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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 30 2018

book cover: "Vaudou soccer"Week 30 2018

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See also the ASCL overview of recently published journal articles

Articles

Africa
The quest for happiness as an underlying motive for violent conflict in Africa / Mark Chingono.
In: African journal on conflict resolution, volume 17, number 2, pages 117-142 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Africa ; conflict ; violence ; political philosophy
https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajcr/article/view/167174

Cameroon
Hunting techniques, wildlife offtake and market integration : a perspective from individual variations among the Baka (Cameroon) / Romain Duda, Sandrine Gallois & Victoria Reyes-Garcia.
In: African study monographs , vol. 38, no. 2 (2017), pages 97-118 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; Pygmies ; hunting
http://hdl.handle.net/2433/225259

Ethiopia
Ethnic federalism and conflict in Ethiopia / Bekalu Atnafu Taye.
In: African journal on conflict resolution, volume 17, number 2, pages 41-66 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Ethiopia ; federalism ; ethnic conflicts ; ethnicity ; government policy ; Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front
https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajcr/article/view/167170

Ethiopia
Insecure food : diet, eating, and identity among the Ethiopian Suri people in the developmental age / Jon Abbink.
In: African study monographs , vol. 38, no. 3 (2017), pages 119-146 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Ethiopia ; Suri ; diet ; group identity ; social change
http://hdl.handle.net/2433/227070

Gabon
We descended the Ivindo : Baka migration and mobility to northeastern Gabon from the 1960s to today / Doerte Weig.
In: African study monographs , vol. 38, no. 2 (2017), pages 63-96 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Gabon ; Pygmies ; migration ; mobility ; ethnic relations
http://hdl.handle.net/2433/225260

Ghana
Praxis, perspectives, and methods of Ghanaian popular music : a special issue in honor of John Collins / Nate Plageman and Jesse Wever Shipley [special issue coeditors].
In: Ghana studies ; vol. 20 (2017). (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Ghana ; Nigeria ; popular music ; music education ; cultural philosophy

Kenya
A critical analysis of the gender dimensions of internal displacement in Kenya / Agnes Meroka.
In: Africa Nazarene University law journal , vol. 5, no. 2, pages 31-48 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Kenya ; displaced persons ; women ; legislation

Kenya
Homicide compensation in an îgembe community in Kenya, 2001-2015 : fifteen years of clan making in a local context / Shin-Ichiro Ishida.
In: African study monographs , vol. 38, no. 4 (2017), pages 173-220 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Kenya ; homicide ; customary law ; Meru (Kenya)
http://hdl.handle.net/2433/228148

Nigeria
Blurring ‘the other’: transforming relations in the management of the 1992 ethno-religious conflicts in Zangon Kataf, Kaduna State, Nigeria / Philip Adémọ́lá Ọláyọkù.
In: African journal on conflict resolution, volume 17, number 2, pages 67-92 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; ethnic conflicts ; interreligious relations ; conflict resolution
https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajcr/article/view/167172

Nigeria
Legal and institutional framework for combating trafficking in persons in Nigeria / Grace Abosede Oladele and Odunola Akinwale Orifowomo.
In: Africa Nazarene University law journal , vol. 5, no. 2, pages 49-84 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; human trafficking ; legislation

Nigeria
The minority question in Ife politics, 1946-2014 / Abimbola O. Adesoji, Taofeek O. Hassan, Nurudeen O. Arogundade.
In: African study monographs , vol. 38, no. 3 (2017), pages 147-171 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; minority groups ; Yoruba ; ethnic relations
http://hdl.handle.net/2433/227071

Nigeria
Upgrading customary land title documents in Nigeria / Osose Eidenoje.
In: Africa Nazarene University law journal , vol. 5, no. 2, pages 85-118 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; land tenure ; customary law

Somalia
Asymmetrical warfare and international humanitarian law : the Somali conflict as a case study / Dennis M. Ndambo.
In: Africa Nazarene University law journal , vol. 5, no. 2, pages 119-140 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Kenya ; Somalia ; war ; foreign intervention

South Africa
Experimenting with a reconciliation pedagogy in South African primary school history classrooms : constraints and possibilities / Reville Nussey.
In: African journal on conflict resolution, volume 17, number 2, pages 93-116 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: South Africa ; primary education ; peacebuilding ; history education
https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajcr/article/view/167173

South Sudan
Japan’s international peace operations in South Sudan : peacekeeping and civilian protection dilemmas / Daisuke Akimoto.
In: African journal on conflict resolution, volume 17, number 2, pages 143-167 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Japan ; South Sudan ; peacekeeping operations ; peacekeeping forces ; foreign policy
https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajcr/article/view/167175

South Sudan
Planning the future progression of the South Sudan post-conflict fiscal system : charting the development of its fiscal literacy / Attiya Waris.
In: Africa Nazarene University law journal , vol. 5, no. 2, pages 1-30 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: South Sudan ; taxation ; citizenship education ; fiscal policy

Tanzania
Tongwe names of mammals : special reference to mammals inhabiting the Kasoje area, Mahale mountains, Western Tanzania / Michio Nakamura, Nobuko Nakazawa, Butati R. Nyundo & Niroko Itoh.
In: African study monographs , vol. 38, no. 4 (2017), pages 221-242. (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Tanzania ; animal names ; Tongwe language
http://hdl.handle.net/2433/228149

Books

Africa
Reconstructing the paradigm of African area studies in a globalizing world / edited by Akira Takada. - Kyoto: Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; Ethiopia ; Madagascar ; Botswana ; South Africa ; African studies ; education ; indigenous knowledge ; Antandroy ; Tswana ; San ; Chinese
http://hdl.handle.net/2433/230143

Africa
African studies in the Academy : the cornucopia of theory, praxis and transformation in Africa / edited by Munyaradzi Mawere and Tapuwa Raymond Mubaya. - Mankon: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; Zimbabwe ; Nigeria ; African studies ; decolonization ; postcolonialism ; indigenous knowledge ; epistemology ; healers ; climate change ; election management bodies ; diasporas

Africa
Phantom Africa / Michel Leiris ; translated by Brent Hayes Edwards. - Calcutta, India: Seagull Books, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; anthropology ; expeditions ; travel ; French ; writers ; 1930-1939 ; personal narratives (form) ; diaries (form)

Africa
Lessons from Africa's past / series editors Korwa G. Adar, PLO Lumumba and Pamela N. Inoti. - Nairobi, Kenya: Mvule Africa Publishers : in association with African Institute for Leaders and Leadership, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; leadership ; traditional polities ; politicians ; constitutional history

Africa
Creating Spaces : non-formal art/s education and vocational training for artists in Africa : between cultural policies and cultural funding / Nicola Laure Al-Samaria. - Nairobi: Goethe-Institut Kenya : Native Intelligence, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; arts ; art education ; artists

Botswana
Delusions of grandeur : paradoxies and ambivalences in Botswana's macroeconomic firmament / David Magang. - Gaborone: Print Media Consult, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Botswana ; economic conditions ; enterprises ; public enterprises ; banking

Cameroon
Vaudou soccer : tome 1: temps additionel / album écrit et dessiné par Simon pierre Mbumbo. - [Orleans] ©2017.: Toom éditions, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; football ; voodoo ; comic strips (form)

Congo Brazzaville
Fantastique football congolais : rétrospective 1919-2000 / Fulbert Kimina-Makumbu. - Châtenay-Malabry: Acoria, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Congo (Brazzaville) ; football

Djibouti
Djibouti : de roc, de sable et de sel / Franck Gouéry, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer. - Paris: Non-lieu, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Djibouti ; social life ; customs ; travel ; pictorial works (form)

Ethiopia
Ethiopian Church archives collection / Meley Mulugetta. - Trenton ; London ; New Delhi ; Cape Town ; Nairobi ; Addis Ababa ; Asmara ; Ibadan: RSP, The Read Sea Press, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ethiopia ; Ethiopian Church ; manuscripts ; churches ; electronic resources

Ethiopia
The 2015 award-winning good practices of the CCRDA Good Practice Competition / written by Mintesnot Kasa ; edited by Meshesha Shewarega. - [Addis Ababa]: Consortium of Christian Relief and Development Associations (CCRDA), 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ethiopia ; Ngo ; Church ; private aid

Ethiopia
Addis Ababa : end of an era / Maria Cristina Pasquali. - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Shama Books, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ethiopia ; Italy ; colonial period ; culture contact ; colonists

Ethiopia
Linguistic, Oriental and Ethiopian studies in memory of Paolo Marrassini / edited by Alessandro Bausi, Alessandro Gori and Gianfrancesco Lusini. - Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ethiopia ; Eritrea ; Ethiopian-Semitic languages ; manuscripts ; Ethiopian studies

Ethiopia
The massacre of Debre Libanos : Ethiopia 1937 : the story of one of fascism's most shocking atrocities / Ian Campbell ; introduction by Angelo Del Boca ; foreword by Asfa Wossen Asserate. - Addis Abab, Ethiopia: Addis Ababa University Press, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ethiopia ; Italy ; Italo-Ethiopian War ; war crimes ; religious buildings ; Christian orders ; fascism
https://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy17pdf01/2014321598.html

General
Africans in English caricature, 1769-1819 : black jokes, white humour / Temi Odumosu. - London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Great Britain ; Africans ; cartoons ; visual arts ; racism

General
Roots & more : de reis van de geesten = the journey of the spirits / Irene Hübner, Wouter Welling. - Berg en Dal: Afrika Museum, 2009.
ASC Subject·Headings: Europe ; America ; diasporas ; spirituality ; visual arts ; exhibition catalogues (form)

Horn of Africa
Multidisciplinary views on the Horn of Africa : Festschrift in honour of Rainer Voigt's 70th birthday / edited by Hatem Elliesie. - Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ethiopia ; Eritrea ; Somalia ; Northeast Africa ; ethnological names ; religion ; Islam ; Ethiopian Church ; Pentecostalism ; magic ; healers ; ritual objects ; Axum polity ; traditional music ; piracy ; conflict resolution ; education ; writing systems ; linguistics ; Ethiopian studies ; festschrifts (form)

Ivory Coast
Henri Konan Bédié : artisan de paix, promoteur de démocratie participative et apaisée / Emmanuel Yao N'Goran. - Abidjan: L'Encre Bleue, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Côte d'Ivoire ; heads of State ; political history ; speeches (form)

Kenya
Kenya@50 : trends, identities and the politics of belonging / Joyce Nyairo. - Nairobi, Kenya: Contact Zones NRB, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; culture ; identity ; nationalism ; constitutions ; essays (form)

Kenya
Procedure for documenting forced displacements / Pauline Vata, Ashina Mitsumi. - Nairobi Kenya: Economic and Social Rights Centre (Hakijamii), 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; eviction ; displaced persons ; civil and political rights

Kenya
School report card : project - phase III. - Nairobi: National Taxpayers Association (NTA), 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; primary education ; statistics

Kenya
The impact of Kenya's legal and institutional frameworks on media freedom. - Nairobi: Article 19, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; freedom of the press ; legislation

Kenya
2012/2013 Kenya national housing survey : basic report / Republic of Kenya, Ministry of Land, Housing & Urban Development, KNBS Kenya National Bureau of Statistics. - Nairobi: Ministry of Land, Housing & Urban Development, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; housing ; households ; real property ; rent ; mortgages
http://www.knbs.or.ke/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=304:2...

Kenya
A history of constitution making in Kenya / chief publisher/editor Stephen Ndegwa Mwangi. - Nairobi: Media Development Association & Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; constitutional history
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy15pdf01/2013441158.html

Kenya
From inside tropical wilderness / Oginga Ogweno. - Nairobi, Kenya: Foundation Books Limited, 2010.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; United States ; heads of State ; family

Malawi
Blantyre spiritual awakening and its music / Brighton Kawamba. - Mzuzu: Luviri Press, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Malawi ; Baptist Church ; religious movements ; choral music ; church music

Malawi
The language of instruction question in Malawi / edited by Lazarus Musazitame Miti. - Cape Town, South Africa: Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS), 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Malawi ; language policy ; languages of instruction ; educational policy

Malawi
War drums are beating : discourses off the anthill / Alfred Msadala. - Blantyre, Malawi Malawi: Acin Assemblies of God Press, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Malawi ; literary criticism ; writers ; essays (form)

Malawi
2009-2010 Parliamentary audit report. - [Lilongwe]: Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace, 2010.
ASC Subject·Headings: Malawi ; parliament ; parliamentary procedure

Morocco
La société contre l'état : mouvements sociaux et stratégie de la rue au Maroc / Abderrahmane Rachik. - Casablanca: La Croisée des Chemins, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; popular participation ; action groups ; political action ; social conditions

Morocco
Maroc / Michelin. - Nanterre: Michelin, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; guidebooks (form)

Morocco
Venir au monde : les rituels de la naissance au Maroc : approche anthropologique / Rahma Miri. - Casablanca: Afrique Orient, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco

Mozambique
Atlas sócio-demográfico de Moçambique : 2007 / Instituto Nacional de Estatística. - Maputo: Instituto Nacional de Estatística, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mozambique ; population ; demography ; social conditions ; statistics ; maps (form)

Namibia
Krieg und Frieden im Basterland / Kuno Franz Robert Budack. - Windhoek, Namibia: Padlangs Publications CC, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Namibia ; Rehoboth Basters ; racially mixed persons ; history ; family ; Rehoboth rebellion ; World War I
https://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy17pdf01/2015334061.html

Nigeria
From targeting to tailoring : baskets of options for legume cultivation among African smallholders / Esther Ronner. - Wageningen: Wageningen University, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; Northern Nigeria ; soybeans ; fertilizers ; agricultural intensification ; crop yields ; dissertations (form)

Nigeria
Trained to advise : memoirs of a public administrator / ʼToye Ogunyemi. - Lagos, Nigeria: Magic Wand Publishing, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; civil servants ; autobiographies (form)

Nigeria
The autobiography of a drummer boy / Aare Jimoh Ashiru. - [Ibadan, Nigeria]: [publisher not identified], 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; civil servants ; educational management ; autobiographies (form)

Nigeria
Why Nigeria is not working : the predicament & the promise / Paul O. Irikefe ; foreword by Prof. Akpan Ekpo. - Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria: Kraft Books Limited, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; political conditions ; economic conditions

Nigeria
Link with the past / Alfred Rewane. - Ibadan: Aike Books, 2000.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; entrepreneurs ; articles (form)

Senegal
Habiter le monde : essai de politique relationnelle / Felwine Sarr. - Montréal, Québec: Mémoire D'Encrier, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; world view ; essays (form)

Sierra Leone
Cases and statutes on evidence in Sierra Leone / Joseph Amadu. - Nairobi, Kenya: Law Africa Publishing (K) Ltd., 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Sierra Leone ; legal procedure ; evidence ; trials

South Africa
Untitled : securing land tenure in urban and rural South Africa / Donna Hornby ... [et al.]. - Pietermaritzburg: University of Kwazulu Natal Press, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; land tenure ; customary law ; informal settlements ; land law ; legal pluralism

Subsaharan Africa
Transnational land grabs and restitution in an age of the (de-) militarised new scramble for Africa : an pan African socio-legal perspective / edited by Tapiwa Victor Warikandwa, Artwell Nhemachena and Oliver Mtapuri. - Bamenda: Langaa RPCIG, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa ; Zimbabwe ; Namibia ; South Africa ; Tanzania ; Mali ; Ghana ; land acquisition ; land tenure ; land reform ; land law ; decolonization ; international economic relations ; armed forces ; peasantry ; housing

Subsaharan Africa
Economic development in Africa : from adjustment to poverty reduction : what is new? / United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. - New York [etc.]: United Nations, 2002.
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa ; poverty reduction ; structural adjustment ; economic policy

Tanzania
Liberation and technology : development possibilities in pursuing technological autonomy / Gussai Sheikhelding. - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Mkuki Na Nyota Publischers, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; Tanzania ; technological change ; decolonization

Uganda
Land in post-conflict situations : war, decentralization, land governance and state formation In Northern Uganda / Doreen Nancy Kobusingye. - Wageningen: Wageningen University, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Uganda ; land tenure ; governance ; decentralization ; conflict resolution ; State formation

Zambia
A study report on the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) : allocation, disbursement and utilisation / Zambia Episcopal Conference, Caritas Zambia. - Lusaka: Zambia Episcopal Conference, Caritas Zambia, 2011.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zambia ; development projects ; evaluation
 

African Literature

Cameroon
9 histoires lumineuses : où le bien est le mal : nouvelles / Jo Güstin. - Paris: Présence africaine, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; violence ; racism ; short stories (form)

Comoros
Vert cru : roman / Touhfat Mouhtare. - Moroni (Comores) 93-La Plaine Saint-Denis: Komedit. ISI Print, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Comoros ; novels (form)

Ethiopia
YaʼAmārā ḥezb taratoč / tašāšelo baDabtarā Kenfé taṣāfa = Fables of the people of Amhara / updated and written by Dabtara Kenfe. - ʼAdis ʼAbabā አዲስ አበባ: ʼEndāla maṣāḥeft madaber እንዳለ መፃሕፍት መደብር, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ethiopia ; Amhara ; fables ; folk tales (form) ; fables (form) የአማራ ሕዝብ ተረቶች /

Gabon
La danse de Pilar : roman / Charline Effah. - Ciboure: La Cheminante, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Gabon ; novels (form)

Madagascar
Revenir / Raharimanana. - Paris: Rivages, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Madagascar ; novels (form)

Senegal
Diên Biên Phù : roman / Marc Alexandre Oho Bambe. - Paris: Sabine Wespieser éditeur, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; Vietnam ; military personnel ; war ; novels (form)

Senegal
Ishindenshin : de mon âme à ton âme / Felwine Sarr. - Montréal, Québec: Mémoire d'encrier, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; poetry (form)

Senegal
Nethio : douceurs et merveilles du mballax : récit / Seydi Sow. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; novels (form)

Tunisia
L'amas ardent / Yamen Manai. - Tunis: Elyzad, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Tunisia ; novels (form)

Tunisia
La marche de l'incertitude : roman / Yamen Manai. - Tunis: Elyzad, 2010.
ASC Subject·Headings: Tunisia ; novels (form)
 

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