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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.

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New acquisitions - week 5 2014

book cover "The castles of Ghana"Week 5 2014 - Beta version

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Journal articles | Electronic documents | Books | Journals | Films | African Literature

Journal articles

"The festering finger": reimagining minority sexuality in Tendai Huchu's 'The hairdresser of Harare' and Abdellah Taia's 'Une mélancholie arabe' / Gibson Ncube
In: Current Writing: (2013), vol. 25, no. 1, p. 66-75.
ASC Subject Headings: homosexuality ; Morocco ; novels ; Zimbabwe

An analysis of factors that hinder the development of tourism industry in Sub-Saharan Africa / Thomas P. Z. Mpofu
In: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies: (2011), vol. 3, no. 1, p. 1-21 : tab.
ASC Subject Headings: Subsaharan Africa ; tourism

Caught on tape: Dennis Brutus' questionable hold on poet Arthur Nortje / Stephen Gray
In: Current Writing: (2013), vol. 25, no. 1, p. 30-38.
ASC Subject Headings: exile ; poetry ; South Africa ; writers

Divided personas in the early poetry of Arthur Nortje / Neville Smith
In: Current Writing: (2013), vol. 25, no. 1, p. 20-29.
ASC Subject Headings: apartheid ; identity ; poetry ; South Africa

Evaluating the dual citizenship - state building - nation building nexus in Liberia / Robtel Neajai Pailey
In: Liberian Studies Journal: (2011), vol. 36, no. 1, p. 1-24.
ASC Subject Headings: citizenship ; diasporas ; legal status ; legislation ; Liberia ; nation building ; State formation

Is Africa rising? : Liberia as a microcosm of Africa's transformation / Donald L. Cassell
In: Liberian Studies Journal: (2011), vol. 36, no. 1, p. 53-100 : fig. , graf. , krt.
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; economic development ; governance ; Liberia

The impact of productive safety net program (PSNP) on livelihoods : a case study of Dera Malo WOREDA in Southern Ethiopia / Kataru Kalsa
In: Journal of business and administrative studies (JBAS): (2011), vol. 3, no. 1, p. 76-100 : tab.
ASC Subject Headings: Ethiopia ; food security ; government policy ; rural households

The Muslim "who has faith" in Leila Aboulela's novels 'Minaret' (2005) and 'Lyrics alley' (2009) / Eva Hunter
In: Current Writing: (2013), vol. 25, no. 1, p. 88-89.
ASC Subject Headings: Great Britain ; Islam ; novels ; Sudan

The socio-demographic characteristics of recent Liberian immigrants to the United States : an update / Yolanda Covington-Ward
In: Liberian Studies Journal: (2011), vol. 36, no. 1, p. 25-52 : graf. , krt. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: communities ; demography ; diasporas ; immigrants ; Liberia ; Liberians ; United States

Books

A glimpse on some issues in the islamic perspective / Mustafa A. A. Roshash. - [Zanzibar? s.n.], 2010
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; ethics ; family planning ; finance ; Islam ; Islamic law ; labour law ; pilgrimages ; world

An introduction to the non-profit sector in Ghana / Andrew Kingman & Kofi Awity. - London : Allavida, 2003. - (An introduction to the non-profit sector in..)
ASC Subject Headings: Ghana ; nongovernmental organizations ; nonprofit corporations ; voluntary service

Arts du Gabon / Louis Perrois. - Genève : Musée Barbier-Mueller, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: arts ; Gabon ; masks ; plastic arts ; sculpture ; woodcarving

Celebrating democracy : Ghana : a young democracy poised to take a giant stride. - [Accra] : IEA, 2004
ASC Subject Headings: democracy ; elections ; Ghana ; political parties ; political systems

Cinema and development in West Africa / James Eskridge Genova. - Bloomington [etc.] : Indiana University Press, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: 1900-1999 ; anticolonialism ; cinema ; colonialism ; development ; film history ; French West Africa ; postcolonialism

Droits aux ressources et concessions forestières : intégration des pratiques foncières des communautés locales aux stratégies d'aménagement forestier en Afrique Centrale / Alison L. Hoare. - London : Rainforest Foundation, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: Central Africa ; concessions ; forest management ; forestry ; land rights ; tropical forests

Évolution des pratiques et représentations langagières dans le Maroc du XXIe siècle / Montserrat Benítez Fernández. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013. - (Espaces discursifs)
ASC Subject Headings: Arabic language ; Berber languages ; Morocco ; sociolinguistics

Évolution des pratiques et représentations langagières dans le Maroc du XXIe siècle / Montserrat Benítez Fernández 1 / Montserrat Benítez Fernández. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013. - (Espaces discursifs, ISSN 1623-8877)
ASC Subject Headings: Arabic language ; Internet ; literature ; mass media ; Morocco ; popular music ; sermons ; sociolinguistics

Évolution des pratiques et représentations langagières dans le Maroc du XXIe siècle / Montserrat Benítez Fernández 2 / Montserrat Benítez Fernández. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013. - (Espaces discursifs, ISSN 1623-8877)
ASC Subject Headings: Arabic language ; Berber languages ; diasporas ; language instruction ; Morocco ; sociolinguistics ; writing systems

Landscapes of deracialization : power, brokerage and place-making on a South African frontier / Yves P. B. Van Leynseele. - [S.l. s.n.], 2013
ASC Subject Headings: dissertations (form) ; ethnic relations ; farms ; government policy ; land law ; land reform ; South Africa

Le dieu de maman Olangi : ethnographie d'un combat spirituel transnational / Bénédicte Meiers. - Louvain-la-Neuve : Academia-L'Harmattan, 2013. - (Anthropologie prospective, ISSN 2030-5702 ; 12)
ASC Subject Headings: Belgium ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; Pentecostalism ; social relations

Les identités amazighes au Maroc / Stéphanie Pouessel. - Paris [etc.] : Non Lieu [etc.], 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Berber ; Berber culture ; ethnic identity ; Morocco ; national identity ; writing systems

Les ouvrières marocaines en mouvement : qui paye? qui fait le ménage? et qui décide? / Leila Bouasria. - Paris : l'Harmattan, 2013. - (Mondes en mouvement)
ASC Subject Headings: gender relations ; Morocco ; social change ; women workers

Low cost water source improvements : practical guidelines for fieldworkers / Sally Sutton. - St Albans : Teaching-Aids at Low Cost (TALC), 2004
ASC Subject Headings: appropriate technology ; guidelines ; maintenance and repair ; rural water supply ; wells ; Zambia

Managing research for agricultural development : proceedings of the national workshop on client oriented research, 27-28 May 2003, Moshi, Tanzania / Ninatubu M. Lema, Chira Schouten & Ted Schrader. - Dar es Salaam : Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security. Division of Research and Development, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural development ; agricultural research ; information management ; meeting records ; Tanzania

Rainbow happenings : a memoir / John Albert Musselman Karefa-Smart. - [S.l.] : Xlibris, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; politicians ; Sierra Leone

Sexual violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo : obstacles to prosecution / Joanna Mansfield. - Ithaca, NY : Institute for African Development, Cornell University, 2010. - (Institute for African Development occasional paper series ; Spring 2008)
ASC Subject Headings: criminal law ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; political stability ; punishment ; sexual offences ; social environment

South Africa's struggle for human rights / Saul Dubow. - Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2012. - (Ohio short histories of Africa)
ASC Subject Headings: democracy ; human rights ; political history ; South Africa

Spear of the nation = Umkhonto weSizwe : South Africa's liberation army : 1960s-1990s / Janet Cherry. - Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2012. - (Ohio short histories of Africa)
ASC Subject Headings: 1950-1999 ; anti-apartheid resistance ; guerrilla warfare ; South Africa

The ANC Youth League / Clive Glaser. - Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2012. - (Ohio short histories of Africa)
ASC Subject Headings: African National Congress ; political history ; political opposition ; South Africa ; youth

The castles of Ghana : Axim, Butre, Anomabu : historical and architectural research project on the use and conservation status of three Ghanain forts / Michel R. Doortmont & Benedetta Savoldi. - [Roma etc.] : [Ricerca e cooperazione etc.], 2006
ASC Subject Headings: armaments ; Ghana ; historic buildings ; history

The Rwandan experience of fostering separated children / Giorgia Doná, Charles Kalinganire & Félix Muramutsa. - Stockholm : Save the Children Sweden, 2001
ASC Subject Headings: abandoned children ; child welfare ; foster home care ; Rwanda

The translocality of the Ciwara tradition in rural and urban Mali / Jacqueline Robinson. - [S.l : s.n.], 2005
ASC Subject Headings: clothing ; cultural and social anthropology ; cultural heritage ; customs and traditions ; ethnic and racial groups ; folklore ; Mali

Electronic documents

LITAF : littérature africaine francophone / Virginia Coulon. - Bordeaux : Centre d'études d'Afrique noire (CEAN), 1999
ASC Subject Headings: bibliographies (form) ; drama ; French language ; French-speaking Africa ; novels ; poetry ; prose ; writers ; youth literature
http://www.litaf.cean.org/index.html

Films

A real Botswana diamond / Tim Fywell, Robert Jones, & Jill Scott. - [London] : BBC in association with the Weinstein Company, 2009. - (The no. 1 Ladies' detective agency)
ASC Subject Headings: Botswana ; crime ; feature films (form) ; videos (form) ; women

Kuchus of Uganda / Mathilda Piehl. - [Stockholm : RFSL], 2008.
ASC Subject Headings: action groups ; documentary films (form) ; homosexuality ; Uganda ; videos (form)

The dogs of war / John Irvin, Christopher Walken, & Tom Berenger. - [S.l.] : MGM homeentertainment, 2002.
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; dictatorship ; feature films (form) ; mercenaries ; videos (form)

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