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Articles

Africa
Do nations have stomachs? : food, drink and imagined community in Africa / Paul Nugent. - (Abstract available)
In: Africa Spectrum : (2010), vol. 45, no. 3, p. 87-113
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; drinking customs ; eating customs ; national identity ; South Africa
https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/afsp/article/view/378/376

Ghana
An abandoned project? : the nuances of chieftaincy, development and history in Ghana's Volta Region / Paul Nugent. -
In: Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law : (1996), no. 37/38, p. 203-225
ASC Subject Headings: (667) ; 325.4(41) ; 325.452 ; 340.141.1.075 ; chieftaincy ; colonialism ; Ghana ; Great Britain ; indirect rule
http://commission-on-legal-pluralism.com/volumes/37-38/nugent-art.pdf

Kenya
Literacy through a foreign language and children's rights to education : an examination of Kenya's medium of instruction policy / Kembo-Sure and Nathan O. Ogechi. - (Abstract available)
In: Nordic Journal of African Studies : (2016), vol. 25, no. 1, p. 92-106
ASC Subject Headings: children's rights ; Kenya ; languages of instruction ; primary education
http://www.njas.helsinki.fi/pdf-files/vol25num1/kembo_ogechi.pdf

Morocco
New linguistic practices of the February 20 Movement in Morocco : toward a new model of language policy / Adil Moustaoui Srhir. - (Abstract available)
In: Nordic Journal of African Studies : (2016), vol. 25, no. 1, p. 72-91
ASC Subject Headings: Arab Spring ; language policy ; Morocco ; multilingualism
http://www.njas.helsinki.fi/pdf-files/vol25num1/moustaoui.pdf

Somalia
Maandeeq : the dilemma of the post-colonial state in Somalia / Abdirashid A. Ismail. - (Abstract available)
In: Nordic Journal of African Studies : (2016), vol. 25, no. 1, p. 1-22 : ill
ASC Subject Headings: political conditions ; Somalia ; State
http://www.njas.helsinki.fi/pdf-files/vol25num1/ismail.pdf

Southern Africa
The illusion of a future? : medicine dance rituals for the civil society of tomorrow / Thomas Widlok. -
In: African Study Monographs. Supplementary Issue : (2001), no. 27, p. 165-183 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: (6-13) ; 301.185.12(=962) ; 394.43 ; rituals ; San ; Southern Africa
https://doi.org/10.14989/68413

Electronic documents

Africa
Land tenure, gender and globalisation : research and analysis from Africa, Asia, and Latin America / edited by Dzodzi Tsikata and Pamela Golah. - Ottawa [etc.] : International Development Research Centre, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; Asia ; Cameroon ; Ghana ; globalization ; land tenure ; Latin America ; rural women
http://hdl.handle.net/10625/43683

Ghana
Affirmative action and the prospects for gender equality in Ghanaian politics / by Dzodzi Tsikata. - [Accra] : Abantu, Women in Broadcasting [etc.], 2009
ASC Subject Headings: gender inequality ; Ghana ; legal status ; political participation ; women
http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/ghana/10484.pdf

Ghana
Domestic work and domestic workers in Ghana : an overview of the legal regime and practice / Dzodzi Tsikata. - Geneva : International Labour Office , Conditions of Work and Employment Programme, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: domestic workers ; Ghana ; labour law ; working conditions
http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/@ed_protect/@protrav/@travail/documents/publication/wcms_145332.pdf

Ghana
The successful Ghana election of 2008 - a convenient myth? : ethnicity in Ghanas elections revisited / Heinz Jockers, Dirk Kohnert and Paul Nugent. - Hamburg : GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: 2008 ; election monitoring ; elections ; ethnicity ; Ghana
https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/system/files/publications/wp109_jockers-k...

Ghana
Identities, inequalities and conflicts in Ghana / Dzodzi Tsikata and Wayo Seini. - Oxford : Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, University of Oxford, 2004
ASC Subject Headings: ethnic conflicts ; Ghana ; interreligious relations ; political conflicts ; regional disparity ; violence
http://www3.qeh.ox.ac.uk/pdf/crisewps/workingpaper5.pdf

Mozambique
Moçambique: aprender a caminhar com uma bengala emprestada? : ligações entre descentralização e alívio à pobreza / Iina Soiri. - [Maastricht : ECDPM, European Centre for Development Policy Management], 1999
ASC Subject Headings: decentralization ; Mozambique ; poverty
http://www.iese.ac.mz/lib/publication/outras/cd_ppi/pastas/governacao/ge...

Namibia
Brewing identity : beer and the establishment of the Namibian nation / T.A. van der Hoog . - Leiden : African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), 2016
ASC Subject Headings: advertising ; beer ; Europe ; marketing ; Namibia ; nationalism ; race relations ; theses (form)
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/42692

Namibia
The meanings of inheritance : perspectives on Namibian inheritance practices / [comp. and ed. by Robert Gordon]. - (Abstract available) - Windhoek : Gender Research & Advocacy Project, Legal Assistance Centre, 2005
ASC Subject Headings: customary law ; law of inheritance ; Namibia
http://www.lac.org.na/projects/grap/Pdf/meaninheri.pdf

Namibia
The radical motherhood : Namibian women's independence struggle / Iina Soiri. - Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1996
ASC Subject Headings: (688) ; 3-055.52-055.2 ; 323.04 ; 325.485 ; 396 ; mothers ; Namibia ; national liberation struggles ; political change ; women
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:nai:diva-608

Portuguese-speaking Africa
Finland and national liberation in Southern Africa / by Iina Soiri & Pekka Peltola. - Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1999
ASC Subject Headings: (68) ; (6:469) ; 325.48 ; 327(480) ; Finland ; foreign policy ; Namibia ; national liberation movements ; Portuguese-speaking Africa ; South Africa
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:nai:diva-243

Subsaharan Africa
The social relations of agrarian change / Dzodzi Tsikata. - London : IIED, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural development ; customary law ; land tenure ; social relations ; Subsaharan Africa
http://pubs.iied.org/17278IIED

Subsaharan Africa
Policy discourses on women's land rights in Sub-Saharan Africa : the implications of the re-turn to the customary / Ann Whitehead and Dzodzi Tsikata. - [Oxford : Mokoro Ltd], 2003
ASC Subject Headings: customary law ; land reform ; land tenure ; Subsaharan Africa ; women's rights
http://mokoro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/return_to_the_customary.pdf

Sudan
Baseline survey on basic education in the northern states of Sudan : final report June 2008 / The Republic of the Sudan. Federal Ministry of General Education. Directorate General of Educational Planning in partnership with the Ministry of International Cooperation, European Commission (EC), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and World Food Programme (WFP). - Khartoum : Federal Ministry of General Education. Directorate General of Educational Planning, 2008
ASC Subject Headings: access to education ; basic education ; educational quality ; Sudan ; surveys
https://www.unicef.org/sudan/Baseline_Survey_on_Basic_Education-SudanFIN...

Books

Africa
The Beeker method : planning and working on the redevelopment of the African City : retrospective glances into the future / ed. by Antoni Folkers and Iga Perzyna. - Leiden : Afrika-Studiecentrum, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; Burkina Faso ; Ethiopia ; festschrifts (form) ; Sudan ; Tunisia ; urban development ; urban planning ; urban renewal
 

Africa
How Africans underdeveloped Africa : a forgotten truth in history / Joshua Agbo. - Ibadan : Kraft Books, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; colonialism ; development ; history ; postcolonialism ; underdevelopment
 

Africa
Antelope survey update / comp. by Bertrand Chardonnet & Philippe Chardonnet. - Gland [etc.] : IUCN, 2004
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; national parks and reserves ; wild animals
 

Africa
Antelope survey update / comp. by Rod East. - Gland [etc.] : IUCN, 2001
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; national parks and reserves ; wild animals
 

Botswana
Botswana : the insider's guide / Ian Michler. - Cape Town : Struik Publishers, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: Botswana ; guidebooks (form)
 

Cameroon
Les affrontements interethniques entre Arabes Choas et Kotokos dans le Logone et Chari (Extrême Nord du Cameroun) : haine tribale et massacres humains à Kousséri (Janvier 1992) : l'horreur : rapport d'étude / Tribus sans frontières = People without Frontiers ; sous la dir. de Joseph Antoine Onambele ... [et al.]. - [Yaoundé?] : Tribus sans frontières, 1992
ASC Subject Headings: Arabs ; Cameroon ; ethnic conflicts ; ethnic relations ; Kotoko ; political violence ; Sao
 

East Africa
Citizen voices on East African integration : knowledge, perceptions and aspirations on East African integration process / Uganda National NGO Forum supported by Trade Mark East Africa (Uganda office). - Kampala : Uganda National NGO Forum, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: East Africa ; East African Community ; economic integration
 

Egypt
Bibliotheca Alexandrina : the rebirth of the Library of Alexandria / Ismail Serageldin. - Alexandria : Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2002
ASC Subject Headings: buildings ; cultural heritage ; Egypt ; libraries
 

Ethiopia
Characterizing the psychosocial effects of child sexual abuse in Ethiopia: implications for prevention and intervention / Yemataw Wondie. - Aachen : Shaker Verlag, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: child abuse ; children ; Ethiopia ; girls ; marriage ; mental health ; sexual offences
 

French-speaking Africa
Das Bild der afrikanischen Frau in der deutschen und der französischen Kolonialliteratur und sein Gegenentwurf in der frankophonen afrikanischen Literatur der Kolonialzeit / Daniella Kpoda. - Frankfurt am Main [etc.] : Peter Lang, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; black women ; colonial period ; dissertations (form) ; France ; French-speaking Africa ; Germany ; images ; literature ; women writers
 

Namibia
Namibia : gesellschaftspolitische Erkundungen seit der Unabhängigkeit / Henning Melber. - Frankfurt a.M : Brandes & Apsel, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: democracy ; foreign policy ; Germany ; international relations ; Namibia ; political conditions ; power ; social conditions
 

Nigeria
Le vécu de la femme dans les récits de Buchi Emecheta et de Flora Nwapa : endurance, résistance et lutte pour la survie / Fatou Diouf Kandji. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: girls ; initiation ; marriage ; Nigeria ; novels ; women ; women writers
 

Nigeria
When stealing is not corruption : Nigeria under president Jonathan / Nura H. Alkali. - Yola : Ardo Dembo Publishing Company, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: corruption ; impunity ; Nigeria ; political conditions
 

Nigeria
The vultures and the vulnerable / by Zents Kunle Sowunmi. - Brooklyn, NY : Korloki Publishing Company, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: leadership ; Nigeria ; political conditions ; politics
 

Nigeria
Visions and re-visions : selected discourses on literary criticism / Emeka Nwabueze. - Enugu : ABIC Books, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: drama ; Igbo ; literary criticism ; masquerades ; Nigeria ; prose ; theatre
 

Nigeria
Nigeria & her oil / Dozie Arinze. - [S.l.] : Africa Specialists, Pedestal Africa Limited, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: energy policy ; Nigeria ; petroleum industry
 

Nigeria
Babes in the jungle : a year of village life in the Niger Delta / by David Clark. - Bloomington, IN [etc.] : AuthorHouse, 2006
ASC Subject Headings: Bible ; Ekpeye ; Nigeria ; personal narratives (form) ; social life ; translation
 

South Africa
Political violence and unrest in the Natal Midlands : the Unrest Monitoring Project papers, 1988-1994 / John Aitchison, Wendy Leeb and Vaughn John. - Pietermaritzburg : Centre for Adult Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: 1988 ; 1989 ; conflict ; Inkatha Freedom Party ; Natal ; political violence ; South Africa ; Zulu
 

South Africa
Cultures and change in higher education : theories and practice / Paul Trowler . - Basingstoke [etc.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
ASC Subject Headings: educational reform ; higher education ; South Africa
 

Southern Africa
Beekeeping : a practical guide for southern Africa / Dominique Marchand, Jenny Marchand-Mayne. - Cape Town : Aardvark Press, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: apiculture ; Southern Africa
 

West Africa
Biodiversité et domestication des ignames en Afrique de l'Ouest : pratiques traditionnelles conduisant à Dioscorea rotundata Poir. / Roland Dumont ... [et al.]. - Montpellier [etc.] : Cirad [etc.], 2005
ASC Subject Headings: biodiversity ; root crops ; West Africa ; yams

Films

Brazil
The balance / Roderick Steel. - (Abstract available) - [S.l.] : 3a via Films, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: ancestor worship ; Brazil ; diasporas ; documentary films (form) ; masquerades ; Nigeria ; videos (form) ; Yoruba
#Trailer# =A https://vimeo.com/43911887

Burkina Faso
Koglb-Zanga or Prince Wendemi, an example of social exclusion fighter / a film by Yalgabamba Ilboudo. - (Abstract available) - Ouagadougou : Alliance production [etc.], 2008
ASC Subject Headings: Burkina Faso ; documentary films (form) ; Mossi ; musicians ; social isolation ; videos (form) ; witchcraft ; women
#trailer# =A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFgKC5mcWCE

Congo (Brazzaville)
Goddess of the stadium / un film documentaire de Delphe Kifouani. - (Abstract available) - Dakar [etc.] : Traces du Sud [etc.], 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Congo (Brazzaville) ; documentary films (form) ; football ; social life ; videos (form) ; women

Congo (Brazzaville)
D'une rive à l'autre / un film écrit et réalisé par Delphe Kifouani. - (Abstract available) - Merignac [etc.] : La SMAC [etc.], 2009
ASC Subject Headings: Congo (Brazzaville) ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; disabled ; documentary films (form) ; market vendors ; trade ; videos (form)

South Africa
Mzansi : een trip door Zuidafrikaanse subculturen / Bart van Dijck. - (Abstract available) - Antwerpen : Axe Entertainment, 2005
ASC Subject Headings: dance ; documentary films (form) ; hip hop ; popular culture ; South Africa ; urban youth ; videos (form)
#trailer# =A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wow2d1kxrDw

South Africa
Wa 'n wina / by Dumisani Phakathi. - (Abstract available) - Cape Town : Steps Southern Africa, 2001
ASC Subject Headings: AIDS ; documentary films (form) ; gender relations ; South Africa ; townships ; videos (form) ; youth

Tanzania
Mwamba Ngoma = Tune the drum / Jordan Riber. - (Abstract available) - [S.l.] : Media for Development International, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: documentary films (form) ; music history ; musicians ; popular music ; Tanzania ; videos (form) ; Zanzibar
#Trailer# =A https://mubi.com/films/mwamba-ngoma

United States
Whatever Lola wants / a film by Nabil Ayouch ; starr.: Carmen Lebbos ... [et al.]. - (Abstract available) - Casablanca : Ali n' Productions, 2008
ASC Subject Headings: culture contact ; dance ; Egypt ; feature films (form) ; United States ; videos (form)
#Trailer# =A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njRgfXVkFUA

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