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 14 2015

Week 14 2015

Articles

Africa
La problématique de l'intellectuel en Afrique noire hier et aujourd'hui / Etienne Lock.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of Oriental and African Studies : (2014), vol. 23, p. 249-262
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African identity ; education ; elite ; intellectuals ; postcolonialism

Africa
Nurturing democratic elections for good governance and African renaissance / Lesiba Joseph Teffo.(Abstract available)
In: International Journal of African Renaissance Studies : (2014), vol. 9, no. 1, p. 115-129
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; elections ; governance ; leadership ; South Africa
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2014.916882 (Restricted access)

Africa
Re-theorising and re-conceptualising land, sovereignty, socio-economic rights and responsibility in the context of pan-Africanism and African renaissance in the 21st century / Shadrack B. O. Gutto.(Abstract available)
In: International Journal of African Renaissance Studies : (2014), vol. 9, no. 1, p. 5-15
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; epistemology ; land ; land reform
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2014.916855 (Restricted access)

Africa
State structuring, international law and interventions of the international community: the African paradigm / Sotirios S. Livas.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of Oriental and African Studies : (2014), vol. 23, p. 185-189
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; democratization ; governance ; international politics ; legitimacy ; responsibility

Africa
The contribution of Archie Mafeje to the debate on land reform in Africa / Busani Mpofu.(Abstract available)
In: International Journal of African Renaissance Studies : (2014), vol. 9, no. 1, p. 69-83
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; land reform ; land tenure
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2014.916878 (Restricted access)

Algeria
The institutionalization of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI) / Eric Ouellet, Jérôme Lacroix-Leclair & Pierre Pahlavi.
In: Terrorism and political violence : (2014), vol.26, no.4, p 650-665
ASC Subject Headings: Algeria ; Islamic movements ; Maghreb ; Sahel ; terrorism
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09546553.2012.745853 (Restricted access)

Benin
Influence des représentations sociales de l'environnement sur l'adoption des pratiques durables de production: une contribution à partir du système de production de coton biologique au Bénin / S. Claude-Gervais Assogba, Rigobert Cocou Tossou, Philippe Lebailly.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of Oriental and African Studies : (2014), vol. 23, p. 227-248 : fig., graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: attitudes ; Bariba ; Benin ; cotton ; farmers ; sustainable agriculture

Democratic Republic of Congo
Comportements et pratiques alimentaires à Kinshasa: un rapprochement entre les conditions de vie et les modes de consommation alimentaires des ménages / Damien Muteba Kalala, Roger Ntoto, Philippe Lebailly.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of Oriental and African Studies : (2014), vol. 23, p. 263-283 : graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; food consumption ; income ; malnutrition ; urban areas

Democratic Republic of Congo
Facteurs socio-économiques face aux problèmes daccessibilité aux soins dans un milieu rural / Justin Mukandila Matshimba.
In: Journal of Oriental and African Studies : (2014), vol. 23, p. 203-213 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: access to health care ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; health policy

Democratic Republic of Congo
L'impact du commerce frontalier des produits alimentaires avec le Rwanda sur la réduction de la pauvreté des ménages de la ville de Bukavu (Sud-Kivu) / Stany Vwima, Jean-Luc Mastaki, Philippe Lebailly.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of Oriental and African Studies : (2013), vol. 22, p. 174-190 : graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; food trade ; households ; poverty reduction ; Rwanda

Democratic Republic of Congo
Le profil sociolinguistique de Kananga des origines à nos jours (1881-2010): essai de reconstitution de faits linguistiques par le biais de lhistoire / Badibanga Kantshiama.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of Oriental and African Studies : (2013), vol. 22, p. 136-154
ASC Subject Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; language history ; languages ; sociolinguistics

Democratic Republic of Congo
Mythologie de la lutte contre la corruption en République Démocratique du Congo / Fidèle Edhebhua Sojobho.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of Oriental and African Studies : (2014), vol. 23, p. 284-302
ASC Subject Headings: corruption ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; government policy

East Africa
The stylistic devices in the archetypal 'Kasida ya Burudai' / Kineene wa Mutiso.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of Oriental and African Studies : (2013), vol. 22, p. 38-62
ASC Subject Headings: East Africa ; Islam ; praise poetry ; religious literature ; Sufism

Ghana
Democratising the media in the new democracies of Ghana and Nigeria : challenges and prospects / Ufuoma Akpojivi.(Abstract available)
In: Ecquid Novi : (2014), vol. 35, no. 3, p. 87-105 : fig., tab
ASC Subject Headings: democratization ; Ghana ; mass media ; media policy ; Nigeria ; reform
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560054.2014.959980 (Restricted access)

Ghana
Discourses of love and newspapers advice columns in Ghana / Jo Ellen Fair.(Abstract available)
In: Ghana Studies : (2013), vol. 15/16, p. 413-465
ASC Subject Headings: courtship ; Ghana ; marriage ; newspapers ; sexuality

Ghana
Health and health care / guest eds.: Sjaak van der Geest, Kristine Krause & Kodjo A. Senah.(Abstract available)
In: Ghana Studies : (2013), vol. 15/16, p. 1-335
ASC Subject Headings: Ghana ; health ; health care ; social studies

Ghana
Managing the pan-African workplace: discipline, ideology, and the cultural politics of the Ghanaian Bureau of African Affairs / Jeffrey S. Ahlman.(Abstract available)
In: Ghana Studies : (2013), vol. 15/16, p. 337-371
ASC Subject Headings: Ghana ; labour relations ; pan-Africanism ; political consciousness

Ghana
Staging unity, performing subjectivities: Nkrumah, nation-building, and the Ghana Dance Ensemble / Paul Schauert.(Abstract available)
In: Ghana Studies : (2013), vol. 15/16, p. 373-412 : foto
ASC Subject Headings: dance ; Ghana ; identity ; nationalism ; pan-Africanism

Kenya
Reimagining the Kenyan television broadcasting scape : active user-generated content (AUGC) as an emancipating platform / A. Terah Ambala.(Abstract available)
In: Ecquid Novi : (2014), vol. 35, no. 3, p. 39-53
ASC Subject Headings: broadcasting ; Kenya ; media history ; television
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560054.2014.957226 (Restricted access)

Kenya
The political economic history of the introduction of television in Kenya / George Ngugi King'ara.(Abstract available)
In: Ecquid Novi : (2014), vol. 35, no. 3, p. 73-86 : krt
ASC Subject Headings: broadcasting ; Kenya ; media history ; television
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560054.2014.955866 (Restricted access)

Malawi
Whose media, whose agenda? : Monitoring the Malawi 2014 tripartite elections / Ivor Gaber and Edrinnie Lora-Kayambazinthu.(Abstract available)
In: Ecquid Novi : (2014), vol. 35, no. 3, p. 106-114
ASC Subject Headings: 2014 ; elections ; Malawi ; mass communication ; mass media ; social media
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560054.2014.964937 (Restricted access)

Mali
Islamic terrorism and the Malian rebellion / Olivier J. Walther & Dimitris Christopoulos.
In: Terrorism and political violence : (2014), vol.0, p.1-23
ASC Subject Headings: Islam ; Mali ; rebellions ; Sahara ; Sahel ; social networks ; terrorism ; Tuareg
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09546553.2013.809340 (Restricted access)

Nigeria
Conflict and conflict resolution in indigenous Africa / G.I.K. Tasie.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of Oriental and African Studies : (2014), vol. 23, p. 172-184
ASC Subject Headings: conflict resolution ; Igbo ; Nigeria ; traditional society

Nigeria
Evaluation of market practices in south-western Nigeria in the light of 'Kitbu-l-buy' in Al-Jazairi's 'Minhjul-Muslim' / Muritala Kewuyemi Kareem & Khalid Ishola Bello.
In: Journal of Oriental and African Studies : (2013), vol. 22, p. 155-173 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: ethics ; Islamic law ; market vendors ; Nigeria ; sales

Nigeria
The institution of 'waqf' as an instrument of peace and security in Nigeria / Mubarak Ademola Noibi.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of Oriental and African Studies : (2014), vol. 23, p. 139-153
ASC Subject Headings: charities ; foundations ; Islamic law ; Nigeria ; poverty reduction ; property rights

Nigeria
The portrait of Shaykh 'dam 'Abdullh 'al-'Ilr (1917-1992) in an Arabic threnody of Nigerian provenance / Mikail Adebisi Folorunsho.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of Oriental and African Studies : (2013), vol. 22, p. 97-110
ASC Subject Headings: Islam ; Nigeria ; praise poetry ; religious literature ; ulema

Rwanda
L'inculcation de l'idéologie du génocide sous le régime de Grégoire Kayibanda au Rwanda (1961-1973) / Justine Hitimana & Aimable Kadafi.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of Oriental and African Studies : (2013), vol. 22, p. 199-222
ASC Subject Headings: ethnic conflicts ; genocide ; Hutu ; political history ; political ideologies ; Rwanda ; Tutsi

Rwanda
Le génocide perpétré contre les Tutsi au Rwanda en 1994 et la communauté internationale / Justine Hitimana.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of Oriental and African Studies : (2013), vol. 22, p. 223-247
ASC Subject Headings: Belgium ; ethnic conflicts ; France ; genocide ; Hutu ; political ideologies ; Rwanda ; Tutsi ; UN ; United States

Rwanda
Le génocide perpétré contre les Tutsi en 1994 au Rwanda : une réalité politique des extrémistes hutu / Justine Hitimana.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of Oriental and African Studies : (2014), vol. 23, p. 311-327
ASC Subject Headings: genocide ; government ; responsibility ; Rwanda

South Africa
Land reform in post-apartheid South Africa : should South Africa follow Zimbabwe's footsteps? / Vusi Gumede.(Abstract available)
In: International Journal of African Renaissance Studies : (2014), vol. 9, no. 1, p. 50-68
ASC Subject Headings: land reform ; South Africa ; Zimbabwe
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2014.916877 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Social cohesion for the unfinished business of land reform in South Africa / Nkosinathi Mbedu.(Abstract available)
In: International Journal of African Renaissance Studies : (2014), vol. 9, no. 1, p. 100-114
ASC Subject Headings: land reform ; race relations ; social integration ; South Africa
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2014.916881 (Restricted access)

Zimbabwe
Large-scale land deals, global capital and the politics of livelihoods : experiences of women small-holder farmers in Chisumbanje, Zimbabwe / Patience Mutopo and Manase Chiweshe.(Abstract available)
In: International Journal of African Renaissance Studies : (2014), vol. 9, no. 1, p. 84-99
ASC Subject Headings: foreign investments ; land acquisition ; livelihoods ; small farms ; women farmers ; Zimbabwe
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2014.916879 (Restricted access)

Zimbabwe
The re-emergence of diasporic radio in independent Zimbabwe / Everette Ndlovu.(Abstract available)
In: Ecquid Novi : (2014), vol. 35, no. 3, p. 54-72
ASC Subject Headings: diasporas ; radio ; Zimbabwe
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560054.2014.957225 (Restricted access)

Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe post-Fast Track Land Reform Programme : the different experiences coming through / Vongai Z. Nyawo.
In: International Journal of African Renaissance Studies : (2014), vol. 9, no. 1, p. 36-49
ASC Subject Headings: land reform ; Zimbabwe
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2014.916858 (Restricted access)

Electronic documents

East Africa
A toolkit to assess proposed benefit sharing and revenue distribution schemes of community REDD+ projects / David M. Mwayafu, Richard Kimbowa & Kristy Graham. - [S.l.] : REDD-net, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: community participation ; deforestation ; developing countries ; East Africa ; environmental management ; revenue allocation
http://theredddesk.org/sites/default/files/resources/pdf/2012/benefit_sh...

Libya
Dignity and dawn : Libya's escalating civil war / Daveed Gartenstein and Nathaniel Barr. - The Hague : International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, ICCT, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: civil wars ; international relations ; Libya ; terrorism
http://www.icct.nl/download/file/ICCT-Gartenstein-Ross-Barr-Dignity-and-...

Uganda
Three years into the 4th term : what are the citizens' perceptions of the NRM's performance? : a UGMP opinion poll research report / Uganda Governance Monitoring Platform. - Kampala : Uganda National NGO Forum, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: government parties ; National Resistance Movement ; opinion polls ; Uganda
http://ngoforum.or.ug/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2014/05/UGMP-opinion-...

Uganda
Measuring citizens' perceptions of agricultural market access in northern Uganda : a case of Gulu and Lira districts / SEATINI-Uganda. - [Kampala] : SEATINI-Uganda, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural marketing ; attitudes ; surveys ; Uganda
http://www.seatiniuganda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/citizens-percept...

Uganda
Reviewing chapter four of the 1995 constitution : towards the progressive reform of human rights and democratic freedoms in Uganda / J. Oloka-Onyango. - Kampala : Human Rights Network-Uganda, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: constitutional reform ; legislation ; Uganda
http://www.hurinet.or.ug/Reviewing%20Chapter%20Four%20of%20the%20Constituion.pdf

Uganda
Unlocking barriers to financial inclusion : Uganda 2013 : FinScope III survey : key findings / prep. by the Economic Policy Research Centre. - Kampala : Economic Policy Research Centre, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: banking ; economic development ; economic policy ; financial market ; surveys ; Uganda
http://www.score.or.ug/uploads/FINSCOPE_%20III_%20Survey_%202013_%20find...

Uganda
Unlocking barriers to financial inclusion : Uganda 2013 : FinScope III survey : report findings / prepared by the Economic Policy Research Centre. - Kampala : Economic Policy Research Centre, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: banking ; economic development ; economic policy ; financial market ; surveys ; Uganda
https://www.bou.or.ug/opencms/bou/bou-downloads/Financial_Inclusion/Fins...

Uganda
Opportunities, challenges and way forward for Uganda's trade in education services within the East African Community / Lawrence Othieno and Dorothy Nampewo. - Kampala : Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), 2012
ASC Subject Headings: East African Community ; educational cooperation ; higher education ; regional economic relations ; Uganda
http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/150475/2/series93.pdf

Uganda
Public spending in the water sub-sector in Uganda, evidence form program budget analysis / James Wokadala ... [et al.]. - Kampala : Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), 2011
ASC Subject Headings: public expenditure ; Uganda ; water management
http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/150476/2/series82.pdf

Books

Burkina Faso
Chants funéraires des Mossi (Burkina Faso) / éd. par Alice Degorce. - [Paris] : Association classiques africains, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Burkina Faso ; death rites ; Mossi ; mourning ; oral traditions ; songs ; women

Cameroon
Mes rêves de jeune... : le Cameroun des 50 prochaines années / Hiram Samuel Iyodi. - Douala : Éditions Veritas, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; economic development ; political participation ; youth ; youth employment

Côte d'Ivoire
Dictionnaire dan-français (dan de l'Ouest) : avec un index français-dan / Anna Erman, Japhet Kahouyé Loh. - Lac-Beauport : Mea Books, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Côte d'Ivoire ; Dan language ; dictionaries (form) ; French language

Democratic Republic of Congo
Investir RD Congo 2015 / Groupe Jeune Afrique. - Paris : Groupe Jeune Afrique, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; economic conditions ; economic policy ; foreign investments ; investment policy

French West Africa
The killer trail : a colonial scandal in the heart of Africa / Bertrand Taithe. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Chad ; colonial conquest ; colonial history ; expeditions ; French West Africa ; military history ; Niger ; offences against human rights ; violence

Madagascar
Apports des traditions dans les successions royales merina : Madagascar - XVIe - XIXe siècle / Aina Andrianavalona Razafiarison. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Madagascar ; Merina polity ; monarchy ; political history ; succession

Morocco
Ce que le Maroc doit au roi Hassan II / Abdelaziz Riziki Mohamed. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: 1960-1969 ; 1970-1979 ; 1980-1989 ; 1990-1999 ; heads of State ; Morocco ; political history

Subsaharan Africa
Géostratégie des entreprises : propositions pour la zone OHADA / Claude Garrier ; préf. Mamadou Koulibaly. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: enterprises ; geopolitics ; global economy ; OHADA ; Subsaharan Africa

Togo
Écrits circonstanciels de militantisme politique (2002 - 2013) / Godwin Tété. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: articles (form) ; political action ; political conditions ; Togo