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 ASCL Library and a link to the ASCL journal articles alert.
N.B. The next issue will be published on Monday 6 May 2024.
New acquisitions - week 35 2015
Week 35 2015
Archive
Articles | Electronic documents | Books | Journals | Films | African Literature | Sound | Abstracts and downloads
Articles
Africa
"Uti possidetis" and state secession in international law : an examination of the evolving legal practice in Africa / Charles Riziki Majinge. -
In: African Yearbook of International Law : (2013), vol. 18, p. 81-119
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; international law ; self-determination ; separatism ; territorial partition
Africa
Africa's approach to international law : aspects of the political and economic denominators / Rowland J.V. Cole. -
In: African Yearbook of International Law : (2013), vol. 18, p. 287-310
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; economic development ; international law ; political conditions ; self-determination
Africa
Éléments d'une philosophie du droit international en Afrique / Awalou Ouedraogo. -
In: African Yearbook of International Law : (2013), vol. 18, p. 41-80
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; international law ; philosophy of law
Africa
La Convention de l'Union africaine sur la protection et l'assistance aux personnes déplacées en Afrique : une codification régionale des principes directeurs des Nations Unies relatifs au déplacement de populations / Moetsi Duchatellier & Mutoy Mubiala. -
In: African Yearbook of International Law : (2013), vol. 18, p. 391-411
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African agreements ; African Union ; displaced persons
Africa
Les relations entre l'Union africaine et la Communauté économique des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest en matière de maintien de la paix / Abdoulaye T. Soma. -
In: African Yearbook of International Law : (2013), vol. 18, p. 345-388
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African peacekeeping forces ; African Union ; ECOWAS
Rwanda
L'affaire "Gumisiriza et al." devant la justice militaire rwandaise / Roland Adjovi. -
In: African Yearbook of International Law : (2013), vol. 18, p. 451-460
ASC Subject Headings: genocide ; International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ; lawsuits ; military courts ; Rwanda
Electronic documents
Central Africa
Predicting the risk of bank deterioration: a case study of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa / Barthelemy Kouezo e.a. - Nairobi : African Economic Research Consortium, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: banking ; banks ; Central Africa ; Communauté Économique et Monétaire de l'Afrique Centrale
http://aercafrica.org/index.php/publications/view_document/280-predictin...
Ghana
Righting the ills of budget preparation, implementation and oversight in Ghana / by Dr. J.K. Kwakye and Dr. (Mrs.) Nkechi Owoo. - Osu, Accra, Ghana : The Institute of Economic Affairs, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Ghana ; national budget
http://ieagh.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Monogragph-No-39-FULL-BOOOKL...
Books
Africa
Gaze regimes : film and feminisms in Africa / ed. by Jyoti Mistry and Antje Schuhmann. - Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; empowerment ; feminism ; films ; women
Africa
Greening Africana studies : linking environmental studies with transforming Black experiences / Rubin Patterson. - Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African Americans ; African studies ; climate change ; environmental degradation ; sustainable development ; United States
Africa
Stones of contention : a history of Africa's diamonds / Todd Cleveland. - Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; diamond mining ; diamonds ; history
Benin
Religion et transformations politiques au Bénin : les spectres du pouvoir / Camilla Strandsbjerg. - Paris : Karthala, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Benin ; heads of State ; Pentecostalism ; political change ; public opinion ; speeches
Benin
Savoirs, maladie et thérapie en Afrique de l'Ouest : pour une anthropologie du paludisme chez les Fon et Waci du Bénin / Adolphe Codjo Kpatchavi ; préf. Honorat Aguessy. - Cotonou : Editions Ablodè, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Benin ; folk medicine ; Fon ; malaria ; medical anthropology ; Waci
Central Africa
Predicting the risk of bank deterioration: a case study of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa / Barthelemy Kouezo e.a. - Nairobi : African Economic Research Consortium, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: banking ; banks ; Central Africa ; Communauté Économique et Monétaire de l'Afrique Centrale
http://aercafrica.org/index.php/publications/view_document/280-predictin...
Ghana
Righting the ills of budget preparation, implementation and oversight in Ghana / by Dr. J.K. Kwakye and Dr. (Mrs.) Nkechi Owoo. - Osu, Accra, Ghana : The Institute of Economic Affairs, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Ghana ; national budget
http://ieagh.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Monogragph-No-39-FULL-BOOOKL...
Ghana
Ghana policy journal. - Accra : Institute of Economic Affairs, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: economic policy ; Ghana ; government policy ; policy research ; social sciences
http://ieagh.org/research/ghana-policy-journal/ http://ieagh.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/gpj-v5-n4.pdf
Kenya
Kenya : culture, gender and societies. - Nairobi : Institut français de recherche en Afrique, 2006
ASC Subject Headings: gender roles ; Islamic law ; Kenya ; public transport ; witchcraft
Madagascar
Ancestral encounters in highland Madagascar : material signs and traces of the dead / by Zoe Crossland. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: ancestor worship ; anthropology ; archaeology ; death ; funerals ; Madagascar ; spirits
Madagascar
Ravalomanana Marc, de président de la rue, à président du palais / Rafenomanjato Charlotte-Arrisoa. - Sainte- Marie : Azalées éditions, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: 2002 ; Madagascar ; political history ; presidential elections ; protest
Niger
Le désir de calme : l'histoire du mouvement Sawaba au Niger / by Klaas van Walraven. - (Abstract available) - Leiden : African Studies Centre, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: decolonization ; Niger ; opposition parties ; political history ; rebellions
Rwanda
Burundi : héritiers et héritières des "Indatwa" du groupe scolaire d'Astrida (Butare) prennent la relève / Manirakiza, Marc. - Bujumbura : [s.n.], 201
ASC Subject Headings: 1930-1939 ; associations ; Belgium ; Burundi ; colonial period ; educational history ; graduates ; Rwanda ; schools
Tanzania
Capitalism and cloves : an archaeology of plantation life in nineteenth century Zanzibar / Sarah K. Croucher. - New York [etc.] : Springer VS, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: 1800-1899 ; archaeology ; cloves ; colonialism ; plantations ; slavery ; Tanzania ; Zanzibar
West Africa
Un prophétisme japonais en Afrique de l'ouest : anthropologie religieuse de Sukyo Mahikari (Bénin, Côte d'Ivoire, Sénégal, France / Frédérique Louveau ; préf. de Georges Balandier ; postf. de Jean-Pierre Dozon. - Paris : Karthala, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: Benin ; cults ; Côte d'Ivoire ; religion ; Senegal ; West Africa
Zimbabwe
Lion songs : Thomas Mapfumo and the music that made Zimbabwe / Banning Eyre. - Durham [etc.] : Duke University Press, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; musical groups ; political conditions ; popular music ; Zimbabwe
Journals
Ghana
Ghana policy journal. - Accra : Institute of Economic Affairs, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: economic policy ; Ghana ; government policy ; policy research ; social sciences
http://ieagh.org/research/ghana-policy-journal/ http://ieagh.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/gpj-v5-n4.pdf
Films
Senegal
Kuiamboyo : une initiation des garçons chez les Mandingues / Raluca Antonescu, Isabelle Fardel, réal. - (Abstract available) - Paris : [L'Harmattan vidéo], 2008
ASC Subject Headings: boys ; documentary films (form) ; initiation ; Manding ; Senegal ; videos (form)
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African Literature
Tanzania
The last gift / Abdulrazak Gurnah. - London : Bloomsbury, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: Great Britain ; novels (form) ; Tanzania ; Zanzibar