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Articles

Brazil
Who named slaves and their children? : names and naming practices among enslaved Africans brought to the Americas and their descendants with focus on Brazil / Laura Álvarez López. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies : (2015), vol. 27, no. 2, p. 159-171
ASC Subject Headings: Africans ; Brazil ; personal names ; slaves
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2014.992396 (Restricted access)

Eritrea
Seeing the image of an Eritrean Hero / Yonatan T. Tewelde. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies : (2015), vol. 27, no. 2, p. 172-180 : ill
ASC Subject Headings: Eritrea ; heroes ; images ; photography ; visual arts
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2014.992397 (Restricted access)

Gabon
'Orality is my reality' : the identity stakes of the oral creation in Libreville hip-hop practices / Alice Aterianus-Owanga. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies : (2015), vol. 27, no. 2, p. 146-158
ASC Subject Headings: Gabon ; oral traditions ; popular music
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2014.987222 (Restricted access)

Kenya
Ethnicity and the brokerage of Kenyan popular music : categorizing 'Riziki' by Ja-Mnazi Afrika / T. Michael Mboya. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies : (2015), vol. 27, no. 2, p. 205-215
ASC Subject Headings: ethnic identity ; Kenya ; popular music
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2015.1010637 (Restricted access)

Kenya
The growth and use of Sheng in advertisements in selected businesses in Kenya / Annah Kariuki, Fridah Erastus Kanana, and Hildah Kebeya. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies : (2015), vol. 27, no. 2, p. 229-246 : ill., tab
ASC Subject Headings: advertising ; Kenya ; sociolects ; Swahili language ; youth
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2015.1029879 (Restricted access)

Kenya
The use of autochthony in popular politics : the story of 'Mwambasho' among the Digo of Kenya / Jeong Kyung Park. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies : (2015), vol. 27, no. 2, p. 191-204
ASC Subject Headings: Digo ; Kenya ; local politics ; oral traditions ; separatism
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2015.1004161 (Restricted access)

Kenya
Linking normative theory to media policy-making : a case study of Kenya / Wilson Ugangu and Pieter Fourie. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Media Studies : (2014), vol. 6, no. 3, p. 265-283
ASC Subject Headings: globalization ; Kenya ; media policy
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jams/2014/ 00000006/00000003/art00003 (Restricted access)

Nigeria
Frog, where are you? : the ethnopragmatics of Ibibio death prevention names / Eyo Offiong Mensah. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies : (2015), vol. 27, no. 2, p. 115-132 : krt., tab
ASC Subject Headings: death ; Ibibio ; Nigeria ; personal names
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2014.976545 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Transcultural affinity : thoughts on the emergent cosmopolitan imagination in South Africa / Chielozona Eze. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies : (2015), vol. 27, no. 2, p. 216-228
ASC Subject Headings: cultural philosophy ; South Africa
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2015.1023703 (Restricted access)

Sudan
Technologizing humanitarian space: Darfur Advocacy and the rape-stove panacea. - (Abstract available)
In: International Political Sociology : (2014), no. 8, p. 145-163
ASC Subject Headings: sexual offences ; social problems ; stoves ; Sudan ; technology
http://www.newdawnengineering.com/website/library/ Papers+Articles/Social%20Science%20and%20Stoves/Abdelnour,%20Saeed_ Technologizing%20Humanitarian%20Space_IPS.pdf

Zambia
Strange bedfellows : David Livingstone, Sekeletu, imported goods, and the 1853-1856 trans-African expedition / Walima T. Kalusa. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies : (2015), vol. 27, no. 2, p. 133-145
ASC Subject Headings: consumer goods ; expeditions ; imports ; Lozi polity ; Zambia
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2014.985290 (Restricted access)

Zimbabwe
New names, translational subjectivities : (dis)location and (re)naming in NoViolet Bulawayo's 'We Need New Names' / Polo Belina Moji. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies : (2015), vol. 27, no. 2, p. 181-190
ASC Subject Headings: literary criticism ; migration ; novels ; Zimbabwe
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2014.993937 (Restricted access)

Electronic documents

Africa
Power people planet : seizing Africas energy and climate opportunities : Africa progress report 2015. - Geneva: Africa Progress panel, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; energy resources
http://app-cdn.acwupload.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/APP_REPORT_201...

Africa
Young citizens, youth and participatory governance in Africa / guest ed. Rosemary McGee, Jessica Greenhalf, Holly Ashley. - [Cambridge : Cambridge University Press], 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; governance ; political participation ; youth
http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/14607IIED.pdf

Burundi
Projet de gestion environnementale du Bassin du Lac Victoria, 2ème Phase (LVEMP II) : cadre de participation des groupes vulnérables dans le projet / Ministère de l'eau, de l'environnement, de l'aménagement du territoire et de l'urbanisme. - [Bujumbara] : Ministère de l'eau, de l'environnement, de l'aménagement du territoire et de l'urbanisme, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Burundi ; community participation ; development projects ; environmental management ; lakes ; poverty
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/392499371.pdf

Burundi
Vision Burundi 2025 / Ministère du plan et du développement communal/cellule prospective; Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement au Burundi. - [Bujumbara] : Ministère du plan et du développement communal/cellule prospective [etc.], 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Burundi ; demography ; development plans ; economic development ; social development ; statistics
http://www.burundi.gov.bi/IMG/pdf/vision_burundi_2025_complete_fr.pdf

Burundi
Code électoral / Assemblée nationale du Burundi. - [Bujumbara] : Assemblée nationale du Burundi, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: Burundi ; election law ; laws (form)
http://www.assemblee.bi/Code-electoral

Burundi
Constitution de la République de Burundi / Assemblée nationale du Burundi. - [Bujumbara] : Assemblée nationale du Burundi, 2005
ASC Subject Headings: 2005 ; Burundi ; constitutions ; laws (form)
http://www.assemblee.bi/Constitution-de-la-Republique-du

Ethiopia
The making and unmaking of an emerging working class : organizational expressions of class formation in Ethiopia 1960-77 / By Samuel Andreas Admasie. - (Abstract available) - [S.l. : s.n.], 2014
ASC Subject Headings: class formation ; Ethiopia ; theses (form) ; trade unions ; working class
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/33000

Ethiopia
Ethiopias policy and strategy on foreign affairs and national security / Ministry of Information , Press & Audiovisual Department. - Addis Ababa : Ministry of Information , Press & Audiovisual Department, 2002
ASC Subject Headings: Ethiopia ; foreign policy ; national security
http://www.mfa.gov.et/docs/Foreign%20Policy%20English.pdf

Ghana
The impact and legacies of German colonialism in Kete Krachi, North-Eastern Ghana / Samuel Aniegye Ntewusu. - (Abstract available) - Leiden : African Studies Centre, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: agriculture ; boundaries ; chieftaincy ; colonial administration ; Germany ; Ghana
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/33230

Italy
Being Eritrean in Milan : the constitution of identity / Anna Arnone. - [Sussex] : University of Sussex, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: diasporas ; Eritrea ; Eritreans ; identity ; immigrants ; Italy ; memory ; migration
http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/2489/1/Arnone%2C_Anna.pdf

Malawi
Astudy into the techno-economic feasibility of photovoltaic and wind generated electricity for enhancement of sustainable livelihoods on Likoma Island in Malawi / Collen Zalengera. - Loughborough : University Institutional Repository, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: dissertations (form) ; Malawi ; solar energy ; sustainable development ; wind energy
https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/16630

Nigeria
Globalisation, football and emerging urban 'tribes' : fans of the European leagues in a Nigerian city / Victor U. Onyebueke. - (Abstract available) - Leiden : African Studies Centre, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: football ; Nigeria ; television
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/32926

Northeast Africa
Stock taking of adaptation activities in the Nile River Basin / United Nations Environment Programme. - Nairobi : United Nations Environment Programme, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: climate change ; Nile River ; Northeast Africa
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/394191099.pdf

Southern Africa
SADC renewable energy and energy efficiency status report / United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). - Vienna : United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), 2015
ASC Subject Headings: energy policy ; Southern Africa
http://www.sairec.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/SADC-RENEWABLE-ENERG...

Tanzania
Public administration in Tanzania : current issues and challenges / Ko de Ridder ... [et al.]. - Leiden [etc.] : African Studies Centre [etc.], 2015
ASC Subject Headings: administrative reform ; agricultural cooperatives ; cashew nuts ; decentralization ; local government ; public administration ; Tanzania
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/33001

Tanzania
Children's involvement in small business : does it build youth entrepreneurship? / by Raymond Mnenwa and Emmanuel Maliti. - Dar es Salaam : Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA), 2010
ASC Subject Headings: child labour ; children ; entrepreneurs ; occupational choice ; small enterprises ; Tanzania
http://www.repoa.or.tz/documents/RR10-2_.pdf

Tanzania
Determinants of rural income in Tanzania : an empirical approach / Jehovaness Aikaeli. - Dar es Salaam : Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA), 2010
ASC Subject Headings: household income ; poverty ; rural households ; Tanzania
http://www.repoa.or.tz/documents/rr10_4.pdf

Tanzania
Poverty and the rights of children at household level : findings from Same and Kisarawe districts, Tanzania / by Ophelia Mascarenhas and Huruma Sigalla. - Dar es Salaam : Research on poverty alleviation (REPOA), 2010
ASC Subject Headings: children's rights ; poverty ; Tanzania
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/333006569.pdf http://www.repoa.or.tz/documents/10-3_low_resolution_(2).pdf

Tanzania
Assessing the institutional framework for promoting the growth of MSEs in Tanzania : the case of Dar es Salaam / by Raymond Mnenwa and Emmanuel Maliti . - Dar es Salaam : Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA), 2009
ASC Subject Headings: business promotion ; institutions ; private sector ; public sector ; small enterprises ; Tanzania
http://www.repoa.or.tz/documents/Research_Report_08.6_LR_.pdf

Tanzania
The impact of reforms on the quality of primary education in Tanzania / Ammon Mbelle. - Dar es Salaam : Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA), 2008
ASC Subject Headings: educational quality ; educational reform ; primary education ; Tanzania
http://www.repoa.or.tz/documents/08.1_Amon_V_.Y_._Mbelle_.pdf

Tanzania
The role of small businesses in poverty alleviation : the case of Dar es Salaam / Raymond Mnenwa and Emmanuel Maliti. - Dar es Salaam : Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA), 2008
ASC Subject Headings: poverty reduction ; small enterprises ; Tanzania
http://www.repoa.or.tz/documents/08.2_Mnenwa_and_Maliti_.pdf

Tanzania
Changes in the upland irrigation system and implications for rural poverty alleviation : a case of the Ndiwa irrigations system, west Usambara mountains, Tanzania / Cosmas Sokoni and Tamilwai Shechambo. - Dar es Salaam : REPOA, 2005
ASC Subject Headings: indigenous technology ; irrigation ; poverty reduction ; Tanzania
http://www.repoa.or.tz/documents/05.1_Sokoni_and_Shechambo_.pdf

Tanzania
The role of traditional irrigation systems in poverty alleviation in semi-arid areas: the case of Chamazi in Lushoto District, Tanzania / Baker M. Masuruli, Baker M. Masuruli. - Dar es Salaam : REPOA, 2004
ASC Subject Headings: farming systems ; irrigation ; Tanzania
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/393189651.pdf

Uganda
Republic of Uganda : may 2008 / African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). - Kampala : African Peer Review Mechanism, 2008
ASC Subject Headings: African Peer Review Mechanism ; governance ; Uganda
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/389977926.pdf

West Africa
Politiques regionale de la CEDEAO : Energies renouvelables Efficacité énergétique / Abdou Diop. - Senegal: Enda Energie, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: energy economics ; energy policy ; regional planning ; West Africa
http://climatdeveloppement.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Politiques-re%...

Books

Burkina Faso
La mise sur le marché et la distribution du médicament en Afrique noire francophone : réflexions à partir des exemples du Burkina Faso et du Sénégal / Baimanai Angelain Poda. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Burkina Faso ; distribution ; legislation ; marketing ; medicinal drugs ; Senegal ; social and economic rights ; theses (form)
 

Burkina Faso
Property and political order in Africa : land rights and the structure of politics / Catherine Boone. - New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Burkina Faso ; Cameroon ; Côte d'Ivoire ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; ethnicity ; Ghana ; Kenya ; land conflicts ; land tenure ; political conditions
 

Cameroon
Global warning : an ethnography of the encounter of global and local climate change discourses in the Bamenda Grassfields, Cameroon / Sara de Wit. - Mankon [etc.] : Langaa Research and Publishing Common Iniative Group [etc.], 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Bamenda ; Cameroon ; climate change ; images ; North-South relations ; power ; theses (form)
 

Cameroon
Les Bamiléké de l'Ouest-Cameroun : vaillance et dynamisme / François Kéou Tiani ; préf. de Paul-Gérard Pougoue. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Bamileke ; Cameroon ; social life ; values
 

Cameroon
Cotton cultivating farmers in Cameroon : a qualitative research on agricultural systems used by Mafa farmers and the resulting practice of soil and water conservation / Anneke Been. - [Leiden : Programme d'Environnement and Développement, Centre des Études de l'Environnement, Université de Leiden], 1995
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; cotton ; erosion ; farmers ; fertilizers ; Mafa ; soil management
 

Cameroon
Overgrazing in the Diamare : that is the question : studying social indications of overgrazing in the Diamare North Cameroon with help of a problem oriented approach / Saskia Ligthart. - [Leiden : Centre for Environmental Sciences (CML), Leiden University], 1993
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; cattle ; grasslands
 

Cameroon
The Guineafowl population in and around Waza National Park : a research on aspects on the Guineafowl and it's habitat in the Extreme North province of Cameroon / Arnold Bodenkamp & Pim Edelaar. - [Leiden : Institute of Environmental Science (CML), Leiden University], 1993
ASC Subject Headings: birds ; Cameroon ; national parks and reserves
 

Cameroon
Field research paper on the village development committees in the Mandara mountains / Youp van Zorge. - [Leiden : Programme d'Environnement et Développement, Centre des Études de l'Environnement (CML), Université de Leiden], 1992
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; community development ; rural development ; villages
 

Cape Verde
Dilemas de poder na história de Cabo Verde / António Correia e Silva. - Lisboa : Rosa de Porcelana Editora, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: archaeology ; Cape Verde ; family ; independence ; power ; social conditions ; urban society
 

Cape Verde
Estilo de Liderança do gestor público Cabo-Verdiano / Pedro Andrade Semedo. - Praia : Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: Cape Verde ; globalization ; leadership ; management ; public administration
 

Central African Republic
L'Église et la démocratie en Centrafrique / Richard Appora-Ngalanibé. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Central African Republic ; Church and State ; democracy
 

Central African Republic
Le dialogue islamo-chrétien en Centrafrique / Justin Ndéma. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Central African Republic ; Christianity ; interreligious relations ; Islam
 

Chad
Atlas du lac Tchad / Geraud Magrin, Jacques Lemoalle, Roland Pourtier ; préf. de Idriss Déby Itno ; avant-propos de Laurent Fabius ; postf. de Jean-Paul Moatti. - Paris : Passages, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Chad ; economic conditions ; ecosystems ; infrastructure ; lakes ; population
 

Congo (Brazzaville)
Congo, terre de technologies : objectif 2025 / Vérone Mankou. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Congo (Brazzaville) ; entrepreneurs ; information technology ; personal narratives (form)
 

Côte d'Ivoire
Laurent Gbagbo : la passion d'une espérance démocratique / Raphael Dagbo ; préf. d'Alain Cappeau. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Côte d'Ivoire ; heads of State ; political terminology
 

Côte d'Ivoire
Le leadership familial du mari : être le mari d'une épouse épanouie / Charlemagne Sobia. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Côte d'Ivoire ; family ; men ; spouses
 

Ethiopia
In praise of Saayyaa : Oromo songs in praise of the cattle / Tegegn Nuresu Wako. - Harare : Association for the Promotion, Preservation & Strengthening of Culture & Cultural Values (PCV), 2011
ASC Subject Headings: cattle ; Ethiopia ; Oromo language ; songs
 

Ghana
Elderly care arrangements in Ghana / Kwabena Nyarko Otoo, Prince Asafu-Adjaye, Mary Akosua Torgbe. - Accra : Trade Union Congress, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: care of the aged ; elderly ; Ghana
 

Ghana
Know your MPs in the 6th Parliament : (2013-2017) / Kojo T. Vieta. - Accra : Flagbearers Publishers, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: biographical dictionaries (form) ; Ghana ; parliamentarians
 

Ghana
History of Ghana Armed Forces : military organizations and regiments / Stephen Addae. - Accra : Eureka Foundation, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: armed forces ; Ghana ; military history
 

Ghana
The state and condition of alleged witches in northern region of Ghana (2008) / ActionAid Ghana. - Accra : ActionAid Ghana, 201
ASC Subject Headings: Ghana ; human rights ; NGO ; witch-hunting ; witchcraft
 

Great Lakes region
Conflits identitaires et enjeux économiques internationaux dans la région des Grands Lacs / Jean-Bosco Germain Esambu Matenda ; préf. d'Olivier Kahola Tabu. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; Great Lakes region ; international economic relations ; peacekeeping operations ; political violence ; Rwanda ; UN
 

Morocco
Girls of the factory : a year with the garment workers of Morocco / M. Laetitia Cairoli. - Gainesville, Fla : University Press of Florida, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: adolescents ; clothing industry ; employment ; industrial workers ; Morocco ; social conditions ; women workers
 

Nigeria
We should all be feminists / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. - London : Fourth Estate, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: essays (form) ; feminism ; Nigeria
 

Northern Africa
Gouverner au nom d'Allah : islamisation et soif de pouvoir dans le monde arabe / Boualem Sansal. - [Paris] : Gallimard, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Arab countries ; fundamentalism ; Islam ; Northern Africa
 

Senegal
Learning Senegalese sabar : dancers and embodiment in New York and Dakar / Eleni Bizas. - New York : Berghahn Books, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: dance ; music education ; Senegal ; United States
 

Subsaharan Africa
Imperial projections : screening the German colonies / Wolfgang Fuhrmann. - New York : Berghahn Books, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: cinema ; colonial territories ; filmmakers ; films ; Germany ; Subsaharan Africa
 

Western Sahara
Saharawi refugees : Western Sahara conflict / Priti Chahal. - Delhi : Vista International Publishing House, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: refugees ; Saharawis ; Western Sahara

African Literature

Cape Verde
Coração de lava / [poemas] José Luiz Tavares ; [fotografías] Duarte Belo. - [Mindelo, Cabo Verde] : US Edições, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Cape Verde ; photography ; poetry (form) ; volcanic eruptions
 

Cape Verde
Marginais / Evel Rocha. - [Praia, Cabo Verde : publisher not identified], 2010
ASC Subject Headings: Cape Verde ; novels (form)
 

Cape Verde
Filhas do vento / Dina Salústio. - Praia : Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: Cape Verde ; novels (form)

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