New publications

New publications by ASCL staff and affiliates, and new books in our series, are frequently highlighted on this website. You may also use this RSS feed to keep informed. All recently added publications can be found in our database. 

Between the railway and the minaret: transregional Swahili Muslim booklets and transition in East African print culture, 1930–1960

Annachiara Raia
Post date: 11 December 2025

The Art of Singing at Night: The Dogon Baja Ni Performance

Walter van Beek, Michael Rowlands
Post date: 04 December 2025

Dogon songs of life and death. A performance of Dogon mourning songs in Tireli, Mali

Walter E.A. van Beek, Oumar Ongoiba, Atimè Saye
Post date: 04 December 2025

Boom2Dust blog: Animal Lives in Galton’s Imperial Imagination

Maaike Rozema
Post date: 28 November 2025

Grokipedia is no competitor to Wikipedia: "Impressive, but incomplete"

Jos Damen
Post date: 28 November 2025

Boom2Dust blog: Dust Devils - A reflection on fieldwork in Kabwe, Zambia

Walker Swindell
Post date: 27 November 2025

The creative landscape of the Omo

Jon Abbink
Post date: 17 November 2025

Apologies

Azeb Amha
Post date: 13 November 2025

Statemania: When the American dream came to Africa

Rahmane Idrissa
Post date: 31 October 2025

Warmongering and Worldmaking: North Korean Diplomacy, African Decolonization, and the Pyongyang Conference of 1987

Tycho van der Hoog
Post date: 14 October 2025

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Posted on 28 November 2016, last modified on 23 December 2016