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As of July 2019 the ASCL acquisition list is published monthly. The list includes (free) electronic documents, journal articles, books, films and radio programmes recently added to the collection of the African Library and a link to the ASCL journal articles alert.

N.B.  The next issue will be published on 5 January 2026.


New acquisitions - week 41 2018

Archivebook cover "A companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie"

Articles | Electronic documents | Books | Journals | Films | African Literature | Sound

See also the ASCL overview of recently published journal articles

Articles

Africa
Africa and the historiography of international relations / Akinbode Fasakin.
In: Revista Brasileira de Estudos Africanos, v. 3, n. 5, p. 9-30 (2018).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Africa ; international relations ; historiography
https://doi.org/10.22456/2448-3923.80408

Africa
Assessing the African Peace And Security Architecture (APSA) from an institutionalist approach and the difference it has made in Africa since 2002 / Juliana Abena Appiah.
In: Revista Brasileira de Estudos Africanos, v. 3, n. 5, p. 47-64 (2018).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Africa ; African Union ; conflict resolution ; regional security
https://doi.org/10.22456/2448-3923.80909

Africa
Brazil looks to Africa : lusotropicalism in the Brazilian foreign policy towards Africa / Fernando Sousa Leite.
In: Revista Brasileira de Estudos Africanos, v. 3, n. 5, p. 31-45 (2018).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Africa ; Brazil ; international relations ; foreign policy
https://doi.org/10.22456/2448-3923.82242

Africa
Dossier Afrique - Brésil.
In: Études littéraires africaines , no 43, pages 7-131 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa ; Brazil ; literature ; literary criticism ; Afro-Brazilians ; writers

Subsaharan Africa
La compétence extracommunautaire des tribunaux judiciaires Ohada / par Valéri Lesmont Bahoken.
In: Penant : revue de droit des pays d'Afrique, cent vingt-septième année, numéro 902, pages 5-33 (2018).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa ; Ohada ; courts

Subsaharan Africa
L'adaptation des procedures collectives Ohada à la petite entreprise / par Antoine Gouëzel.
In: Penant : revue de droit des pays d'Afrique, cent vingt-septième année, numéro 902, pages 89-100 (2018).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa ; Ohada ; small enterprises ; commercial law

Electronic documents

Africa
Framing African development : challenging concepts / edited by Kjell Havnevik, Terje Oestigaard, Eva Tobisson, Tea Virtanen. - Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; economic development ; international cooperation
https://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/9939322062302711.pdf

Africa
Library and information services for rural community development in Africa : problems and prospects / Udo Nwokocha and Jonathan Ndubuisi Chimah. - The Hague: IFLA Headquarters, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; public libraries ; rural areas ; information services ; community development ; conference papers (form)
http://library.ifla.org/2081/1/S27-2016-nwokocha-en.pdf

Botswana
Achieving sustainable development through libraries : some preliminary observations from Botswana public libraries / Priti Jain and Lynn Jibril. - The Hague: IFLA Headquarters, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Botswana ; public libraries ; information professionals ; sustainable development ; conference papers (form)
http://library.ifla.org/2313/1/s01-2018-jain-en.pdf

Botswana
Librarians and internet governance : the case of Botswana / Agnes Ayanda Lebele. - The Hague: IFLA Headquarters, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Botswana ; Internet ; governance ; librarianship ; conference papers (form)
http://library.ifla.org/1969/1/S12-2015-lebele-en.pdf

Equatorial Guinea
Explosiones africanas : sobre el arte de Ramón Esono Ebalé / Anita Brus. - Barcelona: Revistart, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Equatorial Guinea ; visual arts ; comic strips
https://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/9939323868602711.pdf

Nigeria
Information literacy competency of secondary school students of Owerri West, South East, Nigeria. / Cajetan O. Onyeneke and Charles Obichere. - The Hague: IFLA Headquarters, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; information literacy ; secondary education ; pupils ; conference papers (form)
http://library.ifla.org/2315/1/s01-2018-onyeneke-en.pdf

South Africa
South Africa after apartheid : policies and challenges of the democratic transition / edited by Arrigo Pallotti, Ulf Engel. - Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; land tenure ; land reform ; social conditions ; social development ; gender inequality ; democratization ; international relations
https://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/9939323170402711.pdf

Subsaharan Africa
E-Government initiative in sub-Saharan Africa as a strategy for reducing corruption in the public sector : a comparative assessment of sub-regional performance / Chinwe N. Ezeani and Brenden E. Asogwa. - The Hague: IFLA Headquarters, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa ; e-government ; corruption ; conference papers (form)
http://library.ifla.org/2212/1/233-ezeani-en.pdf

Books

Africa
Special edition : What is the university in Africa for? / Ross Truscott, Maurits van Bever Donker (special issue editors). - Bellville: University of the Western Cape, Institute for Historical Research, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; South Africa ; universities ; higher education ; student strikes

Africa
Theory of philosophical consciencism : practice foundations of Nkrumaism in social systemicity / Kofi Kissi Dompere. - London, United Kingdom: Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; political ideologies ; pan-Africanism ; social justice ; decolonization ; philosophy

Africa
Postcolonial African anthropologies / edited by Rosabelle Boswell and Francis Nyamnjoh. - Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; postcolonialism ; decolonization ; anthropology

Africa
Christ's new homeland - Africa : contribution to the Synod on the Family by African pastors / Francis A. Arinze ... [et al.]. - San Francisco, CA [etc.]: Ignatius Press [etc.], 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; Catholic Church ; marriage ; family

Angola
História de Angola / Douglas Wheeler, René Pélissier ; [tradução, Pedro Gaspar Serras Pereira e Paula Almeida]. - Lisboa: Tinta-da-china, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Angola ; colonial history ; postcolonialism

Botswana
Africa lite? : boomers in Botswana / Christopher M. Doran. - Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2011.
ASC Subject·Headings: Botswana ; aid workers ; volunteers ; travel books (form)

Cameroon
La gouvernance climatique au Cameroun : sociologie d'une action publique internationale en contexte africain / Eugène Yves Kede ; préface de Nadine Machikou. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; climate change ; environmental policy

Cape Verde
Cap-Vert petit fute / Antoine Richard, Baptiste Tharreau, Yasmina Er Rafass, et alter. - France: Nouvelles Editions de l'Université, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Cape Verde ; tourism ; guidebooks (form)

Egypt
The religious Nile : water, ritual and society since ancient Egypt / Terje Oestigaard. - London: I.B. Tauris, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Egypt ; Ethiopia ; Uganda ; Nile River ; rituals ; water ; religious history ; cultural history ; social life

Ethiopia
Farmer research groups : institutionalizing participatory agricultural research in Ethiopia / edited by Dawit Alemu, Yoshiaki Nishikawa, Kiyoshi Shiratori and Taku Seo. - Rugby: Practical Action Publishing, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ethiopia ; farmers ; agricultural research ; agricultural policy

Ethiopia
Essays in Ethiopian manuscript studies : proceedings of the international conference Manuscripts and texts, languages and contexts: the transmission of knowledge in the Horn of Africa, Hamburg, 17-19 July 2014 / edited by Alessandro Bausi, Alessandro Gori, and Denis Nosnitsin ; with assistance from Eugenia Sokolinski. - Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ethiopia ; manuscripts ; Ge'ez language ; Islam ; conference papers (form) ; 2014

Ethiopia
Decentralization and service delivery in Ethiopia / A. Bongwa, S. Kassahun and M.P. van Dijk (eds.). - Maastricht: Shaker Publishing BV, 2011.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ethiopia ; public services ; decentralization ; tax administration ; local government

Ghana
Contes et légendes dagara : Ghana / Paschal Siekyoghrkure Kyoore. - Paris: l'Harmattan, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ghana ; Dagari ; folklore ; humour ; satire ; legends (form)

Guinea
Ma Guinée plurielle : chroniques d'une Guinée ineffable à partir d'un blog / Alimou Sow ; préface de David Kpelly. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Guinea ; economic conditions ; social conditions ; biographies (form)

Kenya
Matatu : a history of popular transportation in Nairobi / Kenda Mutongi. - Chicago London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; means of transport ; urban transport ; taxis

Kenya
Costing of government functions : final report 2015 / Kenya , Transition Authority , Kenya , Commission on Revenue Allocation , United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). - Nairobi [etc.]: The Transition Authority [etc.], 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; public finance ; health financing ; agriculture ; water ; environment

Kenya
COTU (K)'s golden jubilee : fifty years of serving Kenya's workers / [Central Organisation of Trade Unions (COTU) (K)]. - [Nairobi]: Global Village Publishers (EA) Limited, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; trade unions ; memorial volumes (form)

Kenya
Kenya's 2013 general election : stakes, practices and outcomes / edited by Kimani Njogu and Peter Wafula Wekesa. - Nairobi: Twaweza Communications Ltd, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; elections ; 2013 ; politics ; political conditions ; cartoons

Kenya
New constitution same old challenges : reflections on Kenya's 2013 general elections / edi. by Fred Otieno. - Nairobi: Society for International Development-Nairobi Office [etc.], 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; elections ; 2013 ; democratization ; evaluation

Kenya
FAO Country Programming Framework for Kenya 2014-2017 / Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). - Nairobi: Food Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Representation in Kenya, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; food security ; agriculture ; agricultural policy ; government policy

Kenya
A guide to public interest litigation in Kenya / Kenyans for Peace with Truth & Justice, Africa Centre for Open Governance, and the Katiba Institute. - Nairobi: Kenyans for Peace with Truth and Justice and Africa Centre for Open Governance, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; legal procedure ; lawsuits ; handbooks (form)

Morocco
Maroc : la guerre des langues? / Yassin Adnan / Mohammed Bennis / Jalal El Hakmaoui / Abdou Filali Ansary [and twelve others] ; introduction par Kenza Sefrioui. - Casablanca: En toutes lettres, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; multilingualism ; Arabic language ; French language ; Berber languages ; social conditions

Mozambique
Liberating mission in Mozambique : faith and revolution in the life of Eduardo Mondlane / Robert Faris ; with a foreword by John W. de Gruchy. - Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mozambique ; Protestant churches ; missions ; national liberation struggles ; Church history ; 1900-1999

Nigeria
A companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie / edited by Ernest N. Emenyonu. - Woodbridge, Suffolk, (GB): James Currey, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; United States ; women writers ; literary criticism ; feminism ; literature

Nigeria
Culture and society in post-colonial Nigeria : papers in honour of Ulli Beier / eds.: Ohioma I. Pogoson, Ayo Adeduntan. - Ibadan: Institute of African Studies, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; social conditions ; world view ; health ; politics ; gender roles ; arts ; festschrifts (form) ; conference papers (form)

Northeast Africa
À I'O. : de Pount : francs-maçons en mer Rouge / Lukian Prijac ... [et al.]. - Bièvres: Les Éthiopisants associés, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Northeast Africa ; Freemasons

Sierra Leone
Nation-states and the challenges of regional integration in West Africa : the case of Sierra Leone / David J. Francis (ed.) ; forew. by Boubacar Barry, Pierre Sané and Abdul Rahman Lamin. - Paris: Karthala, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Sierra Leone ; economic integration ; Ecowas ; international relations

South Africa
Broadcasting democracy : radio and identity in South Africa / Tanja Bosch. - Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; radio ; community radio ; audiences ; group identity

South Africa
Hasta la Gupta, baby! : cartoons from Daily Maverick, Sunday Times, Mail & Guardian, The Times / Zapiro. - Auckland Park, South Africa: Jacana, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; politics ; cartoons (form)

South Africa
NGOs and social justice in South Africa and beyond / ed. by Sally Matthews. - Pietermaritzburg: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; Ngo ; social justice

South Africa
Zoë Wicomb & the translocal : writing Scotland & South Africa / edited by Kai Easton and Derek Attridge. - New York, NY: Routledge, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; Scotland ; literary criticism ; literature

Subsaharan Africa
Evidence-based essays in development finance / Seeku A. K. Jaabi with Rajah Rasiah ... [et al.]. - Kanifing: The Gambia Printing & Publishing Corporation, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Gambia ; Uganda ; Kenya ; business financing ; microfinance ; fisheries ; economic development

Tanzania
The economics of Akie identity : adaptation and change among a hunter-gatherer people in Tanzania / Florian Schöpperle. - [S.l.: s.n.], 2011.
ASC Subject·Headings: Tanzania ; Dorobo ; hunter-gatherers ; livelihoods ; ethnic identity ; social change ; theses (form)

Tanzania
The social impact assessment of the proposed conservation of the Derema forest reserve and wildlife corridors in Amani, Tanga, Tanzania / G. Jambiya & H. Sosovele. - Dar es Salaam: Education Publishers and Distributors, 2001.
ASC Subject·Headings: Tanzania ; national parks and reserves ; wildlife protection ; social problems ; communities

Uganda
Recommendations arising from regional consultations and sensitisation workshops on witness protection legislation for Uganda / Uganda Law Reform Commission. - [Kampala]: Uganda Law Reform Commission, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Uganda ; legal procedure ; witnesses ; legislation

Uganda
Uganda's expanding social protection programme : a gender situational analysis / by Rebecca Calder and Angela Nakafeero. - Kampala: Ministry of Gender Labour and Social Development, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Uganda ; social security ; social policy ; gender ; government policy

West Africa
Les Hussards noirs de la colonie : instituteurs africains et petites patries en AOF (1913-1960) / Céline Labrune-Badiane et Étienne Smith. - Paris: Karthala, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: education ; West Africa ; French West Africa ; teachers ; colonial policy ; colonial period

West Africa
Coastlines of western Africa / volume editors: Larry E. Awosika, A. Chidi Ibe, P. Shroader ; [P.O. Abohweyere ... [et al.]. - New York: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 1993.
ASC Subject·Headings: West Africa ; Nigeria ; Ghana ; Côte d'Ivoire ; Senegal ; Togo ; Benin ; coastal management ; sea ; fisheries

Zimbabwe
Relationality and resilience in a not so relational world? : knowledge, Chivanhu and (de- )coloniality in 21st century conflict-torn Zimbabwe / Artwell Nhemachena. - Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; Shona ; traditions ; economic conditions ; social conditions ; decolonization ; conflict

Films

Burkina Faso
Mediterranea / script & regie Jonas Carpignano. Hilversum (NL): Arti Film, 2016.
Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; Italy ; undocumented migrants ; human trafficking ; racial conflicts ; friendship ; feature films (form) ; videos (form)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tza2aOL_xk (Trailer)

Cameroon
Als Paul über das Meer kam : Tagebuch einer Begegnung / ein Film von Jacob Preuss. [Nortorf]: Lighthouse Home Entertainment, 2018.
Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; Germany ; Spain ; undocumented migrants ; filmmakers ; documentary films (form) ; videos (form)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gSXP6xwHF4 (Trailer)

Ivory Coast
Mon ingrate de femme : les Gaous d'Abidjan / directeur de film Samuel Guenaman, Realisateur Hervé Eric M. Lengani, starring Michel Gohou and Natou Traoré. Place of publication not identified: RoxAfrica, 2008.
Subject·Headings: Côte d'Ivoire ; extramarital sexuality ; soap operas (form) ; videos (form)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWAUsgSINJ0 (Trailer)

Kenya
Something necessary : forgive, but never forget / One Fine Day Films presents ; in co-production with Ginger Ink Films ; in association with DW Akademie ; directed by Judy Kibinge. =257 \\ Germany. [Berlin]: Neue Visionen : good!movies, 2014.
Subject·Headings: Kenya ; political violence ; widows ; feature films (form) ; videos (form)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckdS9PEkoQQ (Trailer)

Namibia
My father's son / a film by Joel Haikali. Namibia: Joe Vision Production, 2010.
Subject·Headings: Namibia ; rural-urban relations ; feature films (form) ; videos (form)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltj_bNWlUdc (Trailer)

Namibia
The power stone : a history of the Kwanyama Kingdom / produced by Mokobo Video & Research ; produced and filmed by Andy Botelle ; written and edited by Kelly Kowalski. Windhoek, Namibia: Mamokobo Video & Research, 1999.
Subject·Headings: Namibia ; Angola ; Kwanyama polity ; ritual objects ; documentary films (form) ; videos (form)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5bmViJJvCc (Trailer)

Tunisia
La Belle et la meute / un film de Kaouther Ben Hania. [Paris]: Jour 2 fête, 2018.
Subject·Headings: Tunisia ; gender-based violence ; feature films (form) ; videos (form)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wA2EkhkpC4 (Trailer)

Tunisia
Le challat de Tunis : un comédie de / Kaouther Ben Hania ; Habib Attia, Julie Paratian presentent ; Sister Productions, Cinetelefilms & Jour2féte présentent. Paris: Jour2fête, 2015.
Subject·Headings: Tunisia ; gender-based violence ; rumours ; feature films (form) ; videos (form)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do_p_CmlH84 (Trailer)

African Literature

Cameroon
Dance of the kangaroos : the riot shall not be televised / M.D. Mbutoh. - Denver, CO: Spears Media Press, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; poetry (form)

Cameroon
Yefon : the red necklace / Sahndra Fon Dufe. - Place of publication not identified: African Pictures International, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; women's education ; novels (form)

Cameroon
This is Bonamoussadi : (poetry) / Oscar C. Labang. - Yaounde: Miraclaire Publishing, 2010.
ASC Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; poetry (form)

Mauritius
L'arbre fouet : roman / Ananda Devi. - Paris, France: L'Harmattan, 1997.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mauritius ; novels (form)

Mauritius
Le voile de Draupadi / Ananda Devi. - Paris: Harmattan, 1993.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mauritius ; Indians ; women ; myths ; novels (form)

Senegal
Murmure de la mémoire / Amadou Lamine Ba. - Dakar-Ponty, Sénégal: Les éditions feu de brousse, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; poetry (form)
 

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