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 38 2017

Week 38 2017

Articles

Africa
Beyond the state: reconceptualising African security in the 21st century / Hussein Solomon. - (Abstract available)
In: African Security Review : (2017), vol. 26, no. 1, p. 62-76
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African Union ; mercenaries ; private security services ; regional security
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2016.1264986 (Restricted access)

Africa
Interstate border disputes in Africa : their resolution and implications for human rights and peace / Patience Munge Sone. - (Abstract available)
In: African Security Review : (2017), vol. 26, no. 3, p. 325-339
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; boundary conflicts ; conflict resolution ; foreign intervention ; International Court of Justice
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2017.1294089 (Restricted access)

Africa
Walking a tightrope : the International Criminal Court and conflict prevention in Africa / Linus Nnabuike Malu. - (Abstract available)
In: African Security Review : (2017), vol. 26, no. 1, p. 26-40
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; conflict prevention ; International Criminal Court
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2016.1264438 (Restricted access)

Kenya
Neo-elitism and counterterrorism operations in Kenya / Oscar Gakuo Mwangi. - (Abstract available)
In: African Security Review : (2017), vol. 26, no. 1, p. 12-25
ASC Subject Headings: armed forces ; commercial areas ; intelligence services ; Kenya ; police ; terrorism
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2016.1264436 (Restricted access)

Kenya
The role of the media in constructing a destination image : the Kenya experience / Paschalia Muhoho-Minni and Berendien A. Lubbe. - (Abstract available)
In: Communicatio : (2017), vol. 43, no. 1, p. 58-79 : fig., graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: images ; Kenya ; mass media ; tourism
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02500167.2016.1226915 (Restricted access)

Nigeria
Business and peace in the Niger Delta: what we know and what we need to know / Uwafiokun Idemudia. - (Abstract available)
In: African Security Review : (2017), vol. 26, no. 1, p. 41-61 : graf., krt., tab
ASC Subject Headings: business ; ethics ; multinational enterprises ; Niger Delta conflict ; Nigeria ; peace ; responsibility
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2016.1264439 (Restricted access)

Nigeria
Leadership and national security : an interrogation of the Boko Haram violence in Nigeria / Akinbode Fasakin. - (Abstract available)
In: African Security Review : (2017), vol. 26, no. 1, p. 87-108
ASC Subject Headings: Islamic movements ; leadership ; national security ; Nigeria ; terrorism
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2016.1269656 (Restricted access)

Nigeria
Place-time correlation of robbery incidents in metropolitan Lagos : a Mantel index analysis / Adewumi Israel Badiora & Jenny Jacky Ntamark. - (Abstract available)
In: African Security Review : (2017), vol. 26, no. 1, p. 1-11 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: Nigeria ; robbery ; statistics
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2016.1264437 (Restricted access)

Nigeria
Resistance through Islamic clerics against Boko Haram in northern Nigeria / Akinola Ejodame Olojo. - (Abstract available)
In: African Security Review : (2017), vol. 26, no. 3, p. 308-324 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: Islamic movements ; Nigeria ; resistance ; terrorism ; ulema
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2017.1294092 (Restricted access)

Nigeria
The resource-conflict debate revisited : untangling the case of farmer-herdsman clashes in the North Central region of Nigeria / Emmanuel Terkimbi Akov. - (Abstract available)
In: African Security Review : (2017), vol. 26, no. 3, p. 288-307 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: conflict ; farmers ; natural resources ; Nigeria ; pastoralists
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2017.1294088 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Client perceptions of interaction with community pharmacists in the Nelson Mandela Metropole / Brent C. Knoesen, Martie S. Lubbe, and Ilse Truter. - (Abstract available)
In: Communicatio : (2017), vol. 43, no. 1, p. 122-147 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: communication ; health personnel ; South Africa
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02500167.2016.1238833 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Commercial graffiti : self-expression, the allure of danger, or graffiti made "pretty"? / Patrick R. Rabiega and Mariekie Burger. - (Abstract available)
In: Communicatio : (2017), vol. 43, no. 1, p. 37-57
ASC Subject Headings: advertising ; enterprises ; mural art ; South Africa
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02500167.2017.1297323 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Listening and the ambiguities of voice in South African journalism / Anthea Garman and Vanessa Malila. - (Abstract available)
In: Communicatio : (2017), vol. 43, no. 1, p. 1-16
ASC Subject Headings: community participation ; journalism ; public opinion ; South Africa
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02500167.2016.1226914 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Non-verbal and paralinguistic political communication in sport : an analysis of images of Springbok rugby / Pieter A. Labuschagne. - (Abstract available)
In: Communicatio : (2017), vol. 43, no. 1, p. 80-102 : foto's
ASC Subject Headings: nonverbal communication ; photography ; rugby ; South Africa
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02500167.2017.1307243 (Restricted access)

South Africa
The rhetoric and practice of the international responsibility to prevent mass atrocities : reflections on South Africa's peacebuilding role in South Sudan (2005-2013) / Fritz Nganje. - (Abstract available)
In: African Security Review : (2017), vol. 26, no. 3, p. 271-287
ASC Subject Headings: international relations ; responsibility to protect ; South Africa ; South Sudan
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2017.1294091 (Restricted access)

South Africa
The role of communication in managing the safety climate of construction site environments / Wilhelmina J. Greeff. - (Abstract available)
In: Communicatio : (2017), vol. 43, no. 1, p. 103-121 : fig., tab
ASC Subject Headings: communication ; construction industry ; occupational safety ; South Africa
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02500167.2017.1306575 (Restricted access)

South Africa
"Class D coloureds" : the establishment of Noordgesig, 1939-1948 / Wendell Moore. -
In: New Contree : (2016), no. 77, p. 1-22 : krt
ASC Subject Headings: Coloureds ; identity ; South Africa ; townships ; urban history
http://hdl.handle.net/10394/21741

South Africa
Evaton and a quest for economic independence : a new dimension to entrepreneurship, 1940-1949 / Vusumuzi Khumalo. -
In: New Contree : (2016), no. 77, p. 23-45 : krt
ASC Subject Headings: entrepreneurs ; mercantile history ; South Africa ; townships ; traders
http://hdl.handle.net/10394/21743

Subsaharan Africa
Citizen journalism as a contestant in the history of journalism / Hatikanganwi Mapudzi and Oluyinka Osunkunle. - (Abstract available)
In: Communicatio : (2017), vol. 43, no. 1, p. 17-36
ASC Subject Headings: citizens ; journalism ; Subsaharan Africa ; websites
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02500167.2016.1250799 (Restricted access)

Tunisia
The fragility of elite settlements in Tunisia / Anouar Boukhars. - (Abstract available)
In: African Security Review : (2017), vol. 26, no. 3, p. 257-270
ASC Subject Headings: democratization ; elite ; political change ; political stability ; Tunisia
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2017.1294093 (Restricted access)

West Africa
Maritime security and capacity building in the Gulf of Guinea : on comprehensiveness, gaps, and security priorities / Katja Lindskov Jacobsen. - (Abstract available)
In: African Security Review : (2017), vol. 26, no. 3, p. 237-256
ASC Subject Headings: capacity building ; Central Africa ; regional security ; sea ; territorial waters ; West Africa
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2017.1291441 (Restricted access)

Zimbabwe
Soldiers as victims : behind military barracks in the post-colonial African army / Godfrey Maringira. - (Abstract available)
In: African Security Review : (2017), vol. 26, no. 1, p. 77-86
ASC Subject Headings: armed forces ; human rights ; military personnel ; Zimbabwe
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2016.1265569 (Restricted access)

Electronic documents

Africa
Journey to extremism in Africa : drivers, incentives and the tipping point for recruitment / Ozonnia Ojielo ... [et al.]. - New York : United Nations Development Programme Regional Bureau for Africa, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; fundamentalism ; victims ; violence
http://journey-to-extremism.undp.org/content/downloads/UNDP-JourneyToExt...

Books

Africa
Special issue: African peace missions and security sector governance / ed. by Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe & Alex de Waal. - (Abstract available) - Pretoria : Institute for Security Studies, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African Union ; Central African Republic ; Ethiopia ; peacekeeping operations ; Somalia ; Sudan

Africa
De lart (dêtre) contemporain / [contrib. de Cédric Vincent ... et al.]. - (Abstract available) - Paris : École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; artists ; Benin ; Cameroon ; coffins ; Côte d'Ivoire ; decorative arts ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; exhibitions ; Ghana ; visual arts

Africa
Mobilités et migrations européennes en (post) colonies / [contrib. de Michel Peraldi ... et al.]. - (Abstract available) - Paris : École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; Algeria ; Angola ; Cameroon ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; Europeans ; French ; Gabon ; Italians ; migrants ; migration ; Portuguese

Democratic Republic of Congo
Les communautés nouvelles et leur insertion dans l'Église / Jonas Malubungi Ntumba. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Catholic Church ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; religious movements

East Africa
Letters from Helga 1934-1937 : a teen bride writes home from East Africa / Helga Voigt ; translated and annotated by Evelyn Voigt. - Renfrew : General Store Publishers, 2008
ASC Subject Headings: colonists ; East Africa ; Germans ; letters (form) ; Tanzania ; women

East Africa
60 years in East Africa : the life of a settler, 1926-1986 / Werner Voigt. - Burnstown : General Store Publishing House, 2004
ASC Subject Headings: autobiographies (form) ; colonists ; East Africa ; Germans

French West Africa
Le code de l'indigénat : ou, le fondement des États autocratiques en Afrique francophone / Gilbert Doho. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: colonial law ; French Equatorial Africa ; French West Africa ; laws (form) ; legislation

Senegal
L'esthétique sociale des Pulaar : socioanalyse d'un groupe ethnolinguistique / Harouna Sy. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: aesthetics ; caste systems ; customs ; ethnic identity ; Fulani ; Senegal ; values

South Africa
God praat Afrikaans / deur Simon Witbooi. - Pretoria : LAPA Uitgewers, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Afrikaans language ; artists ; autobiographies (form) ; South Africa ; writers

Sudan
A grammar of Lumun : a Kordofanian language of Sudan / Helena Johanna Smits. - Utrecht : LOT, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: dissertations (form) ; grammar ; Kordofanian languages ; South Sudan ; Sudan

Tanzania
Flying snakes and green turtles : Tanzania up close / Evelyn Voigt. - Renfrew, ONT : General Store Publishing House Inc, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: aid workers ; British ; personal narratives (form) ; social life ; Tanzania

United States
Light ahead for the Negro / by Edward Austin Johnson. - Delhi : Facsimile Publisher, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: future ; novels (form) ; race relations ; United States

Films

Democratic Republic of Congo
L'animation indépendante africaine / Jean-Michel Kibushi Ndjate Wooto. - (Abstract available) - [Bois-Colombes] : [les Films du paradoxe [éd., distrib.], 2015
ASC Subject Headings: animated cartoons (form) ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; videos (form)

African Literature

Africa
Experimental writing : Africa vs Latin America = Literatura experimental África vs América Latina / Tendai Rinos Mwanaka, Ricardo Felix Rodriguez. - Bamenda : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; English language ; Latin America ; literature (form) ; poetry (form) ; Spanish language

Cameroon
In the color of my skin : poems / Emmanuel Fru Doh. - Mankon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; poetry (form)

Cameroon
Verses from my Roost / by John Ngong Kum Ngong. - Mankon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; poetry (form)

Nigeria
When we speak of nothing / by Olumide Popoola. - Abuja [etc.] : Cassava Republic Press, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Great Britain ; homosexuality ; Nigeria ; novels (form)

Nigeria
The white journalist / Nicholas Ehizojie. - Lagos : Padrex Company Limited, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: Nigeria ; novels (form)

Rwanda
The hyena's wedding : the untold horrors of genocide / John Rusimbi. - London : Janus Publishing, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: conflict ; conflict resolution ; genocide ; novels (form) ; Rwanda ; victims

South Africa
Voices of this land : an anthology of South African poetry in English / Molly Brown ... [et al.] ; introd. by Anthony Chennells. - Pretoria : Van Schaik Publishers, 2018
ASC Subject Headings: anthologies (form) ; poetry (form) ; South Africa

South Africa
Die derde spoel / S.J. Naudé. - Kaapstad : Umuzi, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; South Africa

South Africa
Rooi haring : 'n speurroman / Schalk Schoombie. - Kaapstad : Human & Rousseau, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: crime novels (form) ; South Africa

South Africa
Skrapnel / Willem Anker. - Pretoria : Protea Boekhuis, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: drama (form) ; South Africa

South Africa
Unlikely / Colleen Crawford Cousins. - Cape Town : Modjaji Books, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: poetry (form) ; South Africa

South Africa
Web / Naomi Meyer. - Kaapstad : Queillerie, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; South Africa

South Africa
Kristal-vlakte / Amy Jephta. - Kaapstad : Tafelberg, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: drama (form) ; South Africa

South Africa
Pirana / Rudie van Rensburg. - Kaapstad : Queillerie, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: crime novels (form) ; South Africa

South Africa
Slagyster / Rudie van Rensburg. - Kaapstad : Queillerie, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: crime novels (form) ; South Africa

South Africa
Samsa-masjien : [drama] / Willem Anker. - Pretoria : Protea Boekhuis, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: drama (form) ; South Africa

South Africa
Vlakwater / Ingrid Winterbach. - Kaapstad : Human & Rousseau, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; South Africa

South Africa
Retoer / Andries Bezuidenhout. - Pretoria : Protea Boekhuis, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: poetry (form) ; South Africa

Uganda
Traditional wisdom : folktales from Uganda / Dominica Dipio and Stuart Sillars (ed.). - Nairobi : ComMatters Kenya (CMK), 2012
ASC Subject Headings: folk tales (form) ; oral literature (form) ; Uganda

United States
Dawn / Octavia Butler. - New York : Warner Books, 1997
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; science fiction ; United States

Zimbabwe
The cry of the go-away bird / Andrea Eames. - London : Vintage Books, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: land reform ; race relations ; Whites ; Zimbabwe