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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 04 2018

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Books

Africa
Higher education in Africa : growth, challenges and government initiatives / Sukanta Sarkar, Suman Kalyan Chaudhury. - New Delhi: Avon Publications, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa higher education

Africa
Christianisme authentique en Afrique contemporaine : actes du colloque international de la FATEAC, 29 au 31 Mai 2013 à Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire) / Rubin Pohor , Issiaka Coulibaly. - Abidjan: Les Presses de la FATEAC, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa Côte d'Ivoire Burkina Faso Christianity conference papers (form)

Algeria
Albert Camus n'a pas compris les Kabyles / Boussetta Allouche ; préface d'Alexandre L. Amprimoz. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Camus, Albert, 1913-1960 =900 Berbers in literature. Algeria Kabyle writers French images colonialism France Colonies Africa. =900 0 Kabylia (Algeria) In literature.

Burkina Faso
La double éducation en pays tusian au Burkina Faso : problématique pour une (ré)conciliation / Missa Marius Barro. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso traditional education schooling values youth

Burkina Faso
Le Burkina Faso : pays des hommes intègres / direction, Danielle Ben Yahmed, Nicole Houstin ; textes, Muriel Devey-Malu-Malu. - Paris, France: Les Éditions du Jaguar, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso country studies (form) pictorial works (form)

Cameroon
Figures du soin psychique : deuxième colloque international interdisciplinaire, Douala, 10-12 mai 2016 : cahier des résumés. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Cameroon mental health conference papers (form)

Cameroon
Varieties of literature in contemporary Cameroon / Olivier J. Tchouaffe ; with a forew by Tom McCourt. - Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Cameroon literature novels films literary criticism

Democratic Republic of Congo
Hommage à une légende vivante : Étienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba = Tribute to a living legend : Étienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba / Jean-Louis Tshimbalanga. - Paris: Les impliqués Éditeur, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo politicians presidential elections 2011

Democratic Republic of Congo
La justice constitutionnelle et la juridicisation de la vie politique en droit positif congolais / Léon Odimula Lofunguso Kos'Ongenyi ; préf. d'Evariste Boshab Mabudj. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo constitutional law executive power

Egypt
Life is more beautiful than paradise : a jihadist's own story / Khaled al-Berry ; transl. by Humphrey Davies. - Cairo [etc.]: American University in Cairo Press, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Egypt terrorism Islamic movements militias personal narratives (form) autobiographies (form)

Ethiopia
Soaring on winged verse : the life of Ethiopian poet-playwright Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin / Fasil Yitbarek ; ed. and with an introd. by Heran Sereke Brhan. - Los Angeles, CA: Tsehai Publishers, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ethiopia writers drama poetry

Ivory Coast
Transition humanitaire en Côte d'Ivoire = Humanitarian transition in Côte d'Ivoire / sous la dir. de Thomas Fouquet et Virginie Troit (dir.). - Paris: Éditions Karthala, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Côte d'Ivoire humanitarian assistance health aid Ngo government policy Ebola conference papers (form)

Ivory Coast
FESCI, le rêve brisé? : Côte d'Ivoire / Oulagoué Ba. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Côte d'Ivoire student movements Fédération étudiante et scolaire de Côte d'Ivoire

Ivory Coast
Les entraves à la mise en oeuvre de la loi de 1998 relative au domaine foncier rural en Côte d'Ivoire : analyses et réflexions prospectives / Inades-Formation. - [Abidjan]: Inades-formation, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Côte d'Ivoire land law social conditions legal reform land rights

Kenya
Insurance law and practice in Kenya / Jack Busalile Mwimali. - Nairobi [etc.]: LawAfrica Publishing (K) Ltd, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya insurance private law law of contract

Kenya
Red soil and roasted maize : selected essays and articles on contemporary Kenya / Rasna Warah. - Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2011.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya women writers articles (form) Kenya Politics and government 2002

Kenya
Nairobi A to Z : the complete guide : with a comprehensive index to office buildings and facilities / comp. by R.W. Moss. - Nairobi: Kenway Publications, 1988.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya capitals guidebooks (form)

Nigeria
Black Africa's largest Islamic kingdom before colonialism : royal ribats of Kano and Sokoto / John Edward Philips. - Porter Ranch, CA: New World Africa Press, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria Kano polity Sokoto polity fortifications traditional rulers

Nigeria
Privately empowered : expressing feminism in Islam in northern Nigerian fiction / Shirin Edwin. - Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria Islam feminism literature literary criticism Nigeria In literature.

Nigeria
Why they hate us : a weary sojourner's take on Igbophobia / Obi Ogbuagu. - Lagos: Prestige, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria Igbo xenophobia

Nigeria
The journey so far / Oladayo Popoola. - Ibadan: Daybis Limited, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria military personnel armed forces autobiographies (form)

Nigeria
Local government law and policy in Nigeria : cases and materials / Dr. Idiat Funmilola Akande. - Lagos: Malthouse Press Limited, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria local government constitutional law public law

Nigeria
Gani : crusader for justice / Akin Ibidapo-Obe, F. Abayomi Williams. - Yaba-Lagos: University of Lagos Press, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria lawyers human rights political action biographies (form)

Nigeria
Global economic meltdown / professor Wale Oyemakinde. - Ibadan: published for Sunlight Institute for Policy Studies, by Sunlight Syndicate Ventures, 2009.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria economic recession global economy railway workers workers

Nigeria
Basics of recreation and tourism facilities planning / Ben O. Uwadiegwu. - Enugu: Academic Publishing Company, 2006.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria leisure tourism infrastructure physical planning

Nigeria
The Nigerian discount market operations and management / 'Uju M. Ogubunka, ed. - Lagos: CIBN Press Limited, 2006.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria financial market banking

North Africa
L'âne et l'abeille : le monde animal dans les énigmes et les comptines Kabyles / Youcef Allioui. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Algeria Morocco Kabyle animals riddles (form) folk tales (form)

Senegal
Amadou Mahtar Mbow, le sourcier du futur : un combat pour l'Afrique, un destin pour l'humanité : actes du colloque international tenu à Dakar, 10-12 mai 2011 / ouvrage éd. par Jeanne Lopis-Sylla et Charles Becker. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal teachers diplomats Unesco festschrifts (form)

Sierra Leone
Space and trauma in the writings of Aminatta Forna / Ernest Cole. - Trenton: Africa World Press, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Sierra Leone literary criticism political stability identity mental health

South Africa
The cowboy capitalist John Hays Hammond, the American West and the Jameson Raid / Charles van Onselen. - Jeppestown: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa Jameson Raid colonialism United States history

South Africa
Black economic empowerment : 20 years later, the baby and the bathwater / Phinda Mzwakhe Madi. - Randburg: KR Publishing, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa black entrepreneurs empowerment government policy interest groups

South Africa
"To protect and serve?" : a special report on police investigations into politically motivated violence and crimes / prepared by the Independent Board of Inquiry. - Johannesburg: The Board, 1992.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa police political violence

South Africa
Catalogue of the collections in the Irma Stern Museum. - Cape Town: University of Cape Town, 1971.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa museums exhibition catalogues (form)

South Africa
In Mid-Victorian Cape Town : letters from Miss Rutherfoord / ed. by Joyce Murray. - Cape Town: A.A. Balkema, 1968.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa social history 1850-1859 girls letters (form)

Southern Africa
The aftermath of the Cassinga massacre : survivors, deniers and injustices / Vilho Amukwaya Shigwedha. - Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Angola Namibia South Africa refugees military intervention national liberation struggles Sadf

Southern Africa
"Ein trauriges Fiasko" : koloniale Konzentrationslager im südlichen Afrika, 1900-1908 / Jonas Kreienbaum. - Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Southern Africa Great Britain Germany concentration camps colonial period

Southern Africa
Shadows in the sand : a Koevoet tracker's story of an insurgency war / Sisingi Kamongo and Leon Bezuidenhout ; [with contributions by Francois du Toit, Herman Grobler & Jacques Myburgh]. - Pinetown: South Publishers (Pty) Ltd, 2011.
ASC Subject·Headings: Namibia. South West African Police Counterinsurgency. SWAPO

Subsaharan Africa
Analyse économique de l'éducation en Afrique subsaharienne / Joseph Yao, Patrick K. N'Gouan ; préf. d'Edouard Firmin Matoko. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa education human resources costs cost-benefit analysis

Subsaharan Africa
Afrique musiquante : musiciennes et musiciens traditionnels d'Afrique noire au siècle dernier / Gilbert Rouget ; avec le soutien de l'Institut de France, Fondation Khôra, et la collaboration de Nolwenn Blanchard. - Paris: Riveneuve éditions, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa French-speaking Africa music musicians musical instruments pictorial works (form)

Subsaharan Africa
Sixième session de formation de l'Association africaine des hautes juridictions francophones (AA-HJF) : les actes de la sixième session de formation / Association africaine des hautes juridictions francophones. - Cotonou: Association africaine des hautes juridictions francophones, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa French-speaking Africa constitutional law public law international law jurisdiction conference papers (form)

Uganda
Conflict legacies : understanding youth's post-peace agreement practices in Yumbe, north-western Uganda / Jonna Both. - [S.l.]: Jonna Both, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Uganda youth conflict resolution peacebuilding boundary conflicts

Uganda
Africa's turmoil, miseries and poverty : the sour sown seeds of political hate and destruction of colonial imperialism / Mica Kiribedda. - Central Milton Keynes: AuthorHouse, 2011.
ASC Subject·Headings: Uganda colonialism political stability corruption personal narratives (form)

West Africa
Afrique, à l'ombre des dieux : collections africaines de la Congrégation du Saint-Esprit / sous la direction de Nicolas Rolland. - Paris: Somogy, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Central Africa sculpture African studies collections missionary history

Zambia
From the Cam to the Zambezi : colonial service and the path to the New Zambia / edited by Tony Schur. - London [etc.]: The Radcliff Press, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zambia civil servants colonial administration decolonization independence personal narratives (form)
 

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