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 3 June 2024.

New acquisitions - week 24 2015

Week 24 2015

Articles

Africa
50 years of independence : reflections on the role of publishing and progressive African intellectuals / Walter Bgoya.
In: Africa Spectrum : (2014), vol. 49, no. 3, p. 107-119
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; intellectuals ; publishing ; Tanzania

Africa
African women's movements in the twentieth century : a hidden history / Iris Berger.(Abstract available)
In: African Studies Review : (2014), vol. 57, no. 3, p. 1-19
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; feminism ; Kenya ; Nigeria ; social history ; South Africa ; women healers ; women's organizations
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2014.89 (Restricted access)

Africa
Religion and politics in Africa : the future of the secular / Jon Abbink.(Abstract available)
In: Africa Spectrum : (2014), vol. 49, no. 3, p. 83-106
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; Church and State ; politics ; religion ; State

Africa
The elephant in the room : how China stalked the corridors at the United States-Africa Leaders' Summit even though it wasn't there / Peter Fabricius.(Abstract available)
In: African Security Review : (2014), vol. 23, no. 4, p. 412-421
ASC Subject Headings: 2014 ; Africa ; China ; conferences ; international relations ; United States
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2014.964924 (Restricted access)

Africa
The empire's new clothes : Africa, liberal interventionism and contemporary world order / Zubairu Wai.(Abstract available)
In: Review of African Political Economy : (2014), vol. 41, no. 142, p. 483-499
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; foreign intervention ; neocolonialism
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.928278 (Restricted access)

Angola
"When freedom died" in Angola : Alves and after / John S. Saul.(Abstract available)
In: Review of African Political Economy : (2014), vol. 41, no. 142, p. 609-622
ASC Subject Headings: 1977 ; Angola ; MPLA ; political repression ; protest
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.928279 (Restricted access)

Angola
Anatomy of Kuduro : articulating the Angolan body politic after the war / Marissa J. Moorman.(Abstract available)
In: African Studies Review : (2014), vol. 57, no. 3, p. 21-40
ASC Subject Headings: Angola ; dance ; images ; politics
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2014.90 (Restricted access)

Burundi
The eye of the beholder: service provision and state legitimacy in Burundi / Nora Stel and Réginas Ndayiragije.(Abstract available)
In: Africa Spectrum : (2014), vol. 49, no. 3, p. 3-28
ASC Subject Headings: Burundi ; legitimacy ; public services ; State

Ethiopia
The chronology of Aksum (Tigrai, Ethiopia) : a view from Bieta Giyorgis / Kathryn A. Bard ... [et al.].(Abstract available)
In: Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa : (2014), vol. 49, no. 3, p. 285-316 : ill., graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: archaeology ; chronology ; Ethiopia
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2014.943484 (Restricted access)

Gambia
Land, power, and dependency along the Gambia river, late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries / Assan Sarr.(Abstract available)
In: African Studies Review : (2014), vol. 57, no. 3, p. 101-121
ASC Subject Headings: Gambia ; land tenure ; power ; social classes ; social history ; wealth
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2014.94 (Restricted access)

Ghana
Informal institutions and personal rule in urban Ghana / Jeffrey W. Paller.(Abstract available)
In: African Studies Review : (2014), vol. 57, no. 3, p. 123-142
ASC Subject Headings: Ghana ; institutions ; patronage ; political elite ; politicians
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2014.95 (Restricted access)

Ghana
Modernity in material form? : mobile phones in the careers of Ghanaian market women / Jenna Burrell.(Abstract available)
In: Review of African Political Economy : (2014), vol. 41, no. 142, p. 579-593
ASC Subject Headings: Ghana ; mobile telephone ; social change ; women traders
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.928611 (Restricted access)

Great Lakes region
Regulation, taxation and violence : the state, quasi-state governance and cross-border dynamics in the Great Lakes Region / Filip Reyntjens. (Abstract available)
In: Review of African Political Economy : (2014), vol. 41, no. 142, p. 530-544 : fig
ASC Subject Headings: boundaries ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; Great Lakes region ; State collapse ; State-society relationship
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.928612 (Restricted access)

Guinea
Mining for peace : diamonds, bauxite, iron ore and political stability in Guinea / Mamadou Diouma Bah.(Abstract available)
In: Review of African Political Economy : (2014), vol. 41, no. 142, p. 500-515
ASC Subject Headings: conflict prevention ; Guinea ; natural resources ; political stability ; poverty
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.917370 (Restricted access)

Guinea
Reversals of exile : Williams Sassine's "Wirriyamu" and Tierno Monénembo's "Pelourinho" / Audrey Small.(Abstract available)
In: African Studies Review : (2014), vol. 57, no. 3, p. 41-54
ASC Subject Headings: exile ; Guinea ; literary criticism ; novels
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2014.91 (Restricted access)

Kenya
Inscribing identity and agency on the landscape : of pathways, places, and the transition of the public sphere in East Pokot, Kenya / Michael Bollig, Clemens Greiner, and Matthias Österle.(Abstract available)
In: African Studies Review : (2014), vol. 57, no. 3, p. 55-78
ASC Subject Headings: Kenya ; pastoralists ; sedentarization ; social change ; Suk
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2014.92 (Restricted access)

Kenya
The impact of drug trafficking on informal security actors in Kenya / Moritz Schuberth.(Abstract available)
In: Africa Spectrum : (2014), vol. 49, no. 3, p. 55-81
ASC Subject Headings: drug trafficking ; Kenya ; militias ; private security services ; West Africa

Nigeria
Nigerias 2015 election in perspective / Nkwachukwu Orji.(Abstract available)
In: Africa Spectrum : (2014), vol. 49, no. 3, p. 121-133
ASC Subject Headings: election campaigns ; elections ; Nigeria ; political violence

Nigeria
The development planning era and developmental statehood: the pursuit of structural transformation in Nigeria / Eka Ikpe.(Abstract available)
In: Review of African Political Economy : (2014), vol. 41, no. 142, p. 545-560 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: development planning ; liberalism ; Nigeria ; State
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.952275 (Restricted access)

Nigeria
The evolving menace of baby factories and trafficking in Nigeria / Freedom C. Onuoha.(Abstract available)
In: African Security Review : (2014), vol. 23, no. 4, p. 405-411 : graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: human trafficking ; infants ; Nigeria
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2014.941886 (Restricted access)

Senegal
Hunting on the margins of medieval West African states : a preliminary study of the zooarchaeological record at Diouboye, Senegal / Stephen A. Dueppen and Cameron Gokee.(Abstract available)
In: Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa : (2014), vol. 49, no. 3, p. 354-385 : ill., krt., tab
ASC Subject Headings: archaeological artefacts ; hides and skins ; hunting ; Middle Ages ; Senegal
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2014.931628 (Restricted access)

Sierra Leone
Chiefs, NGOs and alternative conflict resolution mechanisms in post-conflict Sierra Leone / Felix Marco Conteh.(Abstract available)
In: Review of African Political Economy : (2014), vol. 41, no. 142, p. 516-529
ASC Subject Headings: chieftaincy ; conflict resolution ; NGO ; Sierra Leone
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.928614 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Explaining the Howiesons Poort to post-Howiesons Poort transition : a review of demographic and foraging adaptation models / Gerrit L. Dusseldorp.(Abstract available)
In: Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa : (2014), vol. 49, no. 3, p. 317-353 : ill., graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: archaeology ; South Africa ; Southern Africa ; Stone Age
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2014.937080 (Restricted access)

South Africa
The late pre-colonial site of Komkans 2 (KK002) and an evaluation of the evidence for indigenous copper smelting in Namaqualand, southern Africa / Jayson Orton.(Abstract available)
In: Azania : (2014), vol. 49, no. 3, p. 386-410 : ill., krt., tab
ASC Subject Headings: archaeological artefacts ; copper mining ; South Africa ; Stone Age
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2014.925625 (Restricted access)

South Sudan
Commentary : the political crisis in South Sudan / Douglas H. Johnson.(Abstract available)
In: African Studies Review : (2014), vol. 57, no. 3, p. 167-174
ASC Subject Headings: 2013 ; militias ; political conflicts ; political parties ; South Sudan
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2014.97 (Restricted access)

Subsaharan Africa
Dependency in international regimes : the case of the apparel industry in sub-Saharan Africa / Moses Mpuria Kindiki.(Abstract available)
In: Review of African Political Economy : (2014), vol. 41, no. 142, p. 594-608
ASC Subject Headings: clothing industry ; dependence ; ideologies ; international relations ; Subsaharan Africa
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.930023 (Restricted access)

Sudan
"Wasta!" : the long-term implications of education expansion and economic liberalisation on politics in Sudan / Laura Mann.(Abstract available)
In: Review of African Political Economy : (2014), vol. 41, no. 142, p. 561-578 : graf
ASC Subject Headings: higher education ; Islamic movements ; liberalism ; patronage ; social change ; State-society relationship ; Sudan
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.952276 (Restricted access)

Sudan
Comparing the SPLA's role in Sudan's 1997 and 2005 comprehensive peace agreements : to spoil or not to spoil / Keisha S. Haywood.(Abstract available)
In: African Studies Review : (2014), vol. 57, no. 3, p. 143-165
ASC Subject Headings: 1997 ; 2005 ; civil wars ; militias ; peace negotiations ; political parties ; South Sudan ; Sudan
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2014.96 (Restricted access)

Uganda
Tradition?! : traditional cultural institutions on customary practices in Uganda / Joanna R. Quinn.(Abstract available)
In: Africa Spectrum : (2014), vol. 49, no. 3, p. 29-54
ASC Subject Headings: conflict resolution ; traditional polities ; traditional rulers ; transitional justice ; Uganda

Zimbabwe
Forced resettlement, ethnicity, and the (un)making of the Ndebele identity in Buhera District, Zimbabwe / Francis Musoni.(Abstract available)
In: African Studies Review : (2014), vol. 57, no. 3, p. 79-100 : krt
ASC Subject Headings: boundary conflicts ; ethnic identity ; ethnic relations ; Ndebele (Zimbabwe) ; resettlement ; Shona ; Zimbabwe
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2014.93 (Restricted access)

Books

Africa
The emerging middle class in Africa / ed. by Mthuli Ncube and Charles Leyeka Lufumpa. - New York, NY : Routledge, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; middle class

Africa
Making art in Africa 1960-2010 / ed. by Polly Savage ; with a forew. by Sir Anthony Caro and essays by Robert Loder, John Picton and Polly Savage. - Farnham : Lund Humphries Publishers, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; art history ; artists ; arts ; biographies (form) ; interviews (form)

Africa
African stories / by Al J. Venter and friends. - Pretoria : Protea Book House, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; civil wars ; mercenaries

Central Africa
The art of conversion : Christian visual culture in the Kingdom of Kongo / Cécile Fromont. - Chapel Hill : published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: art history ; Central Africa ; Christianity ; cultural change ; Kongo polity ; missionary history

East Africa
Contesting visibility : photographic practices on the East African coast / Heike Behrend. - Bielefeld : Transcript, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: East Africa ; images ; Islam ; Kenya ; photography

Kenya
Muthaiga Country Club : the first one hundred years / Stephen Mills & Yoyo Vetch. - [Nairobi] : Muthaiga County Club, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: colonial history ; Kenya ; memorial volumes (form) ; Whites

Nigeria
Nok : African sculpture in archaeological context / ed. by Peter Breunig. - Frankfurt am Main : Africa Magna Verlag, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: archaeological artefacts ; archaeology ; Nigeria ; prehistory ; sculpture

South Africa
Mandela's Kinsmen : nationalist elites & Apartheid's first Bantustan / Timothy Gibbs. - Woodbridge [etc.] : James Currey, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: African National Congress (South Africa) ; apartheid ; bantustans ; political history ; South Africa ; Transkei

South Africa
The experience of economic redistribution : the growth, employment and redistribution strategy in South Africa / Clarence Tshitereke. - London : Routledge, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: economic policy ; employment ; gold mining ; income distribution ; political economy ; South Africa

Subsaharan Africa
Examining human rights issues and the democracy project in Sub-Saharan Africa : a theoretical critique and prospects for progress in the millenium / E. Ike Udogu. - Lanham, MD [etc.] : Lexington Books, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: democracy ; development ; human rights ; Subsaharan Africa

Subsaharan Africa
Visions of grace : 100 african masterpieces from the collection of Daniel and Marian Malcolm / Heinrich C. Schweizer. - Milan : 5 Continents Edition, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: exhibition catalogues (form) ; sculpture ; Subsaharan Africa ; visual arts

Swaziland
'Akusiko Kwami, Kwebantfu' : unearthing King Sobhuza II's philosophy / by Prophet LaNdwandwe. - [Pretoria] : Umgangatho, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: Swaziland ; traditional rulers ; world view

Tanzania
Race, nation, and citizenship in post-colonial Africa : the case of Tanzania / Ronald Aminzade. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: liberalism ; nation building ; nationalism ; political history ; race relations ; socialism ; Tanzania

World
Unmasking social science imperialism : globalization theory as a phase of academic colonialism / Tatah Mentan. - Mankon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; neocolonialism ; social sciences ; world

African Literature

Botswana
Death of the mantis / Michael Stanley. - New York : Harper Collins, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Botswana ; crime novels (form) ; San

Ghana
Death at the voyager hotel / Kwei Quartey. - Accra : Afram Publications (Ghana) Limited, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: crime novels (form) ; Ghana

Kenya
The fall of saints : a novel / Wanjiku wa Ngg. - New York : Atria Books, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: adoption ; crime novels (form) ; Kenya

South Africa
Finders weepers / Penny Lorimer. - Cape Town : Umuzi, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: crime novels (form) ; South Africa