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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 ASCL Library and a link to the ASCL journal articles alert.

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New acquisitions - week 39 2015

Africa's information revolution : technical regimes and production networks in South Africa and TanzaniaWeek 39 2015

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Articles | Electronic documents | Books | Journals | Films | African Literature | Sound | Abstracts and downloads

Articles

Africa
Dossier : la justice en Afrique : nouveaux défis, nouveaux acteurs / [coordonné par Jean du Bois de Gaudusson]. - (Abstract available)
In: Afrique contemporaine : (2014), no. 250, p. 1-102 : fig., foto's, krt., tab
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; Burundi ; Ghana ; judicial system ; law
 

Africa
Expertise et recherche chinoises sur l'Afrique : évolutions, changements et spécificités / Martina Bassan. - (Abstract available)
In: Afrique contemporaine : (2014), no. 250, p. 105-117 : krt., tab
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African studies ; China ; international relations
 

Africa
Using Public Service Broadcasting to promote development / Elizabeth Smith. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Media Studies : (2014), vol. 6, no. 2, p. 157-164
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; broadcasting ; development ; mass communication ; Namibia
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jams/2014/00000006/00000... (Restricted access)

Africa
Whose event? Official versus journalistic framing of the fifth Forum on China Africa Cooperation (FOCAC V) / Bob Wekesa. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Media Studies : (2014), vol. 6, no. 1, p. 57-70 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: 2012 ; Africa ; China ; conferences ; international relations ; journalism
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jams/2014/00000006/00000... (Restricted access)

Africa
The potential of the Expert Committee of the African Children's Charter in advancing adolescent sexual health and rights in Africa / Ebenezer Durojaye. - (Abstract available)
In: Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa : (2013), vol. 46, no. 3, p. 385-409
ASC Subject Headings: adolescents ; Africa ; African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child ; contraception ; girls ; reproductive health
http://reference.sabinet.co.za/webx/access/electronic_journals/cilsa/cil... (Restricted access)

Cameroon
Evil and the art of revenge in the Mandara Mountains / Walter E. A. van Beek. -
In: Evil in Africa : encounters with the everyday / ed. by William C. Olsen and Walter E. A. van Beek ; foreword by David Parkin. - Bloomington [etc. ] : Indiana University Press : (2015), p. 140-156
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; cosmology ; curses ; death ; Kapsiki ; magic ; Nigeria ; rituals ; witchcraft
 

Ghana
Should it be Omanhenes, Amanhenes or Amanhene? - or are they in free variation? / Kari Dako. - (Abstract available)
In: Language Matters : (2015), vol. 46, no. 1, p. 44-59
ASC Subject Headings: Akan languages ; codeswitching ; English language ; Ghana ; loan words
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2014.916741 (Restricted access)

Kenya
A clash between journalistic and capitalist values? How advertisers meddle in journalists' decisions at the Nation Media Group in Kenya / Jacinta Mwende Maweu. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Media Studies : (2014), vol. 6, no. 1, p. 27-42
ASC Subject Headings: advertising ; ethics ; journalists ; Kenya ; mass media ; shareholders
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jams/2014/00000006/00000... (Restricted access)

Kenya
The tension between ethics and ethnicity : examining journalists' ethical decision-making at the Nation Media Group in Kenya / Herman Wasserman and Jacinta Mwende Maweu. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Media Studies : (2014), vol. 6, no. 2, p. 165-179
ASC Subject Headings: ethics ; ethnic identity ; journalism ; Kenya ; mass media
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jams/2014/00000006/00000... (Restricted access)

Nigeria
Igbo verbs of cooking: a lexical semantic analysis / Chukwuma Okeke, Benjamin Igbeaku. - (Abstract available)
In: Language Matters : (2015), vol. 46, no. 1, p. 81-97
ASC Subject Headings: food preparation ; Igbo language ; lexicology ; Nigeria ; semantics
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2014.983146 (Restricted access)

Nigeria
Knowledge of phonotactic constraints in Yoruba: a necessary tactic behaviour for linguistic competence in the language / Olusanmi Babarinde. - (Abstract available)
In: Language Matters : (2015), vol. 46, no. 1, p. 60-80 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: loan words ; Nigeria ; phonology ; Yoruba language
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2014.973897 (Restricted access)

Nigeria
MDGs in Nigeria, communication and the media / Nkereuwem Udoakah and Ralph Negrine. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Media Studies : (2014), vol. 6, no. 2, p. 139-156 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: development planning ; government policy ; mass communication ; Nigeria
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jams/2014/00000006/00000... (Restricted access)

Nigeria
Nigerian newspapers' coverage of the effect of Boko Haram activities on the environment / Chinenye Nwabueze and Victoria Ekwughe. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Media Studies : (2014), vol. 6, no. 1, p. 71-89 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: environmental degradation ; Islamic movements ; journalism ; newspapers ; Nigeria ; terrorism
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jams/2014/00000006/00000... (Restricted access)

South Africa
Diagnosing academic language ability: an analysis of the Test of Academic Literacy for Postgraduate Students / Anna Pot, Albert Weideman. - (Abstract available)
In: Language Matters : (2015), vol. 46, no. 1, p. 22-43 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: academic achievement ; English language ; evaluation ; higher education ; South Africa ; students ; writing
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2014.986665 (Restricted access)

South Africa
South Africa's changing linguistic frontiers: Latin mottoes in schools and universities / Richard Evans. - (Abstract available)
In: Language Matters : (2015), vol. 46, no. 1, p. 139-156
ASC Subject Headings: language usage ; mottoes ; schools ; South Africa ; universities
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2014.986186 (Restricted access)

South Africa
TheNational Benchmark Test in Academic Literacy: how might it be used to support teaching in higher education? / Alan Cliff. - (Abstract available)
In: Language Matters : (2015), vol. 46, no. 1, p. 3-21 : graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: academic achievement ; English language ; examinations ; higher education ; South Africa ; students
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2015.1027505 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Theuse of linguistic tokenism to secure brand loyalty: code-switching practices in South African print advertising / Marthinus Conradie and Angelique van Niekerk. - (Abstract available)
In: Language Matters : (2015), vol. 46, no. 1, p. 117-138 : ill
ASC Subject Headings: advertising ; codeswitching ; South Africa
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2014.981570 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Forward with the people : a linguistic analysis of the imagined community in letters to the Daily Sun / Jade Smith and Ralph Adendorff. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Media Studies : (2014), vol. 6, no. 2, p. 199-212 : fig
ASC Subject Headings: audiences ; group identity ; newspapers ; South Africa
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jams/2014/00000006/00000... (Restricted access)

South Africa
The "Maestro Film Project" / Uys, Gerhard. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Media Studies : (2014), vol. 6, no. 1, p. 43-55 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: cinema ; South Africa
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jams/2014/00000006/00000... (Restricted access)

South Africa
Challenges facing the harmonisation of the SADC legal profession : South Africa and Botswana under the spotlight / Jimmy Phazha Ngandwe. - (Abstract available)
In: Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa : (2013), vol. 46, no. 3, p. 365-384
ASC Subject Headings: Botswana ; legal practitioners ; SADC ; South Africa
http://reference.sabinet.co.za/webx/access/electronic_journals/cilsa/cil... (Restricted access)

South Africa
Challenges in the distribution of death benefits under the Pension Funds Act : the extent of dependency considered / Mtendeweka Mhango. - (Abstract available)
In: Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa : (2013), vol. 46, no. 3, p. 474-491
ASC Subject Headings: judgments ; legislation ; pensions ; South Africa
http://reference.sabinet.co.za/webx/access/electronic_journals/cilsa/cil... (Restricted access)

South Africa
Employees' right to strike and violence in South Africa / Ernest Manamela and Mpfari Budeli. - (Abstract available)
In: Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa : (2013), vol. 46, no. 3, p. 308-336
ASC Subject Headings: labour law ; South Africa ; strikes ; trade unions ; violence
http://reference.sabinet.co.za/webx/access/electronic_journals/cilsa/cil... (Restricted access)

South Africa
In pursuit of universal suffrage : the right of prisoners in Africa to vote / Adem Kassie Abebe. - (Abstract available)
In: Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa : (2013), vol. 46, no. 3, p. 410-446
ASC Subject Headings: elections ; human rights ; prisoners ; South Africa ; voting
http://reference.sabinet.co.za/webx/access/electronic_journals/cilsa/cil... (Restricted access)

Subsaharan Africa
Journalist in Africa : a high-risk profession under threat / Marie Soleil Frère. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Media Studies : (2014), vol. 6, no. 2, p. 181-198
ASC Subject Headings: freedom of the press ; journalists ; Subsaharan Africa
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jams/2014/00000006/00000... (Restricted access)

Tanzania
Investissements chinois dans l'industrie textile tanzanienne et zambienne : de l'aide au marché / Tang Xiaoyang. - (Abstract available)
In: Afrique contemporaine : (2014), no. 250, p. 119-132
ASC Subject Headings: China ; development cooperation ; foreign investments ; Tanzania ; textile industry ; Zambia
 

Tanzania
The concept of public service broadcasting in a changing Africa : a Tanzanian experience / Amani Millanga. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Media Studies : (2014), vol. 6, no. 1, p. 7-25
ASC Subject Headings: broadcasting ; public services ; social change ; Tanzania
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jams/2014/00000006/00000... (Restricted access)

Uganda
The representation of the environmental crises on Lake Victoria in Uganda's media : a critical analysis of the Victoria Voice radio documentaries / Margaret Jjuuko and Jeanne Prinsloo. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Media Studies : (2014), vol. 6, no. 2, p. 213-229
ASC Subject Headings: environmental degradation ; images ; radio ; social inequality ; Uganda
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jams/2014/00000006/00000... (Restricted access)

Zimbabwe
Theoretical aspects of the chiShona passive / Victor Mugari. - (Abstract available)
In: Language Matters : (2015), vol. 46, no. 1, p. 98-116: fig., tab
ASC Subject Headings: grammar ; Shona language ; Zimbabwe
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2014.966855 (Restricted access)

Zimbabwe
Mourning and melancholia at the Harare International Festival of the Arts / Agnieszka Piotrowska. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Media Studies : (2014), vol. 6, no. 1, p. 111-130 : foto's
ASC Subject Headings: culture contact ; festivals ; performing arts ; poetry ; Zimbabwe
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jams/2014/00000006/00000... (Restricted access)

Zimbabwe
Performing patriotic citizenship : Zimbabwean diaspora and their online newspaper reading practices / Tendai Chari. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Media Studies : (2014), vol. 6, no. 1, p. 91-109 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: citizenship ; diasporas ; identity ; information behaviour ; newspapers ; Zimbabwe
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jams/2014/00000006/00000... (Restricted access)

Electronic documents

Africa
Innovative financing for the economic transformation of Africa / ed. by Abdalla Hamdok. - Addis Ababa : UNECA, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; economic development ; financing
http://www.uneca.org/sites/default/files/PublicationFiles/innovative-fin...

Africa
Rules of court / African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights. - Arusha : African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: administration of justice ; Africa ; African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
http://www.african-court.org/en/images/documents/Court/Interim%20Rules%2...

Kenya
Equity and gender concerns in managing devolved funds in Kenya / Othieno Nyanjom. - Nairobi : Society for International Development, Regional Office for Eastern Africa, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: community development ; decentralization ; financing ; gender inequality ; Kenya ; local government reform
http://www.sidint.net/sites/www.sidint.net/files/docs/EquityGenderConcer...

Malawi
Responding to climate change impacts : adaptation and mitigation strategies as practised in the Zambezi River Basin / [writer Egline Tauya]. - Harare [etc.] : Southern African Research and Documentation Centre [etc.], 2010
ASC Subject Headings: climate change ; Malawi ; river basins ; Zambia ; Zimbabwe
http://www.icp-confluence-sadc.org/sites/default/files/climate%20change%...

Nigeria
A heart to mend / Myne Whitman. - Bloomington, Ind : AuthorHouse, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: Nigeria ; novels (form)
http://free-online-novels.com/books/Myne%20Whitman%20-%20A%20Heart%20to%...

Rwanda
Sharing scarcity : land access and social relations in Southeast Rwanda / Margot Leegwater. - Leiden : African Studies Centre, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: ethnic conflicts ; land conflicts ; land tenure ; landownership ; peasantry ; Rwanda ; social relations
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/35291

South Africa
Versamelde gedigte / C. Louis Leipoldt ; versorg deur J.C. Kannemeyer. - Kaapstad : Tafelberg, 1980
ASC Subject Headings: collected works (form) ; poetry (form) ; South Africa
http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/leip001vers01_01/

Uganda
Child sacrifice in Uganda and its human rights implications : a research study / Uganda Human Rights Commission. - Kampala : Uganda Human Rights Commission, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: ritual murder ; Uganda ; wealth ; witchcraft
http://www.uhrc.ug/sites/default/files/ulrc_resources/Child%20Sacrifice%...

Zambia
Orphanhood and fosterhood report / Central Statistical Office. - Lusaka : Central Statistical Office, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: censuses ; foster care ; housing ; orphans ; population composition ; statistics ; Zambia
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/394086910.pdf

Zambia
Report on characteristics of households and housing / Central Statistical Office. - Lusaka : Central Statistical Office, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: censuses ; households ; housing ; population composition ; statistics ; Zambia
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/394087240.pdf

Zambia
Zambia decent work country programme 2013-2016 / Ministry of Labour and Social Security, International Labour Organisation , Country Office. - Lusaka : Ministry of Labour and Social Security [etc.], 2013
ASC Subject Headings: employment creation ; labour market ; national planning ; Zambia
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/program/dwcp/download/zambia.pdf

Zambia
National analytical report / Central Statistical Office. - Lusaka : Central Statistical Office, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: 2010 ; censuses ; housing ; population composition ; statistics ; Zambia
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/39408599X.pdf

Zambia
Zambia : 2010 census of population and housing : population summary report / Central Statistical Office. - Lusaka : Central Statistical Office, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: 2010 ; censuses ; housing ; population composition ; statistics ; Zambia
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/39408635X.pdf

Zambia
Election observation mission report : 2011 tripartite general elections, Zambia / SADC Parliamentary Forum. - Windhoek : SADC Parliamentary Forum, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: 2011 ; election monitoring ; elections ; Zambia
http://aceproject.org/ero-en/regions/africa/ZM/zambia-election-observati...

Books

Africa
Africa screams : das Böse in Kino, Kunst und Kult / hrsg. von Tobias Wendl ; mit Textbeitr. von Jigal Beez ... [et al.]. - Wuppertal : Peter Hammer Verlag, 2004
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; arts ; cinema ; magic ; mysticism ; visual arts ; witchcraft
 

Africa
African dance / Kariamu Welsh ; [consulting ed.: Elisabeth A. Hanley ; foreword: Jacques D'Amboise]. - Philadelphia, PA : Chelsea House Publishers, 2004
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; dance ; initiation ; traditional festivals
 

Africa
Africa : tra debito estero e risarcimento = Afrique : dette extérieure et indemnisation / Detalmo Pirzio Biroli ... [et al.] ; introd. di/de Odile Mbilla Moukouri ; [trad. di/de Giuliana Giannobi Huen]. - Torino [etc.] : [L'Harmattan Italia [etc.], 2001
ASC Subject Headings: 2000 ; Africa ; conference papers (form) ; external debt
 

Africa
Evil in Africa : encounters with the everyday / ed. by William C. Olsen and Walter E. A. van Beek ; foreword by David Parkin. - Bloomington [etc.] : Indiana University Press, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; cosmology ; popular beliefs ; spirits ; war ; witchcraft
 

Africa
Patrons of poverty : IMF/World Bank and Africa's problems / Sylvester Odion Akhaine. - Saarbrücken : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; development ; economic dependence ; financial policy ; global economy ; IMF ; World Bank
 

Africa
Land grabs in a green African economy : implications for trade, investment and development policies / Godwell Nhamo and Caiphas Chekwoti (eds.). - (Abstract available) - Pretoria : Africa Institute of South Africa, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; agricultural policy ; conference papers (form) ; economic development ; foreign investments ; land acquisition ; land rights
 

Africa
Shakespeare in & out of Africa / volume editor, Jane Plastow ; reviews editor, Martin Banham. - (Abstract available) - Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African languages ; Cape Verde ; drama ; Nigeria ; South Africa ; theatre ; Zimbabwe
 

Africa
African public administration : the effective management of personnel / Moye Godwin Bongyu ; with a forew. by Tatah Mentan. - Lewiston, NY [etc.] : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; civil servants ; civil service ; human resources ; personnel management ; public administration
 

Africa
Afrophone philosophies : reality and challenge / Alena Rettová. - Stedokluky : Zdenk Susa, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African languages ; historiography ; literature ; Ndebele (South Africa) ; philosophy ; proverbs
 

Botswana
The cultural management of upwardly mobility in Botswana / by Alice Gordon Apley. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Dissertation Services, 2002
ASC Subject Headings: Botswana ; dissertations (form) ; education ; middle class ; social change ; social mobility ; wealth
 

Botswana
What Dawid knew : a journey with the Kruipers / Patricia Glyn. - Johannesburg : Picador Africa, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Botswana ; Namibia ; personal narratives (form) ; relations ; San ; social conditions ; South Africa ; travel
 

Burkina Faso
Thomas Sankara : an African revolutionary / Ernest Harsch. - Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Burkina Faso ; heads of State ; politicians
 

Cameroon
Le sida au Cameroun : nouvelles militances et societé civile / sous la dir. de Laurent Vidal. - (Abstract available) - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: AIDS ; Cameroon ; civil society ; health aid ; NGO
 

Cape Verde
Crafting nation and creolization in the islands of Cape Verde / by Isabel Paim de Bruges Fêo Rodrigues. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Dissertation Services, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: acculturation ; Cape Verde ; Creoles ; dissertations (form) ; nation building ; race relations ; State
 

Congo (Brazzaville)
From the land of diamonds to the isle of spice / by Sigismond Henry Tucker ; ed. by Winston Forde. - Accra : Sierra Leonean Writers Series, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: autobiographies (form) ; Congo (Brazzaville) ; Sierra Leone
 

Côte d'Ivoire
Grand-Bassam pour tout savoir : Adjapadiai : l'héritage du peuple N/Zima / Louis Kouama Abrima. - Grand-Bassam : Louis Kouama Abrima, 2001
ASC Subject Headings: Côte d'Ivoire ; ethnogenesis ; history ; legends (form) ; Nzima
 

Democratic Republic of Congo
L'Afrique centrale dans cent ans / Paul Salkin ; avant-propos de Marc Quaghebeur ; introduction d'Isidore Ndaywel è Nziem. - Bruxelles : Archives et Musée de la Littérature, 2001
ASC Subject Headings: Belgium ; Central Africa ; decolonization ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; future ; novels (form)
 

Egypt
Constructing modern Copts : the production of Coptic Christian identity in contemporary Egypt / Elizabeth E. Oram. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Dissertation Services, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: Christianity ; Church ; Church and State ; Church history ; Copts ; Egypt ; identity
 

Eritrea
Eritrea at a crossroads : a narrative of triumph, betrayal and hope / Andebrhan Welde Giorgis. - Houston : Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Eritrea ; nation building ; political history
 

Ethiopia
Understanding contemporary Ethiopia / Gérard Prunier and Éloi Ficquet (eds.). - (Abstract available) - London : Hurst, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: economic conditions ; Ethiopia ; history ; political conditions ; religion ; social conditions
 

Ethiopia
Ethiopia unveiled : interaction between two worlds / Stuart Munro-Hay. - Hollywood, CA : Tsehai, 2006
ASC Subject Headings: Arabs ; Ethiopia ; Europeans ; history ; international relations
 

French-speaking Africa
L'action des syndicats professionnels en Afrique noire francophone / Henri-Joel Tagum Fombeno. - Paris [etc.] : L'Harmattan, 2006
ASC Subject Headings: collective bargaining ; employment ; French-speaking Africa ; informal sector ; labour ; popular participation ; trade unions ; West Africa
 

Guinea
Guide sur les droits des personnes handicapées en République de Guinée / Alpha Boubacar Diop. - Conakry : ROPACIDPH [etc.], 2013
ASC Subject Headings: disabled ; Guinea ; legislation ; social justice
 

Kenya
An analysis of road traffic accidents using geographic information systems (GIS) : the case of Nairobi city, Kenya / Calvine Kayi. - Hamburg : Verlag Dr. Kova, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: capitals ; dissertations (form) ; Kenya ; road transport ; traffic accidents
 

Mali
Kaba de Batè / Sékou Kaba, Sonassa Kaba, Noumso Kaba. - Middletown : CreateSpace, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: cultural history ; genealogy ; Guinea ; local history ; Mali ; Manding
 

Mali
Le monde Manden / Sékou Kaba. - Middletown [etc.] : CreateSpace, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: cultural history ; genealogy ; Guinea ; local history ; Mali ; Manding
 

Mali
The Manden world / Sékou Kaba. - Middletown : CreateSpace, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: cultural history ; genealogy ; Guinea ; local history ; Mali ; Manding
 

Mauritania
Synthèse des résultats prioritaires du recensement général de la population et de l'habitation (RGPH-2013) : répartition spatiale, structure par sexe et par âge / République Islamique de Mauritanie. - Nouakchott : Office National de la Statistique, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: 2013 ; censuses ; Mauritania ; population composition ; population distribution ; statistics
 

Mauritius
Strategies for the long term conservation of biodiversity on Mauritius : restoring and maintaining biodiversity through comprehensive landscape management and progressive policy / Thomas Juhasz. - Saarbrücken : VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008
ASC Subject Headings: biodiversity ; birds ; ecology ; environmental policy ; Mauritius ; nature conservation ; wildlife protection
 

Morocco
Anthropologie de l'irrigation : les oasis de Tiznit, Maroc / Toufik Ftaita. - Paris [etc.] : L'Harmattan, 2006
ASC Subject Headings: anthropological research ; communities ; irrigation ; Morocco ; oases ; social structure ; water management
 

Morocco
Esprit de Fès / Faouzi Skali. - Casablanca : Langages du Sud, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: festivals ; Morocco ; music ; pictorial works (form) ; religious art
 

Namibia
"As long as they don't bury me here" : social relations of poverty in a Namibian shantytown / Inge Tvedten ; introd. by Michael Bollig. - Basel : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: households ; informal settlements ; interpersonal relations ; Namibia ; squatters ; urban anthropology ; urban poverty
 

Nigeria
Remembering a legend : Chinua Achebe / studies by Ernest N. Menyonu & Charles E. Nnolim. - Lagos : African Heritage Press, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: indigenous languages ; literary criticism ; literature ; Nigeria ; oral literature ; writers
 

Nigeria
Nigerian women speak : a gender analysis of government policy on women / Oluwafunmilayo J. Para-M[a]lllam. - Saarbrücken : VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: feminism ; gender ; gender inequality ; Nigeria ; social development ; social policy ; women
 

Rwanda
From classrooms to conflict in Rwanda / Elisabeth King. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: discrimination ; education ; ethnic conflicts ; ethnic groups ; peace ; Rwanda
 

Sahel
Les plantes du Sahel : usages et enjeux sociaux / sous la dir. de Gilles Boetsch ... [et al.]. - (Abstract available) - Paris : CNRS éditions, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: desertification ; deserts ; edible plants ; fruits ; medicinal plants ; Sahel ; sustainable agriculture
 

Senegal
État, sociétés et islam au Sénégal : un air de nouveau temps? / Abdourahmane Seck, Mayke Kaag ... [et al.]. - (Abstract available) - Paris [etc.] : Karthala [etc.], 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Islam ; Senegal ; society ; State
 

Sierra Leone
Dilemma of freedom : a diary from behind rebel lines in Sierra Leone's civil war / Bailah Leigh. - Accra [etc.] : Sierra Leonean Writers Series, 200
ASC Subject Headings: civil wars ; doctors ; personal narratives (form) ; Sierra Leone ; trials
 

Sierra Leone
Looking back / Sama Banya. - [Schriesheim : Africa Future Publishers], 2015
ASC Subject Headings: autobiographies (form) ; politicians ; Sierra Leone
 

Sierra Leone
Ponder my thoughts (on the social economic and the political scene in Sierra Leone) : an anthology of weekly thoughts / Andrew Keili. - Accra [etc.] : Sierra Leonean Writers Series, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: economic conditions ; essays (form) ; political conditions ; Sierra Leone ; social conditions
 

Sierra Leone
Manners maketh man : adventures of a Bo school boy / by Siaka Kroma. - Freetown : Sierra Leonean Writers Series, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: boys ; novels (form) ; personal narratives (form) ; schools ; Sierra Leone
 

South Africa
Creating community-based tenure systems in Thornhill and Isidenge: an examination of group schemes for land reform in South Africa / Eva Jensen. - [S.l. : s.n.], 2002
ASC Subject Headings: community development ; dissertations (form) ; land law ; land reform ; land rights ; land tenure ; South Africa
 

South Africa
Eskom : électricité et pouvoir en Afrique du Sud / Sylvy Jaglin et Alain Dubresson. - Paris : Karthala, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: electricity ; monopolies ; public enterprises ; South Africa
 

South Africa
Brothers in war and peace : Constand and Abraham Viljoen and the birth of the new South Africa / Dennis Cruywagen. - Cape Town : Zebra Press, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: 1990-1999 ; apartheid ; biographies (form) ; conflict resolution ; political change ; political parties ; South Africa
 

South Africa
Socio-economic equity and democratic freedom in South Africa / Mamphela Ramphele. - Zürich [etc.] : LIT Verlag, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: democracy ; equal opportunity ; inequality ; social and economic rights ; South Africa ; speeches (form)
 

South Africa
The taking of the slaver Meermin, 1766 / Dan Sleigh & Piet Westra. - Cape Town : Africana Publishers, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Madagascar ; Netherlands ; slave rebellions ; slave trade ; South Africa
 

South Africa
Radical middle : confessions of an accidental revolutionary / Denis Beckett. - Cape Town : Tafelberg, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: periodicals ; personal narratives (form) ; radicalism ; South Africa
 

South Africa
Comprehending gender issues through photography : a South African case study / Irina Turner. - Saarbrücken : VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008
ASC Subject Headings: feminism ; gender ; photography ; South Africa ; visual arts
 

Subsaharan Africa
Challenges and opportunities for agricultural intensification of the humid highland systems of Sub-Saharan Africa / Bernard Vanlauwe, Piet van Asten and Guy Blomme, eds. - (Abstract available) - New York : Springer, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: 2011 ; agricultural innovations ; agricultural intensification ; conference papers (form) ; food crops ; Rwanda ; Subsaharan Africa
 

Subsaharan Africa
Special supplement: Sexuality, intimacy, and counselling : perspectives from Africa / Eileen Moyer ... [et al.]. - London : Taylor & Francis, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: sexuality ; Subsaharan Africa ; Tanzania ; Zambia
 

Tanzania
Cattle and cultivation : changing land use and labor patterns in pastoral Maasai livelihoods, Loliondo division, Ngorongoro district, Tanzania / by M. Elizabeth O'Malley. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Dissertation Services, 2002
ASC Subject Headings: agriculture ; dissertations (form) ; land use ; Maasai ; pastoralists ; Tanzania
 

Tanzania
Africa's information revolution : technical regimes and production networks in South Africa and Tanzania / James T. Murphy, Pádraig Carmody. - Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: economic development ; information technology ; South Africa ; Tanzania ; telecommunications
 

Togo
Togo 1990-1994 ou le droit maladroit : chronique d'un effort de transition démocratique / Philippe David. - Paris : Karthala, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: 1990-1999 ; armed forces ; democratization ; national conferences ; political change ; Togo
 

West Africa
Nearly native, barely civilized : Henri Gaden's journey through colonial French West Africa (1894-1939) / by Roy Dilley. - Leiden : Brill, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: biographical dictionaries (form) ; Chad ; colonial administrators ; Mauritania ; Senegal ; travel ; West Africa

Films

Namibia
Bitter roots : the ends of a Kalahari myth / a film by Adrian Strong. - - Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: community development ; documentary films (form) ; Ju'hoansi ; Kalahari Desert ; Namibia ; subsistence farming ; tourism ; wildlife protection

South Africa
Layla / a film by Pia Marais ; starr. Rayna Campbell ... [et al.]. - (Abstract available) - [Paris] : Jour2fête, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: feature films (form) ; private security services ; race relations ; single mothers ; society ; South Africa ; videos (form)
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African Literature

Cameroon
Une facilité illusoire : nouvelles / Pierre Hinimbio Taida. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; crime ; short stories (form) ; theft
 

Côte d'Ivoire
Vérités sacrilèges : roman épistolaire / Fodjo Kadjo Abo. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Côte d'Ivoire ; novels (form)
 

Mali
Sous fer / Fatoumata Keita. - Bamako : la Sahélienne, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Mali ; novels (form)
 

Morocco
Une même nuit nous attend tous : roman / Lamia Berrada-Berca. - Ciboure : Cheminante, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: France ; Morocco ; novels (form)
 

Senegal
Cushing : roman / Fatou Diop. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; Senegal
 

South Africa
Duisend dae op jou spoor / Cas Vos. - [Pretoria] : Hond, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: poetry (form) ; South Africa
 

Zimbabwe
Shebeen tales : messages from Harare / Chenjerai Hove. - London [etc.] : Serif [etc.], 1997
ASC Subject Headings: short stories (form) ; Zimbabwe

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