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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 Monday, 2 June 2025.


New acquisitions - week 17 2018

book cover 'The arts of citizenship in African cities'Week 17 2018

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Articles

Africa
Ethical issues in digitization of cultural heritage / Zinaida Manžuch.
In: Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies, Vol. 4, Article 4 (2017), pages 1-17.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Africa ; cultural heritage ; electronic resources ; ethics
https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol4/iss2/4/

Ethiopia
Ethiopian Muslims and the discourse about moderation / Terje Ostebo and Wallelign Shemsedin.
In: The journal of modern African studies , vol. 55 (2017), no. 2, p. 225-249.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Ethiopia ; Islamic movements ; intellectuals ; political conditions

General
Anthrozoology : an important subfield in anthropology / Samantha Hurn.
In: Interdisziplinäre Anthropologie : Jahrbuch 2/2014 : Gewalt und Aggression , pages 179-188.
ASC·Subject·Headings: anthrozoology
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-07410-4_13

General
What was It like to be a cow? : history and animal studies / Erica Fudge.
In: The Oxford handbook of animal studies.
ASC·Subject·Headings: animal history
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199927142.013.28

South Africa
Baboon cosmopolitanism : more-than-human moralities in a multispecies community / Samantha Hurn.
In: Cosmopolitan animals , pages 152-166.
ASC·Subject·Headings: South Africa ; human-animal relationships ; wild animals ; wildlife protection ; conflict resolution ; human wildlife conflict

Zimbabwe
Legacies of madiro? : worker-peasantry, livelihood crisis and siziphile land occupations in semi-arid north-western Zimbabwe / Vusilizwe Thebe.
In: The journal of modern African studies , vol. 55 (2017), no. 2, p. 201-224.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; land conflicts ; squatters ; livelihoods ; villages

Electronic documents

Africa
Water finance innovations in context / Edited by Atakilte Beyene and Cush Ngonzo Luwesi. - Uppsala: The Nordic Africa Institute, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; water management ; water supply ; sanitation ; financing ; community participation
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:nai:diva-2189

Botswana
Transspecies urban theory : chickens in an African city / Alice Hovorka. - [Mannheim]: Social Science Open Access Repository, 2008.
ASC Subject·Headings: Botswana ; livestock ; animal husbandry ; urban areas ; human-animal relationships
 

Cameroon
L’enseignement supérieur au Cameroun depuis la réforme de 1993: Dynamiques et perspectives Luc Ngwé & Hilaire De Prince Pokam. - Dakar: Codesria, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; higher education ; universities ; educational management ; educational reform ; educational policy
http://www.codesria.org/spip.php?article2810&lang=en

Canary Islands
The performing identity of the Canary Islands : Amazigh heritage influences in the artistic production : the use of indigenous symbolism in traditional pottery work and in the Taburiente musical discourse / Davinia García. - [place of creation not identified]: [publisher not identified], 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Canary Islands ; pottery ; musicians ; cultural heritage ; marketing ; theses (form)
https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/38549

Nigeria
Digitisation of indigenous knowledge for natural resources management in Africa / Akeem Ayofe Akinwale. - [Place of creation not identified]: [Name of publisher not identified], 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; indigenous knowledge ; cultural heritage ; electronic resources
https://projects.ncsu.edu/aern/TAS12.1/AERN2012Summit_Akinwale.pdf

South Africa
Patrimony, power and politics : selecting, constructing and preserving digital heritage content in South Africa and Africa / Michele Pickover. - [Place of creation not identified]: [Name of publisher not identified], 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; South Africa ; cultural heritage ; electronic resources ; archives ; memory ; power
http://library.ifla.org/1023/1/138-pickover-en.pdf

Subsaharan Africa
Peace, security and post-conflict reconstruction in the Great Lakes Region of Africa Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo & Joseph Gahama. - Dakar: Codesria :, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Central Africa ; East Africa ; Great Lakes region ; violence ; conflict resolution ; peacebuilding ; regional security ; regional development
http://www.codesria.org/spip.php?article2814&lang=en

Uganda
Collaboration in digitising cultural heritage as a strategy to sustain access and sharing of cultural heritage information in Uganda / Sarah Kaddu. - Place of creation not identified]: [Name of publisher not identified], 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Uganda ; cultural heritage ; conservation of cultural heritage ; international cooperation
https://www.ifla.org/files/assets/library-theory-and-research/Projects/s...

Uganda
Digitization of Uganda's musical cultural heritage : lessons from Makerere University Library Digital Archive / Agnes Namaganda. - [Place of creation not identified]: [Name of publisher not identified], 2011.
ASC Subject·Headings: Uganda ; music ; cultural heritage ; electronic resources
https://www.musicinafrica.net/sites/default/files/attachments/article/20...

West Africa
Rival priorities in the Sahel : finding the balance between security and development / Morten Bøås. - Uppsala: The Nordic Africa Institute, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Sahel ; West Africa ; regional development ; regional security
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:nai:diva-2199

Books

Africa
Africa and the leadership question : the art of leadership / by Ozodi Thomas Osuji. - Lagos: All-One Multi Dynamic Global Limited, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; leadership ; motivational literature

Algeria
D'ici et d'ailleurs : l'héritage de Kateb Yacine / Catherine Mikovitch-Rioux, Isabella von Treskow (éd.). - Frankfurt am Main ; New York: Peter Lang Edition, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: France ; writers ; literature ; migration ; France Auvergne. 1900-1999

Benin
La rédaction de presse dans tous ses états : le journalisme au scanner / Anicet Laurent Quenum. - Paris: Harmattan, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Benin ; press ; radio ; professional ethics

Burkina Faso
Refonder le Faso sur l'intégrité / Mwinsoma Jean-Claude Somda. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Sankara, Thomas ; Burkina Faso ; governance ; political change ; institutional change

Democratic Republic of Congo East Africa
Des tranchées en Afrique : la guerre oubliée des Congolais contre les Allemands en 1914-1918 / Lucas Catherine ; trad. du néerlandais par Jaquie Dever. - Bruxelles: Aden, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; East Africa ; Belgium ; Germany ; colonial forces ; black soldiers ; military operations ; World War I

Ethiopia
Abyssinian Christianity : the first Christian nation? the history and the identity of the Ethiopian and Eritrean Christians / Abba Abraham Buruk Woldegaber and Mario Alexis Portella. - Pismo Beach, CA: BP Editing, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ethiopia ; Eritrea ; Ethiopian Church ; Christianity ; Church history ; Christianity. ; Civilization. ; Ethiopia. ; Church history.

Kenya
The crows will tell : a collection of Ngewa -- fables - frrom the Akamba of Kenya / Muli wa Kyendo. - Nairobi, [Kenya]: Syokimau Cultural Centre, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Fables. ; Kamba (African people) ; Parables. ; Kenya ; Kamba ; folklore ; fables (form)

Morocco
Chroniques insolites de notre histoire : Maroc, des origines à 1907 / Mouna Hachim. - [Maroc?]: M. Hachim, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Civilization. ; Ethnicity. ; Politics and government. ; Morocco ; historiography ; Berber ; Antiquity ; history

Morocco
Réflexion d'un musulman contemporain / Mohamed Talbi. - Casablanca: Éditions le Fennec, 2005.
ASC Subject·Headings: Islam. ; Muslims. ; Tunisia ; Islam ; Islamic law ; society ; State ; essays (form)

Nigeria
A history of Iduma from ancient times / by Collins Ebi Daniel. - Port Harcourt: Onyoma Research Publications, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; local history ; Nigeria Bayelsa State. ; History.

Nigeria
Our fathers' land : including reminiscences in the Nigerian civil war / Titus Okereke ; [forew. by Peter Enahoro ('Peter Pan'). - Ibadan: Bookcraft, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; civil wars ; autobiographies (form)

Nigeria
Acts of power : the spread of the Aladura revival of 1930 & the birth of apostolic Christianity in Nigeria : A sequel to the great revival of 1930 / Moses Oludele Idowu. - Ikeja, Lagos State: Divine Artillery Publications, 2011.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; Pentecostalism ; religious movements ; Church history

Nigeria
The great revival of 1930 : the origin of modern Pentecostalism in Nigeria / Moses Oludele Idowu. - Ikeja, Lagos State: Divine Artillery Publications, 2007.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; Pentecostalism ; religious movements ; Church history

Nigeria
Introduction to international business / prof. Nnamdi Azika. - Lagos: Rothmed International Limited, 2006.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; international trade ; multinational enterprises ; textbooks (form)

South Africa
Ons kom van vêr : bydraes oor bruin Afrikaanssprekendes se rol in die ontwikkeling van Afrikaans / W.A.M. Carstens, Michael Le Cordeur. - Tygervallei: Naledi, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; Afrikaans language ; Coloureds ; language usage

South Africa
Writing the decline : on the struggle for South Africa's democracy / Richard Pithouse. - Auckland Park: Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Democracy. ; Politics and government. ; South Africa ; democracy ; authoritarianism ; social conditions ; essays (form)
https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1619/2016441035-b.html https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1619/2016441035-d.html

South Africa
'Like herding cats!' : managing conflict over wildlife heritage on South Africa’s Cape Peninsula / Samantha Hurn. - Athens, Ga: University of Georgia, Dept. of Anthropology, 2011.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; wild animals ; wildlife protection ; conflict prevention ; human-animal relationships ; human wildlife conflict

Subsaharan Africa
Urban youth unemployment in eastern and southern Africa : features, challenges, consequences and cutback strategies / editors, Paschal B. Mihyo and Truphena E. Mukuna. - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Unemployed youth Ethiopia. ; East Africa ; Ethiopia ; Southern Africa ; youth unemployment ; urban youth

Subsaharan Africa
The arts of citizenship in African cities : infrastructures and spaces of belonging / ed. by Mamadou Diouf and Rosalind Fredericks. - New York [u.a.]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa ; urban life ; citizenship ; Pentecostalism ; arts ; infrastructure

West Africa
Ifá will mend our broken world : thoughts on Yoruba religion and culture in Africa and the diaspora / Wande Abimbọla ; interviews with an introduction by Ivor Miller. - Roxbury, MA: Aim Books, 1997.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ifa (Religion) ; Yoruba (African people) Religion. ; West Africa ; Yoruba ; Ifá ; myths ; diasporas

Zambia
Cobra in the Boat : Michael Sata's Zambia / Chisanga Puta-Chekwe. - London: Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Sata, Michael Chilufya ; Zambia ; heads of State ; biographies (form)

Films

Ethiopia
Lamb / Ama Ampadu and Laurent Lavolé present a Slum Kid Films, Gloria Films, Heimatfilm production ; a film by Yared Zeleke ; written and directed by Yared Zeleke ; producer, Ama Ampadu, Laurent Lavolé, Johannes Rexin ; screenplay written with the collaboration of Géraldine Bajard. =257 \\ Ethiopia. [Paris]: Blaq out, 2015.
Subject·Headings: Ethiopia ; boys ; Jews ; foster care ; sacrificial rites ; rural society ; feature films (form) ; videos (form)
https://www.trigon-film.org/en/movies/Lamb http://midwesttapes.com/images/movies/000/000/000/011/676/00000000001167... (Trailer)

Ethiopia
Framing the other / an I CAMERA YOU productions -- Ethiopian Film Initiative co-production ; written, produced and directed by Ilja Kok and Willem Timmers. Netherlands Ethiopia: I CAMERA YOU Productions Ethiopian Film Initiative, 2011.
Subject·Headings: Heritage tourism. ; Murzu (African people) ; Tourism. ; Ethiopia ; tourism ; Dutch ; traditional society ; Mursi ; culture contact ; photography ; images ; attitudes ; documentary films (form) ; videos (form)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owIX60_vIZI (Trailer)

Ghana
Traces of a mission : a Basel missionary at the Gold Coast / a documentary film by Katherine Deuber. [Zürich]: [NAP Verlag], 2009.
Subject·Headings: Ghana ; Switzerland ; missions ; missionary history ; documentary films (form) ; videos (form)

South Africa
Die Anglo-Boereoorlog 1899-1902 / teks en aanbieding Fransjohan Pretorius, redigering Sanet Scheepers, Verteller en Regisseur: Hennie van der Merwe. - [S.l.]: Ulula Produksies, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; Anglo-Boer wars ; Afrikaners ; colonial history ; documentary films (form) ; videos (form)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUYDhrY7QTY&t=9s

South Africa
Sink / Brittle Star Pictures ; Scramble Productions ; Nostalgia Productions ; in association with Kyknet Films, the Department of Trade and Industry ; written and directed by Brett Michael Innes ; produced by Johan Kruger, Anel Alexander, Brett Michael Innes. =257 \\ South Africa. Rosebank, Johannesburg: Times Media Home Entertainment, 2016.
Subject·Headings: Innes, Brett Michael, 1983- ; South Africa ; domestic workers ; Mozambicans ; migrant workers ; accidents ; mothers ; interpersonal relations ; feature films (form) ; videos (form)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqFSK_n7mZc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiWHFQ86w7E (Trailer)

Tunisia
À peine j'ouvre les yeux / un film de Leyla Bouzid avec Baya Medhaffar et Ghalia Benali. Marseille: Shellac, 2016.
Subject·Headings: Arab Spring (2010-) ; Coming of age. ; Foreign films. ; Mothers and daughters. ; Political ballads and songs. ; Rock musicians. ; Teenage girls. ; Women musicians. ; Tunisia ; adolescents ; girls ; family ; musicians ; protest ; authoritarianism ; feature films (form) ; videos (form)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnqxkLkLQyw (Trailer)

African Literature

Algeria
L'Étoile d'Alger : roman / Aziz Chouaki. - Alger: Chihab Éditions, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Algeria ; terrorism ; fundamentalism ; Islam ; novels (form)

Morocco
Nom d'un chien : roman / Abdellah Baïda. - Rabat: Marsam, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; names ; canines ; Islamic culture ; images ; novels (form)

Morocco
... et se voile le printemps : poème / Mohamed Loakira ; peintures de Bouchta El Hayani. - Tanger: Virgule Éditions, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; Arab Spring ; poetry (form) ; pictorial works (form)

Morocco
Le jour venu : roman / Driss C. Jaydane. - Casablanca: Editions Le Fennec, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; adolescents ; social status ; novels (form)

Sound

Algeria
[Portrait de] Houari Boumédiène / par Alain Foka. - [Paris]: Radio France Internationale, 2018.
ASC Subject Headings: Boumédiene, Houari, 1932-1978 ; Algeria ; politicians ; heads of State ; biographies (form) ; radio broadcasts (form)
http://www.rfi.fr/emission/20180331-houari-boumediene-le-reveil-national... http://www.rfi.fr/emission/20180407-houari-boumediene-independance-contr... http://www.rfi.fr/emission/20180414-houari-boumediene-maquis-gouvernemen... http://www.rfi.fr/emission/20180421-houari-boumediene-le-putsch-78

General
Animals and anthropology / by Laura Murray.  - [Place not identified]: American Anthropological Association, 2017.
ASC Subject Headings: anthropology ; animals
https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1119-animals-and-anthropology

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