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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 26 2018

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See also the ASCL overview of recently published journal articles

Articles

Africa
Africa and the West : contextulising the globalisation of inequality / Samuel Babatunde Jegede.
In: Lagos notes and records, vol. 22, pages 69-80.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Africa ; development ; globalization ; political philosophy

Africa
Challenging African scholars through African languages : a re-examination of the question of development / Peter Oni.
In: Lagos notes and records, vol. 22, pages 187-200.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Africa ; development ; indigenous languages ; cultural philosophy

Mali
N'goni fo Sékouba : ou l'esprit des chasseurs / Moumouni Sanou, réal. ; Sékouba Traoré, participant et musician.
In: Afrique en docs.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Mali ; traditional music ; hunting songs ; secret societies ; Bambara ; folk medicine ; divination ; documentary films (form) ; videos (form)

Nigeria
Bruce Onobrakpeya : envisaging the concept of Akpo in Urhobo mythology in visual form / Philomina U. Ofuafo.
In: Lagos notes and records, vol. 22, pages 55-68.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; visual arts ; Urhobo ; myths

Nigeria
Individuality, status and social change : Oshidi Tapa and the Lagos Consulate / Tunde Decker.
In: Lagos notes and records, vol. 22, pages 1-14.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; military personnel ; social history ; 1800-1899 ; biographies (form)

Nigeria
The Nigerian visual art critics : watchdogs or pets? / Akinwale Onipede.
In: Lagos notes and records, vol. 22, pages 45-54.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; visual arts

Nigeria
Nigeria's transition to knowledge-based economy : a triple helix approach / Abubakar Adamu Rasheed.
In: Lagos notes and records, vol. 22, pages 201-218.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; higher education ; economic development ; economic systems

Nigeria
Settlement and inter-group relations among the Hausa and the Central Delta region before 1900 / Ezonbi Bouma & Nathaniel B.L. Gimba.
In: Lagos notes and records, vol. 22, pages 15-30.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; Hausa ; migration ; ethnic relations ; social history ; precolonial period

Nigeria
A syntactic study of conceptual metaphors in Nollywood movies / Eniayo Sobola & Olubunmi Agboola.
In: Lagos notes and records, vol. 22, pages 159-186.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; Nollywood ; films ; semantics

Nigeria
Towards a type classification of "Ewa-oma" festival performances of Nkporo, South Eastern Nigeria / Anya U. Egwu.
In: Lagos notes and records, vol. 22, pages 99-122.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; folk drama ; Igbo ; festivals

Nigeria
The nature and consequences of physical development under overhead electricity power lines (EPLs) in Ibadan / Bolanle Wahab and Alaba Adediji.
In: Ibadan journal of the social sciences, volume 13, number 1, pages 133-152.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; electricity ; physical planning

Nigeria
Observed automobile drivers' mobile phone use rate in Ibadan metropolis, Nigeria / Olusiyi Ipingbemi and Olumami Oyemami.
In: Ibadan journal of the social sciences, volume 13, number 1, pages 153-163.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; mobile telephone ; drivers ; traffic offences

Nigeria
Prices and output response to monetary policy variation in Nigeria / Samuel Orekoya.
In: Ibadan journal of the social sciences, volume 13, number 1, pages 113-132.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; monetary policy ; prices ; economic models

South Africa
"Fate comes to the mission schools" : Fire at Bethel, 1953 / Linda Chisholm.
In: South African historical journal : journal of the Southern African Historical Society , vol. 69, no. 1, p. 121-137.
ASC·Subject·Headings: South Africa ; student movements ; protest ; arson ; missionary history ; black education
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2017.1291716

South Africa
Introduction : repairing the legacies of harm / Cynthia Kros and David Wilkins.
In: South African historical journal : journal of the Southern African Historical Society , vol. 69, no. 1, p. 1-100.
ASC·Subject·Headings: South Africa ; slavery ; memory ; history education ; historiography
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2017.1295646

South Africa
"Welcome home" : white English-speaking South Africans and the royal visit of 1947 / John Lambert.
In: South African historical journal : journal of the Southern African Historical Society , vol. 69, no. 1, p. 101-120.
ASC·Subject·Headings: South Africa ; Great Britain ; English-speaking South Africans ; monarchy ; Commonwealth
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2017.1291715

Electronic documents

Africa
Agriculture in Africa's transformation : the role of smallholder farmers : AERC Senior Policy Seminar XVII Maputo, Mozambique March 26–27, 2015 : Seminar Report / African Economic Research Consortium (AERC). - Nairobi: African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; agricultural innovations ; small farms
https://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/9939286259902711.pdf

East Africa
The East african bribery index trends analysis : (2010-2014). - Nairobi: Transparency International Kenya :, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: East Africa ; corruption
https://tikenya.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/TI-Kenya_The-East-African...

Kenya
Citizen report card on service delivery in public primary schools : Findings from the Counties of Baringo, Busia, Kajiado, Kilifi, Mombasa, Nairobi and Taita-Taveta / Institute of economic affairs. - Nairobi: Institute of economic afffairs, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; primary education ; evaluation
https://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/9939285270102711.pdf

Kenya
Devolution in Kenya: opportunity for transnational solutions for refugees? - Nairobi: Danish Refugee Council (DRC), 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; refugee assistance ; regional government reform
https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/ReDSS%20Devolu...

Kenya
Situation analysis of children and adolescents in Kenya : "our children, our future". - [Nairobi]: Unicef, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; children ; adolescents
https://www.unicef.org/kenya/SITAN_2014_Web.pdf

Kenya
2015 Kenya health facility assessment : an assessment of availability of family planning and maternal/reproductive health commodities/medicines and services. - Nairobi: National Council for Population and Development (NCPD), Ministry of Devolution and Planning, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; reproductive health ; surveys
https://www.afidep.org/download/NCPD-KHFA-2016-F-web-version-3.pdf

Kenya
Baseline study on private sector engagement in the context of devolution in Kenya / Marah Köberle and Hanna Dittmeyer. - Nairobi: Konrad Adenauer Foundation, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; private enterprises ; decentralization
http://www.kenia.ahk.de/uploads/media/2016_Devolution_of_Private_Sector_...

Kenya
Citizen Engagement in the Water Sector : The experience of the Mombasa Water Action Group (WAG). - Nairobi: Economic and social rights center (Hakijamii), 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; water supply ; social services
http://www.hakijamii.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WAG-Report-card-fina...

Kenya
Strengthening the concept of early warning for disaster risk reduction and food security : practices and lessons from Baringo and West Pokot counties of Kenya / report compiled and reviewed by dr. Pauline Gitonga and prof. Felix Ngunzo Kioli. - Nairobi: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; disasters ; risk
https://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/9939286260802711.pdf

Kenya
The effects of climate variability on livestock revenues in Kenya / Philemon Lagat. - Nairobi: Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; climate ; animal husbandry ; public revenue
http://kippra.or.ke/download/3/discussion-papers/3974/the-effects-of-cli...

Kenya
Kenya and the East African Monetary Union / Kirwa Lelei Ng'eny. - Nairobi: The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; East African Community ; monetary areas
http://kippra.or.ke/download/3/discussion-papers/3972/kenya-and-the-east...

Kenya
Global adult tobacco survey, Kenya country report 2014. - Nairobi: Ministry of Health, Kenya, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; tobacco ; smoking ; surveys
http://apps.who.int/tobacco/surveillance/survey/gats/Kenya-report-2014.p...

Kenya
Improving the collection, documentation and utilisation of medico-legal evidence in Kenya : Chain of evidence study report. - Nairobi: Liverpool VCT, Care and Treatment, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; evidence ; sexual offences
https://www.law.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Kenya_Chain-of-M...

Uganda
Durable solutions framework : uganda 2016 - local integration focusoverview – key achievements and remaining gaps / Rachel Bernu. - Nairobi: Danish Refugee Council (DRC), 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Uganda ; displaced persons ; government policy
http://regionaldss.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/ReDSS-Solutions-Framew...

Uganda
Early solutions planning in displacement : what can be done to promote, support and facilitate solutions processes in the early stages of displacement? - Nairobi: International rescue committee, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; Uganda ; South Sudan ; displaced persons
https://www.rescue.org/sites/default/files/document/1209/earlysolutionpl...

Zimbabwe
The economic and environmental costs/benefits of green fuel: the case of the Chisumbanje Ethanol Plant. - Nairobi: African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; biofuels ; economic conditions
https://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/9939286260002711.pdf

Books

Africa
Citadinités subalternes en Afrique / sous la direction de Thomas Fouquet et Odile Georg. - Paris: Karthala, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; urban life ; urban population ; social change ; political action

Africa
Africa in search of prosperity : Ishmael E. Yamson's essays on development economics, business, finance, and economic growth / ed. by : Ivor Agyeman-Duah, Bill Buenar Puplampu. - Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; Ghana ; development ; economic policy ; human resources

Africa
Drinking from the cosmic gourd : how Amos Tutuola can change our minds / Francis B. Nyamnjoh. - Mankon: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; epistemology ; Africans

Africa
Gender, violence, refugees / ed. by Susanne Buckley-Zistel and Ulrike Krause. - New York [etc.]: Berghahn Books, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; Uganda ; South Sudan ; Angola ; Burundi ; Germany ; Sweden ; refugees ; women refugees ; gender-based violence ; sexual offences ; military recruitment

Africa
African print cultures : newspapers and their publics in the twentieth century / edited by Derek R. Peterson, Emma Hunter, and Stephanie Newell. - Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; West Africa ; Nigeria ; Tanzania ; Kenya ; South Africa ; India ; newspapers ; periodicals ; media history ; audiences ; journalism

Africa
Africa's long road to development : it is not just economics, but also history, geography, politics, and leadership / John K. Kwakye. - Ghana: Frontiers Print. and Pub., 2011.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; Ghana ; Malaysia ; development ; capital ; economic policy ; political conditions
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy13pdf02/2012311155.html

Algeria
La marche noire : expulsion des marocains d'Algérie en 1975 / Mohammed Cherfaoui, Martina Partoes. - Casablanca: Editions la croisée des chemins, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Algeria ; Morocco ; Moroccans ; deportation ; 1975 ; history ; personal narratives (form)

Burkina Faso
Dernière entrevue avec Thomas Sankara président du Faso (9-10 octobre 1987) à la veille d'un meurtre programmé / Youssouf Diawara, sociologue. - Ouagadougou: Harmattan Burkina, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; heads of State ; assassination ; political conflicts ; coups d'état ; political history ; personal narratives (form)

Cameroon
The determinants of corruption in Cameroon / Ngoa Tabi Henri and Atangana Ondoa Henri. - Nairobi: African Economic Research Consortium, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; corruption ; public services

Central African Republic
Touré le farceur : chantefables zandé / éditées par Margaret Buckner. - Paris: Karthala, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Central African Republic ; fables ; songs ; Zande ; oral literature (form) ; fables (form)

Comoros
Le mystère Sambi / Ali Mmadi. - Marseille: Éditions Les belles pages, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Comoros ; heads of State ; biographies (form)

Democratic Republic of CongoF1
Personnes déplacées et provision de la justice en République Démocratique du Congo. - 165 pages: illustrations,
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; Central African Republic ; displaced persons ; refugees ; access to justice

Eritrea
Islam and gender in colonial northeast Africa : Sitti 'Alawiyya, the uncrowned queen / by Silvia Bruzzi. - Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Eritrea ; Ethiopia ; Sufism ; women ; Muslim brotherhoods ; Islam ; colonial period ; 1900-1949

Gabon
Code de la nationalité Gabonaise : loi no 37/98 du 20 juillet 1999 portant Code de la nationalité Gabonaise ; décret no 767/PR/MJGS du octobre 2002 portant application de certaines dispositions du Code de la nationalité Gabonaise. - Libreville: Direction des Publications Officielles, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Gabon ; citizenship ; nationality ; laws (form)

Ivory Coast
Géopolitique de la Chine en Côte d'Ivoire / Xavier Aurégan. - Paris: Riveneuve éditions, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Côte d'Ivoire ; China ; international economic relations ; foreign policy ; development cooperation ; geopolitics

Madagascar
Arrêts commentés de la Cour de cassation, chambre civile, commerciale, sociale / Ministère de la Justice, Université d'Antananarivo. - Antananarivo, Madagascar: Éditions Jurid'ika, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Madagascar ; judgments ; courts of appeal

Madagascar
Arrêts commentés du Conseil d'État de la Cour suprême de Madagascar : années 2011-2012-2013-2014 / Ministère de la justice, Université d'Antananarivo. - Antananarivo: Éditions Jurid'ika, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Madagascar ; judgments ; supreme courts

Mali
Seydou Keïta : Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 31 mars-11 juillet 2016. - Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux--Grand Palais, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mali ; portraits ; photography ; exhibition catalogues (form) ; pictorial works (form)

Mali
L'appel du tabalé : demain le Mali / Moussa Mary Balla Coulibaly. - Bamako, Mali: [Moussa Mary Balla Coulibaly], 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mali ; political stability ; nation building ; national security ; Tuareg ; rebellions

Mauritius
Traites, esclavage et transition vers l'engagisme : perspectives nouvelles sur les Mascareignes et le sud-ouest de l'océan Indien, 1715-1848 / édité par Vijaya Teelock et Thomas Vernet. - Réduit: University of Mauritius, Centre for Research on Slavery and Indenture, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mascarene Islands ; Mauritius ; slave trade ; conference papers (form)

Morocco
Parlez-moi de littérature... : un autre regard sur le champ littéraire marocain / Jean Zaganiaris. - Rabat: Ed. Marsam, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; writers ; literature ; literary criticism

Morocco
La politique culturelle au Maroc / Amina Touzani. - Casablanca: La Croisée des Chemins, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; cultural policy ; government departments

Morocco
L'"École de Casablanca" : 1960-1972 / Dounia Benqassem. - Casablanca: Editions AfricArts, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; art education ; national identity ; decolonization ; artists ; art history ; interviews (form)

Morocco
L'"École de Tétouan" : 1960- / Dounia Benqassem. - Casablanca: Editions AfricArts, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; art education ; national identity ; decolonization ; painting ; artists ; art history ; interviews (form)

Nigeria
Prime witness : change and policy challenges in Buhari's Nigeria / Oseloka H. Obaze. - Ibadan: Safari Books, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; heads of State ; government policy

Nigeria
The politics of Biafra : and the future of Nigeria / by Chudi Offodile. - Ibadan: Safari Books, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; Nigerian-Biafran War ; Igbo ; political history ; 1950-1999

North Africa
Productions et réceptions culturelles : littérature, musique et cinéma / sous la direction de Hadj Miliani. - Oran, Algérie: Editions CRASC, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Algeria ; Morocco ; publishing ; reading ; cinema ; songs
Rwanda
Un si beau diplôme! : récit / Scholastique Mukasonga. - [Paris]: Gallimard, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Rwanda ; Burundi ; France ; exile ; Tutsi ; education ; autobiographies (form) ; literature (form)

Senegal
L'"École de Dakar" Dounia Benqassem. - Casablanca: Editions AfricArts, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; art education ; Negritude ; national identity ; decolonization ; artists ; art history ; interviews (form)

Senegal
Khidma, la vision politique de Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba : essai sur les relations entre les mourides et le pouvoir politique au Sénégal / Abdoul Aziz Mbacké Majalis. - [Senegal?]: Projet Majalis, 2010.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; Muslim brotherhoods ; Islam ; political philosophy

Somalia
Puntland enterprise survey, 2011. - Nairobi, Kenya: International Labour Organization-Somalia Programme, 2011.
ASC Subject·Headings: Somalia ; business ; small enterprises
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy16pdf01/2013441350.html https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/nrlf-electronic-copy/b24153773

South Africa
Historian : an autobiography / Hermann Giliomee. - Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; academics ; history ; autobiographies (form)

South Africa
South Africa can work / Frans Rautenbach. - Cape Town, South Africa: Penguin Books, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; market economy ; decentralization

South Africa
The compassionate Englishwoman : Emily Hobhouse in the Boer war / Robert Eales. - Sydney, N.S.W.: Middle Harbour Press, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; Anglo-Boer wars ; humanitarian assistance ; women ; biographies (form)

Southeast Central and Southern Africa
Perspectives of labour migration from Mzimba District, Malawi, to South Africa / Harvey Chidoba Banda. - Mankon: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Malawi ; South Africa ; migrant workers ; international migration ; xenophobia ; return migration ; folk medicine

Tanzania
Diaspora and nation in the Indian Ocean : transnational histories of race and urban space in Tanzania / Ned Bertz. - Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Tanzania ; diasporas ; Asians ; race relations ; emigration ; urban areas ; cinema

Togo
Ainsi parlait mon père / Sami Tchak. - Paris: JC Lattès, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Togo ; fathers ; autobiographies (form)

Tunisia
Coupable d'avoir été violée : femmes en Tunisie : liberté en péril / Meriem Ben Mohamed ; avec la collaboration de Ava Djamshidi. - Neuilly-sur-Seine: Lafon, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Tunisia ; women ; sexual offences ; police ; personal narratives (form)

Tunisia
Le syndrome Bourguiba / Aziz Krichen. - Tunis: Cérès, 1992.
ASC Subject·Headings: Tunisia ; national identity ; patronage ; economic development ; modernization

West Africa
Natural resource governance and human rights and human security implication. - Ile-de-Gorée, Sénégal: Gorée Institute, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Sierra Leone ; Côte d'Ivoire ; Liberia ; Guinea ; natural resource management ; mining ; human rights

Zimbabwe
The land question in Zimbabwe / Sam Moyo. - Harare: SAPES Books, 1995.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; land reform ; land tenure
 

Films

Mali
N'goni fo Sékouba : ou l'esprit des chasseurs / Moumouni Sanou, réal. ; Sékouba Traoré, participant et musician. - Lussas : DocNet Films, 2014.

African Literature

Benin
Meurtre à la Pendjari / Modest Gansou Wéwé. - Cotonou, Bénin: Les Éditions Plurielles, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Benin ; crime novels (form)

Chad
Djibril, ou, Les ombres portées : roman / Mahamat-Saleh Haroun. - [Paris]: Gallimard, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Chad ; offences against human rights ; torture ; novels (form)

Ivory Coast
Quand la nuit est profonde : roman / Badi Ben Diébley. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Côte d'Ivoire ; novels (form)

Ivory Coast
L'ordonnance : drame / Soro Guéfala. - Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire: Vallesse, 2008.
ASC Subject·Headings: Côte d'Ivoire ; child care ; diseases ; poverty ; interpersonal relations ; drama (form)

Mauritius
Fragrant garland : facts to remember : pleasure for ever / Pyneesamy Padayachy. - [Mauritius?]: Murugan Foundation, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mauritius ; Indians ; history ; articles (form) ; poetry (form)

Mozambique
Singularidades. Lourenço do Rosário. - Maputo: Alcance editores, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mozambique ; education ; literature ; articles (form) ; folk tales (form)

Senegal
Une colère vieille de vingt ans : roman / Mamadou Mbathie. - Dakar: L'Harmattan Sénégal, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; novels (form)

Senegal
La méprise : pièce de théâtre en deux visions et huit perspectives / Marouba Fall. - Dakar: Ruba éditions, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; Aids ; drama (form)

Tunisia
Ibn Khaldoun : une biographie romancée / Abdesselam Cheddadi. - Casablanca: Editions la Croisée des chemins, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Tunisia ; Maghreb ; historiography ; diplomats ; historical novels (form)
 

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