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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 39 2017

Week 39 2017

Articles

Africa
The challenges of an engagement between the African Union and the UN Security Council / Marina Magalháes Barreto Da Silva. -
In: New Contree : (2016), no. 75, p. 161-179
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African Union ; economic integration ; international relations ; UN
http://hdl.handle.net/10394/19412

Botswana
Bakgomong : the Babirwas transboundary pastoralist identity and social change in late 19th century Botswana / Phuthego Molosiwa. -
In: New Contree : (2016), no. 75, p. 14-40 : krt
ASC Subject Headings: Birwa ; Botswana ; ethnic identity ; pastoralists
http://hdl.handle.net/10394/19405

Central Africa
Nouveaux regards sur la démographie du bassin de l'Inkisi à l'époque du royaume Kongo (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles) / Igor Matonda Sakala. - (Abstract available)
In: Cahiers d'études africaines : (2016), vol. 55., cah. 224, p. 845-874 : krt., tab
ASC Subject Headings: baptism ; Central Africa ; demographic history ; demography ; Kongo polity

Democratic Republic of Congo
Cows and guns : cattle-related conflict and armed violence in Fizi and Itombwe, eastern DR Congo / Judith Verweijen and Justine Brabant. - (Abstract available)
In: The Journal of Modern African Studies : (2017), vol. 55, no. 1, p. 1-27 : krt
ASC Subject Headings: cattle ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; land conflicts ; militias ; theft
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X16000823 (Restricted access)

Ethiopia
A spatial reading of urban political-religious conflict : contested urban landscapes in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia / Jep Stockmans and Karen Büscher. - (Abstract available)
In: The Journal of Modern African Studies : (2017), vol. 55, no. 1, p. 79-104
ASC Subject Headings: capitals ; Ethiopia ; Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front ; interreligious relations ; Islam ; local politics
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X1600077X (Restricted access)

Ghana
Non-discretionary resource allocation as political investment : evidence from Ghana / Joseph Asunka. - (Abstract available)
In: The Journal of Modern African Studies : (2017), vol. 55, no. 1, p. 29-53 : graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: executive power ; Ghana ; patronage ; political parties ; politicians
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X16000781 (Restricted access)

Mali
En islam malien : Shaykh By al-Kunt (m. 1347/1929) et ses Nawzil / Houari Touati, Aicha Belabid. - (Abstract available)
In: Cahiers d'études africaines : (2016), vol. 55., cah. 224, p. 775-798
ASC Subject Headings: Islamic law ; Mali ; Tuareg ; ulema

Mali
La résistance des Touaregs au prisme de la 'World Music' / Marta Amico. - (Abstract available)
In: Cahiers d'études africaines : (2016), vol. 55., cah. 224, p. 821-844 : ill
ASC Subject Headings: identity ; images ; Mali ; music ; Tuareg

Netherlands
Nederlandse tippetoppetepeltuitjes : de Afrikaanse literatuur in Nederland in 2016. -
In: Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe : (2017), vol. 57, no. 1, p. 222-26
ASC Subject Headings: Afrikaans language ; literature ; Netherlands
http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-62eebf69c (Restricted access)

Netherlands
Nog een Nobelprijs voor Zuid-Afrika? : de Afrikaanse literatuur in Nederland in 2015. -
In: Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe : (2016), vol. 56, no. 1, p. 277-281
ASC Subject Headings: Afrikaans language ; literature ; Netherlands
http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC186538 (Restricted access)

Rwanda
Cultures obligatoires, monétarisation et mobilisations sociopolitiques dans le monde rural à la fin de la colonisation : l'arrachage des caféiers du Mulera au Rwanda en octobre 1958 / Florent Piton. - (Abstract available)
In: Cahiers d'études africaines : (2016), vol. 55., cah. 224, p. 799-820
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural economy ; agricultural history ; agricultural prices ; coffee ; farmers ; Rwanda

Senegal
Filmer la résistance à la colonisation : stratégies postcoloniales de mémoire et d'oubli : à propos du scénario Samori de Sembène Ousmane / Elara Bertho. - (Abstract available)
In: Cahiers d'études africaines : (2016), vol. 55., cah. 224, p. 875-890
ASC Subject Headings: cinema ; films ; Guinea ; memory ; Senegal

South Africa
The mass movement and public policy : discourses of participatory democracy in post-1994 South Africa / Heidi Brooks. - (Abstract available)
In: The Journal of Modern African Studies : (2017), vol. 55, no. 1, p. 105-127
ASC Subject Headings: African National Congress (South Africa) ; democracy ; popular participation ; South Africa
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X16000793 (Restricted access)

South Africa
"Lets do things on our own : gender and class dynamics during the quest to restore Inanda Seminarys financial integrity, 1999-2001 / Scott Everett Couper. -
In: New Contree : (2016), no. 77, p. 100-122
ASC Subject Headings: Blacks ; educational financing ; educational management ; schoolgirls ; secondary education ; South Africa
http://hdl.handle.net/10394/21794

South Africa
An update on South Africas political risk profile in 2015/6 / Theo Neethling. -
In: New Contree : (2016), no. 75, p. 66-97
ASC Subject Headings: economic conditions ; investments ; political conditions ; risk ; social conditions ; South Africa
http://hdl.handle.net/10394/19408

South Africa
British dilemma and hypocrisy in the NPT regime "vis-à-vis" South Africa / Lucky E. Asuelime, Anna-Mart Van Wyk. -
In: New Contree : (2016), no. 77, p. 69-82
ASC Subject Headings: disarmament ; Great Britain ; international agreements ; international relations ; nuclear weapons ; South Africa
http://hdl.handle.net/10394/21747

South Africa
Constitutionalism and coloniality : a case of colonialism continued or the best of both worlds? / Pieter W. Heydenrych. -
In: New Contree : (2016), no. 75, p. 116-134
ASC Subject Headings: colonialism ; constitutionalism ; constitutions ; South Africa
http://hdl.handle.net/10394/19410

South Africa
Contributions by Reverend Johannes Jacobus Ulster to the development of the Moravian Mission Station, Elim, 1965-1974 / Maynard J. Van Breda. -
In: New Contree : (2016), no. 75, p. 41-65 : foto's
ASC Subject Headings: clergy ; missionary history ; missions ; South Africa
http://hdl.handle.net/10394/19406

South Africa
Section 139 interventions in South African local government, 1994-2015 / Wynand Greffath, Gerrit Van der Waldt. -
In: New Contree : (2016), no. 75, p. 135-160 : graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: central-local government relations ; constitutions ; local government ; South Africa
http://hdl.handle.net/10394/19411

South Africa
South African liberal thinking on questions of nationalism reconsidered / Chris Saunders. -
In: New Contree : (2016), no. 75, p. 1-13
ASC Subject Headings: liberalism ; nationalism ; political history ; political philosophy ; South Africa
http://hdl.handle.net/10394/19403

South Africa
The limits of political development and constitutionalism in South Africa / Gideon Van Riet. -
In: New Contree : (2016), no. 75, p. 98-115
ASC Subject Headings: constitutionalism ; political change ; popular participation ; South Africa
http://hdl.handle.net/10394/19409

South Africa
Valuing historical context of three individuals exhumed from desecrated historic graves in Zeerust, North West Province / Anton C Van Vollenhoven. -
In: New Contree : (2016), no. 77, p. 83-99 : foto's
ASC Subject Headings: cultural heritage ; legislation ; prehistoric graves ; South Africa
http://hdl.handle.net/10394/21789

Subsaharan Africa
The migrant in a plotted adventure : self-realisation and moral obligation in African stories from Istanbul / Mahir aul. - (Abstract available)
In: The Journal of Modern African Studies : (2017), vol. 55, no. 1, p. 129-153
ASC Subject Headings: attitudes ; international migration ; migrants ; Subsaharan Africa ; Turkey
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X16000811 (Restricted access)

Swaziland
Economic remittances from employment in the Second World War and family conflicts, Swaziland, 1941-1950 / Hamilton S. Simelane. -
In: New Contree : (2016), no. 77, p. 46-68 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: military personnel ; remittances ; Swazi ; Swaziland ; World War II
http://hdl.handle.net/10394/21746

Uganda
Erosion and transformation in the ecology of gender : women's political representation and gender relations in the Ugandan parliament / Dina Refki ... [et al.]. - (Abstract available)
In: The Journal of Modern African Studies : (2017), vol. 55, no. 1, p. 55-78 : fig., tab
ASC Subject Headings: gender inequality ; social change ; Uganda ; women parliamentarians
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X1600080X (Restricted access)

Electronic documents

Africa
From the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) : Africa in the post-2015 development agenda : a geographical perspective, part 2 / [contrib. by] Cristina DAlessandro , Leo C. Zulu ... [et al.]. - (Abstract available) - Saint Paul, MN : Miami University, Department of Geography, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; Algeria ; development planning ; empowerment ; Kenya ; Nigeria ; sanitation ; sustainable development ; Tanzania ; water ; women
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rafg20/36/2 (Restricted access)

Africa
Feeding Africa : towards agro-allied industrialization for inclusive growth / Audrey Verdier-Chouchane ... [et al.]. - (Abstract available) - Oxford : Blackwell, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; agricultural innovations ; agroindustry ; Benin ; Burkina Faso ; food security ; Nigeria ; rice ; Rwanda ; Tanzania
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/afdr.v28.S2/issuetoc (Restricted access)

Africa
Africa cartoons : encyclopedia of African political cartooning / Tejumola Olaniyan. - [Madison : Tejumola Olaniyan], 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; artists ; cartoons ; cartoons (form) ; websites (form)
http://africacartoons.com/

Equatorial Guinea
La pesadilla de Obi / por Chino y Tenso Tenso, y Ramon Esono Ebale. - [Washington] : EG Justice, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: comic strips (form) ; Equatorial Guinea ; heads of State
https://pubhtml5.com/owts/ndmk

Books

Benin
La bonne épouse : le sel de la famille : contribuer à l'épanouissement de son époux / Charlemagne Sobia. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Benin ; gender roles ; married women ; motivational literature ; norms

Cameroon
L'Église des martyrs au Cameroun : enquêtes sur une rivière de sang non élucidée / Léger Ntiga. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: assassination ; Cameroon ; Catholic Church ; clergy

Chad
De la Bible aux jouets de Noel chez les Moundang du Tchad / Maud Gauquelin. - (Abstract available) - , 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Chad ; consumer goods ; missionary history ; missions ; Mundang

Democratic Republic of Congo
Bulletin des arrêts de la Haute Cour Militaire : la lutte contre les violences sexuelles : numéro spécial / République démocratique du Congo ; préf. de Zainab Hawa Bangura. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; jurisprudence ; legislation ; military courts ; offences against human rights ; sexual offences

Democratic Republic of Congo
La guerre 14-18 en Afrique : des mémoires repliées / Nathalie Tousignant, Pierre Dejemeppe ... [et al.] ; ill.: Barly Baruti. - (Abstract available) - Saint-Gilles : Charles Picqué, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Belgium ; black soldiers ; colonial forces ; colonial history ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; images ; memory ; World War I

Ghana
Witchcraft and violence in Ghana : an assessment of contemporary mediation efforts / Shelagh Roxburgh. - (Abstract available) - , 2016
ASC Subject Headings: conflict resolution ; Ghana ; violence ; witchcraft

Guinea
L'épopée de Bokar Biro : selon Farba Kéba Sow de Labé : l'homme, l'almami et la conquête coloniale du Fuuta Jallon (Guinée) / Maladho Siddy Balde ; préf. d'Ismael Barry. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: colonial conquest ; epics (form) ; Fulani ; Futa Jallon polity ; Guinea ; oral history ; traditional rulers

Nigeria
Politricks : National Assembly under military dictatorship in Nigeria (July 1992 - Nov' 1993) / Olusegun Adeniyi ; foreword: David Mark. - Lagos : Bookhouse Company, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: military regimes ; Nigeria ; political history

South Africa
Aspects of the history of the (Orange) Free State / guest ed.: André Wessels. - Potchefstroom : School of Basic Sciences, NWU, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: architecture ; Church and State ; history ; Orange Free State ; schooling ; South Africa ; water
http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/20277

South Africa
Land, chiefs, mining : South Africa's North West Province since 1840 / Andrew Manson and Bernard K. Mbenga. - Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: colonial history ; mining ; native reserves ; race relations ; rebellions ; South Africa ; Tswana polities

Journals

Africa
The Journal of the African Literature Association (JALA). - Philadelphia : African Literature Association (ALA)
ASC Subject Headings: (6) ; 791.43 ; 896 ; Africa ; literary criticism ; literature

African Literature

Egypt
Otared / Mohammed Rabie ; transl. by Robin Moger . - Cairo : American University in Cairo Press, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Arab Spring ; Egypt ; novels (form)

Nigeria
Influence of a king : a novel / Titi Horsfall. - Sisters, OR : Deepriver Books, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Great Britain ; Nigeria ; novels (form) ; United States

Nigeria
Lamentations of Yeske : poems in honour of HRH professor Egbe Ifie / by Tekena Tamuno. - Ibadan : Stirling-Horden Publishers (Nig.) Ltd, 2005
ASC Subject Headings: Nigeria ; poetry (form)

Senegal
Doomi golo : the hidden notebooks / Boubacar Boris Diop ; translated by Vera Wulfing-Leckie and El Hadji Moustapha Diop. - East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: French language ; novels (form) ; Senegal ; translation ; Wolof

Sudan
The longing of the dervish / Hammour Ziada ; translated by Jonathan Wright. - Cairo [etc.] : Hoopoe, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: 1800-1899 ; novels (form) ; Sudan

Tanzania
Gravel heart / Abdulrazak Gurnah. - London : Bloomsbury, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Great Britain ; novels (form) ; Tanzania

Tanzania
Fasihi ya kiswahili / kimetungwa na Samuel Abdallah Mazigwa. - Ndanda-Peramiho : Benedictine Publication, 1991
ASC Subject Headings: language instruction ; Swahili language ; Tanzania

Togo
Des larmes au crépuscule : roman / Steve Bodjona. - Lomé : Editions Awoudy, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; prostitution ; Togo

Togo
Le maître de l'empire, suivi de La dette du mort : théâtre / Ayayi Togoata Apedo-Amah. - Lomé : Editions Awoudy, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: drama (form) ; Togo

Togo
¡Qué pronto pasa el tiempo! : novela / Mawoussi Kedjangni. - Lomé : Editions Awoudy, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: animism ; Christianity ; indigenous peoples ; novels (form) ; Togo

Togo
5 octobre an zéro : théâtre / Ayayi Togoata Apédo-Amah. - Lomé : Editions Awoudy, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: drama (form) ; Togo

Togo
A mal d'amour lasse : nouvelle / Dolibe ; préface de Steve Bodjona. - Lomé : Editions Continents, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: married women ; novels (form) ; social conditions ; Togo ; women

Togo
L'abime des demunis / Gabriel Koum Dokodjo. - [Lome : Editions HAHO], 2015
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; Togo

Togo
La princesse Yennenga : poésie / Koffigoh. - Lome : [Editions Continents], 2015
ASC Subject Headings: poetry (form) ; Togo

Togo
Un tunnel sans bout : Roman / Jeannette Ahonsou. - Lomé : Editions Continents, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; Togo ; women's rights

Togo
D'une extrémité à l'autre : roman / Tétévi Médétognon-Bénissan. - Lomé : Editions Awoudy, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; Togo

Togo
Le vent dans les filaos : poésie / Germain Locoh-Donou. - Lomé : Les Éditions Graines de Pensées, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: poetry (form) ; Togo

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