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Unpresidented : a comedy of errorsWeek 44 2017

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Articles

Africa
"Alice in wonderland" : translating to read across Africa / Russell H. Kaschula. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies : (2017), vol. 29, no. 3, p. 276-291 : ill
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African languages ; Great Britain ; novels ; translation
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2016.1160827 (Restricted access)

Eritrea
Teatro Asmara : understanding Eritrean drama through a study of the national theatre / Jane Plastow. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies : (2017), vol. 29, no. 3, p. 311-330 : ill., krt., foto's
ASC Subject Headings: buildings ; cultural history ; Eritrea ; theatre
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2016.1201759 (Restricted access)

Ethiopia
Oral poetry as herding tool : a study of cattle songs as children's art and cultural exercise among the Guji-Oromo in Ethiopia / Tadesse Jaleta Jirata. -
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies : (2017), vol. 29, no. 3, p. 292-310 : foto's
ASC Subject Headings: cattle ; children's songs ; Ethiopia ; oral traditions ; Oromo language ; songs
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2016.1201653 (Restricted access)

Kenya
Transitional justice and democratisation nexus: challenges of confronting legacies of past injustices and promoting reconciliation within weak institutions in Kenya / Ibrahim Magara. - (Abstract available)
In: African Journal on Conflict Resolution : (2016), vol. 16, no. 1, p. 9-34
ASC Subject Headings: Kenya ; peacebuilding ; political violence ; transitional justice
 

Nigeria
"Thighs fell apart" : online fan fiction, and African writing in a digital age / James Yékú. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies : (2017), vol. 29, no. 3, p. 261-275
ASC Subject Headings: Nigeria ; novels ; social media
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2016.1201652 (Restricted access)

Nigeria
Orí and lédàá in poverty conceptualization in traditional Yorùbá religion : challenging developmental and aid organizations' understandings of poverty / Abosede Omowumi Babátúndé. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies : (2017), vol. 29, no. 3, p. 362-376 :
ASC Subject Headings: African religions ; development cooperation ; Nigeria ; poverty ; Yoruba
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2017.1286968 (Restricted access)

Nigeria
The civilianisation of ex-combatants of the Niger Delta: progress and challenges in reintegration / Hakeem Onapajo and Abdul-Wasi Babatunde Moshood. - (Abstract available)
In: African Journal on Conflict Resolution : (2016), vol. 16, no. 1, p. 35-59
ASC Subject Headings: amnesty ; Niger Delta conflict ; Nigeria ; peacebuilding ; reintegration
 

South Africa
Animal likenesses : dogs and the boundary of the human in South Africa / Gabeba Baderoon. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies : (2017), vol. 29, no. 3, p. 345-361 : foto's
ASC Subject Headings: canines ; images ; race relations ; South Africa
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2016.1255599 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Intersecting temporalities, cultural (un)translatability and African film aesthetics : Ntshavheni wa Luruli's "Elelwani" / Pier Paolo Frassinelli. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies : (2017), vol. 29, no. 3, p. 331-344 : foto's
ASC Subject Headings: films ; South Africa ; Venda language
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2016.1223538 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Social cohesion, sexuality, homophobia and women's sport in South Africa / Mari Engh and Cheryl Potgieter. - (Abstract available)
In: African Journal on Conflict Resolution : (2015), vol. 15, no. 3, p. 37-60
ASC Subject Headings: gender ; sexuality ; South Africa ; sports ; women
 

South Africa
Student leadership and advocacy for social cohesion / McGlory Speckman. - (Abstract available)
In: African Journal on Conflict Resolution : (2015), vol. 15, no. 3, p. 61-83
ASC Subject Headings: leadership ; society ; South Africa ; students
 

South Africa
Towards Pentecopolitanism: New African Pentecostalism and social cohesion in South Africa / Chammah Kaunda. - (Abstract available)
In: African Journal on Conflict Resolution : (2015), vol. 15, no. 3, p. 111-134
ASC Subject Headings: democracy ; Pentecostalism ; society ; South Africa
 

South Sudan
South Sudan's December 2013 conflict: bolting state-building fault lines with social capital / Robert Gerenge. - (Abstract available)
In: African Journal on Conflict Resolution : (2015), vol. 15, no. 3, p. 85-109
ASC Subject Headings: conflict resolution ; ethnicity ; institutions ; South Sudan ; State formation
 

Tunisia
A comparative analysis of the Post-Arab Spring National Dialogues in Tunisia and Yemen / Hannah Hamidi. - (Abstract available)
In: African Journal on Conflict Resolution : (2015), vol. 15, no. 3, p. 9-35
ASC Subject Headings: civil society ; conflict resolution ; society ; Tunisia ; Yemen

Electronic documents

Burkina Faso
Enquête sur les indicateurs du paludisme (EIPBF) 2014 : Burkina Faso / Institut national de la statistique et de la démographie, Programme national de lutte contre le paludisme, ICF International. - Ouagadougou [etc.] : Institut national de la statistique et de la démographie [etc.], 2015
ASC Subject Headings: 2014 ; Burkina Faso ; health ; malaria ; statistics ; surveys
https://dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/MIS19/MIS19.pdf

Burkina Faso
Régulation des médias d'Afrique francophone : cas du Burkina Faso / Beyon Luc Adolphe Tiao. - Bordeaux : Université de l'information et de la communication, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Burkina Faso ; dissertations (form) ; mass media ; media policy
https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01239847/document

Burkina Faso
Der Preis der Unbestechlichkeit: Thomas Sankara, Freiheitsmythos in Afrika / von Tita Gaehme. - Berlin : Deutschlandfunk, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: Burkina Faso ; radio broadcasts (form)
http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/der-preis-der-unbestechlichkeit-thomas-san...

Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso : enquête démographique et de santé 2003 / Institut national de la statistique et de la démographie, ICF International /Calverton. - Ouagadougou [etc.] : Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie (INSD) [etc.], 2004
ASC Subject Headings: 2003 ; Burkina Faso ; demography ; health ; statistics ; surveys
https://dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/FR154/FR154.pdf

Burkina Faso
De "glocaliteit" van een wereldreligie : hoe de pinksterbeweging in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) zich "contextualiseert" via de media / Sylvie Vanderhoydonck. - [S.l. : s.n.], 2003
ASC Subject Headings: Burkina Faso ; inculturation ; mass media ; Pentecostalism ; press ; theses (form)
http://www.ethesis.net/Ouagadougou/Ouagadougou_inhoud.htm

Central African Republic
Thank you MISCA : for piecing together the puzzle of elusive peace in the Central African Republic / AU Peace and Security Department. - Addis Ababa : Peace and Security Department (PSD) of the African Union Commission (AUC), 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Central African Republic ; peacekeeping operations ; pictorial works (form)
http://www.peaceau.org/uploads/thank-yoi-misca-photo-book-.pdf

Namibia
The Witbooi / Ludwig Helbig, Werner Hillebrecht. - Windhoek : CASS, 1992
ASC Subject Headings: colonial period ; history ; Namibia ; resistance
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/41317204X.pdf

Senegal
La gouvernance universitaire : une expérience africaine / Abdou Salam Sall. - Dakar : CODESRIA, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: higher education ; management ; Senegal ; universities
http://www.codesria.org/spip.php?article2805&lang=en

Books

Africa
Guerres africaines de la France : 1830-2017 : l'empire des armées / [coordonné par] Étienne Smith. - (Abstract available) - Paris : TM, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; colonial conquest ; colonial wars ; France ; military history ; military intervention ; national liberation struggles
 

Algeria
Holocene prehistory in the Télidjène basin, Eastern Algeria : capsian occupations at Kef Zoura D and Ain Misteheyia / assembled and edited by David Lubell. - Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Algeria ; archaeological artefacts ; archaeology ; fauna
 

Egypt
Committed to disillusion : activist writers in Egypt in the 1960s-1980s / David F. DiMeo. - Cairo [etc.] : American University in Cairo Press, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: 1950-1999 ; Arabic language ; Egypt ; literary criticism ; literature ; political action
 

Gabon
Précarité et replis identitaires au Gabon / Jérôme Toung Nzue . - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: academics ; civil servants ; ethnicity ; Gabon ; government policy ; poverty ; retirement
 

Ghana
A matter of sharing : my memoir / A.B. Assensoh. - Austin, TX : Pan-African University Press, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: autobiographies (form) ; Ghana ; intellectuals
 

Guinea
La question de la pluralité culturelle en Guinée / Lansana Condé ; préf. d'Idrissa Camara. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: cultural pluralism ; ethnic relations ; Guinea
 

Madagascar
Être métis en Imerina (Madagascar) aux XIXe-XXe siècles / Violaine Tisseau ; préf. de Faranirina V. Rajaonah. - Paris : Karthala, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: colonial policy ; France ; Madagascar ; Merina ; racially mixed persons ; social stratification
 

Namibia
Middle-Stone-Age-Fundstellen in Südwest-Namibia / Ralf Vogelsang. - Köln : Heinrich-Barth-Institut, 1998
ASC Subject Headings: archaeological artefacts ; archaeology ; Namibia ; Stone Age ; tools
 

Niger
Samafou : fragments biographiques de la vie de Boubou Hama / Léopold Kaziendé ; introduction et notes de Jean-Dominique Pénel. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; Niger ; personal narratives (form) ; politicians ; teachers ; writers
 

Nigeria
Islamic law practice and procedure in Nigerian courts / Adamu Abubakar. - Lagos : Malthouse Press, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: evidence ; Islamic law ; judges ; legal procedure ; Nigeria ; oaths ; witnesses
 

Nigeria
Managing ethno-political relations in Nigeria : the Ilorin example (1823-2003) / by Abdulwahab 'Lanre Olumoh. - Akoka, Yaba-Lagos : University of Lagos Press and Bookshop Ltd, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: ethnic relations ; Ilorin polity ; Nigeria ; political history
 

Nigeria
First in her class : the biography of professor Philomena Bolaji Ikulayot / by Olusegun Olu-Osayomi. - Ibadan : Gold Press Limited, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: academics ; biographies (form) ; Nigeria ; physical education ; sports
 

Nigeria
Shari'ah and politics in Nigeria / Nuhu Ramalan Jibril Zaria. - Zaria : Ahmadu Bello University Press Limited, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: government ; Islamic law ; Nigeria ; politics ; presidential elections ; women politicians ; youth
 

Nigeria
Local government administration in Nigeria : old and new visions / ed. by Sylvester Odion-Akhaine. - (Abstract available) - Lagos : Centre for Constitutionalism and Demilitarisation (CENCOD), 2009
ASC Subject Headings: central-local government relations ; local government ; Nigeria
 

Nigeria
The story of Anini : society, police and crime in Nigeria / by Lai Olurode. - Lagos : Rebonik Publications limited, 2008
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; Nigeria ; offenders ; robbery
 

Nigeria
The Sharia crisis in Nigeria : path to solution / by A.O. Muheeb. - Lagos : Ramat Publishing Company, 2005
ASC Subject Headings: Islamic law ; Nigeria
 

Nigeria
6-3-3-4 education in Nigeria : history, strategies, issues and problems / by Israel Opeolu Osokoya. - Ibadan : Laurel Educational Publishers, 1987
ASC Subject Headings: education ; educational policy ; Nigeria
 

Senegal
Muslim interpreters in colonial Senegal, 1850-1920 : mediations of knowledge and power in the lower and middle Senegal River Valley / Tamba M'bayo. - Lanham, CO [etc.] : Lexington Books, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: 1850-1899 ; colonial administration ; communities ; conflict resolution ; interpreters ; Islam ; Senegal
 

South Africa
Apartheid and the making of a Black psychologist : a memoir / by N. Chabani Manganyi. - Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: anti-apartheid resistance ; autobiographies (form) ; intellectuals ; psychology ; race relations ; South Africa
 

Southern Africa
Towards democratic developmental states in Southern Africa / edited by Godfrey Kanyenze ... [et al.]. - Harare : Weaver Press, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Angola ; Botswana ; democracy ; economic development ; Malawi ; Namibia ; Southern Africa ; State ; Zimbabwe
 

Subsaharan Africa
The Jewish phenomenon in Sub-Saharan Africa : the politics of contradictionary discourses / Marla Brettschneider ; with a foreword by Tudor Parfitt. - Lewiston [etc.] : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: gender ; identity ; international relations ; Israel ; Jews ; Judaism ; patriarchy ; Subsaharan Africa
 

Zambia
Zambia : a picture progress report on the first four years of Zambian independence, 1964-1968. - Lusaka : Cabinet Office, Office of the President, 1969
ASC Subject Headings: economic conditions ; Zambia
 

Zimbabwe
The land acquisition process in Zimbabwe (1997/8) / Sam Moyo. - Harare : UNDP Resource Centre, 1998
ASC Subject Headings: land acquisition ; land reform ; land use ; Zimbabwe

African Literature

Angola
A acácia e os pássaros : romance / Manuel Rui. - Luanda : Mayamba, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Angola ; novels (form)
 

Benin
Man with the white hat and other stories / Uvie Ann-Marie Giwewhegbe. - Lagos [etc.] : Malthouse Press, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Benin ; Nigeria ; short stories (form)
 

Cameroon
Gravitas : poetic consciencism for Cameroon / Peter Wuteh Vakunta. - Mankon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; poetry (form)
 

Chad
Pour qui file La comète / Khalil Alio. - Bamenda : Langaa Research Publishing CIG, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Chad ; novels (form)
 

Democratic Republic of Congo
Mr. fix-it / by Richard Ali A. Mutu ; transl. from the lingala by Bienvenu and Sara Sene. - Los Angeles, CA : Phoneme Media, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; Lingala language ; novels (form) ; translation
 

Kenya
Home between crossings / Sultan Somjee. - Charleston, SC : CreateSpace, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: identity ; Kenya ; oral literature ; short stories (form) ; Swahili
 

Kenya
Ameena : a play / by Allaudin Qureshi. - Nairobi : Asian African Heritage Trust, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: drama (form) ; Kenya
 

Kenya
Black ghosts / Ken. N. Kamoche. - Nairobi [etc.] : East African Educational Publishers Ltd, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: China ; Kenya ; novels (form) ; racial conflicts ; violence
 

Kenya
Don Geronimo : a play / by Kuldip Sondhi. - Nairobi : Asian African Heritage Trust, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: drama (form) ; family ; Kenya ; trials
 

Liberia
European spring: what if the game backfires? / Bruce Cerew. - [S.l.] : Bruce Cerew, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Liberia ; Netherlands ; novels (form)
 

Mauritius
A formidable mother and other short stories / Vijay Naraidoo. - Tyack : Yusi Edition, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Mauritius ; short stories (form)
 

Nigeria
Heart of Jacob / by Kyuka Lilymjok. - Lagos : Malthouse Press, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Nigeria ; novels (form)
 

Nigeria
No sweat / Aliyu Kamal. - Zaria : Ahmadu Bello University Press, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Nigeria ; novels (form)
 

Nigeria
The tongues of a shattered s-k-y : poems / Tosin Gbogi. - Ibadan : Blackgraphics, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: Nigeria ; poetry (form)
 

Nigeria
Amina : a novel / Mohammed Umar. - Kaduan State : Ahmadu Bello University, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Islamic culture ; Nigeria ; novels (form) ; women
 

Nigeria
The absolute power / Abiola Abidemi Alaogun. - Lagos : Peace Concept, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: drama (form) ; Nigeria
 

Nigeria
Frogs for dinner and three other stories / with general notes by Feyi-Abiodun Oyeniyi. - Lagos : Feyisam (publishing Ventùres) Limited, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: Nigeria ; short stories (form)
 

South Africa
Unpresidented : a comedy of errors / Paige Nick. - [S.l.] : N&B Books, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: humour ; novels (form) ; satire ; science fiction (form) ; South Africa
 

South Africa
Questions for the sea : poems / by Stephen Symons. - Cape Town : Uhlanga, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: poetry (form) ; South Africa
 

South Africa
Buller se plan / Ingrid Winterbach. - Kaapstad [etc.] : Human & Rousseau, 1999
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; South Africa
 

Tanzania
Perpetual search / Nkwazi Nkuzi Mhango. - Mankon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: poetry (form) ; Tanzania

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