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New acquisitions - week 20 2016

Cultural entrepreneurship in AfricaWeek 20 2016

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Articles

Benin
Identités peules en mosaique agropastorale au Bénin : dynamique des rapports de pouvoir, mobilité et territoire / Caroline Pierre. -
In: Anthropologie & développement : (2015), no. 42-43, p. 133-159 : fig., krt
ASC Subject Headings: Benin ; Fulani ; group identity ; pastoralists ; sedentarization
 

Burundi
Développement psychologique des enfants des familles recomposées : cas des familles en commune Kinama, Bujumbura / Dieudonné Safari. -
In: Éthique & société : (2014), vol. 10, no. 3, p. 283-311 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: Burundi ; children ; foster care ; mental health ; mothers ; psychology
 

Burundi
Le impact du style de vie des pays développés sur la famille dans les pays en développement / Mathias Kinezero. -
In: Éthique & société : (2014), vol. 10, no. 3, p. 255-282
ASC Subject Headings: Burundi ; Consumption ; ethics ; sustainable development
 

Cameroon
Une politique de santé globale dans l'arène locale : la délivrance des antipaludéens à Bandjoun au Cameroun / Albert Legrand Fosso. -
In: Anthropologie & développement : (2015), no. 42-43, p. 161-195
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; malaria ; medicinal drugs
 

Morocco
Les courtiers associatifs en développement dans le Sud-Est du Maroc : entre politisation et dépolitisation / Mohammed Benidir. -
In: Anthropologie & développement : (2015), no. 42-43, p. 101-132
ASC Subject Headings: brokers ; elite ; local politics ; Morocco
 

Somalia
Economic recovery in Somalia / Timothy Wilson. -
In: Bildhaan : (2015), vol. 15, p. 46-65
ASC Subject Headings: economic conditions ; economic development ; international trade ; Somalia
 

Somalia
Global remittances : update on the UK-Somali Corridor / Mohamed Aden Hassan and Giulia Liberators. -
In: Bildhaan : (2015), vol. 15, p. 34-45
ASC Subject Headings: banking law ; banks ; Great Britain ; remittances ; Somalia
 

Somalia
Stability and security : Danish-Somali remittance corridor case study / Danielle Cotter and Tracey Durner. -
In: Bildhaan : (2015), vol. 15, p. 66-82
ASC Subject Headings: Denmark ; diasporas ; remittances ; Somali ; Somalia
 

Somaliland
Somaliland academic staff : identity, functions, and institutional development / Thomas J. Jones. -
In: Bildhaan : (2015), vol. 15, p. 12-33 : graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: academics ; higher education ; Somaliland ; universities
 

South Africa
The substance of contractual autonomy in the twenty-first century : the South-African experience / by Deeksha Bhana. -
In: Verfassung und Recht in Übersee : (2015), Jg. 48, Quart. 4, S. 491-515
ASC Subject Headings: constitutions ; contracts ; law of contract ; South Africa
 

South Africa
Église et SIDA en Afrique du Sud / Philippe Denis. -
In: Éthique & société : (2014), vol. 10, no. 1, p. 41-54
ASC Subject Headings: AIDS ; Church ; South Africa
 

Subsaharan Africa
Le droit de la famille entre tradition et modernité / Joséphine Bitota. -
In: Éthique & société : (2014), vol. 10, no. 1, p. 13-40
ASC Subject Headings: bridewealth ; marriage ; marriage law ; Subsaharan Africa
 

Subsaharan Africa
Le marriage civil confronté aux traditions africaines / Joséphine Bitota . -
In: Éthique & société : (2014), vol. 10, no. 2, p. 151-174
ASC Subject Headings: ethics ; marriage ; marriage law ; polygamy ; Subsaharan Africa
 

Subsaharan Africa
Santé et droits sexuels et reproductifs en Afrique : défis pour l'église / Marguerite A. Peeters. -
In: Éthique & société : (2014), vol. 10, no. 2, p. 127-149
ASC Subject Headings: Catholic Church ; ethics ; reproductive health ; secularization ; sexuality ; Subsaharan Africa
 

Swaziland
The colonial experience, indigenous leaders and the capitalization of the Swazi monarchy / Hamilton Sipho Simelane. -
In: New Contree : (2015), no. 72, p. 21-42
ASC Subject Headings: monarchy ; political history ; Swaziland
 

Togo
Anthropologie de la famille africaine : le cas de la famille "Akebu" du Togo / Benjamin Kokou Akotia. -
In: Éthique & société : (2014), vol. 10, no. 1, p. 73-99
ASC Subject Headings: Akebu ; ancestor worship ; bridewealth ; family ; identity ; Togo ; traditions

Electronic documents

South Africa
Doctoral education in South Africa : policy, discourse and data / Nico Cloete, Johann Mouton and Charles Sheppard. - Somerset West : African Minds, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: educational policy ; educational quality ; higher education ; South Africa ; universities
http://chet.org.za/download/file/fid/909

Books

Africa
Children's literature & story-telling / ed.: Ernest N. Emenyonu. - Oxford [etc.] : James Currey, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; Botswana ; children's songs ; Ghana ; Nigeria ; youth literature
 

Africa
Contemporary perspectives on religions in Africa and the African diaspora / edited by Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe and Carolyn M. Jones Medine. - (Abstract available) - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; Christianity ; diasporas ; globalization ; Islam ; Pentecostalism ; United States ; voodoo
 

Africa
Africa-centred knowledges : crossing fields & worlds / edited by Brenda Cooper & Robert Morrell ; foreword by Crain Soudien. - (Abstract available) - Woodbridge : James Currey Ltd, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African studies ; Africanization ; epistemology ; gender ; indigenous knowledge ; philosophy ; Southern Africa
 

Africa
Mieux s'en sortir dans l'Afrique d'aujourd'hui et de demain : grâce au potentiel que l'on porte en soi / Canut Nkebereza. - [Niamey] : Editions Alpha, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; self-help ; social problems
 

Africa
Contemporary Africa : issues and concerns / ed. by Islam Ali, Ashutosh Trivedi. - (Abstract available) - New Delhi : Global Vision Publishing House, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African religions ; economic development ; ethnicity ; geopolitics ; Ghana ; India ; Nigeria ; Somalia ; South Africa ; women's rights
 

Africa
Africa now : Jean Pigozzi Collection / curator of the exhibition André Magnin ; [authors Philippe David ... et al. ; transl. from the Spanish José Antonio Torres Almodóvar ... et al.]. - Groningen : Groninger Museum, 1991
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; exhibition catalogues (form) ; visual arts
 

Africa
Standard Bank Foundation Collection of African Tribal Art / [Anitra Nettleton ; Ndebele notes by Elizabeth Schneider ; edited by D.L. Newman]. - [Johannesburg?] : Standard Bank, 1981
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; arts ; exhibition catalogues (form) ; sculpture
 

Algeria
Algérie, clos comme on ferme un livre : vanishing into reality / Bruno Boudjelal ; François Cheval, Fabienne Pavia. - Marseille : Bec en l'air, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Algeria ; mobility ; photography ; pictorial works (form)
 

Angola
El libro de paz de la mujer angolaña : la heroínas sin nombre / organizadoras Dya Kasembe, Paulina Chiziane. - Barcelona : Editorial Mey, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: Angola ; peacebuilding ; women
 

Botswana
Democratic contestation on the margins : regimes in small African countries / ed. by Claire Metelits and Stephanie Matti. - (Abstract available) - Lanham, MD [etc.] : Lexington Books, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: authoritarianism ; Benin ; Botswana ; Burkina Faso ; civil society ; democracy ; Djibouti ; electoral systems ; Guinea-Bissau ; judicial system ; mass media ; Togo
 

Equatorial Guinea
Baiso : (Ellas y sus relatos) / Remei Sipi ; Nina B. Camó ; Melibea Obono. - Barcelona : Editorial Mey, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Equatorial Guinea ; prose (form)
 

Equatorial Guinea
Voces femeninas de Guinea Ecuatorial (una antología) / Remei Sipi. - Barcelona : Editorial Mey, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: anthologies (form) ; Equatorial Guinea ; literature ; women writers
 

Ethiopia
Proceedings of the Fourth Regional Conference of the Amhara Regional State Economic Development / ed. by Nahu Asteraye, Demirew Getachew. - (Abstract available) - [Addis Ababa, Ethiopia] : Ethiopian Economics Association (EEA), 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Amhara ; economic conditions ; economic development ; Ethiopia ; health care ; rural economy ; urban development
 

French-speaking Africa
L'Afrique et la mission : terrains anciens, questions nouvelles avec Claude Prudhomme / Oissila Saaidia et Laurick Zerbini (éd.) ; préf. de Denis Pelletier ; postf. de Jean-Dominique Durand. - (Abstract available) - Paris : Karthala, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: French-speaking Africa ; missionary history ; missions ; religious history
 

French West Africa
Tous un comme nous : diversité et unité d'action du Protestanisme en Afrique occidentale Française (1895-1960) / Célestin K. Kouassi. - Abidijan : Centre de Publications Evangeliques, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: French West Africa ; missions ; Protestant churches ; religious history ; West Africa
 

Gambia
La Gambie : actes du colloque international organisé par la Faculté des lettres et sciences de l'Université de Gambie du 7 au 9 novembre 2012 / Pierre Gomez. - (Abstract available) - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: acculturation ; Gambia ; languages of instruction ; multilingualism ; Pedagogy ; social integration ; sociolinguistics ; West Africa
 

Ghana
Harmattan : cultural profile of northern Ghana / by Kofi Akpabli. - Accra North, Ghana : TREC, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: clothing ; festivals ; food ; Ghana ; social life
 

Ghana
Readings on key economic issues in Ghana / ed. by Daniel Kwabena Twerefou ... [et al.]. - (Abstract available) - Tema, Ghana : For the University of Ghana by Digibooks Ghana Ltd, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: economic conditions ; economic development ; Ghana ; health financing ; labour market ; poverty reduction ; public finance
 

Morocco
Mémoire du Maroc : des années cinquante en images / Ahmed Sabir. - Agadir : Publications Laboratoire LPOT FLSH Univérsité Ibn Zohr, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: 1950-1959 ; architecture ; Morocco ; photography ; pictorial works (form) ; towns
 

Morocco
lThemameerdaagse regionaal college regio Midden en West Brabant, d.d. 15-19 januari 2008, Marokko / [red.: L. Gaillard en I. Mol]. - [S.l. : s.n.], 2008
ASC Subject Headings: 2008 ; conferences ; Morocco ; Netherlands ; police
 

Namibia
Customary law ascertained / Manfred O. Hinz. - Windhoek : UNAM Press, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: customary law ; Herero ; Nama ; Namibia ; San
 

Namibia
National culture in Post-Apartheid Namibia / Michael Akuupa ; introduction by M. McKittrick. - Basel : Basler Afrika Bibliographien (Namibia Resource Centre), 2015
ASC Subject Headings: cultural policy ; dance ; festivals ; Namibia ; national identity ; traditional festivals
 

Namibia
Re-viewing resistance in Namibian history / edited by Jeremy Silvester. - Windhoek : University of Namibia Press, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: colonial history ; Namibia ; national liberation struggles ; resistance
 

Niger
Lois de la Septième République, décembre 2010-aôut 2012 / textes réunis par Aboubacar Yénikoye Ismael. - Niamey : Éditions de la Concorde, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: constitutions ; laws (form) ; Niger
 

Niger
Recueil de lois / textes réunis par Aboubacar Yénikoye Ismael. - Niamey : Éditions de la Concorde, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: constitutional law ; labour law ; legislation ; media law ; military law ; Niger ; public law
 

Niger
Textes en matière de coopération internationale, de réformes économiques et financières et de financement des politiques de développement / textes réunis par Aboubacar Yénikoye Ismael. - Niamey : Les éditions de la Concorde, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: development cooperation ; financial aid ; international agreements ; international organizations ; laws (form) ; legislation ; Niger
 

Niger
Textes portant lois electorales (ordonnances, lois et décisions) / textes réunis par Aboubacar Yénikoye Ismael. - Niamey : Les éditions de la Concorde, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: election law ; laws (form) ; Niger
 

Niger
Textes sur le travail, les associations, les ordres nationaux, la liberté de presse et la communication / textes réunis par Aboubacar Yénikoye Ismael. - Niamey : Les éditions de la Concorde, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: associations ; civil service ; labour law ; laws (form) ; media law ; Niger ; public administration
 

Niger
Textes sur les forces de défense et de securité / textes réunis par Aboubacar Yénikoye Ismael. - Niamey : Éditions de la Concorde, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: laws (form) ; military law ; national security ; Niger
 

Nigeria
Ibadan : the Penkelemes years : a memoir, 1946-1965 / Wole Soyinka. - Ibadan : Bookcraft, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: (669) ; 82-94Soyinka ; diaries (form) ; Nigeria
 

Nigeria
Blazing the path : fifty years of things fall apart / ed. by Chima Anyadike and Kehinde A. Ayoola. - (Abstract available) - Ibadan: HEBN publishers, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: literary criticism ; Nigeria ; novels
 

South Africa
Being at home : race, institutional culture and transformation at South African higher education institutions / ed. by Pedro Tabensky and Sally Matthews. - (Abstract available) - Pietermaritzburg : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: culture contact ; educational reform ; higher education ; race relations ; South Africa ; universities ; values
 

South Africa
The current state of democracy in South Africa / [guest eds.: Henk Botha, Nils Schaks, Dominik Steiger]. - Baden-Baden : Nomos, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: migrants ; parliament ; political conditions ; South Africa ; voting
 

South Africa
Music and social change in South Africa : Maskanda past and present / Kathryn Olsen. - Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: identity ; music ; social change ; songs ; South Africa ; Zulu
 

South Africa
The new South Africa at twenty : critical perspectives / ed. by Peter Vale and Estelle H. Prinsloo. - Scottsville : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: democracy ; educational reform ; gender discrimination ; political ideologies ; race relations ; social conditions ; South Africa
 

South Africa
How to commit suicide in South Africa / by Sue Coe, Holly Metz. - New York City, N.Y. : Raw Books & Graphics, 1983
ASC Subject Headings: apartheid ; pictorial works (form) ; political violence ; race relations ; South Africa
 

Southern Africa
Natural history of communication among the Central Kalahari San / ed. by Akira Takada. - Kyoto : Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: communication ; hunting ; names ; San ; San languages ; Southern Africa
 

Soviet Union
Étudier à l'Est : expériences de diplômés africains / Monique de Saint Martin, Grazia Scarfò Ghellab, Kamal Mellakh (dir.) ; préf. de Jean-Pierre Dozon. - (Abstract available) - [Paris] [etc.] : Karthala [etc.], 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Africans ; communism ; Eastern Europe ; elite ; higher education ; Soviet Union ; students
 

Subsaharan Africa
Cultural entrepreneurship in Africa / edited by Ute Röschenthaler and Dorothea Schulz. - (Abstract available) - New York, NY [etc.] : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; entrepreneurs ; Ghana ; mass media ; Niger ; popular culture ; religion ; Senegal ; Sierra Leone ; Subsaharan Africa ; tourism ; universities
 

Tanzania
Constitutional reform in Tanzania : developing process and preliminary results / by Juliana Masobo and Ulrike Wanitzek. - , 2015
ASC Subject Headings: bill drafting ; constitutional reform ; constitutions ; Tanzania
 

Tanzania
Winnowing Tanzania's proposed constitution : the legitimacy question / by Tulia Ackson. - (Abstract available) - , 2015
ASC Subject Headings: bill drafting ; constitutional law ; constitutional reform ; constitutions ; Tanzania
 

West Africa
Land in the struggles for citizenship in Africa = Le foncier dans les luttes pour la citoynneté en Afrique / ed by Sam Moyo, Dzodzi Tsikata, Yakham Diop. - (Abstract available) - Dakar : Counsel for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Benin ; Burkina Faso ; citizenship ; Congo (Brazzaville) ; Ethiopia ; land reform ; land rights ; land tenure ; Nigeria ; rural development ; urbanization ; West Africa
 

West Africa
Women's songs from West Africa / edited by Thomas A. Hale and Aissata G. Sidikou. - Bloomington IN : Indiana University Press, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: anthologies (form) ; Côte d'Ivoire ; Gambia ; Mali ; Niger ; Nigeria ; oral poetry ; singing ; social life ; West Africa ; women
 

Zimbabwe
Colonial heritage, memory and sustainability in Africa : challenges, opportunities and prospects / ed. by Munyaradzi Mawere and Tapuwe R. Mubaya. - (Abstract available) - Mankon: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: architecture ; colonial history ; cultural heritage ; decolonization ; Ghana ; historiography ; Mozambique ; Nigeria ; postcolonialism ; South Africa ; Zambia ; Zimbabwe

Journals

South Africa
Newsart kzn : journal of the / Kwazulu-Natal Society of Arts. -
ASC Subject Headings: arts ; South Africa

Southern Africa
Co.rtnews : Southern African review of contemporary art and culture. -
ASC Subject Headings: arts ; popular culture ; Southern Africa

Films

Ghana
Love brewed .. in the African pot / produced and directed by Kwaw Ansah ; starring Anima Misa ... [et al.]. - (Abstract available) - [London] : Film Africa Limited [etc.], 1988
ASC Subject Headings: class relations ; colonial period ; feature films (form) ; gender relations ; Ghana ; videos (form)
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African Literature

Equatorial Guinea
Matinga, sangre en la selva / Joaquín Mbomío Bacheng. - Barcelona : Editorial Mey, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Equatorial Guinea ; novels (form)
 

Equatorial Guinea
Recuerdos de anteayer / J.M. Davies. - Barcelona : Editorial Mey, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Equatorial Guinea ; novels (form)
 

Equatorial Guinea
Sueños y realidad / Gerardo Behori Sipi Botau. - Barcelona : Editorial Mey, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: Equatorial Guinea ; poetry (form)
 

Nigeria
Drama and theatre in Nigeria : a critical source book / edited by Yemi Ogunbiyi. - Lagos : Tanus Books Limited, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: (669) ; 398.27 ; 792 ; folk drama ; Nigeria ; theatre

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