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 12 2016

Week 12 2016

Articles

Africa
On a long neglected player: the religious factor in poverty alleviation : the example of the so-called 'Prosperity Gospel' in Africa / Christine Schliesser. - (Abstract available)
In: Exchange : (2014), vol. 43, no. 4, p. 339-359
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African religions ; Christian theology ; Pentecostalism ; poverty ; poverty reduction

Africa
Reading the Bible in Africa: a critique of enchanted Bible reading / David T. Ngong. - (Abstract available)
In: Exchange : (2014), vol. 43, no. 2, p. 174-191
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; Bible ; cosmology ; inculturation

Africa
Trends and challenges of disability rights in Africa : perspectives of national legal frameworks / Futsum Abbay. - (Abstract available)
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights : (2014), vol. 20, no. 2, p. 244-264
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; disabled ; human rights

Africa
L'État africain, le développement inégal et la question nationale / Youssouph Mbargane Guissé. - (Abstract available)
In: Éthiopiques : (2013), no. 90, p. 183-193
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; nation ; State

Africa
Le roman des "nouvelles guerres" africaines : corpus, champs et enjeux / Jean-Fernand Bédia. - (Abstract available)
In: Éthiopiques : (2013), no. 90, p. 97-115
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; civil wars ; novels ; war

Africa State
Républicanisme kantien et État-nation : contribution à l'intégration africaine / Éric Inespéré Koffi. - (Abstract available)
In: Éthiopiques : (2013), no. 90, p. 195-212
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; economic integration ; nation building ; peacebuilding ; State

Burkina Faso
Diversité des uvres de Laongo et culture de la paix / Edwige Zagré Kaboré. - (Abstract available)
In: Éthiopiques : (2013), no. 90, p. 249-260 : ill
ASC Subject Headings: Burkina Faso ; sculpture

Finland
The prosperity gospel in the African diaspora : unethical theology or gospel in context? / Mika Vähäkangas. - (Abstract available)
In: Exchange : (2015), vol. 44, no. 4, p. 353-380
ASC Subject Headings: Africans ; Christian theology ; Finland ; inculturation

Ghana
Coping with evil in Ghanaian Pentecostalism / Joseph Quayesi-Amakye. - (Abstract available)
In: Exchange : (2014), vol. 43, no. 3, p. 254-272
ASC Subject Headings: cosmology ; Ghana ; Pentecostalism ; witchcraft

Morocco
Art journals in Morocco: new ways of seeing and saying / Mary Vogl. -
In: The Journal of North African Studies : (2016), vol. 21, no. 2, p. 235-257
ASC Subject Headings: arts ; Morocco ; periodicals
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2016.1130936 (Restricted access)

Niger
Croyances, ethnies et identité au Sahel : du multiple à l'un / Boubé A. Namaiwa. - (Abstract available)
In: Éthiopiques : (2013), no. 90, p. 135-157 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: acculturation ; cults ; ethnic identity ; Niger ; Sahel

Nigeria
Validity of the Benin custom of male primogeniture for succession to property / Edoba B. Omoregie. - (Abstract available)
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights : (2014), vol. 20, no. 2, p. 265-278
ASC Subject Headings: customary law ; Edo ; gender inequality ; law of inheritance ; Nigeria

Rwanda
God in the public domain: life giver, protector or indifferent sleeper during the Rwandan tragedies? / Tharcisse Gatwa. - (Abstract available)
In: Exchange : (2014), vol. 43, no. 4, p. 313-338
ASC Subject Headings: 1994 ; Christian theology ; genocide ; Rwanda

Rwanda
Nouveaux paradigmes narratifs dans les récits du génocide rwandais du fest'Africa / Issa Ngom. - (Abstract available)
In: Éthiopiques : (2013), no. 90, p. 73-96
ASC Subject Headings: genocide ; novels ; Rwanda

Senegal
Fatou Diome: l'autre visualisation de l'émigré et l'exception dans la mise en écrit de l'émigration / Denis Assane Diouf. - (Abstract available)
In: Éthiopiques : (2013), no. 90, p. 61-71
ASC Subject Headings: emigration ; novels ; Senegal

Senegal
Mysticisme et identité négro-africaine. Activité politique et pratiques mystiques / Lamine Ndiaye. - (Abstract available)
In: Éthiopiques : (2013), no. 90, p. 159-182
ASC Subject Headings: mysticism ; politics ; power ; Senegal

Somalia
Sovereign trespass and the problems of hasty withdrawal : a case study from Somalia / Bright Bazuaye and Amos O. Enabulele. - (Abstract available)
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights : (2014), vol. 20, no. 2, p. 279-300
ASC Subject Headings: foreign intervention ; liability ; military intervention ; Somalia ; United States

South Africa
"That gear stick is not your husband's p----." : why the dissent in "Vance v. Ball State University" got it right, and a comparison of the law of employer vicarious liability for sexual harassment in the United States and South Africa / Justin Behravesh. - (Abstract available)
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights : (2014), vol. 20, no. 2, p. 338-367
ASC Subject Headings: jurisprudence ; sexual offences ; South Africa ; trials ; United States

South Africa
The role of grandmothers as the primary caregivers in poor households and their own right to adequate food : examining two communities in the Breede valley, Western Cape Province, South Africa / K.T. Rendal ... [et al.]. - (Abstract available)
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights : (2014), vol. 20, no. 2, p. 414-436
ASC Subject Headings: elderly ; food consumption ; households ; South Africa

Tanzania
The emerging constitutioinal indigenous peoples' land rights in Tanzania / Kennedy Gastorn. - (Abstract available)
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights : (2014), vol. 20, no. 2, p. 216-243
ASC Subject Headings: group rights ; indigenous peoples ; land rights ; legislation ; Tanzania

Tunisia
Political, aesthetic, and ethical positions of Tunisian women artists, 2011-13 / Lilia Labidi. - (Abstract available)
In: The Journal of North African Studies : (2014), vol. 19, no. 2, p. 151-171
ASC Subject Headings: political change ; Tunisia ; women artists
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2014.880826 (Restricted access)

Uganda
Environmental impact assessment as a tool for enforcing environmental law in the oil and gas industry in Uganda / Adron Naggayi Nalinya. - (Abstract available)
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights : (2014), vol. 20, no. 2, p. 395-413
ASC Subject Headings: environmental law ; petroleum industry ; Uganda

Uganda
Gender and property relations among pastoral communities of Karamoja / Sam Tindifa. - (Abstract available)
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights : (2014), vol. 20, no. 2, p. 368-394
ASC Subject Headings: gender inequality ; government policy ; pastoralists ; Uganda

Uganda
Reinvigorating the struggle for the Batwa in Uganda : a case for the domestication of international indigenous peoples rights and standards / R. Kakungulu-Mayambala. - (Abstract available)
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights : (2014), vol. 20, no. 2, p. 301-337
ASC Subject Headings: government policy ; group rights ; indigenous peoples ; Uganda

Zimbabwe
Light of Life Christian Group as a new religion movement in Zimbabwe : essential steps towards eucharistic intercommunion / Misheck Mudyiwa. - (Abstract available)
In: Exchange : (2015), vol. 44, no. 2, p. 144-176
ASC Subject Headings: Christianity ; ecumenism ; religious movements ; Zimbabwe

Electronic documents

Africa
Partner countries for Dutch bilateral development assistance 1962-2015 / [Ton Dietz, A. Kazimierczuk and [maps] Nel de Vink]. - Leiden : African Studies Centre, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; development cooperation ; maps (form) ; Netherlands
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/37733

Bangladesh
Bangladesh field report : defining, targeting and reaching the very poor / Anika Altaf. - Leiden : African Studies Centre, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Bangladesh ; living conditions ; microfinance ; NGO ; poverty ; poverty reduction
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/37714

Benin
Benin field report : defining, targeting and reaching the very poor / Anika Altaf. - Leiden : African Studies Centre, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Benin ; living conditions ; NGO ; poverty ; poverty reduction
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/37715

Benin
Synthesis report defining, targeting and reaching the very poor: Bangladesh, Benin and Ethiopia / Anika Altaf. - Leiden : African Studies Centre, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Bangladesh ; Benin ; Ethiopia ; microfinance ; NGO ; poverty ; poverty reduction
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/37718

Ethiopia
Addis Ababa field report : defining, targeting and reaching the very poor / Anika Altaf . - Leiden : African Studies Centre, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: aid agencies ; Ethiopia ; living conditions ; poverty ; poverty reduction
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/37717

Ethiopia
Jeldu (Ethiopia) field report : defining, targeting and reaching the very poor / Anika Altaf. - Leiden : African Studies Centre, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Ethiopia ; living conditions ; NGO ; poverty ; poverty reduction
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/37716

Gabon
Bwiti : an ethnography of the religious imagination in Africa / James W. Fernandez ; drawings by Renate Lellep Fernandez. - Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1982
ASC Subject Headings: African Independent Churches ; African religions ; Fang ; Gabon
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.09253

Malawi
Becoming fathers : reproductive journeys in Malawi = Ulendo wakufuma kuchinyamata kuya ku udada ku Malawi / Fiona Parrott ... [et al.]. - (Abstract available) - [Amsterdam] : University of Amsterdam [... et al.], 2016
ASC Subject Headings: attitudes ; exhibition catalogues (form) ; fathers ; Malawi ; photography ; reproductive health
http://www.ascleiden.nl/sites/default/files/becoming_fathers.pdf

Nigeria
Violence in Nigeria : "a qualitative and quantitative analysis"/ ed. by Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos. - (Abstract available) - Leiden [etc.] : African Studies Centre [etc.], 2016
ASC Subject Headings: crime ; databases ; Nigeria ; political violence ; traffic accidents ; violence ; witchcraft
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/37759

Sierra Leone
Rebellious histories : the Amistad slave revolt and the cultures of late twentieth-century black transnationalism / Matthew J. Christensen. - Albany : SUNY Press, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Sierra Leone ; slave rebellions ; United States
http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?sid=98ca33a6-f213-48c8-97...

South Africa
Performance, trance, possession and mysticism : an analysis of the Rtib al-Rifyah in South Africa / by Goolam Mohamed Karim. - Cape Town : University of Cape Town, Department of Religious Studies, 1998
ASC Subject Headings: dissertations (form) ; healing rites ; Islamic movements ; South Africa ; Sufism
http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17489

South African Communist Party
Pivoting to Russia, China and anti-Western rhetoric : South Africas foreign policy shifts / Heinrich Matthee. - Leiden : African Studies Centre, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: African National Congress (South Africa) ; China ; foreign policy ; international relations ; Russian Federation ; South African Communist Party
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/37490

Books

Africa
Promoting progressive African thought leadership / Aziz Pahad, Garth Le Pere and Miranda Strydom (eds). - (Abstract available) - Pretoria : Africa Institute of South Africa, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; Egypt ; foreign intervention ; international politics ; Kenya ; Mali ; military intervention ; nation building ; political conflicts ; South Africa ; UN ; Zimbabwe

Africa
Harnessing land and water resources for improved food security and ecosystem services in Africa / edited by Effiom E. Oku, Kwabena O. Asubonteng and Praise Nutakor. - (Abstract available) - Ghana : United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; climate change ; Ethiopia ; food security ; Ghana ; land degradation ; natural resource management ; Nigeria ; waste management ; water pollution

Africa
Unite or perish : Africa fifty years after the founding of the OAU / ed. by Mammo Muchie ... [et al.]. - (Abstract available) - Pretoria : Africa Institute of South Africa, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; democracy ; development ; education ; governance ; OAU ; pan-Africanism

Africa
The SMA African Art museum : guide to collections / text by Robert J. Koenig, photography by Peter H. Cade. - Tenafly, N.J. : African Art Museum of the S.M.A. Fathers, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; arts ; exhibition catalogues (form) ; museums ; United States
htm =A http://smafathers.org/museum/resources-ebooks/

Africa
Power, gender and social change in Africa / ed. by Muna Ndulo and Margaret Grieco. - (Abstract available) - Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; gender inequality ; political action ; women entrepreneurs ; women's education ; women's health ; women's rights

Angola
The battle of Savate : 32 Battalion's greatest operation / Piet Nortje. - Cape Town : Zebra Press, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: 1980-1989 ; Angola ; boundary conflicts ; military operations ; military personnel ; South Africa

Cameroon
African modernities and mobilities : an historical ethnography of Kom, Cameroon, c. 1800-2008 / Walter Gam Nkwi ; foreword by Jean-Pierre Warnier. - Mankon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; ethnic identity ; innovations ; Kom ; Kom polity ; social change ; social history

Cameroon
Practice & procedure in civil matters in the courts of records in Anglophone Cameroon / Michael A. Yanou. - Mankon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; civil law systems ; courts

Central Africa
Foundations for an African philosophy and theology of human rights: rethinking the human condition in post-colonial Central Africa (1965-1997) / by Mutombo Nkulu-N'Sengha. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Dissertation Services, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: African culture ; Central Africa ; Christian theology ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; ethnophilosophy ; human rights ; inculturation ; philosophy

Ghana
Economic and financial analyses of small and medium food crops agro-processing firms in Ghana / Timothy Afful-Koomson ... [et al.]. - Ghana : United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: agroindustry ; food crops ; Ghana ; private enterprises

Great Britain
West Africans in Britain, 1900-1960 : nationalism, pan-Africanism and communism / Hakim Adi. - London : Lawrence & Wishart, 1998
ASC Subject Headings: 1900-1999 ; Gambia ; Ghana ; Great Britain ; Nigeria ; political action ; racism ; Sierra Leone ; social life ; students

Malawi
Polygamy in northern Malawi : a Christian reassessment / Moses Mlenga. - Mzuzu : Mzuni Press, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Christian theology ; Malawi ; missions ; polygamy

Morocco
Ahmad al-Tijânî de Fès : un sanctuaire soufi aux connexions transnationales / Johara Berriane. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Islam ; Morocco ; Muslim brotherhoods ; pilgrimages ; religious buildings ; shrines ; Sufism ; West Africa

Namibia
Indigenous knowledge of Namibia / ed. by Kazhila C. Chinsembu ... [et al.]. - (Abstract available) - Windhoek : University of Nambia Press, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: AIDS ; edible plants ; education ; food preservation ; indigenous knowledge ; medicinal plants ; Namibia

Netherlands
Des Bédouins dans le polder : histoires tragi-comiques de l'émigration / Fouad Laroui. - Casablanca : Éditions Le Fennec, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: immigrants ; Moroccans ; Netherlands ; personal narratives (form)

Senegal
Empty promises? : compliance with the human rights framework in relation to female genital mutilation/cutting in Senegal / Maria Johanna Middelburg. - [S.l.] : M.J. Middelburg, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: dissertations (form) ; female circumcision ; human rights ; international law ; Senegal

South Africa
'An entirely different world' : Russian visitors to the Cape, 1797-1870 / ed. by Boris Gorelik. - Cape Town : Van Riebeeck Society, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: 1800-1899 ; personal narratives (form) ; Russians ; South Africa ; The Cape ; travel

South Africa
Twenty years of education : transformation in Gauteng 1994-2014 : an independent review / ed. by Felix Maringe and Martin Prew. - (Abstract available) - Somerset West : African Minds, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: adult education ; educational financing ; educational policy ; educational systems ; regional government ; South Africa ; teacher education

World
Islam/Occident : le dialogue nécessaire / Mohammed Saâd Zemmouri. - Rabat : Top Press, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: culture contact ; Islam ; Islamic countries ; Western countries ; world

African Literature

Cameroon
De wil van mijn vader : een vrouw in Kameroen strijdt tegen het juk van de traditie / Mireille Makampé ; [vert. uit het Duits naar het oorspr. Frans: Expertekst, Sietske Chardon]. - Baarn : Tirion, 2001
ASC Subject Headings: autobiographies (form) ; Cameroon ; empowerment ; women

Ghana
Wounded stranger and other stories / Alice Mina. - Accra : Step Publishers, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Ghana ; short stories (form)

Ghana
Kwaw Ansah's legendary Love brewed in the African pot / ill. by Peter 'Poka' Asamoah ; ed. by Maame Adwoa Opoku-Agyemang. - [Ghana?] : [Film Africa Limited?], 2014
ASC Subject Headings: comic strips (form) ; Ghana

Kenya
Den of inequities / Kinyanjui Kombani. - Nairobi : Longhorn Publishers (Kenya) Ltd, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Kenya ; novels (form)

Kenya
Rode maan : roman / Kuwana Haulsey ; uit het Engels vert. door Marianne Gaasbeek. - Breda : De Geus, 2002
ASC Subject Headings: Kenya ; novels (form) ; Samburu ; United States ; women

Morocco
Best-seller : roman / Réda Dahil. - Casablanca : Éditions le Fennec, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Morocco ; novels (form) ; writers

Sierra Leone
In the belly of the lion : an anthology of new Sierra Leonean short stories / ed. by Gbanabom Hallowell. - Accra : Sierra Leonean Writers Series, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: anthologies (form) ; short stories ; Sierra Leone

South Africa
Jimfish ; or ten years on the wrong side of history / Christopher Hope. - London : Atlantic Books, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: apartheid ; novels (form) ; power ; South Africa

Uganda
All our names / Dinaw Mengestu. - London : Sceptre, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; Uganda ; United States

Zimbabwe
Mukoma's marriage and other stories / Emmanuel Sigauke. - Gweru : Booklove Publishers, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: gender relations ; marriage ; short stories (form) ; Zimbabwe