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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 05 2018

Week 05 2018

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Articles | Electronic documents | Books | Journals | Films | African Literature | Sound | Abstracts and downloads

Electronic documents

Africa
Warlord democrats in Africa: ex-military leaders and electoral politics/ edited by Anders Themnér. - London [etc.]: Zed Books [etc.], 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; Rwanda ; Liberia ; Guinea-Bissau ; Mozambique ; Sierra Leone ; South Sudan ; politicians ; leadership ; conflict ; militias ; democratization
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:nai:diva-2121

Africa
The rise of Africa's middle class: myths, realities and critical engagements / edited by Henning Melber. - London [etc.]: Zed Books [etc.], 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; Kenya ; Nigeria ; Tanzania ; Angola ; Mozambique ; South Africa ; middle class ; social stratification ; economic development ; social change
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:nai:diva-2089

Mozambique
Debt, aid and poverty in Mozambique: lessons learned from the Mozambican debt crisis / Cecilia Navarra and Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues. - Uppsala: The Nordic Africa Institute, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mozambique ; Cameroon ; debt ; financial policy ; loans ; poverty
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:nai:diva-2172

Books

Africa
Les gouvernances foncières et leur impact sur le processus de développement : cas de quelques pays africains / Bernard Puépi. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa ; Cameroon ; land rights ; land tenure ; land acquisition

Burkina Faso
École et milieu traditionnel chez les Numu au Burkina Faso : les valeurs en question / Missa Marius Barro. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; schooling ; values ; traditional society

Cameroon
Au pays de la magie noire : contes / Christiane Louise Félicité Kadji. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; Bamileke ; fables (form) ; short stories (form)

Central African Republic
La réforme du secteur de la sécurité en République Centrafricaine / Yves Gatien Golo. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Central African Republic ; national security ; armed forces ; police ; reform

Gabon
L'exclusion de Paul-Marie Indjendjet-Gondjout du Bloc démocratique gabonais : un épisode de sa rivalité avec Léon Mba Minko / Jean-François Owaye ; préf. de Hugues Mouckaga. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Gabon ; politicians ; political parties ; political conflicts ; political history

Gabon
Les matitis : mes pauvres univers en contre-plaqué, en planche et en tôle... / Hubert Freddy Ndong Mbeng. - Saint Maur: Editions Sépia, 1992.
ASC Subject·Headings: Gabon ; capitals ; informal settlements ; social life ; poverty ; prose (form)

General
Unsilenced : unmasking the United Nations? culture of cover-ups, corruption and impunity / Rasna Warah ; introd. by Beatrice Edwards. - Bloomington, IN: Authorhouse, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Un ; corruption ; administration of justice

Ivory Coast
Cités universitaires d'Afrique : la jeunesse à l'épreuve de la formation / Yannick Bessou. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Education Africa (Organization) ; Côte d'Ivoire ; pupils ; students ; social conditions ; education

Ivory Coast
Côte d'Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara et les droits de l'homme / Moustapha ben Ismaïla Diaby ; préf. de Diaby Moussa Abdoul Kader. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Côte d'Ivoire ; offences against human rights ; human rights

Kenya
Red soils of Tsavo / M.G. Visram. - London: Janus Publishing, 1995.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; sisal ; plantations ; autobiographies (form)

Mauritius
Untangling the knot : tribulations and legacy of a coolie / Rishi Jheengun. - New Delhi: Star Publications Pvt. Ltd., 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Jheengun, Rishi Family ; Jheengun, Rishi Genealogy. ; Mauritius ; Indians ; family ; identity ; immigrants

Morocco
Bureaucratizing Islam : Morocco and the War on Terror / Ann Marie Wainscott. - Cambridge [etc.]: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; bureaucracy ; Islam ; terrorism ; reform ; education ; foreign policy

Nigeria
Islamic prayers for happy home : "... he ordained between you love and mercy..." (Q30: 21) / researched, comp. and ed. by A. Mudathir Ajileye. - Ikirun, Osun State: Al-Halal International Islamic Publications Centre Ltd, 2011.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; marriage ; Islam ; Koran ; handbooks (form)

Rwanda
Rwanda : deux siècles de crimes contre l'humanité / Célestin Hitimana. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Habyalimana, Jean-Baptiste 1950-1994 ; Rwanda ; offences against human rights ; genocide ; heads of State ; assassination ; history

Senegal
Traits sénégalais / Mor Talla Gaye. - Dakar: L'Harmattan Sénégal, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; Senegalese ; biographies (form) ; articles (form)

South Africa
Sociology in South Africa : colonial, apartheid and democratic forms / R. Sooryamoorthy. - Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; sociology ; political conditions ; sociological research

South Africa
What a boykie / Robin Binckes. - Pinetown: 30 Degrees South Publishers, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Berks, John, 1941- ; South Africa ; radio ; biographies (form)

South Africa
Schooling Muslims in Natal : identity, state and the Orient Islamic Educational Institute / Goolam Vahed and Thembisa Waetjen. - Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Orient Islamic Educational Institute. ; South Africa ; Indians ; Islam ; schools ; education ; ethnic identity ; citizenship

Tanzania
Waiting for the sunrise : Goan jazz musicians in Dar es Salaam / by Judy Luis-Watson. - Goa: Goa 1556, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Tanzania ; musicians ; musical groups ; biographies (form)

West Africa
La Banque des États de l'Afrique centrale : lettre ouverte au gouverneur / Mahamat Massoud. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Banque des états de l'Afrique centrale. ; Central Africa ; Banque des Etats de l'Afrique Centrale ; management ; Communauté Économique et Monétaire de l'Afrique Centrale
 

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