New acquisitions - week 21 2015

Week 21 2015

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Books

Africa
La figure du père en Afrique : lieu anthropologique d'une ecclésiologie / Célestin Coomlan Avocan. - Torino : L'Harmattan Italia, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; Catholic Church ; fathers

Congo (Brazzaville)
L'Église et l'État au Congo de 1960 à 1991 / Sylvain Makosso-Makosso. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Catholic Church ; Church and State ; Church history ; Congo (Brazzaville) ; political history

Democratic Republic of Congo
Et si le maréchal Mobutu était de l'autre rive? / René Sakas. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; ethnicity ; genealogy ; heads of State ; identity

East Africa
Savannas of our birth : people, wildlife, and change in East Africa / Robin S. Reid. - Berkeley, CA [etc.] : University of California Press, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: biodiversity ; East Africa ; land use ; pastoralists ; savannas

Egypt
Egypt in the future tense : hope, frustration, and ambivalence before and after 2011 / Samuli Schielke. - Bloomington, IN [etc.] : Indiana University Press, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: class relations ; Egypt ; Islam ; marriage ; protest ; social change ; social conditions

Egypt
Auto/biography and the construction of identity and community in the Middle East / ed. by Mary Ann Fay. - New York, NY [etc.] : Palgrave, 2002
ASC Subject Headings: biography ; Egypt ; historiography ; history ; Maghreb ; Middle East ; women

Gabon
Une autre vision du Gabon : prémices pour la démocratie / Pierre-André Kombila-Koumba. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: authoritarianism ; Gabon ; governance ; patronage ; political conditions

Kenya
Dash before dusk : a slave descendants journey in freedom / Joe Khamisi. - Nairobi [etc.] : Kenway Publications [etc.], 2014
ASC Subject Headings: autobiographies (form) ; Kenya ; politicians

Nigeria
Moment of truth : the compelling story of pastor Tunde Bakare / comp. by Victorson Agbenson. - Ibadan : Safari Books, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: African Independent Churches ; biographies (form) ; clergy ; Nigeria

Northeast Africa Ethiopia
A socio-cultural history of Ethiopia and the Horn : a historical survey of social service developments and cultural diversities in Ethiopia and the Horn / Adane Kassie. - Saarbrücken : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: cultural pluralism ; Ethiopia ; Northeast Africa ; social services

Senegal
Carnets politiques du Sénégal : regard critique sur la décennie post-alternance / Cheikh Mbacké Gueye. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: 2000-2009 ; articles (form) ; political history ; Senegal

Senegal
Le barrage de Diama : évaluation des avantages sociaux et environnementaux de la retenue d'eau / Ousmane Thiam ; préf. de Mohamed Salem Merzoug. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: dams ; environmental management ; irrigation ; river basin organizations ; river basins ; Senegal ; water resources

South Africa
Healing roots : anthropology in life and medicine / Julie Laplante. - New York [etc.] : Berghahn Books, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: folk medicine ; medical anthropology ; medicinal plants ; social environment ; South Africa

South Africa
Ben Dekker : larger than life / comp. by Gerald McCann. - [South Africa] : [Gerald McCann], 2014
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; South Africa

South Africa
What's gone wrong? : South Africa on the brink of failed statehood / Alex Boraine ; foreword by Desmond Tutu. - New York [etc.] : New York University Press, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: African National Congress (South Africa) ; corruption ; governance ; political conditions ; South Africa ; State collapse

South Africa
Zumanomics : which way to shared prosperity? / ed. by Raymond Parsons. (Abstract available) - Johannesburg : Jacana Media, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: economic conditions ; economic policy ; fiscal policy ; industrial policy ; labour policy ; South Africa ; trade policy

Subsaharan Africa
Asia-Africa development divergence : a question of intent / David Henley. - London : Zed Books Ltd, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Asia ; development ; economic development ; governance ; poverty ; Subsaharan Africa

Subsaharan Africa
Reconstructing economic governance after conflict in resource-rich African countries / ed. by Karl Wohlmuth and Tino Urban. (Abstract available) - Münster : Lit Verlag, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: 2006 ; Angola ; conference papers (form) ; Côte d'Ivoire ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; economic policy ; Ghana ; governance ; natural resource management ; Nigeria ; petroleum industry ; political conflicts ; Subsaharan Africa

United States
U.S. trade with developing countries : policy, programs and trends / Kalan R. Geisler, ed. (Abstract available) - New York, NY : Nova Science Publishers, Inc, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: developing countries ; development cooperation ; foreign policy ; international trade ; Subsaharan Africa ; United States

West Africa
Le franc CFA, ou la monnaie des pays PMA (les pays Pas Moyen d'Avancer) : l'impératif de l'intégration régionale avec une monnaie unique pour une zone monétaire optimale en Afrique de l'Ouest / Yacouba Fassassi. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: ECOWAS ; franc zone ; monetary areas ; monetary policy ; West Africa

West Africa
The divine flood : Ibrhm Niasse and the roots of a twentieth-century Sufi revival / Rüdiger Seesemann. - New York [etc.] : Oxford University Press, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: religious history ; Sufism ; ulema ; West Africa

African Literature

Cameroon
God the artist and other poems / Sammy Oke Akombi. - Mankon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; poetry (form)

Ghana
Taboo / Mawuli Adzei. - Accra-Ghana : Kwadwoan Publishing, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: clergy ; extramarital sexuality ; Ghana ; novels (form)

Sierra Leone
The ghosts of Ngaingah / Michael Fayia Kallon. - Accra : Sierra Leonean Writers Series, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: folk tales (form) ; Kissi ; myths ; Sierra Leone

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

Somalia
A man of good hope / Jonny Steinberg. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; Somalia

South Africa
Buys 'n grensroman / Willem Anker. - Kaapstad : Kwela Boeke, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; South Africa

South Africa
Chameleon house : short stories / Mellisa De Villiers. - Cape Town : Modjaji Books, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: short stories (form) ; South Africa

South Africa
My children have faces / Carol Campbell. - Cape Town : Umuzi, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: identity ; living conditions ; nomads ; novels (form) ; South Africa

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