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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 24 2018

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See also the ASCL overview of recently published journal articles

Articles

Equatorial Guinea
Prevalence of HIV and malaria: a cross-sectional study on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea / Xiangbin Zheng, Min Lin, Dong De Xie, Jian Li, Jiang Tao Chen, Urbano Monsuy Eyi, Santiago Monte-Nguba, Juan Carlos Sala Ehapo, Hui Yang, Hui Tian Yang, and Li Ye Yang.
In: African journal of AIDS research , vol. 16, no. 1, p. 65-70.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Equatorial Guinea ; Bioko ; malaria ; Aids
http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2016.1257495

Ethiopia
HIV and AIDS-related stigma and discrimination in two referral hospitals in Ethiopia / Befekadu S. Wodajo, Gloria Thupayagale-Tshweneagae, and Oluwaseyi A. Akpor.
In: African journal of AIDS research , vol. 16, no. 2, p. 137-144.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Ethiopia ; health personnel ; attitudes ; patients ; Aids ; discrimination
http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2017.1325755

Ethiopia
Open firing techniques as community-based technology : the case of the Ari pottery making in Southwestern Ethiopia / Morie Kaneko.
In: Nilo-Ethiopian studies : journal of the Japan Association for Nilo-Ethiopian Studies , no. 17 (2012), pages 1-26.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Ethiopia ; pottery ; Aari ; indigenous technology

South Africa
The child can remember your voice: parent-child communication about sexuality in the South African context / Esmeralda Vilanculos and Mzikazi Nduna.
In: African journal of AIDS research , vol. 16, no. 1, p. 81-89.
ASC·Subject·Headings: South Africa ; sexuality ; sex education ; parents ; adolescents
http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2017.1302486

South Africa
The dimensionality of disclosure of HIV status amongst post-partum women in Cape Town, South Africa / Jo Hunter-Adams ... [et al.].
In: African journal of AIDS research , vol. 16, no. 2, p. 101-107.
ASC·Subject·Headings: South Africa ; Aids ; women ; attitudes
http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2017.1311932

South Africa
Ecological correlates of multiple sexual partnerships among adolescents and young adults in urban Cape Town: a cumulative risk factor approach / Evans Muchiri ... [et al.].
In: African journal of AIDS research , vol. 16, no. 2, p. 119-128.
ASC·Subject·Headings: South Africa ; adolescents ; sexuality ; Aids ; pregnancy
http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2017.1318762

South Africa
Love grows with sex: teenagers negotiating sex and gender in the context of HIV and the implications for sex education / Deevia Bhana.
In: African journal of AIDS research , vol. 16, no. 1, p. 71-79.
ASC·Subject·Headings: South Africa ; adolescents ; sexuality ; Aids
http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2016.1259172

South Africa
The relationship between Nairobi adolescents' media use and their sexual beliefs and attitudes / Ann Neville Miller ... [et al].
In: African journal of AIDS research , vol. 16, no. 2, p. 129-136.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Kenya ; adolescents ; attitudes ; sexuality ; mass media ; social media
http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2017.1325754

Subsaharan Africa
Partnership duration, concurrency, and HIV in sub-Saharan Africa / Larry Sawers and Alan Isaac.
In: African journal of AIDS research , vol. 16, no. 2, p. 155-164.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa ; Aids ; sexuality
http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2017.1336105

Tanzania
Relationships matter: contraceptive choices among HIV-positive women in Tanzania / Tabitha Alexandria Njeri Nyanja and Charlotte Tulinius.
In: African journal of AIDS research , vol. 16, no. 2, p. 109-117.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Tanzania ; women ; Aids ; contraception
http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2017.1313284

Zambia
Barriers and facilitators of antiretroviral therapy adherence in rural Eastern province, Zambia: the role of household economic status / Rainier Masa, Gina Chowa, and Victor Nyirenda.
In: African journal of AIDS research , vol. 16, no. 2, p. 91-99.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Zambia ; Aids ; access to health care ; rural areas
http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2017.1308386

Zimbabwe
Cultural competence: a framework for promoting voluntary medical male circumcision among VaRemba communities in Zimbabwe / Kemist Shumba and Musara Lubombo.
In: African journal of AIDS research , vol. 16, no. 2, p. 165-173.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; circumcision ; preventive medicine ; Lemba
http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2017.1337040

Zimbabwe
A review of interprovincial variations in HIV prevalence rates in Zimbabwe / Elisa Sibanda and Prudence Khumalo.
In: African journal of AIDS research , vol. 16, no. 2, p. 145-154.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; Aids
http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2017.1330274

Electronic documents

Burkina Faso
Analyse biographique des determinants du travail et de la scolarisation des enfants au Burkina Faso, au Mali. - Ouagadougou: Institut Superieur des sciences de la population, 2007.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; Mali ; children ; child labour ; education
http://www.issp.bf/images/publications/etudesetdocuments/ED-011.pdf

Kenya
Lost innocence : stories of children exploited through sex work in Korogocho / S. Nduta and W. Mukoma. - Nairobi, Liverpool: Vct, 2011.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; children ; prostitution ; personal narratives (form)
http://www.lvcthealth.org/images/books/lost-innocence.pdf

Books

Africa
Power and politics in the book of Judges : men and women of valor / John C. Yoder. - Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; Israel ; Bible ; power ; patronage ; elite

Africa
Meeting the challenge of conflict prevention in Africa : towards the operationalization of the continental early warning system / edited by Conflict Prevention and Early Warning Division, Peace and Security Department, African Union Commission. - Leipzig, Germany: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; African Union ; conflict prevention ; conference papers (form)

Africa
Desafios contemporâneos da África : o legado de Amílcar Cabral / Carlos Lopes (org.). - Luanda: Arquivo Nacional de Angola, Ministerio de Cultura, 2011.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; Cape Verde ; Guinea-Bissau ; national liberation movements ; independence ; State formation ; nation building ; democracy ; Marxism ; pan-Africanism ; literature

Africa
Urban health in Africa : what do we know and where do we go? / Trudy Harpham. - Zürich: Lit, 2010.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; health ; human security ; urban areas

Angola
Working the system : a political ethnography of the new Angola / Jon Schubert. - Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Angola ; Mpla ; authority ; urban life ; political action

Angola
Political identity and conflict in central Angola, 1975-2002 / Justin Pearce. - New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Angola ; nationalism ; political participation ; Ovimbundu ; identity ; conflict ; civil wars

Benin
La nouvelle vie de Jean Pliya : souvenirs et hommages. - Porto-Novo, Bénin: Centre Panafricain de Prospective Sociale (CPPS- IAT), 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Benin ; writers ; academics ; Catholic Church ; festschrifts (form)

Benin
Médias, langues et développement durable / Samuel Djengue. - Cotonou: Christon Éditions : Les Éditions Ablo̳d̳è, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Benin ; mass media ; multilingualism ; sustainable development

Benin
Lettre à ma fille / Aubin R. Towanou ; préfacé par le Père Raymond Bernard Goudjo ; postfacé par Jérôme Carlos. - Cotonou, Benin: Les Editions du Tamarin, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Benin ; girls ; child rearing ; sex education

Benin
Savoir écologique endogène : quels defis pour les radios communautaires dans le nord et le centre du Benin ? / Issakou Yagui Assouma. - [Benin]: [publisher not identified], 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Benin ; community radio ; agricultural ecology ; indigenous knowledge ; rural society

Benin
Noms de naissance : conception du monde et système de valeurs chez les gun au Sud-Bénin / Pierre Saulnier. - [Paris]: Société des missions africaines, 2002.
ASC Subject·Headings: Benin ; personal names ; Gun ; Gun language ; world view

Botswana
Vision 2016 : Botswana Performance Report 2 : a report on the progress being achieved against the Vision 2016 golas : long term vision for Botswana / Vision Council. - Gaborone, Botswana: Lentswe La Lesedi (Pty) Ltd., 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Botswana ; development plans ; social conditions ; economic conditions ; political conditions

Botswana
Botswana's performance in tackling key social and economic challenges : an overview and companion document to the Botswana performance report / Vision Council. - Gaborone: Lentswe la Lesedi (Pty) Ltd, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Botswana ; development plans ; unemployment ; agricultural development ; poverty reduction ; Aids ; crime

Botswana
Mapping local democracy in Bobirwa, Boteti, Mahalapye, Tonota, and Tutume / report for BALA in partnership with Friedrich Ebert Foundation ; author, Zibani Maundeni. - Gaborone: BALA : Friendrich Ebert Stiftung, 2009.
ASC Subject·Headings: Botswana ; local government ; regional councils ; democracy

Burkina Faso
La terre des hommes intègres : récit de voyage au Burkina Faso / Ugo Monticone. - Montréal: Éditions du CRAM, 2006.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; aid workers ; travel books (form)

Cameroon
Christian Cardinal W. Tumi : from College of Teachers to College of Cardinals / conversations with Edouard Oum ; preface by Victor Tonye Bakot. - Douala, Cameroon: Macacos, 2006.
ASC Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; bishops ; Catholic Church ; biographies (form)

Equatorial Guinea
Letras transversales : obras escogidas (ensayo, poesía, relatos, teatro) / Juan Tomás Ávila Laureal ; edición de Elisa Rizo. - Madrid: Editorial Verbum, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Equatorial Guinea ; collected works (form)

Ethiopia
Performance of Ethiopia's export trade / FDRE Government Communication Affairs Office ; editor in chief, Zekarias W/mariam. - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Government Commuincation Affairs Office, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ethiopia ; exports ; international trade

Ghana
Illuminating endogenous development : a guide book / by David Millar, Peter Gubbels and Bernard Guri. -
ASC Subject·Headings: Ghana ; sustainable development ; community participation

Ivory Coast
Laurent Gbagbo : chroniques d'une défaite prévisible : essai / Katiénéffooua Adama Ouattara. - Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire: Nouvelles Éditions Balafons, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Côte d'Ivoire ; heads of State ; presidential elections

Ivory Coast
Le printemps des pyromanes : quand une élection conduit au chaos / Abel Doualy. - Abidjan: L'Encre Bleue, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Côte d'Ivoire ; elections ; violence ; political stability ; democratization

Ivory Coast
Secrets d'une mission rebelle : essai / Alphonse Soro. - Abidjan: Nouvelles Editions Balafons (NEB), 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Côte d'Ivoire ; politicians ; rebellions ; personal narratives (form)

Ivory Coast
Le modèle "Dioula" : quels enseignements pour la création de richesse / Maurice D. Koué. - [Abidjan]: Editions CCDE, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Côte d'Ivoire ; entrepreneurs ; private enterprises ; Dyula ; handbooks (form)

Ivory Coast
Pâqui-nou : les origines d'une identité culturelle / N'Guessan Bertin. - Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire: Edilis, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Côte d'Ivoire ; religious festivals ; Christianity ; Baoulé

Mozambique
Plano nacional da área da deficiência : PNAD II 2012 - 2019 : (aprovado na 32a Sessão do Conselho de Ministros de 04 setembro de 2012). - Maputo: República de Moçambique, Ministério da Mulher a da Acção Social, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mozambique ; disabled ; social services ; national plans ; 2010-2019

Mozambique
Níveis, padrões e a tendência de mortalidade em Moçambique / Boaventua M. Cau. - Maputo: Instituto Nacional de Estatística, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mozambique ; mortality ; child mortality ; statistics

Mozambique
Níveis, tendências e diferenciais de fecundidade em Moçambique / Carlos Arnaldo. - Maputo: Instituto Nacional de Estatística, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mozambique ; fertility ; statistics

Mozambique
Panorama linguístico de Moçambique : análise dos dados do III recenseamento geral da população e habitação 2007 / Felciano Chibutane. - Maputo: Instituto Nacional de Estatística, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mozambique ; languages ; language usage ; statistics ; censuses ; 2007

Mozambique
Principais características do parque habitacional de Moçambique / Maria Sofia dos Santos. - Maputo: Instituto Nacional de Estatística, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mozambique ; housing ; construction materials ; statistics ; censuses

Mozambique
III recenseamento geral da população e habitação 2007 : resultados definitivos / Instituto Nacional de Estatística. - Maputo: Instituto Nacional de Estatística, 2010.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mozambique ; population ; housing ; demography ; statistics ; censuses ; 2007

Namibia
Landnahme - Landbesitz - Landverlust : Baster-Territorien in Südafrika und Namibia: 1865-2015 / Cornelia Limpricht. - Windhoek, Namibia: Cornelia Limpricht, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Namibia ; racially mixed persons ; land tenure

Sierra Leone
Environmental and social change in southwestern Sierra Leone : timber extraction (1832-1898) and rutile mining (1967-2005) / by Fenda Aminata Akiwumi. - Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Dissertation Services, 2007.
ASC Subject·Headings: Sierra Leone ; environment ; land use ; shifting cultivation ; wood industry ; mining ; deforestation ; environmental degradation ; social change ; dissertations (form)

South Africa
Bodies of truth : law, memory, and emancipation in post-Apartheid South Africa / Rita Kesselring. - Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; transitional justice ; apartheid ; victims

South Africa
Living together, living apart? : social cohesion in a future South Africa / ed. by Christopher Ballantine ... [et al.]. - Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; social relations ; social integration

South Africa
South Africa's corporatised liberation : a critical analysis of the ANC in power / Dale T. McKinley. - Auckland Park: Jacana Media, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; African National Congress (South Africa) ; power ; corporatism

South Africa
Huilwater : 30 stories in die langpad / L.J. Bothma. - Langhovenpark: L.J. Bothma, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; essays (form) ; personal narratives (form)

South Africa
Ja Luitenant! : vergete vroue van die bosoorlog : Hierdie is'n ware verhaal, vertellings en avonture wat 'n vrou beleef het in die bosoorlog van Suidwes-Afrika wat nou Namibië is / Zoetje Buys Aucamp. - Pretoria: Zoetje Buys Aucamp, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; Angola ; Namibia ; war ; women ; military personnel ; autobiographies (form)

South Africa
Protest nation : the right to protest in South Africa / Jane Duncan. - Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; freedom of assembly ; freedom of speech ; protest ; political repression

South Africa
Promoting quintessential African writing / by Mzwandile Ishmael Soqaga. - Bloemfontein: Eselby, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; literature

South Africa
Belhar : geweeg / [redakteur, Piet Theron]. - Pretoria: Kraal Uitgewers, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; Calvinist churches

South Africa
Omoseye Bolaji : a voyage around his literary work / by Ishmael Mzwandile Soqaga. - Bloemfontein: Eselby Jnr Publications, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; Nigeria ; prose ; literary criticism

Subsaharan Africa
A Kenya beginning / by Robin Swift. - Place of publication not identified: Publisher not identified, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; Great Britain ; Zambia ; Zimbabwe ; Whites ; autobiographies (form)

Subsaharan Africa
Afrique-Asie : arts, espaces, pratiques / sous la direction de Dominique Malaquais et Nicole Khouri. - Mont-Saint-Aignan: Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa ; Asia ; culture contact ; culture ; arts ; images

Subsaharan Africa
Landlines in African literary studies / ed. by Gordon Collier. - Leiden [etc.]: Brill Rodopi, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa ; Nigeria ; literature

Sudan
Standing wealth : pastoralist livestock production and local livelihoods in Sudan / report authors, Saverio Krätli, Omer Hassan El Dirani, Helen Young, with Samira Mohammed Ahmed [and four others]. - Nairobi: United Nations Environment Programme, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Sudan ; pastoralists ; livestock policy ; livelihoods

Tanzania
Tingatinga : respect Edward Saidi Tingatinga / Jung Hae Kwang ; translation Lee Han IL and Bae June Hee. - Seoul: Misulsegye, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Tanzania ; South Korea ; painting ; pictorial works (form)

Tanzania
Baseline survey on freelance journalists in Tanzania / Media Council of Tanzania. - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Media Council of Tanzania, 2010.
ASC Subject·Headings: Tanzania ; journalists ; journalism

Tanzania
Child marriage and guardianship : robbing girls of their childhood and infantilizing women ; Inheritance law in Tanzania : the improverishment of widows and daughters / Tamar Ezer ; Domestic violence in Tanzania : "nimechoka kupigwa.". - Dar es Salaam: Women's Legal Aid Centre, 2009.
ASC Subject·Headings: Tanzania ; women's rights ; marriage law ; guardianship ; domestic violence ; law of inheritance

Uganda
Cultures at crossroads : homosexuality and human rights in Uganda / Alex Nkabahona, Archangel Rukoo Byaruhanga. - Kampala: Fountain Publishers, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Uganda ; homosexuality ; human rights

Uganda
Education pathways : narratives of female academics and administrators in Ugandan universities / Mary Cecilia Draru. - [The Netherlands] Enschede: Publisher not identified] Epskamp Printing, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Uganda ; universities ; women workers ; academics ; dissertations (form)

West Africa
Strengthening Post-Ebola Health Systems : from Response to Resilience in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone / Ramesh Govindaraj, Christopher H. Herbst, and John Paul Clark, editors. - Washington: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Guinea ; Liberia ; Sierra Leone ; Ebola ; health policy

Zimbabwe
Run boy run : the memoirs of a village boy : a true life story / by the Village Boy. - - [S.l.]: The Village Boy, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; rural youth ; autobiographies (form)

African Literature

Angola
Egos da karne : poemas / Jimmy Rufino. - Luanda: União dos Escritores Angolanos, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Angola ; poetry (form)

Equatorial Guinea
Huellas bajo tierra / Joaquin Mbomio Bacheng. - Madrid ; Viena: Ediciones en auge, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Equatorial Guinea ; novels (form)

Gabon
L'hôte indésirable / Doris Kelanou. - Paris: Editions Anibwe, 2010.
ASC Subject·Headings: Gabon ; spouses ; Aids ; novels (form)

Ivory Coast
En compagnie des hommes / Véronique Tadjo. - Paris: Don Quichotte éditions, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Côte d'Ivoire ; Africa ; Ebola ; interpersonal relations ; novels (form)

Namibia
Die keiservoël oor Namaland / Koos Marais. - Pretoria, Suid-Afrika: Cordis Trust Publikasies, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Namibia ; Nama ; concentration camps ; historical novels (form)

South Africa
Skrapnel / Irma Venter. - Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; novels (form)

Zambia
The election / Mweo Kondolo. - [Zambia]: [publisher not identified], 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zambia ; election campaigns ; novels (form)
 

Sound

Guinea
[Portrait de] Diallo Telli / par Alain Foka. - Paris : Radio France Internationale, 2018.
http://www.rfi.fr/emission/20180512-diallo-telli-ascension-jeune-diploma...

Senegal
[Portrait de] Ousmane Sow / par Alain Foka. - Paris : Radio France Internationale, 2018.
http://www.rfi.fr/emission/20180609-ousmane-sow-immigre-senegalais-franc...

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