People in motion - ASCL Library selection

The theme of this year’s Voice4Thought Festival is ‘People in motion’. On this occasion, the ASCL Library has compiled a selection of library items related to the theme. The selection highlights items on diverse art forms, such as film, music, and literature. It includes personal stories from ‘people on the move’ and offers background through various literary and social studies. 

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#films

Nollywood online : between the individual consumption and communal reception of Nigerian films among African diaspora / Afra Dekie
In: Journal of African Media Studies: (2015), vol.7, no.3, p.301-314.
ASC Subject Headings: audiences/Belgium/Cameroon/diasporas/Ghana/Internet/Nigeria/Nollywood
Link: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jams/2015/00000007/00000003/art00004

"Monsieur Lazhar" : the ideal immigrant in the neoliberal Québécois imagination / Imed Labidi
In: The Journal of North African Studies: (2014), vol.20, no.3, p.374-390.
ASC Subject Headings: Algeria/Canada/films/identity/migrants/stereotypes
Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2014.917584

100% Dakar : more than art. / Sandra Krampelhuber. - [S.l.] : Sandra Krampelhuber, 2014. - 1 dvd-video ( 62 min.). : kleur, gel. - ()
ASC Subject Headings: artists/documentary films (form)/entrepreneurs/hip hop/Senegal/social change/videos (form)/youth
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV06LXSBSd4

À l'écoute du "Cri de la Tourterelle" : la performativité du chant et du cinéma sur la migration au Niger. / Marina Lafay & Carola Mick
In: Cahiers d'études africaines: (2014), vol. 54, cah. 213/214, p. 499-527.
ASC Subject Headings: films/migration/Niger

Contemporary cinema of Africa and the diaspora. / Anjali Prabhu / (ed.) / . - Malden : John Wiley & Sons, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Africa/cinema/diasporas/media and communication studies

Ilia di mudjer = L'île des femmes = The island of women. / Cécile Canut. - Aulas : Tutti Quanti films, 2014. - 1 dvd-video (53 min.). : kleur, gel. - ()
ASC Subject Headings: Cape Verde/documentary films (form)/migration/popular music/videos (form)/women
Trailer: http://vimeo.com/90202471

Shifting perceptions of migration in Senegalese literature, film and social media. / Mahriana Rofheart / (ed.) / . - Lanham [etc.] : Lexington Books, 2014. - (After the empire, The francophone world and postcolonial France)
ASC Subject Headings: cinema/francophonie/literature/migration/popular culture/Senegal/social media

Stranded in Canton. / director Måns Månsson. - Moscow : Antipode, 2014. - 1 dvd-video (77 min.). : kleur, gel. - ()
ASC Subject Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo/China/entrepreneurs/international trade/interpersonal relations/culture contact/migration/feature films (form)/videos (form)
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHw9vj0yOjY

Africa and France : postcolonial cultures, migration, and racism. / Dominic Thomas / (ed.) / . - Bloomington, IN [etc.] : Indiana University Press, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Africa/cinema/France/international migration/literature/national identity/race relations

Global Nollywood : the transnational dimensions of an African video film industry. / / Matthias Krings & Onookome Okome (ed.) / . - Bloomington, IN [etc.] : Indiana University Press, 2013. - (African expressive cultures)Cover global Nollywood
ASC Subject Headings: Africa/audiences/diasporas/films/Nigeria/Nollywood/world

Le président. / Jean-Pierre Bekolo; Gérard Essomba. - New York : Kino International, 2013. - 1 dvd-video (63 min.). : kleur, gel. - ()
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon/heads of State/State-society relationship/authoritarianism/feature films (form)/videos (form)

Connecting dreams : life histories, crossing borders, new communication technologies. / Mirjam de Bruijn & Sjoerd Epe Sijsma. - Leiden : African Studies Centre [etc.], 2012. - 1 dvd-video [PAL] ( 32 min.). : kleur, gel. - ()
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon/communication/documentary films (form)/migrants/mobile telephone/mobility/Netherlands/social change/social relations/videos (form)
Trailer: http://youtu.be/xeSOlCnEXXA

Africa, cultural studies and difference. / Keyan G. Tomaselli & Handel Kashope Wright (ed.) / . - London [etc.] : Routledge, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Africa/African identity/cinema/culture/diasporas/East Africa/educational philosophy/Nigeria/popular music/Somali/South Africa/traditional festivals

African diasporas. / Françoise Ugochukwu (ed.) / . - London : Adonis & Abbey Publishers, 2011. - (African renaissance, ISSN 1744-2532 ; vol. 8, no. 2)
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon/Cameroonians/cinema/diasporas/France/Great Britain/Igbo/Mexico/Nigeria/Nigerians/novels/Switzerland

État des lieux du cinéma franco-algérien de 1990 à 2010. / Annemarie Bresser / (ed.) / . - [S.l. : s.n.], 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Algeria/cinema/diasporas/France/French language/theses (form)
Link: http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/339240547.pdf

Images et mirages des migrations dans les littératures et cinémas d'Afrique francophone. / / Françoise Naudillon & Jean Ouédraogo (ed.) / . - Montréal : Mémoire d'encrier, 2011. - (Collection Essai)
ASC Subject Headings: Africa/cinema/diasporas/French-speaking Africa/images/literature/migrants

Sarabah = Sister Fa. / Marie Luisa Gambale, Gloria Bremer, & Steven Lawrence. - [New York] [etc.] : Yerosha Productions [etc.], 2011. - 1 dvd-video (60 min.). : kleur, gel. - ()
ASC Subject Headings: documentary films (form)/female circumcision/hip hop/popular music/Senegal/videos (form)/women artists
Trailer: http://youtu.be/8RRu6ULvBeg

The reception of Nigerian video drama in a multicultural female community in Botswana. / David Kerr
In: Journal of African Cinemas: (2011), vol. 3, no. 1, p. 65-79 : tab.
ASC Subject Headings: audiences/Botswana/Nollywood/women migrants

Koukan Kourcia : le cri de la tourterelle. / Elhadj Magori Sani. - Merignac : La SMAC, 2010. - 1 dvd-video (62 min.). : kleur, geluid. - ()
ASC Subject Headings: artists/Côte d'Ivoire/documentary films (form)/emigration/Niger/singing/videos (form)
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVDA55bEMbc

Subaltern migrancy and transnational locality: the undocumented African immigrant in international cinema. / Claudia Hoffmann / (ed.) / . - Ann Arbor : UMI, Proquest, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: cinema/diasporas/dissertations (form)/Europe/illegal migration/Nigeria/West Africa
Link: http://www.asclibrary.nl/docx/383163684.pdf

#music

African musics in context : institutions, culture, identity. / Thomas Solomon (ed.) / . - Kampala : Fountain Publishers, 2015Cover African musics in context
ASC Subject Headings: 2011/AIDS/archives/conference papers (form)/identity/migration/musicians/musicology/performing arts/popular music/religious songs/South Africa/Tanzania/Uganda

Dossier : musique et pouvoir, pouvoirs des musiques dans les Afriques /
In: Afrique contemporaine: (2015), no.254, p.13-102 : foto's.
ASC Subject Headings: Africa/Burkina Faso/Cuba/France/migration/Mozambique/music/musicians/politics/Southern Africa/Tunisia/West Africa

Choreographic performance, generations and the art of life in post-colonial Dakar / Hélène Neveu Kringelbach
In: Africa / International African Institute: (2014), vol.84, no.1, p.36-54.
ASC Subject Headings: artists/dance/Senegal/social mobility/urban society
Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S000197201300065X

Create your space! : locating contemporary dance in Ouagadougou / Nadine Sieveking
In: Africa / International African Institute: (2014), vol.84, no.1, p.55-77.
ASC Subject Headings: Burkina Faso/dance/social networks/urban society/women artists
Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0001972013000661

Diaspora, domicile and debate : a preliminary artistic and cultural search for a Malawi identity from pre-colonial times to 2014. / John Lwanda
In: The Society of Malawi Journal: (2014), vol. 67, no. 1, p. 16-45 : foto.
ASC Subject Headings: arts/citizenship/diasporas/identity/Malawi/music/political opposition

La migration prise aux mots : mise en récits et en images des migrations transafricaines. / / Cécile Canut & Catherine Mazauric (ed.) / . - Paris : Le Cavalier Bleu, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: images/literature/migration/performing arts/songs/storytelling/West Africa/women migrants

Le dossier : blackness. / / Thomas Fouquet & Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga (ed.) / . - : 2014. - (Politique africaine: (2014), no. 136, p. 5-133)
ASC Subject Headings: Africa/African identity/Burkina Faso/diasporas/Ghana/hip hop/photography

Le regard entre deux rives : la migration et l'exil dans le discours des rappeurs sénégalais. / Sophie Moulard
In: Cahiers d'études africaines: (2014), vol. 54, cah. 213/214, p. 415-449.
ASC Subject Headings: migrants/popular music/Senegal

Naija boy remix : Afroexploitation and the new media creative economies of cosmopolitan African youth / Krystal Strong & Shaun Ossei-Owusu
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies: (2014), vol.26, no.2, p.189-205.
ASC Subject Headings: artists/hip hop/Internet/Nigeria/popular music/United States/youth
Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2013.861343

Engendering homeland: migration, diaspora and feminism in Ethiopian music. / Ilana Webster-Kogen
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies: (2013), vol. 25, no. 2, p. 183-196.
ASC Subject Headings: diasporas/Ethiopia/gender/music/women artists

Keeping in touch via cassette: tracing Dinka songs from cattle camp to transnational audio-letter. / Angela Impey
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies: (2013), vol. 25, no. 2, p. 197-210.
ASC Subject Headings: diasporas/Dinka/refugees/songs/South Sudan

Living the hiplife : celebrity and entrepreneurship in Ghanaian popular music. / Jesse Weaver Shipley / (ed.) / . - Durham [etc.] : Duke University Press, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: diasporas/Ghana/hip hop/popular culture/popular music

Transforming communities, recreating selves : interconnected diasporas, performance, and the shaping of Liberian immigrant identity. / Yolanda Covington-Ward
In: Africa Today: (2013/14), vol. 60, no. 1, p. 29-53 : foto's.
ASC Subject Headings: dance/diasporas/elite/group identity/Liberia/United States

Diasporic jeliya as a collaborative trade in New York City. / David Racanelli
In: African Music: (2011), vol. 9, no. 1, p. 136-153 : ill.
ASC Subject Headings: diasporas/griots/Manding/music/United States

The Bongo Flava industry in Tanzania and artists' strategies for success. / Uta Reuster-Jahn & Gabriel Hacke / (ed.) / . - Mainz : Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, 2011. - (Arbeitspapiere ; nr. 127)
ASC Subject Headings: hip hop/popular music/social mobility/Tanzania/urban youth
Link: http://www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/workingpapers/AP127.pdf

The political economy of migration and reputation in Kinshasa. / Joseph Trapido
In: Africa / International African Institute: (2011), vol. 81, no. 2, p. 204-225.
ASC Subject Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo/Europe/migration/patronage/political economy/popular music/social status

Kenyan hip-hop as a site of negotiating urban youth identities in Nairobi. / Aggrey Nganyi Wetaba / (ed.) / . - Göttingen : Sierke, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: artists/hip hop/Kenya/popular music/youth

#arts

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

Postcolonial modernism : art and decolonization in twentieth-century Nigeria. / Chika Okeke-Agulu / (ed.) / . - Durham [etc.] : Duke University Press, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: artists/arts/decolonization/Nigeria

"Nous nous appelons les voyageurs" : mise en scène des parcours migratoire dans le théâtre des réfugiés d'Afrique centrale à Bamako. / Cécile Canut & Alioune Sow
In: Cahiers d'études africaines: (2014), vol. 54, cah. 213/214, p. 383-414.
ASC Subject Headings: drama/Mali/migrants/return migration

Carnet de route d'un voyageur en Afrique de l'Ouest. / Cécile Canut & Elsa Ramos / (ed.) / . - Paris : Le Cavalier bleu, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: images/migrants/migration/mottoes/pictorial works (form)/sociolinguistics/travel/West Africa

Icons of becoming : documenting undocumented migration from West Africa to Europe. / Christian Vium
In: Cahiers d'études africaines: (2014), vol. 54, cah. 213/214, p. 217-240 : foto's.
ASC Subject Headings: identity/illegal migration/migrants/photography/West Africa

Paris vaille que vaille. / Koffi Roger N'Guessan / (ed.) / . - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014. - (Harmattan BD ; 23)
ASC Subject Headings: comic strips (form)/Côte d'Ivoire/France/human trafficking/migration/sexual offences/women

Ibrahim El-Salahi : a visionary modernist. / Sarah Adams & others / Salah M. Hassan (ed.) / . - London : Tate, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: artists/drawing/exhibition catalogues (form)/painting/Sudan

Special Issue: Fed up: creating a new type of Senegal through the arts. / / Molly Krueger Enz & Devin Bryson (ed.) / . - Gainesville, FL : Center for African Studies, University of Florida, 2013. - (African studies quarterly, ISSN 1093-2658 ; vol. 14, no. 3)
ASC Subject Headings: artists/arts/political action/Senegal
Link: http://asq.africa.ufl.edu/files/Volume-14-Issue-3.pdf

Theatre of testimony : an investigation in devising asylum. / Pedzisai Maedza / (ed.) / . - Cape Town : University of Cape Town, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: biography/images/refugees/South Africa/theatre/theses (form)
Link: http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/403938767.pdf  http://hdl.handle.net/1887/29162

Wangechi Mutu : a fantastic journey. / / Wangechi Mutu & Trevor Schoonmaker (ed.) / Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. - Durham, NC : Nasher Museum of Art, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: artists/exhibition catalogues (form)/Kenya/visual arts

Zimbabwean diaspora politics and the power of laughter: humour as a tool for political communication, criticism and protest. / Jenny Kuhlmann
In: Journal of African Media Studies: (2012), vol. 4, no. 3, p. 295-314 : ill. .
ASC Subject Headings: cartoons/diasporas/humour/politics/Zimbabwe

Théâtre camerounais et africain de l'émi-immigration au XXIe siècle. / Jacques Raymond Fofié
In: Annales de la Faculté des Arts, Lettres et Sciences Humaines: (2011), vol. 1, no. 12, p. 145-188.
ASC Subject Headings: Africans/Cameroon/drama/Europe/immigrants/international migration/theatre

Le retour au pays d'Alphonse Madiba dit Daudet. / Al'Mata & Christophe Ngalle Edimo / (ed.) / . - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2010. - (Harmattan BD ; 1)
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon/comic strips (form)/Democratic Republic of Congo/return migration/social problems

#literature

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

Koning Eenoog : een migrantenverhaal : leven en werk van Henk van Woerden. / Toef Jaeger / (ed.) / . - Amsterdam : Uitgeverij Atlas Contact, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form)/Dutch/migrants/Netherlands/South Africa/writers

Serwa Akoto's diary. / Asabea Ashun / (ed.) / . - Accra : Type Publishers, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Canada/diaries (form)/diasporas/Ghana/Ghanaians/women

Faire l'aventure : roman. / Fabienne Kanor / (ed.) / . - Paris : Lattès, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: adolescents/emigration/Europe/migrants/novels (form)/Senegal

The maestro, the magistrate and the mathematician. / Tendai Huchu / (ed.) / . - Bulawayo : 'amaBooks, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Great Britain/migrants/novels (form)/Zimbabwe

The red pencil. / Andrea Davis Pinkney & Shane W. Evans / (ed.) / . - New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: poetry (form)/refugees/Sudan/youth literature (form)

A bit of difference. / Sefi Atta / (ed.) / . - Northampton, MA : Interlink Books, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: migration/Nigeria/novels (form)

Journey to dreamland : a novel. / J. Sorie Conteh / (ed.) / . - [S.l. : s.n.], 2012
ASC Subject Headings: diasporas/novels (form)/Sierra Leone/United States

Little mother : a novel. / Cristina Ali Farah / (ed.) / . - Bloomington, IN [etc.] : Indiana University Press, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: diasporas/Italy/novels (form)/Somalians

The mother of my child. / Wilfred Ndum Akombi / (ed.) / . - Mankon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon/Germany/novels (form)/refugees

De god met de blauwe ogen. / Babah Tarawally & Adriaan Krabbendam / (ed.) / . - Amsterdam : KIT Publishers, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: migrants/Netherlands/novels (form)/refugees/Sierra Leone

Destinée : le récit personnel d'un voyage forcé. / Abdoulaye Yansané / (ed.) / . - [Washington] : Les Éditions Phoenix, 2010. - (Première chance)
ASC Subject Headings: boys/exile/Guinea/novels (form)/personal narratives (form)/political repression/refugees/Senegal

Les écrivains de la diaspora marocaine. / / Abdesselam Cheddadi (ed.) / . - Temara : Magazine Littéraire du Maroc, 2010. - (Le magazine littéraire du Maroc ; no. hors-série)
ASC Subject Headings: diasporas/literature (form)/Morocco/writers

Suicide collectif : roman. / Aboubacar Eros Sissoko / (ed.) / . - Paris [etc.] : l'Harmattan [etc.], 2010. - (Encres noires, ISSN 0223-9930 ; 333)
ASC Subject Headings: international migration/Mali/novels (form)

Harare North. / Brian Chikwava / (ed.) / . - London : Jonathan Cape, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: Great Britain/novels (form)/refugees/Zimbabwe

Imitation Whiteman. / Vivian Sihshu Yenika / (ed.) / . - Mankon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon/migrant workers/novels (form)

Journeys to recovery. / Elizabeth Magakon & others / (ed.) / . - Auckland Park : Fanele, 2009. - (Breaking the silence ; 2008)
ASC Subject Headings: anthologies (form)/personal narratives (form)/poetry (form)/short stories (form)/South Africa/violence/women refugees

Refuge. / Andrew Brown / (ed.) / . - Cape Town : Zebra Press, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: immigrants/Nigerians/novels (form)/refugees/South Africa

The Akroma file. / Linus T. Asong / (ed.) / . - Mankon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon/Ghanaians/novels (form)/undocumented migrants

#personal stories

Southern Sudanese narratives of displacement, and the ambiguity of "voice" / Nicki Kindersley
In: History in Africa: (2015), vol.42, p.203-237.
ASC Subject Headings: biography/empowerment/refugees/South Sudan/Sudan
Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/hia.2015.3

Entre ici et là-bas : des Maghrébins racontent. / Bruno Laffort / (ed.) / . - Paris : Karthala, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Algeria/Europe/France/Maghreb/migrants/migration/Morocco/personal narratives (form)/Tunisia

Letters from Eritrea : refugee women tell their story. / / Peter Jones (ed.) / The Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) , Kampala. - Kampala : The Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA), 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Eritrea/personal narratives (form)/Sudan/women refugees
Link: http://www.sihanet.org/sites/default/files/resource-download/letters%20from%20eritrea_web.pdf

Long journeys : African migrants on the road. / Alessandro Triulzi & Robert Lawrence McKenzie (ed.) / . - Leiden [etc.] : Brill, 2013. - (Africa-Europe group for interdisciplinary studies, ISSN 1574-6925 ; vol. 8)
ASC Subject Headings: Africa/Africans/diasporas/Europe/illegal migration/personal narratives (form)/travel/undocumented migrants

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

Dem Ak Xabaar, partir et raconter : récit d'un clandestin africain en route vers l'Europe. / Mahmoud Traoré & Bruno Le Dantec / (ed.) / . - [Paris] : Lignes, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: Europe/illegal migration/Northern Africa/personal narratives (form)/Senegal/undocumented migrants/West Africa

Yâkâré : pour une communauté migrante ouverte et fraternelle. / Oumar Dia & Renée Colin-Noguès / (ed.) / . - Paris : Présence africaine, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: autobiographies (form)/France/immigrants/migrant workers/Senegal

Achter de bergen : de overlevingstocht van een Afrikaanse vluchtelinge. / Saskia Smith & Amina Ingabire / (ed.) / . - Vianen [etc.] : The House of Books, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: autobiographies (form)/Netherlands/Rwanda/Rwandans/women refugees

Frontière reconduite. / Cécile Canut. - Aulas : Tutti Quanti films, 2011. - 1 dvd-video (96 min.). : kleur, gel. - ()
ASC Subject Headings: documentary films (form)/France/illegal migration/Mali/migrants/personal narratives (form)/return migration/videos (form)

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

Marking transgressive spaces and bodies : a review of contemporary Ghanaian poetry. / Prince K. Adika
In: Legon Journal of the Humanities: (2011), vol. 22, p. 1-25.
ASC Subject Headings: diasporas/Ghana/memory/national identity/poetry

Recounting migration : political narratives of Congolese young people in Uganda. / Christina R. Clark-Kazak / (ed.) / . - Montréal [etc.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: biography/Congolese (Democratic Republic of Congo)/political action/refugees/Uganda/youth

His story and her story. / Arthur Ernest Gwagwa / (ed.) / . - Coventry : The Lion Press, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: Blacks/diasporas/Great Britain/immigrants/motivation/personal narratives (form)/Zimbabwe

The Saharan train : myth or reality? : a true adventure story. / Samuel Boamah / (ed.) / . - [S.l.] : S. Boamah, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: Algeria/Ghana/Libya/personal narratives (form)/undocumented migrants

Ababio : (he/she who was away and has returned) : a 21st century anthology of African diasporan returnees to Ghana. / / Seestah Imahküs Njinga Ababio (ed.) / . - Cape Coast : One Africa Tours and Speciality Services, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: Afro-American culture/diaries (form)/diasporas/Ghana/migrants/pan-Africanism/personal narratives (form)

The lost boy. / Aher Arop Bol / (ed.) / . - Cape Town : Kwela Books, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: children/civil wars/personal narratives (form)/refugees/South Sudan/Southern Africa/Sudan/Sudanese/travel/Zimbabwe

#literary studies

Les littératures de la Corne de l'Afrique : regards croisés. / Paola Ranzini / (ed.) / . - Paris : Karthala, 2016. - (Lettres du Sud)
ASC Subject Headings: diasporas/Djibouti/Eritrea/Italy/literary criticism/literature/Northeast Africa/poetry/Somalia/theatre

Les écritures migrantes : de l'exil à la migrance littéraire dans le roman francophone. / / Adama Coulibaly & Yao Louis Konan (ed.) / . - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2015. - (Espaces littéraires)
ASC Subject Headings: French-speaking Africa/identity/literature/Maghreb/migrants/novels/West Africa

New names, translational subjectivities : (dis)location and (re)naming in NoViolet Bulawayo's 'We Need New Names' / Polo Belina Moji
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies: (2015), vol.27, no.2, p.181-190.
ASC Subject Headings: literary criticism/migration/novels/Zimbabwe
Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2014.993937

Re-writing history in the literature of the Ethiopian diaspora in Italy / Sara Marzagora
In: African Identities: (2015), vol.13, no.3, p.211-225.
ASC Subject Headings: diasporas/Ethiopians/Italian language/Italy/literary criticism/novels
Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2015.1074538

"Raconte-moi ta migration" : l'entretien biographique entre construction ethnographique et autonomie d'un nouveau genre littéraire. / Annalisa Maitilasso
In: Cahiers d'études africaines: (2014), vol. 54, cah. 213/214, p. 241-265.
ASC Subject Headings: biography/Mali/migrants/storytelling

Livres de passages : trajectoires migrantes vers et depuis Dakar. / Catherine Mazauric
In: Cahiers d'études africaines: (2014), vol. 54, cah. 213/214, p. 267-287.
ASC Subject Headings: biography/literature/migration/Senegal/West Africa

Mobilité, migrations et littératures en réseaux : exemple des romans poulâr. / Mélanie Bourlet
In: Cahiers d'études africaines: (2014), vol. 54, cah. 213/214, p. 309-340.
ASC Subject Headings: Africa/African languages/Fulfulde language/literature/Mali/migration

Mobilités et migrations dans les discours et la littérature orale moose (Burkina Faso). / Alice Degorce
In: Cahiers d'études africaines: (2014), vol. 54, cah. 213/214, p. 289-308.
ASC Subject Headings: Burkina Faso/migration/Mossi/Mòoré language/oral literature/rural-urban migration

Diaspora identities in short fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie & Sefi Atta. / Rose A. Sackeyfio
In: African Literature Today: (2013), no. 31, p. 102-114.
ASC Subject Headings: diasporas/literary criticism/Nigeria/short stories/women

Dossier littératures et migrations transafricaines. / / Catherine Mazauric & Alioune Sow (ed.) / . - Metz : Études littéraires africaines, 2013. - (Études littéraires africaines, ISSN 0769-4563 ; no. 36 (2013))
ASC Subject Headings: Burundi/Central Africa/Democratic Republic of Congo/literature/Mali/migration/Mozambique/Nigeria/novels/Western Sahara

Reading migration and culture : the world of East African Indian literature. / Dan Ojwang / (ed.) / . - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Asians/diasporas/East Africa/literary criticism/literature

Back-to-Africa, 'double consciousness' and the African Diaspora : confronting the myth and the reality in Ghanaian fiction. / Mawuli Adjei
In: Legon Journal of the Humanities: (2012), vol. 23, p. 33-55.
ASC Subject Headings: attitudes/diasporas/Ghana/novels

Mobilités d'Afrique en Europe : récits et figures de l'aventure. / Catherine Mazauric / (ed.) / . - Paris : Karthala, 2012. - (Lettres du Sud)
ASC Subject Headings: Africa/emigration/French language/illegal migration/immigration/literary criticism/literature/migrants/novels

Moorings and mythology : 'Le Ventre de l'Atlantique' and the immigrant experience. / Robert Nathan
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies: (2012), vol. 24, no. 1, p. 73-87.
ASC Subject Headings: France/international migration/novels/Senegal

Nos & leurs Afriques : constructions littéraires des identités africaines cinquante ans après les décolonisations = Áfricas de uns e de outros : construções literàrias das identidades africanas cinquenta anos após as descolonizações. / / Ana Paula Coutinho Mendes, Maria de Fátima Outeirinho, & José Domingues de Almeida (ed.) / . - Bruxelles [etc.] : Peter Lang, 2012. - (Documents pour l'Histoire des Francophonies, ISSN 1379-4108 ; 34 Documents pour l'histoire des francophonies. Afriques)
ASC Subject Headings: African identity/French-speaking Africa/images/literature/migration/Portuguese-speaking Africa

"Prison d'Europe" ou les prisons de l'émigration. / Lala Touré
In: Éthiopiques: (2011), no. 87, p. 87-98.
ASC Subject Headings: Africa/emigration/Europe/migrants/novels/youth

Le "tiers-espace" de Léonora Miano romancière afropéenne. / Sylvie Laurent
In: Cahiers d'études africaines: (2011), vol. 51, cah. 204, p. 769-810.
ASC Subject Headings: African identity/Afro-American culture/Cameroon/diasporas/France/literature/pan-Africanism/United States

Counter discourse in African literature. / / Chin Ce & Charles Smith (ed.) / . - Milton Keynes : Lightning Source, 2010. - (African library of critical writing)
ASC Subject Headings: African identity/diasporas/literary criticism/literature/Subsaharan Africa

Des chevreuils égarés au yeux éblouis : les clandestins entre humanité et animalité. / Claudine Lécrivain
In: Expressions maghrébines: (2010), vol. 9, no. 2, p. 193-210.
ASC Subject Headings: illegal migration/migrants/Morocco/novels/symbols

La littérature négro-africaine et la mondialisation. / Jean Nsonsa Vinda
In: Annales de la Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines / Université de Kinshasa: (2010), no. 8, p. 84-95.
ASC Subject Headings: diasporas/globalization/literature/Subsaharan Africa

Text and theories in transition : black African literature and imagined traditions. / / Charles Bodunde (ed.) / . - Eckersdorf : Pia Thielmann & Eckhard Breitinger, 2010. - (Bayreuth African studies series, ISSN 0178-0034 ; 87)
ASC Subject Headings: diasporas/literature/Nigeria/oral literature/Subsaharan Africa

The pull of postcolonial nationhood : gender and migration in francophone African literatures. / Ayo A. Coly / (ed.) / . - Lanham, MD [etc.] : Lexington Books, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: French language/gender relations/literary criticism/migration/national identity/West Africa/women writers

(Re)negotiating home: exile/migrancy and return in Caryl Phillips' 'A state of independence' and Zakes Mda's 'The heart of redness'. / Eunice Ngongkum
In: Research Review / Institute of African Studies: (2009), n. s. , vol. 25, no. 2, p. 63-81.
ASC Subject Headings: diasporas/migrants/novels/return migration/self-concept/South Africa

Le voyage Afrique noire-Occident-Afrique noire: (re)découverte de l'autre et de soi. / Yves Abel Feze & David Mbouopda
In: Éthiopiques: (2009), no. 83, p. 145-161.
ASC Subject Headings: exile/France/identity/international migration/novels/Subsaharan Africa

#social studies

Joking through hardship : humor and truth-telling among displaced Timbuktians / Andrew Hernann
In: African Studies Review: (2016), vol.59, no.1, p.57-76.
ASC Subject Headings: humour/joking relationships/Mali/rebellions/refugees
Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2016.4

African roads to prosperity : people en route to socio-cultural and economic transformations. / / Akinyinka Akinyoade (ed.) / . - Leiden : Brill, 2015. - (African dynamics, ISSN 1568-1777 ; volume 14)
ASC Subject Headings: Africa/Botswana/Cameroon/Democratic Republic of Congo/Ghana/human trafficking/labour migration/mobility/Netherlands/Nigeria/refugees/social change/South Africa/Zimbabwe

Mobility makes states : migration and power in Africa. / / Darshan Vigneswaran & Joel Quirk (ed.) / . - Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Angola/Ghana/internal migration/migrants/migration/mobility/Mozambique/Portuguese-speaking Africa/Rwanda/South Africa/Subsaharan Africa/São Tomé/Zambia

Sojourns along the way : narrative perspectives of movement, mobility and moments in between. / / Kirsten Rüther & Daniela Waldburger (ed.) / . - Wien : ECCO, 2015. - (Stichproben, Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien, ISSN 1992-8610 ; Jg.15, Nr.28)
ASC Subject Headings: Africa/Democratic Republic of Congo/migrants/mobility/Pan Africanist Congress/Sahara/Tanzania/towns/Tuareg

Téléphonie et mobilité au Mali. / Naffet Keita, Seydou Magassa, Boukary Sangaré & Youssouf Ag Rhissa / (ed.) / . - Mankon [etc.] : Langaa Research and Publishing Common Iniative Group [etc.], 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Mali/market/market vendors/mobile telephone/mobility/trade
Link: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/37248

African verbal arts on the Internet: 'Somalia Holland Online' and 'Sankofa.nl' / Daniela Merolla
In: At the crossroads: readings of the postcolonial and the global in African literature and visual art / ed.by Ghirmai Negash, Andrea Frohne, Samuel Zadi.- Trention, NJ : Africa World Press: (2014), p.161-178.
ASC Subject Headings: Africa/diasporas/Ghanaians/Internet/Netherlands/oral traditions/Somali/websites

Conviviality in Bellville : an ethnography of space, place, mobility and being in urban South Africa. / Ingrid Brudvig / (ed.) / . - Bamenda : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: migrants/mobility/South Africa/towns/urban life/urban sociology

Game changers : diasporadoeners en -denkers voor een andere Afrika-agenda. / / Amma Asante & Alberta Opoku (ed.) / Stichting Oikos. - [Utrecht] : [Stichting Oikos], 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Africa/development cooperation/diasporas/essays (form)/Netherlands

Mobilités dans l'espace ouest-africain : ressources, développement local et intégration régionale. / / Elisabeth Boesen & Laurence Marfaing (ed.) / . - Paris : Karthala, 2014. - (Hommes et sociétés, ISSN 0290-6600)
ASC Subject Headings: 2011/conference papers (form)/development/economic integration/Guinea-Bissau/Mali/Mauritania/migrants/mobility/Niger/remittances/Sahel/Senegal/West Africa

Movement as mediation: envisioning a divided Nigerian city / Ulrika Trovalla, Victor Adetula & Eric Trovalla
In: Nordic Journal of African Studies: (2014), vol.23, no.2, p.66-82.
ASC Subject Headings: boundaries/mobility/Nigeria/urban population/urban sociology
Link: http://www.njas.helsinki.fi/pdf-files/vol23num2/trovalla_adetula_trovalla.pdf

Political, aesthetic, and ethical positions of Tunisian women artists, 2011-13 / Lilia Labidi
In: The Journal of North African Studies: (2014), vol.19, no.2, p.151-171.
ASC Subject Headings: political change/Tunisia/women artists
Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2014.880826

Special issue: Nomadism and mobility in the Sahara-Sahel. / / Elisabeth Boesen, Laurence Marfaing, & Mirjam de Bruijn (ed.) / . - Abingdon : Taylor & Francis, 2014. - (Canadian journal of African studies, ISSN 0008-3968 ; vol. 48, no. 1)
ASC Subject Headings: 2011/conference papers (form)/Hausa language/labour migration/livelihoods/mobility/nomads/pastoralists/Sahel
Link: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcas20/48/1

@Side Ways : mobile margins and the dynamics of communication in Africa. / / Mirjam de Bruijn, Inge Brinkman, & Francis Nyamnjoh (ed.) / . - Mankon [etc] : Langaa [etc.], 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Africa/Cameroon/Chad/communication/Mali/migrants/mobile telephone/mobility/Senegal/South Africa/Sudan
Link: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/28300

Bridging mobilities : ICTs appropriation by Cameroonians in South Africa and the Netherlands. / Henrietta Mambo Nyamnjoh / (ed.) / . - [S.l. : s.n.], 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon/Cameroonians/dissertations (form)/ethnic identity/information technology/migrants/mobility/Netherlands/social networks/South Africa
Link: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/22525

Diaspora, digital media, and death counts : Eritreans and the politics of memorialisation. / Victoria Bernal
In: African Studies: (2013), vol. 72, no. 2, p. 246-264.
ASC Subject Headings: diasporas/Eritrea/Eritreans/monuments/State-society relationship/websites
Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2013.812875

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

Quelle protection pour les enfants concernés par la mobilité en Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre: nos positions et nos recommandations : document de synthèse régional : projet mobilité. / / Djibril Fall & Olivier Feneyrol (ed.) / . - Dakar : Polykrone, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: child labour/mobility/social security/West Africa
Link: http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---africa/---ro-addis_ababa/---sro-dakar/documents/publication/wcms_227499.pdf

Sociality revisited? : the use of the internet and mobile phones in urban Cameroon. / Bettina Anja Frei / (ed.) / . - Mankon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon/Internet/interpersonal relations/mobile telephone/mobility/social media/social networks/Switzerland/urban youth

'Having a road': social and spatial mobility of persons of slave and mixed descent in post-independence central Mali. / Lotte Pelckmans
In: The Journal of African History: (2012), vol. 53, no. 2, p. 235-255 : geneal. , krt.
ASC Subject Headings: Mali/migration/slaves/social mobility/social status

African student mobility in the Philippines : an explorative study in Metro Manila and Cavite. / Satwinder S. Rehal
In: OSSREA Bulletin: (2012), vol. 9, no. 2, p. 29-39 : graf.
ASC Subject Headings: Africans/foreign students/mobility/Philippines

Engaging the new mobilities paradigm in contemporary African tourism research. / Kevin Hannam & Gareth Butler
In: Africa Insight: (2012/13), vol. 42, no. 2, p. 127-135.
ASC Subject Headings: Africa/mobility/social research/tourism

Research practice in connections: travels and methods / Mirjam de Bruijn & Inge Brinkman
In: The social life of connectivity in Africa / ed.by Mirjam de Bruijn and Rijk van Dijk.- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan: (2012), p.45-63 : foto's.
ASC Subject Headings: Angola/Cameroon/communication/mobility/research methods/travel

Revisiting 'township tourism': multiple mobilities and the re-territorialisation of township spaces in Cape Town, South Africa. / Jessica L. Dickson
In: Anthropology Southern Africa: (2012), vol. 35, no. 1/2, p. 31-39.
ASC Subject Headings: mobility/social environment/South Africa/tourism/townships

Saharan frontiers : space and mobility in Northwest Africa. / / James McDougall & Judith Scheele (ed.) / . - Bloomington, IN [etc.] : Indiana University Press, 2012. - (Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa)
ASC Subject Headings: local history/Maghreb/migration/mobility/relations/Sahara/space/trade/urban economy/West Africa

Smugglers and saints of the Sahara : regional connectivity in the twentieth century. / Judith Scheele / (ed.) / . - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012. - (African studies series ; 120)
ASC Subject Headings: Algeria/boundaries/economic history/illicit trade/Mali/mobility/traders

The mobile city of Accra : urban families, housing and residential practices = Accra capitale en mouvement : familles citadines, logement et pratiques résidentielles. / / Elizabeth A. Schandorf, Paul W. K. Yankson, & Monique Bertrand (ed.) / . - Dakar : CODESRIA, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: Ghana/housing/mobility/urban planning/urbanization
Link: http://www.codesria.org/spip.php?article1636&lang=en

"Communicating Africa": researching mobile kin communities, communication technologies, and social transformation in Angola and Cameroon. / Mirjam de Bruijn & Inge Brinkman
In: Autrepart: (2011), no. 57/58, p. 41-57.
ASC Subject Headings: Angola/Cameroon/communities/mobile telephone/mobility/social networks

De Bamako à Accra : mobilités urbaines et ancrages locaux en Afrique de l'Ouest. / Monique Bertrand / (ed.) / . - Paris : Karthala, 2011. - (Hommes et sociétés, ISSN 0290-6600)
ASC Subject Headings: capitals/Ghana/land tenure/Mali/residential mobility/urban housing/urban population/urban sociology

Mobilities and fixtures. / / Ntone Edjabe & Edgar Pieterse (ed.) / . - Vlaeberg : Chimurenga [etc.], 2011. - (African cities reader ; 2)
ASC Subject Headings: Africa/mobility/urban environment/urban life/urban society

Travelling hierarchies : roads in and out of slave status in a Central Malian Fulbe network. / Lotte Pelckmans / (ed.) / . - Leiden : African Studies Centre, 2011. - (African studies collection, ISSN 1876-0198 ; 34)
ASC Subject Headings: dissertations (form)/Fulani/Mali/mobility/slaves/social status
Link: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/17911

Africa connects: mobile communication and social change in the margins of African society : the example of the Bamenda Grassfields, Cameroon. / Mirjam de Bruijn / (ed.) / . - [S.l. : s.n.], 2010
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon/mobile telephone/mobility
Link: http://in3.uoc.edu/opencms_portalin3/export/sites/default/PDF/communication-technologies-in-latin-america-and-africa/Chapter_06_De_Bruijn.pdf

Mobile interconnections: reinterpreting distance, relating and difference in the Cameroonian Grassfields. / Mirjam de Bruijn, Francis Nyamnjoh & Tseghama Angwafo
In: Journal of African Media Studies: (2010), vol. 2, no. 3, p. 267-285.
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon/mobile telephone/mobility/social relations

Peuls et mobilité dans le cercle de Douentza : lespace social et la téléphonie mobile en question. / Boukary Sangaré / (ed.) / . - Bamako : Université de Bamako ; Faculté des Lettres, Langues, Arts et Sciences Humaines Sociologie, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: communication/Fulani/Mali/mobile telephone/mobility/theses (form)
Link: http://www.connecting-in-times-of-duress.nl/wp-content/uploads/memoire-sangarc3a9-boukary1.pdf

Urban life-worlds in motion: in Africa and beyond. / Hans Peter Hahn
In: Africa Spectrum: (2010), vol. 45, no. 3, p. 115-129.
ASC Subject Headings: Africa/globalization/mobility/urban society/urban sociology

Which protection for children involved in mobility in West Africa : our positions and recommendations. / / (ed.) / Plan WARO;ENDA Jeunesse Action;AMWCY. - [S.l. : s.n.], 2010
ASC Subject Headings: Benin/Burkina Faso/child abuse/child care/children/Guinea/human trafficking/mobility/Togo/West Africa/youth
Link: http://www.terredeshommes.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/201201_tdh_projet_mobilit_en.pdf