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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 16 2018

book cover "Aux frontières du singe"Week 16 2018

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Articles

Africa
The difference that 'capitalism' makes: on the merits and limits of critical political economy in African Studies / Stefan Ouma.
In: Review of African political economy , vol. 44, no. 153, p. 499-509.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Africa ; capitalism

Africa
The myth of economic growth in Africa / Franklin Obeng-Odoom.
In: Review of African political economy , vol. 44, no. 153, p. 466-475.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Africa ; economic development ; gross national product ; economic models

Africa
Neoliberal democratisation, colonial legacies and the rise of the non-state provision of social welfare in West Africa / Lauren M. MacLean.
In: Review of African political economy , vol. 44, no. 153, p. 358-380.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Côte d'Ivoire ; Ghana ; social welfare ; social policy

Ethiopia
'We recommend compliance' : bargaining and leverage in Ethiopian-US intelligence cooperation / Sobukwe Odinga.
In: Review of African political economy , vol. 44, no. 153, p. 432-448.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Ethiopia ; United States ; international relations ; regional security ; intelligence services

Ghana
Oil and democratisation in Ghana / Ehis Michael Odijie.
In: Review of African political economy , vol. 44, no. 153, p. 476-486.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Ghana ; petroleum ; democratization

Namibia
China and Namibia, 1990 to 2015 : how a new actor changes the dynamics of political economy / Gregor Dobler.
In: Review of African political economy , vol. 44, no. 153, p. 449-465.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Namibia ; China ; international economic relations ; Chinese ; traders ; entrepreneurs ; construction industry

South Africa
Institutionalised conflict, subaltern worker rebellions and insurgent unionism: casual workers' organisation and power resources in the South African Post Office / David Dickinson.
In: Review of African political economy , vol. 44, no. 153, p. 415-431.
ASC·Subject·Headings: South Africa ; labour conflicts ; trade unions ; postal services

Subsaharan Africa
A comparative political economy of regional migration and labour mobility in West and Southern Africa / Hannah Cross and Lionel Cliffe.
In: Review of African political economy , vol. 44, no. 153, p. 381-398.
ASC·Subject·Headings: West Africa ; Southern Africa ; labour mobility ; migration

Subsaharan Africa
The International Labour Organization and African trade unions: tripartite fantasies and enduring struggles / Nick Bernards.
In: Review of African political economy , vol. 44, no. 153, p. 399-414.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa ; South Africa ; Ilo ; trade unions ; development cooperation

Tanzania
Beyond forceful measures: Tanzania' s 'war on poaching' needs diversified strategies more than militarised tactics / Mathew Bukhi Mabele.
In: Review of African political economy , vol. 44, no. 153, p. 487-498.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Tanzania ; poaching ; wildlife protection ; crime prevention

Electronic documents

Africa
Special theme : Conservation, symbolism and imagination : human-nature interactions in the Global South / Alex Aisher and Vinita Damodaran. - Bangalore: Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment., 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; Tanzania ; South Africa ; anthropology ; environmental history ; nature conservation ; ethnozoology
http://www.conservationandsociety.org/showBackIssue.asp?issn=0972-4923;y...

Mali
Vers une sécurité par le bas ? Étude sur les perceptions et les expériences des défis de sécurité dans deux communes maliennes Sten Hagberg, Yaouaga Félix Koné. - Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mali ; national security ; violence ; communities ; civil society ; images ; attitudes
http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1095872/FULLTEXT01.pdf

Senegal
L’hypothèse migratoire comme horizon d'émancipation ? une ethnographie des jeunesses dakaroises / |c Kelly Poulet. - Amiens: Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; youth ; emigration ; migration ; social status ; images ; dissertations (form)
http://www.theses.fr/2016AMIE0005

Senegal
Migration d'étudiants en Afrique de l'Ouest - Quel rôle pour les pôles universitaires régionaux ? Perspectives des étudiants Togolais au Sénégal Julia Leiss. - Tübingen: Eberhard-Karls-Universität, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; students ; Togolese ; universities ; migration ; theses (form)
https://publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle/10900/71803

South Africa
Shared heritage in museums in South Africa : opportunities for collaboration / H.G. Schuit, D. Bull, M. Holtrop. - Amersfoort: Cultural Heritage Agency, Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; Netherlands ; cultural heritage ; colonial history ; cultural cooperation
https://cultureelerfgoed.nl/sites/default/files/publications/rce_shared_...

South Africa
The challenges of digitising heritage collections in South Africa : a case study / Stephen Anderson. - Belville: University of the Western Cape, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; cultural heritage ; electronic resources ; archives
https://etd.uwc.ac.za/bitstream/handle/11394/3211/Anderson_MBibl_2013.pd...

South Africa
“Methodologies of engagement” : locating archives in postapartheid memory practices / Anthea Patricia Josias. - Michigan: University of Michigan, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; memory ; archives ; cultural heritage ; apartheid
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/97821

South Africa
Biography in and of an archive : the Shelagh Gastrow Collection and South Africa / David Kwao-Sarbah. - Belville: University of Western Cape, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Gastrow, Shelagh ; South Africa ; archives ; biography ; political history ; memory
http://etd.uwc.ac.za/xmlui/handle/11394/3515

Tanzania
Digitalization of cultural heritage of Usambara, Tanzania / Tesfahun Belew, Jorinde Bijl, Roos Bouman, Simone Heidenrijk, Anniek van Keeken, Sylivia Lussumo, Imke Straaten. - [The Netherlands]: [Publisher unidentified], 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Tanzania ; cultural heritage ; tourism ; electronic resources
http://www.footstepsafrica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Digitalization...

Uganda
The meanings of heritage practices, spaces and sites in the Busoga Kingdom,‘Uganda’ in the twenty first century / by Nabirye Zaina Lubwama. - Belville: University of the Western Cape, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Uganda ; traditional polities ; palaces ; cultural heritage ; colonial history
http://etd.uwc.ac.za/xmlui/handle/11394/4491

Zimbabwe
Historic buildings, conservation and shifts in social value at Old Umtali : contestations of heritage in Zimbabwe / Njabulo Chipangura. - Bellville: University of the Western Cape, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; conservation of cultural heritage ; decolonization ; memory
http://etd.uwc.ac.za/xmlui/handle/11394/5098

Zimbabwe
An investigation of Zimbabwe's contemporary heritage practices of memorialising war : a case study of the heroes' acres in Matabeleland South Province / Blessed Magadzike. - Belville: University of Western Cape, 2011.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; monuments ; national liberation struggles ; memory
http://etd.uwc.ac.za/xmlui/handle/11394/5402

Books

Africa
Winning the Third World : Sino-American rivalry during the Cold War / Gregg A. Brazinsky. - Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Cold War (1945-1989) ; Diplomatic relations. ; Africa ; China ; United States ; cold war ; international relations ; Ost-West-Konflikt 1900-1999

Africa
Littérature et sciences de l'éducation : lectures interdisciplinaires / Vincent Ouattara. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; literature ; pedagogy ; education

Burkina Faso
Problématique d'appropriation des technologies modernes par la société madarè du Burkina Faso / Diaboado Jacques Thiamobiga. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; agricultural innovations ; social change ; rural society ; Bobo

Burkina Faso
Pédagogie de la doctrine sociale de l'Église et renforcement du capital social : le milieu paysan du Burkina Faso / Mwinniakpeon Victorien Kpoda. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; rural development ; rural society ; Catholic Church ; community participation ; capacity building

Cameroon
Francomanie, francophilie, francophobie atouts et enjeux de la francophonie littéraire en Afrique : melanges offerts au Professeur André-Marie Ntsobé Njoh sous la direction de / Edited by Richard Laurent Omgba, Raymond Mbassi Ateba et Jean Claude Abada Medjo. - Paris: Editions des archives contemporaines, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ntsobé, André-Marie. ; Cameroon ; academics ; literature ; French language ; francophonie ; festschrifts (form)

Central African Republic
Polokamba : hippopotame et esprit sur l'Oubangui / Michel Dieudonné Vohito ; préf. d'Alain Lamessi. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Central African Republic ; wild animals ; popular beliefs

Ethiopia
Under the shade of a Gaashe : biographical sketch of Dr. Girma Wolde Giorgis, President of Ethiopia (2001-2013) / Sivakumar K. P. - Ambo: Micro Business College, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Girma Wolde Giorgis, 1924- ; , 1924- ; Ethiopia ; heads of State ; biographies (form) ; Ex-presidents. ; Politics and government. ; Biography.

Guinea
Aux frontières du singe : relations entre hommes et chimpanzés au Kakandé, Guinée (XIX-XXIe siècle) / Vincent Leblan. - Paris: Éditions EHESS, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Guinea ; apes ; Human-animal relationships

Guinea
Guinée, la réforme scolaire de 1968 : un grand rêve brisé? / Zaoro Hyacinthe Loua ; préf. d'Ansoumane Doré. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Guinea ; educational reform ; educational policy ; socialism

Guinea
Histoire et élaboration imaginaire dans les romans de Williams Sassine / Marie-Françoise Chitour. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Sassine, Williams, 1944-1997 ; Guinea ; writers ; novels

Mali
Kuma Malinke historiography : Sundiata Keita to Almamy Samori Toure / Nubia Kai. - Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mali ; Manding ; griots ; myths ; oral history

Mozambique
A paz dos Moçambicanos / Jaíme Pedro Gonçalves. - Maputo: O autor, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mozambique ; civil wars ; peace negotiations ; Catholic Church ; personal narratives (form)

Nigeria
Nigerian heritage : the Igbo culture / ed. by Kehinde Faluyi and L.C. Dioka. - Lagos: Rebonik Publications, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Igbo ; political systems ; social relations ; customs

Nigeria
Judge don beg me : the Odyssey of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's encounters with the law / Richard Akinnola. - Abuja: Rich Konsult, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kuti, Fela, 1938-1997 ; Nigeria ; musicians ; lawsuits

Nigeria
Portrait of a legend : the untold story of Emmanuel Omoniyi Omotunde, the prophet of Ajaye, founder of African Apostolic Church, showing his peculiar power and peculiar challenges / Moses Oludele Idowu. - Ikeja, Lagos State: Devine Artillery Publications, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Omotunde, Emmanuel Omoniyi. ; African Apostolic Church. ; Nigeria ; Christianity ; religious movements ; prophets

Nigeria
Lawful Nigeria : ... an awareness over-loading vibration / Agwagom Vincent Chibueze. - Enugu: Cheston Agency Press, 2011.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; motivational literature

Nigeria
Joseph Ayo Babalola : the mantle of an apostle : a study on spiritual power acquisition / Moses Oludele Idowu. - Ikeja, Lagos State: Divine Artillery Publications, 2008.
ASC Subject·Headings: Babalota, Jospeh Ayo. ; Christ Apostolic Church. ; Nigeria ; Pentecostalism ; prophets

Nigeria
Religion and human values / Chenimuya Clement. - Lagos: Mustard Press, 2008.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; ethics ; religion

Nigeria
Selected speeches of a notable politician Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki, the Waziri of Ilorin / ed. by Mallam Shuaib Muhammad Nuhu. - [ S.l.: s.n.], 2007.
ASC Subject·Headings: Saraki, Abubakar Olusola. ; Nigeria ; politicians ; speeches (form)

North Africa
Le Maghreb des origines à nos jours: vision 2050 / Mohamed Kabbaj, Malek Chebel. - Casablanca: La Croisée des Chemins, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Economic history. ; Politics and government. ; Social conditions. ; Maghreb ; Morocco ; economic conditions ; regionalism ; future ; country studies (form) ; interviews (form) ; History.

North Africa
Littérature et cinémas arabes = Adab fī al-sīnimā al-ʻArabīyah / Ahmed Bedjaoui, Michel Serceau ; ouvrage collectif sous la direction de Ahmed Bedjaoui et de Michel Serceau ; avec la participation de: Salma Mobarak, Abdelkrim Gabous, Moulay Driss Jaïdi, Walid El Khachab. - [Alger]: Chihab Éditions, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Arabic literature. ; Motion pictures. ; Motion pictures and literature. ; Algeria ; Egypt ; Morocco ; Tunisia ; films ; cinema ; literature 1900-2099 ; Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Senegal
Génération étudiante des années 80 : le refus des diktats du FMI et de la Banque mondiale / Babacar Ndaw ; préf. de Mbaye Diack. - Dakar: L'Harmattan Sénégal, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; student movements ; student strikes ; economic policy ; 1980-1989

South Africa
1847 : dispossession and migration population movement in the Northern Cape during the 19th century / Nigel Amschwand. - Cape Town: Nigel Amschwand, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; The Cape ; Rehoboth Basters ; Xhosa ; Korana ; San ; expropriation ; land tenure ; eviction ; migration ; 1800-1849

South Africa
Battleground : Charles Bell's drawings of the War of the Axe, 1846, in historical context and in relation to recent representations of the Frontier/Wars of Dispossession / Michael Godby ; with an essay on the War of the Axe by Jeff Peires, and notes on historical weapons by Rod Hooper-Box. - Cape Town: Primavera Publishing, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; The Cape ; Xhosa ; conflict ; eviction ; drawing ; weapons ; 1840-1849 ; pictorial works (form)

Togo
Perspectives démographiques du Togo 2011-2031 / par Essey Senah Koupogbe et Kossi Gbeblèwou Tete ; avec le contribution du bureau de l'UNFPA/Togo. - Togo: Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques et Démographiques (INSEED), 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Togo ; demography ; population growth ; statistics

West Africa
Beyond jihad : the pacifist tradition in West African Islam / Lamin Sanneh. - New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Islam ; Islamisierung ; Pazifismus ; West Africa ; religious conversion ; Islamization ; religious history Sanneh, Lamin O. New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, [2016] 9780199351626

Zimbabwe
Education and development in Zimbabwe : a social, political and economic analysis / edited by Edward Shizha and Michael T. Kariwo. - Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2011.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; education ; social development ; higher education

Films

Equatorial Guinea
Desamparad@s / Raimundo Bernabé Nnandong. [Guinea Ecuatorial]: [publisher not identiefied], 2016.
Subject·Headings: Equatorial Guinea ; schoolgirls ; pregnancy ; schooling ; feature films (form) ; short films (form) ; videos (form)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6aLajTJPas

Equatorial Guinea
Aricó caliente / Raimundo Bernabé Nnandong. [Guinea Ecuatorial]: [publisher not identiefied], 2015.
Subject·Headings: Equatorial Guinea ; interpersonal relations ; feature films (form) ; videos (form)
https://vimeo.com/115187049

Ghana
Chameleon : undercover with Africa's most notorious journalist / a film by Ryan Mullins. Montreal: Eyesteelfilm, 2015.
Subject·Headings: Ghana ; journalists ; journalism ; crime ; corruption ; documentary films (form) ; videos (form)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVtRAw6ZesY (Trailer)

Kenya
Paradies Liebe / ein Film von Ulrich Seidl. [Berlin]: Good!movies, 2013.
Subject·Headings: Kenya ; Austria ; elderly women ; white women ; race relations ; prostitution ; sexuality ; feature films (form) ; videos (form)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgJVQtylZE8 (Trailer)

African Literature

Burkina Faso
Les tribulations de sambal, enfant berger roman / Djibrilou Diallo. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; pastoralists ; boys ; Fulani ; novels (form)

Burkina Faso
Atikou, le revenant de Bafélé : roman / Baba Hama. - Paris: L'Harmattan Burkina Faso, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; traditional rulers ; rural society ; gold mining ; novels (form)

Burkina Faso
L'impair d'or : roman / Mahamoudou Ouédraogo. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; gender relations ; novels (form)

Cameroon
˜Lesœ mariages salvateurs : théâtre / Patrice Ndedi Penda. - Yaoundé: Éditions CLÉ, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: AIDS (Disease) ; AIDS (Disease) in adolescence Prevention. ; Man-woman relationships. ; Youth Sexual behavior. ; Cameroon ; Aids ; youth ; sex education ; drama (form) ; French drama (Comedy) ; Cameroonian drama (French) ; Drama.

Guinea
L'hyène affamée : contes de la Haute-Guinée / Mallon Kéita-Kouyaté. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Guinea ; folk tales (form)

Senegal
La sœur du bouc : contes diolas du Sénégal / Pierre Manga. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; Diola ; folk tales (form)
 

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