New titles
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 03 2018
Week 03 2018
Archive
Articles | Electronic documents | Books | Journals | Films | African Literature | Sound | Abstracts and downloads
Articles
Africa
Can African juridical principles redeem and legitimise contemporary human rights jurisprudence? / Nqosa L. Mahao. ( Abstract available)
In: The comparative and international law journal of Southern Africa volume 49, issue 3 (2016), pages 455-476.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Africa human rights customary law jurisprudence
http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-62faddc6b
Cameroon
Le processus de décentralisation au Cameroun à l'épreuve du transfert de compétences et de ressources aux communes : entre controle et autonomie / Magelan Omballa. ( Abstract available)
In: Revue africaine d'études politiques et stratégiques numéro spécial (2015), pages 7-39.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Cameroon decentralization administrative reform
Cameroon
Les coopératives agricoles à l'épreuve de la réforme territoriale de l'administration publique au Cameroun / André Kayo Sikombe. ( Abstract available)
In: Revue africaine d'études politiques et stratégiques numéro spécial (2015), pages 85-115.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Cameroon agricultural cooperatives administrative reform agricultural policy
Cameroon
Politiques de conservation de la biodiversité faunique des aires protégées au Cameroun : une étude à partir du programme Ecofac à Lomié / Jean Pierre Ngonzo et Dorianne Djukem Ngonzo. ( Abstract available)
In: Revue africaine d'études politiques et stratégiques numéro spécial (2015), pages 117-146.
ASC·Subject·Headings: Cameroon nature conservation environmental policy environmental history
South Africa
The constitutional phenomenon of parliamentary privilege and immunity in South Africa : a comparison with jurisdictions in Britain, Canada and France / Mbuzeni Mathenjwa. ( Abstract available)
In: The comparative and international law journal of Southern Africa volume 49, issue 3 (2016), pages 387-408.
ASC·Subject·Headings: South Africa Great Britain Canada France impunity parliamentarians constitutional law
http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-62f9b93db
South Africa
The litigant in person and the access to justice dilemma : quo vadis South Africa / Estelle Hurter. ( Abstract available)
In: The comparative and international law journal of Southern Africa volume 49, issue 3 (2016), pages 428-454.
ASC·Subject·Headings: South Africa access to justice trials civil procedure lawsuits
http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-62fa6ddf2
South Africa
The South African Constitutional Court’s death penalty and rendition cases as tools for litigants abroad / Laura van den Eynde. ( Abstract available)
In: The comparative and international law journal of Southern Africa volume 49, issue 3 (2016), pages 369-386.
ASC·Subject·Headings: South Africa constitutional courts capital punishment constitutional law
http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-62f967b13
South Africa
Tapping into a quarter-century’s judicial experience with the Canadian General Anti-avoidance Rule (GAAR) : some insights for South Africa / Lee-Ann Steenkamp, Jennifer Roeleveld and Craig West. ( Abstract available)
In: The comparative and international law journal of Southern Africa volume 49, issue 3 (2016), pages 477-505.
ASC·Subject·Headings: South Africa Canada tax evasion fiscal law judgments
http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-62fb22896
South Africa
Where will BRICS go next? : considerations on state and constitution in a comparative perspective / Ernani Contipelli. ( Abstract available)
In: The comparative and international law journal of Southern Africa volume 49, issue 3 (2016), pages 409-427.
ASC·Subject·Headings: South Africa Brazil Russian Federation India China State constitutions political systems
http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-62fa0a90f
South Africa
Contesting 'invited spaces' : where a ward committee and a social movement meet / Anneke le Roux. ( Abstract available)
In: Transformation nummer 89, pages 87-111.
ASC·Subject·Headings: South Africa civil society popular participation
South Africa
Privilege, solidarity and social justice struggles in South Africa : a view from Grahamstown / Sally Matthews. ( Abstract available)
In: Transformation nummer 88, pages 1-24.
ASC·Subject·Headings: South Africa civil society social justice social relations
Books
Africa
Special issue on women and peacebuilding / guest ed.: Francis Onditi. - Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017. ( Abstract available)
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa Kenya Rwanda South Sudan Zimbabwe women peacebuilding empowerment
Africa
Narrating the nation in the African novel : Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ayi Kwei Armah and Kofi Awoonor / Abdelkader Babkar. - [S.l.: s.n.], 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa literature national identity literary criticism
Africa
Islamic charities from the Arab world in Africa : intercultural encounters of humanitarianism and morality / Mayke Kaag. -
ASC Subject·Headings: charities Gulf States Africa Ngo interreligious relations
Angola
Cuito Cuanavale : frontline accounts by Soviet soldiers / ed. by Gennady Shubin ... [et al.] and translated from the Russian by Tamara Reilly. - Auckland Park: Jacana Media, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Angola Soviet Union South Africa Cuba civil wars military personnel personal narratives (form)
Central African Republic
Oubangui-Chari, le pays qui n'existait pas / Jean-Pierre Tuquoi. - Paris: La Découverte, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Central African Republic France colonization history political conditions
Democratic Republic of Congo
Tropical cowboys : westerns, violence, and masculinity in Kinshasa / Ch. Didier Gondola. - Bloomington, IN [etc.]: Indiana University Press, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo masculinity urban youth youth gangs violence social conditions
Ethiopia
Evangelical faith movement in Ethiopia : the origins and establishment of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus / Fekadu Gurmessa Kussa ; translated and edited by Ezekiel Gebissa. - Minneapolis, MN: Lutheran University Press, 2009.
ASC Subject·Headings: Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus. Ethiopia religious movements missions Protestant churches missionary history
Nigeria
The humanities in Africa : knowledge production, universities, and the transformation of society / by ToÌyiÌ€n FaÌloÌ£laÌ. - Austin, TX: Pan African University Press, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria humanities research higher education
Nigeria
Rudiments of research and research in religious studies / Jacob Kehinde Ayantayo. - [S.l.: s.nl], 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria religious studies research methods
Nigeria
Grassroots governance in perspective : my experience in Oluyole Local Government, Oyo State / Prince Ayodeji Abass-Aleshinloye. - Nigeria: Tentacle Communications, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria local government politicians
Nigeria
When life throws you lemons : succeeding through drive, skill and will / Adedamola Are. - Ibadan: University Press Ibadan, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Are, Adedamola Nigeria United States migrants autobiographies (form)
Nigeria
Ben Nwabueze : his life, works and times : an autobiography / Ben Nwabueze. - Ibadan [etc.]: Gold Press Limited, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria politicians lawyers autobiographies (form) Nwabueze, B. O.
Nigeria
Oduduwa College, Ile-Ife : our alma mater at 80 (1932-2012) / by Prince S.K. Lawal. - Badagry Lagos State: [Author], 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Oduduwa College (Ife, Nigeria) Nigeria universities educational history
Nigeria
Stakeholders at war in Nigeria : from Lord Lugard to President Goodluck Jonathan / by Tekena N. Tamuno. - Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria: Stirling-Horden Publishers, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria national security separatism
Nigeria
British administrative changes and reorganizations in Northern Nigeria, 1897-1939 : with specific reference to Northeast Yorubaland / Z.O. Apata. - Ibadan: Cresthill Publishers, 2011.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria Great Britain colonial administration administrative reform political history
Nigeria
Before the journey became home : the most detailed and remarkable childhood experience ever written by an immigrant / Zents Sowunmi. - Irving, TX: Korloki, Inc, 2010.
ASC Subject·Headings: Sowunmi, Zents K. Nigeria United States migrants autobiographies (form)
Nigeria
Discourse, politics and the 1993 presidential election campaigns in Nigeria : a re-invention of June 12 Legacy / Babatunde Olusola Opeibi. - [S.l.: s.n.], 2009.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria election campaigns 1993 pamphlets speeches mass communication
Nigeria
Islamic studies in contemporary Nigeria : problems & prospects / ed. by L.M. Adetona. - [Nigeria]: Romio Concepts Limited, 2007.
ASC Subject·Headings: Opeloye, M. O. Nigeria Islamic studies Islamic education academics festschrifts (form)
Nigeria
He gave me wings : me and my dad / 'Funso Adegbola. - Ibadan: BookBuilders/Editions Africa, 2005.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ige, Bola Nigeria politicians chieftaincy family autobiographies (form)
Nigeria
The legacy of Rasulullatt : building the climate towards rennaisance / Taoheed ibn Majolagbe. - Lagos: Jam'iyyat Junud Dinil Islamiyy, 2001.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria Islam motivational literature
Nigeria
God's own city / Fọlọ́rúnṣó Folówóṣẹlé. - Lagos: Concept Publications Limited, 2000.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria motivational literature urban planning biographies (form)
South Africa
Being scholarly : Festschrift in honour of the work of Eli M. Bitzer / edited by Liezel Frick, Vernon Trafford, Magda Fourie-Malherbe. - Stellenbosch: Sun Media, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Blitzer, Eli M. South Africa academics higher education curriculum development pedagogy festschrifts (form)
South Africa
Waste of a white skin : the Carnegie Corporation and the racial logic of white vulnerability / Tiffany Willoughby-Herard. - Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Carnegie Corporation of New York. South Africa United States apartheid race relations international relations poverty
South Africa
The assassination of King Shaka / John Laband. -
ASC Subject·Headings: Shaka, King of the Zulu, 1787?-1828 South Africa assassination monarchy colonialism history
Subsaharan Africa
Special issue: Localizing the history of development in Africa / guest eds.: Leslie A. Hadfield and John Aerni-Flessner. - Boston, MA: Boston University, 2017. ( Abstract available)
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa Lesotho Kenya Namibia Rwanda Tanzania development self-help self-help associations refugees social history
Subsaharan Africa
Politics, bureaucracy and development in Africa / Ladipo Adamolekun. - Abuja [etc.]: Spectrum Books, 2006.
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa civil servants public administration political conditions
Zimbabwe
The good Murungu : a cricket tale of the unexpected / Alan Butcher. - Worthing: Pitch Publishing Ltd, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe cricket travel books (form) autobiographies (form)
Zimbabwe
Reconciliation and religio-political non-conformism in Zimbabwe / Joram Tarusarira. - London [etc.]: Routledge, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe Church civil society resistance political action

