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Journal articles

Femi Osofisan tackles graft and corruption : a reading of his socially committed plays / C. O. Adjidahun
In: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde: (2013), jg. 50, nr. 2, p. 111-123.
ASC Subject Headings: corruption ; drama ; Nigeria

Have we heard the last? Oil, environmental insecurity, and the impact of the amnesty programme on the Niger Delta resistance movement / Daniel Egiegba Agbiboa
In: Review of African Political Economy: (2013), vol. 40, no. 137, p. 447-465 : fig. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: amnesty ; environmental degradation ; Niger Delta conflict ; Nigeria

The development exceptionality of Nigeria : the context of political and social currents / Olayinka Akanle
In: Africa Today: (2013), vol. 59, no. 3, p. 31-48.
ASC Subject Headings: governance ; Nigeria ; State-society relationship ; Subsaharan Africa ; sustainable development

Roadside comforts: truck stops on the forty days road in Western Sudan / Kurt Beck
In: Africa / International African Institute: (2013), vol. 83, no. 3, p. 426-445 : foto's.
ASC Subject Headings: road transport ; roads ; Sudan ; travel

Le Maroc dans la coopération africaine de peche : l'exemple de la COMHAFAT / Azzedine Belrhazi & Nora Talbi
In: Revue africaine des affaires maritimes et des transports: (2013), no. 5, p. 43-50.
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; fisheries ; international cooperation ; Morocco

Des migrations de pêcheurs de plus en plus conflictuelles en Afrique de l'Ouest / Thomas Binet
In: Revue africaine des affaires maritimes et des transports: (2013), no. 5, p. 51-68 : krt. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: fishermen ; migrants ; West Africa

'Van vandag af is jou naam Februarie!' : naamgewing en naamstroping in tekste van Diana Ferrus, I.D. du Plessis en Rayda Jacobs / Shamiega Chaudhari
In: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde: (2013), jg. 50, nr. 2, p. 30-46.
ASC Subject Headings: Afrikaans language ; identity ; literature ; personal names ; South Africa

Twittering the Boko Haram uprising in Nigeria : investigating pragmatic acts in the social media / Innocent Chiluwa & Adetunji Adegoke
In: Africa Today: (2013), vol. 59, no. 3, p. 83-102 : tab.
ASC Subject Headings: Islamic movements ; Nigeria ; public opinion ; social media ; terrorism

Rescuing African bodies : celebrities, consumerism and neoliberal humanitarianism / Patricia Daley
In: Review of African Political Economy: (2013), vol. 40, no. 137, p. 375-393.
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; artists ; consumption ; humanitarian assistance ; Western countries

Beneath Kony 2012 : Americans aligning with arms and aiding others / Amy C. Finnegan
In: Africa Today: (2013), vol. 59, no. 3, p. 137-162.
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; foreign policy ; Lord's Resistance Army ; NGO ; political action ; Uganda ; United States

La réglementation de l'UEMOA en matière de transport maritime / Léon Folquet
In: Revue africaine des affaires maritimes et des transports: (2013), no. 5, p. 18-25.
ASC Subject Headings: maritime transport ; transport policy ; Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest-Africaine ; West Africa

Some reflections on the prospects for the harmonization of international business laws in Africa : OHADA and beyond / Charles Manga Fombad
In: Africa Today: (2013), vol. 59, no. 3, p. 51-80.
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; commercial law ; international law ; OHADA

Heroes of the road : race, gender and the politics of mobility in twentieth century Tanzania / Joshua Grace
In: Africa / International African Institute: (2013), vol. 83, no. 3, p. 403-425 : foto's.
ASC Subject Headings: automobiles ; drivers ; mobility ; roads ; Tanzania ; women

Soul-brother Eugène N. Marais : some notes towards a re-edit of his work / Stephen Gray
In: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde: (2013), jg. 50, nr. 2, p. 63-80.
ASC Subject Headings: Afrikaans language ; poetry ; short stories ; South Africa ; writers

The legacies of Thomas Sankara : a revolutionary experience in retrospect / Ernest Harsch
In: Review of African Political Economy: (2013), vol. 40, no. 137, p. 358-374.
ASC Subject Headings: 1983 ; Burkina Faso ; heads of State ; political history ; revolutions

Dwelling on the road: routines, rituals and roadblocks in Southern Ghana / Gabriel Klaeger
In: Africa / International African Institute: (2013), vol. 83, no. 3, p. 446-469 : foto's.
ASC Subject Headings: Ghana ; rituals ; road transport ; roads

Speed governors: road safety and infrastructural overload in post-colonial Kenya, c. 1963-2013 / Mark Lamont
In: Africa / International African Institute: (2013), vol. 83, no. 3, p. 367-384.
ASC Subject Headings: automobiles ; infrastructure ; Kenya ; legislation ; politics ; roads

One hippopotamus and eight blind analysts : a multivocal analysis of the 2012 political crisis in the divided Republic of Mali / Baz Lecocq
In: Review of African Political Economy: (2013), vol. 40, no. 137, p. 343-357.
ASC Subject Headings: 2012 ; jihads ; Mali ; political stability ; Sahara ; Sahel ; Tuareg

L'organisation des activités portuaires au Gabon : une logistique au fonctionnement éclaté / Gisèle Makiela-Magambou
In: Revue africaine des affaires maritimes et des transports: (2013), no. 5, p. 33-42 : fig. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: Gabon ; ports ; transport policy

Dream of unity: from the United States of Africa to the Federation of African States / Guy Martin
In: African and Asian Studies: (2013), vol. 12, no. 3, p. 169-188 : krt.
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African Union ; federalism ; OAU ; pan-Africanism ; political unification

La réglementaton du transport multimodal transroutier des marchandises en droit OHADA / Eulalie Mazigui Ngoue-Nzameyo
In: Revue africaine des affaires maritimes et des transports: (2013), no. 5, p. 26-32.
ASC Subject Headings: commercial law ; French-speaking Africa ; goods transport ; OHADA ; Subsaharan Africa

Comparing peer reviews: the Universal Periodic Review of the UN Human Rights Council and the African Peer Review Mechanism / Edward R. McMahon, Kojo Busia & Marta Ascherio
In: African and Asian Studies: (2013), vol. 12, no. 3, p. 266-289 : tab.
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African Peer Review Mechanism ; governance ; human rights ; UN ; world

Ethnography on the road: infrastructural vision and the unruly present in contemporary Dakar / Caroline Melly
In: Africa / International African Institute: (2013), vol. 83, no. 3, p. 385-402.
ASC Subject Headings: capitals ; infrastructure ; roads ; Senegal ; urban transport

The nimbleness of being Fulani / Francis B. Nyamnjoh
In: Africa Today: (2013), vol. 59, no. 3, p. 105-134.
ASC Subject Headings: Bororo ; Cameroon ; citizenship ; elite ; Fulani ; identity ; indigenous peoples ; pastoralists

Models in the construction of female identity in Nigerian postcolonial literature / Omotayo Oloruntoba-Oju & Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju
In: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde: (2013), jg. 50, nr. 2, p. 5-18.
ASC Subject Headings: identity ; Nigeria ; women ; women writers

Cultural interfaces of self-determination and the rise of the neo-Biafran movement in Nigeria / Godwin Onuoha
In: Review of African Political Economy: (2013), vol. 40, no. 137, p. 428-446.
ASC Subject Headings: culture ; ethnic identity ; Igbo ; Nigeria ; politics ; self-determination

Whats new about Muslim Ismaili transnationalism? : comparing business practices in British East Africa, colonial Mozambique and contemporary Angola / Susana Salvaterra Trovão & Filomena Batoréu
In: African and Asian Studies: (2013), vol. 12, no. 3, p. 215-244 : tab.
ASC Subject Headings: African Indians ; Angola ; colonialism ; East Africa ; entrepreneurs ; identity ; Mozambique

The colonial gesture of development : the interpersonal as a promising site for rethinking aid to Africa / Marcus D. Watson
In: Africa Today: (2013), vol. 59, no. 3, p. 3-28.
ASC Subject Headings: aid workers ; body language ; neocolonialism ; rural population ; South Africa

Neoliberal globalisation and evolving local traditional institutions : implications for access to resources in rural northern Ghana / Joseph A. Yaro
In: Review of African Political Economy: (2013), vol. 40, no. 137, p. 410-427 : krt.
ASC Subject Headings: Ghana ; globalization ; liberalism ; rural economy ; traditional society

The rise and fall of trade unionism in Zimbabwe, part II : 1995-2000 / Paris Yeros
In: Review of African Political Economy: (2013), vol. 40, no. 137, p. 394-409.
ASC Subject Headings: 1990-1999 ; State-society relationship ; trade unions ; Zimbabwe

Electronic documents

Elusive justice : a status report on victims of 2007-2008 post-election violence in Kenya / International Commission of Jurists, 1952-. Kenya Section;Kenya Human Rights Commission. - Nairobi, Kenya : Kenyan Section of the International Commission of Jurists, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: 2007 ; elections ; Kenya ; political violence
Full text: http://www.khrc.or.ke/resources/publications/doc_download/45-elusive- justice.html

Books

Elusive justice : a status report on victims of 2007-2008 post-election violence in Kenya / International Commission of Jurists, 1952-. Kenya Section;Kenya Human Rights Commission. - Nairobi, Kenya : Kenyan Section of the International Commission of Jurists, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: 2007 ; elections ; Kenya ; political violence

Lamu : Kenya's enchanted island / George Abungu, Lorna Abungu, Carol Beckwith, Linda Donley-Reid, Ahmed Sheiki Nabhany & Carol Beckwith. - New York : Rizzoli, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: architecture ; arts ; customs and traditions ; islands ; Kenya ; photographs ; religious festivals

Cities of change : Addis Ababa : transformation strategies for urban territories in the 21st century / Marc Angélil & Dirk Hebel. - Basel [etc.] : Birkhäuser, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: Ethiopia ; metropolitan areas ; urban areas ; urban development ; urban housing ; urban planning ; urban renewal ; urban research ; urban water supply

Global perspectives on football in Africa : visualising the game / Susann Baller, Giorgio Miescher & Ciraj Rassool. - London [etc.] : Routledge, 2013. - (Sport in the global society, Contemporary perspectives)
ASC Subject Headings: 2010 ; advertising ; Africa ; cartoons ; conference papers (form) ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; football ; Ghana ; images ; Kenya ; Namibia ; postage stamps ; posters ; Senegal ; South Africa ; Zimbabwe

Marabouts, Maroc / Tahar Ben Jelloun, Antonio Cores, Beatriz del Rio & Claudio Bravo. - [Paris] : Gallimard, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: death ; historic buildings ; Islam ; Morocco ; photographs ; saints

Shona proverbs : palm oil with which African words are eaten / Ngwabi Bhebe & Advice Viriri. - Gweru : Booklove Publishers, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: proverbs (form) ; Shona language ; Zimbabwe

Guide to Madagascar / Hilary Bradt. - Chalfont St Peter : Bradt Publications, 1988
ASC Subject Headings: Madagascar ; travel books (form)

Penser et gérer la diversité en société: regards sur l'Afrique / Bernard Cros. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013. - (Racisme et eugénisme)
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; cultural pluralism ; ethnic relations ; Kenya ; Nigeria ; race relations ; South Africa ; Uganda

Les engagés des plantations de Mayotte et des Comores (1845-1945) / Marie Didierjean. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013. - (Chemins de la mémoire, Série "Histoire de l'océan Indien")
ASC Subject Headings: colonial history ; Comoros ; contract labour ; Mayotte ; migrant workers ; plantations ; resistance ; working conditions

Chikwakwa remembered : theatre and politics in Zambia 1968-1972 / Michael Etherton & John O. Reed. - Dublin : Original Writing, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: academics ; diaries (form) ; personal narratives (form) ; political action ; political repression ; students ; theatre ; Zambia

Pétrole et changement social au Tchad : rente pétrolière et monétisation des relations économiques et sociales dans la zone pétrolière de Doba / Remadji Hoinathy. - Paris : Karthala, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Chad ; money ; petroleum ; petroleum industry ; rural society ; social change

Communication and media ethics in South Africa / Nathalie Hyde-Clarke. - Kenwyn : Juta Legal and Academic Publishers, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: journalism ; mass media ; media and communication studies ; professional ethics ; social media ; South Africa

Vegetative tree propagation in agroforestry : training guidelines and references / Hannah Jaenicke & Jan Beniest / International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF). - Nairobi : ICRAF, 2002
ASC Subject Headings: agroforestry ; arid zones ; East Africa ; plant breeding ; Southern Africa ; training programmes ; trees

Roots and routes : Karretjie people of the Great Karoo : the marginalisation of a South African first people / Michael de Jongh. - Pretoria : UNISAPress, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: identity ; living conditions ; nomads ; social history ; South Africa

Op de vleugels van de draak : reizen tussen Afrika en China / Lieve Joris. - Amsterdam [etc.] : Augustus, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; Africans ; China ; Chinese ; diasporas ; international trade ; traders ; travel books (form)

The move of God from East Africa : the revival that impacted the whole world / Antony Kangonga Kimani. - Nairobi : Creations Enterprises, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: Church history ; East Africa ; religious movements

Life and times of a bank robber / John Kiggia Kimani. - Nairobi : Spear Books, 2007. - (Spear book)
ASC Subject Headings: banks ; Kenya ; offenders ; personal narratives (form) ; robbery

Livelihoods and CBNRM in Namibia : the findings of the WILD Project : final technical report of the Wildlife Integration for Livelihood Diversification Project (WILD) / S. Andrew Long / Wildlife Integration for Livelihood Diversification Project, Namibia;Namibia. Directorate of Environmental Affairs;Namibia. Directorate of Parks and Wildlife Management. - Windhoek : Wildlife Integration for Livelihood Diversification Project, 2004
ASC Subject Headings: community participation ; development projects ; Namibia ; national parks and reserves ; rural development ; wildlife ; wildlife conservation

New voices over the air : the transformation of the South African Broadcasting Corporation in a changing South Africa / P. Eric Louw & Viola Milton. - New York, NY : Hampton Press, 2012. - (The Hampton Press communication series, Comic art)
ASC Subject Headings: 1990-1999 ; 2000-2009 ; broadcasting ; mass media ; media policy ; South Africa

Between unity and diversity : essays on nation-building in post-apartheid South Africa / Gitanjali Maharaj. - Cape Town [etc.] : Idasa [etc.], 1999
ASC Subject Headings: crime prevention ; economic policy ; governance ; legislation ; nation building ; South Africa

The story of the Tanzania parliament / Pius Msekwa. - [Dar es Salaam] : P. Msekwa, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: parliament ; parliamentary procedure ; personal narratives (form) ; Tanzania

Ritual gestures in Busoga / Charles Mulindwa / Cultural Research Centre, Jinja. - Jinja : Cultural Research Centre, 2001
ASC Subject Headings: animism ; caricatures and cartoons ; ethnic and racial groups ; religious ceremonies ; Uganda

Tanzania distance learning assessment : assessing the use of distance learning to train health care workers in Tanzania / Anya Nartker. - Seattle, WA [etc.] : University of Washington. International training & education center for health (I-TECH), 2009
ASC Subject Headings: distance education ; feasibility studies ; health personnel ; Internet ; medical education ; nurses ; Tanzania ; vocational training

Le poisson fumé sur la Petite Côte sénégalaise : de la pirogue au plat / Fatou Ndoye, Pascale Moity-Maizi & Cécile Broutin. - Montpellier : CIRAD, 2002
ASC Subject Headings: economic recession ; fish ; fish processing ; food consumption ; food hygiene ; marketing ; merchants ; Senegal ; women

Economic interactions of pastoral lowland and highland systems and implications for sustainable livelihoods : a case study in northeastern Ethiopia / Workneh Negatu. - Addis Ababa : Forum for Social Studies, 2011. - (FSS research report ; 7)
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural marketing ; Ethiopia ; livelihoods ; pastoralists

The S.M. Otieno case : death and burial in modern Kenya / J. B. Ojwang, J. N. K. Mugambi & G. O. Aduwo. - Nairobi : Nairobi University Press, 1989
ASC Subject Headings: conflict ; customary law ; funerals ; judgments ; Kenya ; legislation ; Luo

The life and times of Maurice Michael Cardinal Otunga, 1923-2003 / Millicent Osaso. - Eldoret : AMECEA Gaba Publications, 2006. - (AMECEA Gaba Publications triple spearhead ; 176-178)
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; Catholic Church ; clergy ; Kenya

Japan-African relations : applying the Asian development experience to sub-Saharan Africa / Bertha Z. Osei-Hwedie & Kwaku Osei-Hwedie. - Ithaca, NY : Institute for African development, Cornell University, 2010. - (Institute for African Development occasional paper series ; no. 14)
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; development cooperation ; economic aid ; foreign policy ; Japan

Highlife Saturday night : popular music and social change in urban Ghana / Nate Plageman*. - Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: Ghana ; music history ; popular music ; social change ; urban life

A study guide to The river and the source / Margaret Roche. - Nairobi : Focus, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: Kenya ; novels ; textbooks (form)

Le manguier, le fleuve et la souris / Denis Sassou Nguesso. - [Paris] : JC Lattès, 1997
ASC Subject Headings: autobiographies (form) ; Congo (Brazzaville) ; heads of State

Journey through a vanished world : Sierra Leone 1938 / Robert W. Steel & Colin Johnson. - Oxon : Ituri Publications, 2001
ASC Subject Headings: geographers ; personal observations ; scientific expeditions ; Sierra Leone ; twentieth century

Little Liberia : an African odyssey in New York City / Jonny Steinberg. - London : Jonathan Cape, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: diasporas ; Liberia ; Liberians ; United States

Encouraging change : sustainable steps in water supply, sanitation and hygiene / Sally Sutton, Hope Nkoloma, Fordson Nyirenda, Isaac Mbewe & John Kelleher. - St. Albans [etc.] : [Teaching-aids at low cost (TALC) [etc.], 2003
ASC Subject Headings: health education ; rural water supply ; sanitation ; water supply ; Zambia

Introduction à la sociologie politique du Bénin / Prudent Victor Topanou. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013. - (Études africaines)
ASC Subject Headings: Benin ; political sociology ; political systems ; State

Juifs d'Algérie : diaporama d'une diaspora / Gilbert Werndorfer. - Paris : Soline, 2003. - (Collection Diaporama d'une diaspora)
ASC Subject Headings: Algeria ; Jews ; photographs ; social history

Women and inculturated evangelization in Africa / Kenyuyfoon Gloria Wirba. - Nairobi : Catholic University of Eastern Africa Press, 2012. - (AMECEA Gaba publications quadriple spearhead ; nos. 201-204)
ASC Subject Headings: Church ; gender roles ; inculturation ; missions ; Subsaharan Africa ; women

Voyage du Général [Joseph-Simon] Gallieni : cinq mois autour de Madagascar, progrès de l'agriculture, développement commercial, ressources industrielles, moyens de colonisation / X (Capitaine & ***). - Paris : Hachette, 1901
ASC Subject Headings: agriculture ; colonization ; geography ; indigenous peoples ; Madagascar ; trade ; travel books (form)

Vuvuzelanation : Zapiro on SA sport, 1995-2013 / Zapiro & Mike Wills. - Auckland Park : Jacana Media; in association with Zaprock Productions, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: cartoons (form) ; South Africa ; sports

African literature

Zoo city / Lauren Beukes. - Oxford : Angry Robot, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; South Africa

The whispering trees : short stories / Abubakar Adam Ibrahim. - Lagos : Parrésia Publishers, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: Nigeria ; short stories (form)

The hunter / H. R. O. Kulet. - Nairobi : Sasa Sema, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Kenya ; novels (form)