticism ; poetry ; South Africa
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2015.1087304 (Restricted access)

Zimbabwe
The geography of refugee flows to Zimbabwe / Abel Chikanda and Jonathan Crush. - (Abstract available)
In: African Geographical Review : (2016), vol. 35, no. 1, p. 18-34 : krt., tab
ASC Subject Headings: migration policy ; refugees ; Zimbabwe
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2014.933706 (Restricted access)

Books

Africa
Language and literature : vehicles for the enhancement of cultural understanding / Dainess Maganda, Karim Traoré. - (Abstract available) - London : Adonis & Abbey, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African languages ; literature ; Mande languages ; Pedagogy ; Swahili language ; Yoruba language

Africa
Literary expressions of African spirituality / edited by Carol P. Marsh-Lockett and Elizabeth J. West. - (Abstract available) - Lanham, MD [etc.] : Lexington Books, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African religions ; Blacks ; Caribbean ; literary criticism ; literature

Canary Islands
Migrations marocaines aux Canaries : transnationalisme, comportement des acteurs et impact socio-économique dans le Souss et le pré-Sahara marocain / Mohamed Charef (sous la dir.), Mohamed Ben Attou, M'hamed Wahbi. - [Rabat] : Centre des Études Sahariennes, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Canary Islands ; communication ; emigrants ; migrants ; mobility ; Moroccans ; Morocco ; social conditions

Democratic Republic of Congo
Mongala : jonction des territoires et bastion d'une identité supra-ethnique / sous la dir. de Jean Omasombo Tshonda. - Tervuren : Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: administrative divisions ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; economic conditions ; ethnic groups ; geography ; local politics ; social conditions

Democratic Republic of Congo
Bas-Uele : pouvoirs locaux et économie agricole : héritages d'un passé brouillé / [sous la direction de Jean Omasombo Tshonda]. - (Abstract available) - Tervuren : Koninklijk museum voor Midden-Afrika, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: administrative divisions ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; economic conditions ; ethnic groups ; geography ; local politics ; social conditions

Democratic Republic of Congo
Tanganyika : espace fécondé par le lac et le rail / sous la dir. de Jean Omasombo. - Tervuren : Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: administrative divisions ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; economic conditions ; local politics ; Luba ; social conditions ; Tabwa
http://www.africamuseum.be/museum/research/publications/rmca/ online/tanganyika-monographie.pdf

Democratic Republic of Congo
Tanganyika : espace fécondé par le lac et le rail / sous la dir. de Jean Omasombo. - (Abstract available) - Tervuren : Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: administrative divisions ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; economic conditions ; ethnic groups ; geography ; local politics ; social conditions

Democratic Republic of Congo
Debout Congolais : un appel en règle / Joseph Ymbu Ndjo Mwanabo. - Fontaine-l'Évêque : Éditions Balance, 1998
ASC Subject Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; essays (form) ; intellectuals ; society

Ethiopia
Challenges and options in governing common property : customary institutions among (agro-) pastoralists in Ethiopia / Fekadu Beyene. - Aachen : Shaker Verlag, 2008
ASC Subject Headings: conflict ; Ethiopia ; institutions ; land tenure ; pastoralists ; water resources

France
Politische Konditionalität, Strukturanpassung, Armutsbekämpfung : Entwicklungspolitik à la française / Alexandra Illmer. - Hamburg : DÜI (Deutsches Überzee-Institut), 2005
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; democracy ; development cooperation ; France ; governance ; poverty reduction

Ghana
Contemporary psychology : readings from Ghana / eds., Charity S. Akotia, C. Charles Mate-Kole. - (Abstract available) - Tema : For the University of Ghana by Digibooks Ghana Ltd, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Ghana ; psychology

Ghana
A song in the night and who touched me / by Mrs. Juliana Duah. - [S.l. : s.n.], 2004
ASC Subject Headings: Ghana ; Jesus Christ ; religious literature ; women

Kenya
The diseases of plants prevention rules, 1930, and the diseases of plants prevention (coffee) rules, 1930. - Nairobi : Printed by the Government Printer, 1930
ASC Subject Headings: coffee ; Kenya ; pest control ; plant diseases

Libya
Language, literature and style in Africa : a festschrift for Professor Christopher Olatunji Awonuga / ed. by Arua E. Arua, Taiwo Abioye, Kehinde A. Ayoola. - (Abstract available) - Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Libya ; linguistics ; literature ; mobile telephone ; Nigeria ; Pedagogy ; semantics ; social media ; South Africa ; Zimbabwe

Maghreb
Entre Maghreb et Afrique subsaharienne : les origines de la Tijâniyya et de la Hamawiyya, 1781-1909 / Jillali El Adnani ; préf. Jean-Louis Triaud . - Rabat : Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, Université Mohammed V de Rabat, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: dissertations (form) ; Maghreb ; Muslim brotherhoods ; political history ; religious history ; Sufism ; West Africa

Maghreb
L'eau dans le monde arabe : enjeux et conflits / Georges Mutin. - Paris : Ellipses Éditions Marketing S.A, 2000
ASC Subject Headings: Arab countries ; Maghreb ; water ; water resources ; water supply

Namibia
Growing roots and wings : a language and literacy case study in Namibia / Danielle Marie Beckman. - [Tilburg : Tilburg University], 2009
ASC Subject Headings: attitudes ; English language ; language usage ; literacy ; Namibia ; theses (form)

Nigeria
Chinua Achebe and Fela Anikulapo Kuti : revolutionary consciousness in music and literature / by P. Chuka Nwafor. - Baltimore, MD : Black Academy Press, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: identity ; literary criticism ; musicians ; Nigeria ; social change ; writers

Nigeria
The media, terrorism and political communication in Nigeria / edited by Des Wilson. - (Abstract available) - Uyo : African Council for Communication Education (Nigeria Chapter), 2012
ASC Subject Headings: journalism ; mass communication ; mass media ; Nigeria ; politics ; social media ; terrorism

Nigeria
Die verbotene Oase : mein neues Leben im Harem der Frauen / Choga Regina Egbeme. - [München] : Ullstein, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: AIDS ; Christianity ; communities ; Germans ; harem ; Nigeria ; women

Nigeria
Precolonial African intergroup relations in the Kauru and Pengana polities of Central Nigerian Highlands, 1800-1900 / John Garah Nengel. - Frankfurt am Main [etc.] : Peter Lang, Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1999
ASC Subject Headings: 1800-1899 ; chieftaincy ; clans ; conflict ; ethnic relations ; Nigeria

Nigeria
Essays on the land use act, 1978 / J.A. Omotola. - Lagos : Lagos University Press, 1984
ASC Subject Headings: land law ; land use ; laws (form) ; legislation ; Nigeria

Tanzania
Water resources management in the Pangani River basin : challenges and opportunities / ed. by J.O. Nagana. - (Abstract available) - Dar es Salaam : Dar es Salaam University Press, 2001
ASC Subject Headings: geology ; hydrology ; Tanzania ; water management ; water resources ; water supply ; waterways

Tanzania
Competition policy and utility regulation / ed. by Mark J. Mwandosya, George F. Mbowe, and Peter Young. - (Abstract available) - Dar-es-Salaam : Centre for Energy, Environment, Science and Technology (CEEST), 1997
ASC Subject Headings: competition law ; economic policy ; electricity ; public services ; Tanzania ; transport policy ; water management

World
Female of the spécies / [by] M. Kay Martin, Barbara Voorhies. - New York [etc.] : Columbia University Press, 1975
ASC Subject Headings: gender roles ; social conditions ; society ; women ; world

Films

French Equatorial Africa
Brazza, ou l'épopée du Congo / Léon Poirier, réal. ; J. E. Szyfer, Claude Delvincourt, comp. ; Robert Darène, Pierre Vernet, Jean Daurand.. . [et al.], act. - (Abstract available) - [Paris] : [Documents cinématographiques [éd., distrib.], 2006
ASC Subject Headings: colonial administrators ; colonial conquest ; colonial history ; Congo (Brazzaville) ; expeditions ; feature films (form) ; French Equatorial Africa ; Gabon ; videos (form)

African Literature

Nigeria
This house is not for sale / E.C. Osondu. - London : Granta, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Nigeria ; novels (form)

Somalia
Through my eyes / by Tammy Wilson ; illustration by Jill Dubbeldee Kuhn . - Edina, MN : Beaver's Pond Press, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: girls ; novels (form) ; refugees ; Somalia ; stereotypes ; United States

South Africa
Kamee : kortverhale / Roela Hattingh. - Kaapstad : Human & Rousseau, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: short stories (form) ; South Africa

South Africa
Matriks / Joan Hambidge. - Kaapstad : Human & Rousseau, NB-Uitgewers, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: poetry (form) ; South Africa