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Articles

Africa
SME Finance in Africa / Thorsten Beck and Robert Cull.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Economies : (2014), vol. 23, no. 5, p. 583-613 : graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; finance ; loans ; small enterprises
http://jae.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/5/583.abstract (Restricted access)

Africa
The African financial development and financial inclusion gaps / Franklin Allen ... [et al.].(Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Economies : (2014), vol. 23, no. 5, p. 614-642 : graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; banking ; developing countries ; economic development ; financial market
http://jae.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/5/614.abstract (Restricted access)

Africa
AfricaIndia nuclear cooperation : pragmatism, principle, post-colonialism and the Pelindaba Treaty / Joelien Pretorius.(Abstract available)
In: South African Journal of International Affairs : (2011), vol. 18, no. 3, p. 319-339
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African agreements ; disarmament ; India ; nuclear weapons ; uranium

Africa
REDD+ and the global climate policy negotiating regimes : challenges and opportunities for Africa / Godwell Nhamo.(Abstract available)
In: South African Journal of International Affairs : (2011), vol. 18, no. 3, p. 385-406 : fig., tab
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; climate change ; forests ; international agreements

Africa
The African Commission on Human and People's Rights and the future African Court of Justice and Human Rights : comparative lessons from the European Court of Human Rights / Jeremy Sarkin.(Abstract available)
In: South African Journal of International Affairs : (2011), vol. 18, no. 3, p. 281-293
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights ; African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights ; Europe ; human rights

Burkina Faso
In search of sources other than governmental in the financing of higher education in sub-Saharan Africa: a word of caution beyond the gains / Touorouzou Herve Some.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of Higher Education in Africa : (2010), vol. 8, no. 1, p. 73-97
ASC Subject Headings: Burkina Faso ; East Africa ; educational financing ; universities

East Africa
Can your child read and count? : measuring learning outcomes in East Africa / Sam Jones ... [et al.].(Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Economies : (2014), vol. 23, no. 5, p. 643-672
ASC Subject Headings: children ; East Africa ; education ; literacy
http://jae.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/5/643.abstract (Restricted access)

Ethiopia
'Great man' or 'great myth'? Meles Zenawi : historic or mythic ideologue? /Assefa Dibaba.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of Oromo Studies : (2013), vol. 20, no. 1 & 2, p. 91-131
ASC Subject Headings: Ethiopia ; ideologies ; mourning ; myths ; Oromo ; political sociology

Ethiopia
Encounter of Macca Oromo religion with evangelical Christianity : a look at the meaning of conversion / Ezekiel Gebissa.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of Oromo Studies : (2013), vol. 20, no. 1 & 2, p. 23-56 : fig
ASC Subject Headings: African religions ; Christianity ; Ethiopia ; Oromo ; religious conversion

Ethiopia
What do the Oromo want? : looking back and looking forward on Oromo Studies and OSA / Bonnie K. Holcomb.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of Oromo Studies : (2013), vol. 20, no. 1 & 2, p. 1-21
ASC Subject Headings: cultural heritage ; Ethiopia ; Oromo ; research

Ethiopia
The role of women on the Ethiopian stage / Aboneh Ashagrie.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies : (2012), vol. 24, no. 1, p. 1-8
ASC Subject Headings: Ethiopia ; theatre ; women artists

Ghana
Kasena women's critique of gender roles and gender justice through proverbial jesting / Helen Yitah.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies : (2012), vol. 24, no. 1, p. 9-20
ASC Subject Headings: gender inequality ; gender roles ; Ghana ; joking relationships ; Kasena ; proverbs ; women

Ghana
Manifestos and elections in Ghana's Fourth Republic / Joseph R.A. Ayee.(Abstract available)
In: South African Journal of International Affairs : (2011), vol. 18, no. 3, p. 367-384 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: elections ; Ghana ; National Democratic Congress ; New Patriotic Party ; party programmes

Nigeria
Academic freedom and dual career academic couples: the complexities of being a woman academic in the university space / Chinyere Ukpokolo.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of Higher Education in Africa : (2010), vol. 8, no. 1, p. 49-71 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: academics ; gender inequality ; married women ; Nigeria ; universities

Rwanda
Benjamin Sehene vs Father Wenceslas Munyeshyaka : the fictional trial of a genocide priest / Nicki Hitchcott.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies : (2012), vol. 24, no. 1, p. 21-34
ASC Subject Headings: 1994 ; clergy ; France ; genocide ; novels ; offences against human rights ; Rwanda

Somalia
The Somalia nightmare : a geo-political explanation / Hassen Hussein.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of Oromo Studies : (2013), vol. 20, no. 1 & 2, p. 57-89
ASC Subject Headings: conflict ; geopolitics ; political stability ; Somalia ; State collapse

South Africa
Mega-events and the developing world : a look at the legacy of the 2010 Soccer World Cup / Lindsay Harris.(Abstract available)
In: South African Journal of International Affairs : (2011), vol. 18, no. 3, p. 407-427
ASC Subject Headings: 2010 ; cost-benefit analysis ; football ; South Africa

South Africa
The rise of BASIC in UN climate change negotiations / Xinran Qi.(Abstract available)
In: South African Journal of International Affairs : (2011), vol. 18, no. 3, p. 295-318
ASC Subject Headings: 2009 ; 2010 ; Brazil ; China ; climate change ; conferences ; India ; South Africa ; UN

Subsaharan Africa
Right place, right time : increasing the effectiveness of agricultural development support in sub-Saharan Africa / Sara Delaney, Geoffrey Livingston and Steven Schonberger.(Abstract available)
In: South African Journal of International Affairs : (2011), vol. 18, no. 3, p. 341-365 : graf. , krt., tab
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural intensification ; development cooperation ; risk ; small farms ; Subsaharan Africa

Tanzania
Living for the city : urban displacement and incarceration in Wright's 'Native Son' and Rajabu's 'Masudi' / Aaron L. Rosenberg.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies : (2012), vol. 24, no. 1, p. 35-53
ASC Subject Headings: novels ; popular music ; rural-urban migration ; Tanzania ; United States

Electronic documents

East Africa
This body! : supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) organising in East Africa : conference report / [written by Jane Kiragu ; ed. by Muthoni Wanyeki and Zawadi Nyongo]. - Nairobi : Urgent Action Fund-Africa, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: 2006 ; action groups ; conferences ; East Africa ; LGBT
http://sos.escr-net.org/sites/default/files/01b1085de00f9a4044e9332ce259...

Ghana
The current state of the macro economy of Ghana 2000-2009 / Centre for Policy Analysis (CEPA). - Accra : Centre for Policy Analysis (CEPA), 2010
ASC Subject Headings: economic conditions ; Ghana
http://www.cepa.org.gh/publications/The%20Current%20State%20of%20the%20M...

Morocco
Les territoires à l'épreuve des normes : référents et innovations : contributions croisées sud-africaines, françaises et marocaines = Territorial development and new regionalism : norms, referents and innovations : South-african, Moroccan and French cross perspectives / éd. scientifiques: Said Boujrouf ... [et al.]. - Marrakech : Laboratoire des études et de recherches sur les montagnes atlasiques (LERMA), 2009
ASC Subject Headings: Ethiopia ; France ; geography ; Morocco ; regional planning ; regionalism ; South Africa
=A http://books.google.nl/books?id=ET_dZgX8e34C&printsec=frontcover&dq=terr...

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...

Books

Africa
New media and religious transformations in Africa / ed. by Rosalind I. J. Hackett and Benjamin F. Soares ; forew. by Francis B. Nyamnjoh. - Bloomington, IN [etc.] : Indiana University Press, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African religions ; Christianity ; Islam ; mass media ; religion

Africa
Gender and economic development in Africa / ed. by Damiano K. Manda and Samuel Mwakubo. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; economic development ; empowerment ; gender
http://jae.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/suppl_1.toc (Restricted access)

Cameroon
Opportunities for community-based wildlife management : a case study from the Korup region, Cameroon / vorgelegt von Innocent Tchigio. - Göttingen : Cuvillier Verlag, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; community participation ; dissertations (form) ; forest resources ; hunting ; national parks and reserves ; wildlife protection

Democratic Republic of Congo
Afrikanische Schriften : Reportagen - Lyrik - Autobiographisches. Mit dem Erstdruck von "Marc" / Annemarie Schwarzenbach ; hrsg. von Sofie Decock, Walther Fähnders und Uta Schaffers. - Zürich : Chronos, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: articles (form) ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; diaries (form) ; Morocco ; poetry (form) ; travel ; travel books (form)

East Africa
Building colonialism : archaeology and urban space in East Africa / Daniel T. Rhodes. - London [etc.] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: archaeology ; colonialism ; conservation of cultural heritage ; East Africa ; physical planning ; urban areas

Egypt
Civilizing peasants : the public sphere, Islamic reform and the generation of political modernity in Egypt 1875-1919 / by Michael Gasper. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Dissertation Services, 2005
ASC Subject Headings: Egypt ; group identity ; Islam ; peasantry ; social change ; social classes ; social history

Ethiopia
Community forestry in Ethiopia : finding the locus of governance / submitted by Lisa Allyn Dale. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Dissertation Services, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: community participation ; environmental management ; environmental policy ; Ethiopia ; forest management ; forest policy ; natural resource management

French-speaking Africa
Les essais de Mongo Beti : développement et indépendance véritable de l'Afrique noire francophone : esquisse d'analyse de contenu / Auguste Owono-Kouma ; préf. de Lucien Ayissi. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: development ; France ; French-speaking Africa ; independence ; international relations ; neocolonialism

Ghana
Creative processes in Akan musical cultures : innovation within tradition / by Eric Odame Beeko. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Dissertation Services, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: Akan ; dissertations (form) ; Ghana ; music ; musicology ; traditional music

Ghana
Community participation in education in Ghana : the case of Asanteman and the Otumfuo Education Fund / by Anthony Owusu-Ansah. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Dissertation Services, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: Ashanti ; attitudes ; community participation ; education ; educational financing ; Ghana

Kenya
Wildflower : an extraordinary life and untimely death in Africa / Mark Seal. - London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: biography ; filmmakers ; homicide ; Kenya ; wildlife protection

Kenya
Staying Maasai? : livelihoods, conservation and development in East African rangelands / Katherine Homewood, Patti Kristjanson, Pippa Chenevix Trench (eds.). (Abstract available) - New York, NY [etc.] : Springer, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: Kenya ; livelihoods ; Maasai ; pastoralists ; sustainable development ; Tanzania ; wildlife protection

Kenya
Contending political paradigms in Africa : democratization vs. authoritarianism in Kenya and Zambia / by Shadrack Wanjala Nasong'o. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Dissertation Services, 2004
ASC Subject Headings: authoritarianism ; civil society ; democratization ; electoral systems ; ethnicity ; governance ; Kenya ; Zambia

Kenya
Constructing copyright and literary creativity in Kenya : cultural politics and the political economy of transnational intellectual property / Bernard M. Sihanya. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Dissertation Services, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: administration of justice ; artists ; copyright ; intellectual property ; Kenya ; legislation ; music ; publishing

Madagascar
Le grand livre des épaves de Madagascar / Pierre van den Boogaerde. - Chevagny-sur-Guye : Orphie, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: Indian Ocean ; Madagascar ; piracy ; ships ; shipwrecks ; trading companies

Mozambique
The Maputo connection : the ANC in the world of Frelimo / by Nadja Manghezi. - Johannesburg : Jacana, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: African National Congress (South Africa) ; anti-apartheid resistance ; Mozambique ; South Africa

Nigeria
Colonialism by Proxy : Hausa imperial agents and middle belt consciousness in Nigeria / Moses E. Ochonu. - Bloomington, IN [etc.] : Indiana University Press, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: colonial administration ; ethnic relations ; Fulani ; Hausa ; indirect rule ; Islam ; Nigeria

Senegal
Citizens and subjects : métis society, identity and the struggle over colonial politics in Saint Louis, Senegal, 1870-1920 / by Hilary Jones. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Dissertation Services, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: colonial policy ; dissertations (form) ; group identity ; racially mixed persons ; Senegal ; social history ; society

South Africa
Die Boereoorlog / Martin Bossenbroek ; vertaal deur Anne-Marie Mischke. - Auckland Park : Jacana Media, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Anglo-Boer wars ; concentration camps ; guerrilla warfare ; South Africa

South Africa
The Boer war / Martin Bossenbroek ; transl. by Yvette Rosenberg. (Abstract available) - Auckland Park : Jacana Media, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Anglo-Boer wars ; concentration camps ; guerrilla warfare ; South Africa

South Africa
The forgotten people : political banishment under Apartheid / by Saleem Badat. - Leiden [etc.] : Brill, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: apartheid ; deportation ; exile ; political opposition ; punishment ; South Africa

South Africa
Studies in the social and economic history of the Witwatersrand, 1886-1914 / Charles van Onselen. - Johannesburg : Ravan Press, 1982
ASC Subject Headings: (68) ; 1850-1899 ; 1900-1949 ; 338(091) ; 960"1886 ; 1914" ; economic history ; history ; South Africa

Southern Africa
Evolution and innovation in wildlife conservation : parks and game ranches to transfrontier conservation areas / ed. by Helen Suich and Brian Child ; with Anna Spenceley. - London [etc.] : Earthscan, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: community participation ; national parks and reserves ; private sector ; Southern Africa ; wildlife protection

Tanzania
The diverging South : comparing the cashew sectors of Tanzania and Vietnam / Blandina Kilama. (Abstract available) - Leiden : African Studies Centre, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural production ; cashew nuts ; dissertations (form) ; Tanzania ; Vietnam

Uganda
Conservation research in Uganda's forests : a review of site history, research, and use of research in Uganda's forest parks and Budongo Forest Reserve / William Olupot and Andrew J. Plumptre. - New York, N.Y : Nova Science Publishers, Inc, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: animals ; forests ; national parks and reserves ; plants ; Uganda ; wildlife protection

Uganda
Integrating rural communities and wildlife conservation in Uganda : sustainable use as a viable solution / Christiane Averbeck. - Eschborn : Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), 2001
ASC Subject Headings: community participation ; development projects ; game meat ; hunting ; Uganda ; wildlife protection

West Africa
Cowpea trade in West and Central Africa : a spatial and temporal analysis / by Augustine Sangson Langyintuo. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Dissertation Services, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: Central Africa ; dissertations (form) ; economic models ; ECOWAS ; food trade ; grain legumes ; international trade ; West Africa

Films

Algeria
Morituri / un film de Okacha Touita ; avec Miloud Khetib ... [et al.]. - Paris : Armor Films, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: Algeria ; civil wars ; feature films (form) ; fundamentalism ; Islam ; police ; terrorism
#Trailer# =A http://youtu.be/7F-BZX9xja0

Democratic Republic of Congo
Congo in four acts. - [Kinshasa] : Suka! Production, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; documentary films (form) ; pollution ; social life ; social problems ; videos (form)
#Trailer# =A http://youtu.be/WWymaW07OXU

Kenya
After sour before sweet / dir. by Willie Owusu ; with Vincent Mbaya ... [et al.]. - [S.l.] : Big Ideas Production Ltd, 2006
ASC Subject Headings: feature films (form) ; gender relations ; Kenya ; videos (form)

Nigeria
Onye Ozi = The messenger / an Obi Emelonye film ; starr. Okey Bakassi ... [et al.]. - Lagos : Nollywood Factory, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: feature films (form) ; Great Britain ; homicide ; immigration ; Nigeria ; Nigerians ; videos (form)
#trailer# =A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlGtW591Uuk

African Literature

Cameroon
One eternal sleep / Bill F. Ndi. - Mankon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; poetry (form)

Cameroon
Requiem pour Ongola en camfranglais : une poétique camerounaise / Peter Wuteh Vakunta. - Mankon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: African languages ; Cameroon ; poetry (form)

Malawi
Twelfth player and other stories / Kingsley Jika. - Zomba : Kingsley Jika Books, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Malawi ; short stories (form)

Mali
Rapt à Bamako / Alpha Mande Diarra et Marie-Florence Ehret. - [S.l.] : Edicef, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: kidnapping ; Mali ; youth literature (form)

Uganda
The hidden truth / by Ignatius Kagongi. - Kampala : Teachers Consultants Readers' Group (TCRG), 2013
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; Uganda

Uganda
The unprecedented / by Ignatius Kagongi. - Kampala : Teachers Consultants Readers' Group (TCRG), 2013
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; Uganda

Uganda
The grudge at heart / Kagongi, Ignatius R. - Kampala : Teachers Consultants Readers' Group (TCRG), 2011
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; Uganda

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