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 42 2017

Week 42 2017

Articles

Africa
Migration within Africa and beyond / Beth Elise Whitaker. - (Abstract available)
In: African Studies Review : (2017), vol. 60, no. 2, p. 209-220
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; diasporas ; migrants ; migration ; migration policy
https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2017.6 (Restricted access)

Africa
Terrorized places and spaces the geographical dimension of African terrorism / Justin E. Agheyisi. - (Abstract available)
In: African Geographical Review : (2017), vol. 36, no. 3, p. 305-319 : krt., tab
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; terrorism
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2016.1253487 (Restricted access)

Africa
Toward a more desirable form of sustainable urban development in Africa / Patrick Brandful Cobbinah and Rhoda Mensah Darkwah. - (Abstract available)
In: African Geographical Review : (2017), vol. 36, no. 3, p. 262-285
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; sustainable development ; urban areas ; urban planning
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2016.1208770 (Restricted access)

Africa
Le dossier: matérialités du vote / coord. par Sandrine Perrot, Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle et Justin Willis. - (Abstract available)
In: Politique africaine : (2016), no. 144, p. 5-134 : ill., tab
ASC Subject Headings: advertising ; Africa ; clothing ; elections ; Ghana ; Kenya ; Malawi ; material culture ; Mozambique ; posters ; Somaliland ; Uganda ; voting

Angola
Changes to urban society in Angola : from limited to multi-criteria stratification / Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues. - (Abstract available)
In: African Studies Review : (2017), vol. 60, no. 2, p. 161-181
ASC Subject Headings: Angola ; social change ; social inequality ; social stratification ; urban society
https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2017.48 (Restricted access)

Benin
Vodún, spiritual insecurity, and religious importation in Benin / Douglas J. Falen. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of Religion in Africa : (2016), vol. 46, no. 4, p. 453-483 : ill
ASC Subject Headings: Benin ; syncretism ; voodoo ; witchcraft
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12341195 (Restricted access)

Côte d'Ivoire
The new vitality of salafism in Côte d'Ivoire: toward a radicalization of Ivoirian Islam? / Frédérick Madore. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of Religion in Africa : (2016), vol. 46, no. 4, p. 417-452
ASC Subject Headings: civil society ; Côte d'Ivoire ; fundamentalism ; Islam ; Islamic movements ; radicalism ; terrorism
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340090 (Restricted access)

Democratic Republic of Congo
Blackberry girls and Jesus's brides / Katrien Pype. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of Religion in Africa : (2016), vol. 46, no. 4, p. 390-416
ASC Subject Headings: Christian education ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; mobile telephone ; Pentecostalism ; sexuality ; women
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12341106 (Restricted access)

Ghana
"The clave comes home" : salsa dance and pan-African identity in Ghana / Christey Carwile. - (Abstract available)
In: African Studies Review : (2017), vol. 60, no. 2, p. 183-207 : foto's
ASC Subject Headings: African identity ; culture contact ; dance ; Ghana ; globalization
https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2017.6 (Restricted access)

Ghana
Emergency fire response in Ghana: the case of fire stations in Kumasi / Joseph R. Oppong ... [et al.]. - (Abstract available)
In: African Geographical Review : (2017), vol. 36, no. 3, p. 253-261 : graf., krt., tab
ASC Subject Headings: disasters ; fires ; Ghana ; GIS
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2016.1231616 (Restricted access)

Ghana
Seasonal hunger in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, 1900-40 / Paul Shaffer. - (Abstract available)
In: Economic History of Developing Regions : (2017), vol. 32, no. 3, p. 270-300 : graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: colonial period ; colonial policy ; famine ; food shortage ; Ghana ; poverty
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2017.1340093 (Restricted access)

Niger
Seeing the (urban) forest through the trees: governance and household trees in Niamey, Niger / Hilary Hungerford and Yayé Moussa. - (Abstract available)
In: African Geographical Review : (2017), vol. 36, no. 3, p. 286-304 : krt., tab
ASC Subject Headings: forests ; households ; Niger ; trees
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2016.1226909 (Restricted access)

Nigeria
Appraising the limits of Pentecostal political power in Nigeria / Femi J. Kolapo. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of Religion in Africa : (2016), vol. 46, no. 4, p. 369-389
ASC Subject Headings: democratization ; modernization ; Nigeria ; Pentecostalism ; political change
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340089 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Nationalisms inclusive and exclusive: a comparison of the Indian Congress Movement and the African National Congress of South Africa / Bill Freund. - (Abstract available)
In: Transformation : (2015), no. 86, p. 5-29
ASC Subject Headings: democratization ; economic policy ; India ; nation building ; national identity ; poverty reduction ; social conditions ; South Africa

South Africa
Neville Alexander: towards overcoming the legacy of racial capitalism in post-apartheid South Africa / Michael Cloete. - (Abstract available)
In: Transformation : (2015), no. 86, p. 30-47
ASC Subject Headings: capitalism ; race relations ; South Africa

South Africa
Tokenism in South African social policy / Patrick Bond. - (Abstract available)
In: Transformation : (2015), no. 86, p. 48-77
ASC Subject Headings: privatization ; social conditions ; social policy ; social security ; South Africa

South Africa
A reactive approach to technological changes: solidarity's responses at the ArcelorMittal Vanderbijlpark Plant, 1989 to 2012 / Mondli Hlatshwayo. - (Abstract available)
In: Transformation : (2014), no. 85, p. 43-63 : graf
ASC Subject Headings: industrial production ; innovations ; South Africa ; technological change ; trade unions

South Africa
The nation-building, Africanism and the 2010 Fifa World Cup: what did they do for social cohesion in post-apartheid South Africa / Annsilla Nyar. - (Abstract available)
In: Transformation : (2014), no. 85, p. 21-42
ASC Subject Headings: African identity ; football ; nation building ; South Africa

South Africa
The transformation of the South African credit market / Jürgen Schraten. - (Abstract available)
In: Transformation : (2014), no. 85, p. 1-20
ASC Subject Headings: consumers ; credit ; debt ; South Africa

Subsaharan Africa
The contradictions of pre-election violence : the effects of violence on voter turnout in Sub-Saharan Africa / Dorina A. Bekoe and Stephanie M. Burchard. - (Abstract available)
In: African Studies Review : (2017), vol. 60, no. 2, p. 73-92 : graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: elections ; Kenya ; political repression ; political violence ; Subsaharan Africa ; voting
https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2017.50 (Restricted access)

Tanzania
Sin, slave status, and the "city" : Zanzibar, 1865-c. 1930 / Michelle Greenfield-Liebst . - (Abstract available)
In: African Studies Review : (2017), vol. 60, no. 2, p. 139-160
ASC Subject Headings: freedmen ; missions ; Tanzania ; urban history ; Zanzibar
https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2017.81 (Restricted access)

Zimbabwe
Literature as a medium for social and political activism : the case of Mashingaidze Gomo's "A fine madness" / Rodwell Makombe. - (Abstract available)
In: African Studies Review : (2017), vol. 60, no. 2, p. 115-138
ASC Subject Headings: African identity ; novels ; political action ; postcolonialism ; Zimbabwe
https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2017.51 (Restricted access)

Zimbabwe
Politics, privileges, and loyalty in the Zimbabwe national army / Godfrey Maringira. - (Abstract available)
In: African Studies Review : (2017), vol. 60, no. 2, p. 93-113
ASC Subject Headings: armed forces ; deserters ; exile ; patronage ; ZANU-PF ; Zimbabwe
https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2017.1 (Restricted access)

Electronic documents

Africa
Demokratie lässt sich nicht kaufen: Friedenskonsolidierung in Afrika / Felix Haaß. - Hamburg : GIGA, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; corruption ; democratization ; elections ; peacebuilding ; power-sharing
https://www.giga-hamburg.de/de/system/files/publications/gf_afrika_1705.pdf

Burkina Faso
Annuaire statistique / Burkina Faso, Institut national de la statistique et de la démographie. - Ouagadougou-Burkina Faso : Institut national de la statistique et de la démographie, 2006
ASC Subject Headings: Burkina Faso ; statistics
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/413126978.htm http://www.insd.bf/n/index.php/publications?id=36

East Africa
Regional integration, poverty and the East African Community: what do we know and what have we learnt? Michael Gasiorek [et al.]. - Maastricht : European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: East Africa ; regional economic relations
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/407955933.pdf

Ethiopia
The Nuer pastoralists : between large scale agriculture and villagization : a case study of the Lare District in the Gambella Region of Ethiopia / Wondwosen Michago Seide. - Uppsala : The Nordic Africa Institute, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural land ; agriculture ; Ethiopia ; land tenure ; Nuer ; pastoralists ; resettlement
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:nai:diva-2138

Rwanda
We did not ask to be colonized: legacies of colonial trauma in 21st century African fiction / Emily V. Cox. - [S.l. : s.n.], 2012
ASC Subject Headings: decolonization ; genocide ; literature ; Nigeria ; Rwanda ; Somalia ; violence
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/412888114.pdf

Sierra Leone
Peacebuilding and the depoliticisation of civil society: Sierra Leone (2002 2013) / Simone Datzberger. - London : London School of Economics and Political Science ; Department of International Relations, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: civil society ; democratization ; development ; dissertations (form) ; peacebuilding ; popular participation ; Sierra Leone
http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1037/1/Datzberger_Peacebuilding_and_the_Depolit...

Tanzania
From Anglicanism to African socialism : the Anglican Church and Ujamaa in Tanzania 1955-2005 / by William Fabian Mndolwa. - [S.l. : s.n.], 2012
ASC Subject Headings: 1950-1999 ; Anglican Church ; Church history ; socialism ; Tanzania ; ujamaa
http://hdl.handle.net/10413/9230

Books

Africa
Africa's lions : growth traps and opportunities for six African economies / Haroon Bhorat and Finn Tarp, editors. - (Abstract available) - Washington, DC : Brookings Institution Press, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; demography ; economic development ; employment ; Ethiopia ; Ghana ; Kenya ; labour force ; Mozambique ; Nigeria ; population growth

Africa
Children on the move in Africa : past & present experiences of migration / ed. by Elodie Razy & Marie Rodet. - (Abstract available) - Suffolk : James Currey, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; children ; migration ; mobility ; social conditions

Africa
The book of African names / Molefi Kete Asante ; [ill. by Geoffrey Williams, Ife Nii Owoo, Barbara Nickens]. - Trenton, N.J. : African World Press, 1991
ASC Subject Headings: (6) ; (73) ; 801.313.1 ; 801.313.2 ; Africa ; family names ; first names ; United States

Angola
Ser mulher / Garcia Leitão Ribeiro. - Luanda : Caxinde, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Angola ; gender-based violence ; social conditions ; women

Angola
ABC do Bê Ó / Jacques Arlindo dos Santos. - Luanda : Caxinde, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: Angola ; history ; neighbourhoods ; towns

Angola
Parceria público privada em Angola : uma experiência sobre o microcrédito / Salvador Ferreira. - [Luanda] : Edições Chá de Caxinde, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Angola ; microfinance ; NGO ; private sector ; public sector

Angola
O teatro em Angola / José Mena Abrantes. - Luanda : Nzila, 2005
ASC Subject Headings: Angola ; cultural history ; drama ; theatre

Cape Verde
Cabo Verde, economias criativas, que benefícios para o país? : o caso Atlantic Music Expo Cabo Verde / Irlando Ferreira. - Praia, Cabo Verde : Editura, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Cape Verde ; exhibitions ; music ; trade

Cape Verde
Chã das Caldeiras : história, cultura & potencialidades / Alberto Nunes. - [Cabo Verde] : [Alberto Nunes?], 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Cape Verde ; economic conditions ; history ; towns ; viticulture

Cape Verde
Entre os senhores das ilhas e as descontentes : identidade, classe e género na estruturação do campo político em Cabo Verde / Eurídice Furtado Monteiro. - Praia : Edições Uni-CV, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Cape Verde ; politics ; race relations ; social conditions ; women

Cape Verde
O ordenamento do território e a construção do futuro : da retórica discursiva à prática das ações / Carlos Tavares. - Praia : Carlos Tavares, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Cape Verde ; land use ; regional planning ; urban planning

Cape Verde
Textos de direitos fundamentais e direito internacional da protecção da pessoa humana : com algumas anotações e indicações bibliográficas / organizadores: José Pina Delgado, Liriam Tiujo-Delgado. - Praia : Edições ISCJS e FDJ, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Cape Verde ; civil and political rights ; constitutions ; human rights ; international agreements ; legislation ; social and economic rights

Cape Verde
O chefe de estado : acto de investidura e estatuto juridico-constitucional / Assembleia Nacional. - [S.l.] : Imprensa Nacional, 2002
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; Cape Verde ; constitutions ; heads of State ; speeches (form)

Democratic Republic of Congo
Le kiswahili dans les médias audioviuels de Lubumbashi : usages et représentations / Etienne Damome et Emmanuel Kambaja . - Kinshasa : Editions CEDI, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; language usage ; mass media ; radio ; Swahili language ; television

Egypt
Le développement local en Égypte : rencontres associatives dans un village / Milad Yacoub. - Paris [etc] : L'Harmattan, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: community development ; Egypt ; rural development ; rural sociology ; social relations ; villages

Ethiopia
Seeking wise old men : six decades of Ethiopian Studies at the Frobenius Institute revisited / Sabine Dinslage, Sophia Thubauville (eds.). - (Abstract available) - Berlin : Reimer, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: African Studies centres ; Ethiopia ; Germany ; research ; research methods

Kenya
Difficulties African women face in accessing education : the plight of school girls in Kakamega, Kenya / Kate L. Webster ; with a foreword by Robert A. LeVine. - Lewiston [etc] : Edwin Mellen Press, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: access to education ; education ; girls ; Kenya ; primary education ; schoolgirls ; secondary education

Madagascar
La protection de l'enfant à Madagascar : accompagner la lutte contre la maltraitance / Olga Noelivao Phan Van Hien ; préf. d'Hélène Bezille. - Paris : Karthala, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: child abuse ; children's rights ; Madagascar

Mauritania
Henri Gaden à travers l'Afrique de l'ouest (1894-1939) : fils de Bordeaux, aventurier africain / Roy Dilley ; traduit par Jean-Louis Balans. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; colonial administration ; colonial administrators ; Mauritania ; West Africa

Mozambique
Poder do poder : operação produção e a invenção dos "improdutivos" : urbanos no Moçambique socialista, 1983-1988 / Carlos Domingos Quembo. - Maputo : Alcance Editores, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: economic policy ; Mozambique ; productivity ; social conditions ; socialism ; urbanization

Netherlands
Walking guide to African Leiden = Wandelgids door Afrikaans Leiden / [comp. and ed. by Edith de Roos and Jos Damen]. - Leiden : Brill, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; guidebooks (form) ; international relations ; Netherlands ; towns

Nigeria
A lion on the 'Ijele' dance : a festschrift in honour of Professor P. Emeka Nwabueze / ed. by Ngozi Anyachonkeya. - (Abstract available) - Abakaliki, Ebonyi State : Ojiiaka Press, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: academics ; drama ; Igbo ; literary criticism ; Nigeria ; social conditions ; theatre

Nigeria
Ifá : ohun ijinle aye = Ifa : phylosophy of life / Awodiran Okanlawon Agboola. - Lagos : Fagbenga Ventures Nigeria, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: divination ; Ifá ; Nigeria ; oral traditions ; Yoruba ; Yoruba language

Nigeria
Introduction to Nigerian press law / B.N. Ewelukwa. - Onitsha : Varsiting Publishing Co. Ltd, 2004
ASC Subject Headings: censorship ; ethics ; freedom of the press ; journalism ; media law ; Nigeria ; press

Nigeria
Effective leadership and the ambivalence of human interest : the Nigerian paradox in a complementary perspective / Innocent I. Asouzu. - Calabar : University of Calabar Press, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: ethics ; leadership ; Nigeria ; philosophy

Portuguese-speaking Africa
Malhas que os impérios tecem : textos anticoloniais, contextos pós-coloniais / Manuela Ribeiro Sanches (org.). - Lisboa : 70, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: anthologies (form) ; anticolonialism ; Portuguese-speaking Africa ; postcolonialism ; resistance

South Africa
P.W. Botha : in his own words / comp. by Pieter-Dirk Uys. - Middlesex : Penguin Books, 1987
ASC Subject Headings: mottoes ; South Africa

South Africa
[Papers of Johan Hans Frederik Holleman, Director of the African Studies Centre] / J.F. Holleman. - [S.l. : Author], 1945
ASC Subject Headings: African studies ; personal archives (form) ; Rhodesia and Nyasaland ; social scientists ; South Africa ; Zambia ; Zimbabwe
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/413122158.pdf

South Africa
[Papers of Frederik (Frits) David Holleman, Professor at Stellenbosch University] / F.D. Holleman. - (Abstract available) - [S.l. : Author], 1939
ASC Subject Headings: African studies ; customary law ; personal archives (form) ; social scientists ; South Africa
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/413121925.pdf

African Literature

South Africa
Even with insects : [a novel] / Barbara Erasmus. - Johannesburg [etc.] : Penguin Books (South Africa), 2005
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; South Africa