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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 41 2014

The United States, South Africa and Africa : of grand foreign policy aims and modest meansWeek 41 2014 - Beta version

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Journal articles

"A universal garden of many-coloured flowers": place and scale in the works of Ngg wa Thiong'o / Dustin Crowley
In: Research in African Literatures: (2013), vol. 44, no. 3, p. 13-29.
ASC Subject Headings: Kenya ; literary criticism ; novels ; space ; writers
Abstract available

Brecht in Algeria: on the question of influence in Kateb Yacine's late theater / Neil Doshi
In: Research in African Literatures: (2013), vol. 44, no. 3, p. 72-86.
ASC Subject Headings: Algeria ; theatre
Abstract available

Category errors: the 'roman de l'identité' and the impossibility of identity / Audrey Small
In: Research in African Literatures: (2013), vol. 44, no. 3, p. 1-12.
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; French language ; identity ; literary criticism ; novels
Abstract available

Complicity with Orientalism in Third-World women's writing: Fatima Mernissi's fictive memoirs / Carine Bourget
In: Research in African Literatures: (2013), vol. 44, no. 3, p. 30-49.
ASC Subject Headings: autobiography ; Morocco ; women writers
Abstract available

The confessions of a "Buddhist Catholic" : religion in the works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie / Daria Tunca
In: Research in African Literatures: (2013), vol. 44, no. 3, p. 50-71.
ASC Subject Headings: literature ; Nigeria ; religion ; women writers
Abstract available

Two African child soldiers: the Kourouma and Dongala contretemps / Stephen Gray
In: Research in African Literatures: (2013), vol. 44, no. 3, p. 152-159.
ASC Subject Headings: child soldiers ; Congo (Brazzaville) ; Côte d'Ivoire ; novels

Electronic documents

African economic outlook 2013 : structural transformation and natural resources. - [Paris] : African Development Bank [etc.], 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; economic policy ; employment creation ; natural resource management
http://www.africaneconomicoutlook.org/fileadmin/uploads/aeo/2013/PDF/AEO...

African youth in agriculture, natural resources and rural development / Foday Bojang & Ada Ndeso-Atanga. - Accra : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2013. - (Nature et faune, ISSN 2026-5611 ; vol. 28, no. 1)
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; agricultural development ; Cameroon ; Gabon ; Mali ; natural resource management ; Nigeria ; youth employment
Abstract available
http://www.fao.org/docrep/019/as290e/as290e.pdf

Decent work country programme for Zimbabwe 2012-2015. - Geneva : International Labour Organization, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: employment creation ; labour policy ; Zimbabwe
http://www.ilo.org/addisababa/information-resources/publications/WCMS226...

Fertility and fontanels : womens knowledge of medicinal plants for reproductive health and childcare in western Africa / Alexandra Maria Towns. - [Netherlands] : [publisher not identified], 2014
ASC Subject Headings: child care ; dissertations (form) ; folk medicine ; medicinal plants ; reproductive health ; West Africa ; women
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/28942

Gender and citizenship in the global age / Laroussi Amri & Ramola Ramtohul. - Dakar : CODESRIA, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: citizenship ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; gender ; gender relations ; globalization ; Kenya ; Mauritius ; Morocco ; Nigeria ; South Africa ; Uganda ; women ; Zimbabwe
Abstract available
http://www.codesria.org/spip.php?article1987&lang=en

Macroeconomic policy for "full and productive employment and decent work for all" : Uganda country study / Elisa Van Waeyenberge & Hannah Bargawi. - Geneva : International Labour Office, Employment Sector, Employment Policy Department, 2011. - (Employment working paper ; 91)
ASC Subject Headings: economic policy ; employment creation ; labour policy ; poverty reduction ; Uganda
http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_emp/---emp_policy/document...

Mobilisation des ressources financières locales : documentation des registres fonciers urbains des communes du Bénin / René Perier & David Houssou. - Nairobi : ONU-Habitat, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: Benin ; land registration ; municipal government ; real property ; real property tax
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/377065714.pdf

Promoting productive employment in Sub-Saharan Africa : a review of the literature / Adam Szirmai. - Maastricht : United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), 2013. - (UNU-MERIT working paper series, ISSN 1871-9872 ; 2013-062)
ASC Subject Headings: employment creation ; labour policy ; literature reviews (form) ; Subsaharan Africa
http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2013/wp2013-062.pdf

Recensement général de la population et de lhabitat, de lagriculture et de lélevage (RGPHAE) 2013 : rapport provisoire / Babakar Fall. - [Dakar] : Ministère du Plan, Agence nationale de la statistique et de la démographie, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: 2013 ; censuses ; household composition ; labour force ; population distribution ; rural households ; Senegal ; statistics
http://www.gouv.sn/IMG/pdf/Rapport_provisoire_RGPHAE_2013.pdf

Structural transformation in Africa : static gains, dynamic losses / Gaaitzen de Vries, Marcel Timmer & Klaas de Vries. - Groningen : University of Groningen, Groningen Growth and Development Centre, 2013. - (Groningen Growth and Development Centre ; 136)
ASC Subject Headings: labour policy ; labour productivity ; statistics ; Subsaharan Africa
http://ggdc.eldoc.ub.rug.nl/FILES/root/WorkPap/2013/GD-136/gd136.pdf

Trade and industrial development in Africa: rethinking strategy and policy / Theresa Moyo. - Dakar : CODESRIA, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: industrial development ; industrial policy ; international trade ; North-South relations ; Subsaharan Africa ; trade policy
Abstract available
http://www.codesria.org/spip.php?article1982&lang=en

Unearthing productive employment : a diagnostic tool for sub-Saharan Africa / Pedro Martins. - Londen : Overseas Development Institute, 2013. - (Development progress working paper ; 1)
ASC Subject Headings: economic development ; employment creation ; poverty reduction ; Subsaharan Africa
http://www.developmentprogress.org/file/1911/download?token=E5vqN9lN

Books

A political and administrative history of Onitsha, 1917-1970 / Okechukwu Okeke. - Trenton, N.J. Africa World Press, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: 1900-1999 ; Igbo ; local government ; Nigeria ; political conditions ; political conflicts ; public administration ; urban history

African organic farmers : field crop manual : farming and marketing of organic crops in Zambia, Southern and Eastern Africa / Susan Wren, Laura Davies & Bridget O'Connor. - Bath : Pagoda Tree Press, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural marketing ; crops ; cultivation systems ; East Africa ; handbooks (form) ; Southern Africa ; sustainable agriculture ; Zambia

African placenames : origins and meanings of the names for natural features, towns, cities, provinces and countries / Adrian Room. - Jefferson, NC [etc.] : McFarland, 2008
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; dictionaries (form) ; place names

After the party : a personal and political journey inside the ANC / Andrew Feinstein. - Johannesburg [etc.] : Ball, 2008
ASC Subject Headings: African National Congress (South Africa) ; corruption ; personal narratives (form) ; politics ; South Africa

Anti-apartheid and the emergence of a global civil society / Håkan Thörn. - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. - (St. Antony's series)
ASC Subject Headings: anti-apartheid resistance ; civil society ; globalization ; Great Britain ; social history ; South Africa ; Sweden

Barthélemy Boganda : premier prêtre oubanguien, fondateur de la République centrafricaine / Benoît Basile Siango. - Pierrefitte-sur-Seine : Bajag-Meri, 2004
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; Central African Republic ; clergy ; decolonization ; French Equatorial Africa ; independence ; political history ; politicians

Beyond the Niger / Sylvia Leith-Ross & Joan Kiddell-Monroe. - London : Lutterworth Press, 1951
ASC Subject Headings: Igbo ; Nigeria ; personal narratives (form) ; travel

Chiefs, priests, and praise-singers : history, politics, and land ownership in northern Ghana / Wyatt MacGaffey. - Charlottesville [etc.] : University of Virginia Press, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: chieftaincy ; Dagomba ; Dagomba polity ; Ghana ; land tenure ; political history ; traditional rulers

Classical readings in African library development / Basil Amaeshi. - Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: information science education ; information services ; libraries ; Nigeria ; Subsaharan Africa

Conjonctures congolaises 2013 : percée sécuritaire, flottements politiques et essor économique / Stefaan Marysse & Jean Omasombo Tshonda. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014. - (Cahiers africains)
ASC Subject Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; foreign investments ; forestry ; land reform ; mining ; national security ; political conditions
Abstract availabe

Daudi Kintu Mutekanga : administrator & entrepreneur / David J. Bakibinga. - Kampala : Professional Books Publishers & Consultants Ltd, 2006
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; entrepreneurs ; local government ; Uganda

Die Kyrenaika als römische Provinz : mit Blick auf Urgeschichte und frühislamische Zeit / Erwin Maria Ruprechtsberger. - Linz : Nordico Stadtmuseum Linz, 2012. - (Linzer archaeologische Forschungen ; Bd. 42)
ASC Subject Headings: Antiquity ; archaeology ; Cyrenaica ; history ; Libya

Experiences, innovations and issues in agricultural extension in Uganda : lessons and prospects / Margaret Najjingo Mangheni. - Kampala : Fountain Publishers, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural education ; agricultural extension ; innovations ; privatization ; Uganda
Abstract availabe

Gordon B.K. Wavamunno : the story of an African entrepreneur / Gordon Babala Kasibante Wavamunno. - Kampala : Wavah Books, 2000
ASC Subject Headings: autobiographies (form) ; entrepreneurs ; Uganda

High spring : the story of Iyi Enu Hospital / Margaret P. Roseveare. - London : Church Missionary Society, 1946
ASC Subject Headings: hospitals ; missions ; Nigeria ; nurses ; personal narratives (form)

Housing as governance : interfaces between local government and civil society organisations in Cape Town, South Africa / Astrid Ley. - Berlin : Lit Verlag, 2010. - (Habitat-International, Schriften der Habitat Unit Fakultät VI Planen Bauen UImwelt Technische Universität Berlin ; Bd. 14)
ASC Subject Headings: civil society ; dissertations (form) ; housing policy ; municipal government ; South Africa ; urban housing

Into the past : a memoir / Phillip Tobias. - Johannesburg : Picador Africa, 2005
ASC Subject Headings: anthropology ; autobiographies (form) ; natural history ; palaeontology ; scientists ; South Africa

Kampala A to Z : a complete guide. - Kampala [Uganda] : Tourguide Publications, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: capitals ; guidebooks (form) ; maps (form) ; Uganda

Le décollage économique de l'Afrique / Jean Claude Tchatchouang. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014. - (Études africaines)
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; economic development ; economic history ; economic policy

Le développement de l'information au Cameroun : diachronie de la marche vers la société de liberté et de savoir / Eugène Booh Bateng. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; freedom of information ; information dissemination ; journalism ; libraries ; media history ; media policy ; press ; publishing ; radio ; television

Le traitement de la cybercriminalité devant le juge : l'exemple du Sénégal / Papa Assane Touré. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: administration of justice ; crime ; criminal law ; dissertations (form) ; information technology ; international cooperation ; Internet ; legal procedure ; legislation ; Senegal

Lessons from North American telecommunications for developing nations in the new information era : case studies of India, South Africa and Chile / Rajni Gupta. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: Chile ; dissertations (form) ; India ; international agreements ; media policy ; North America ; South Africa ; telecommunications

Lixus-3 : área suroeste del sector monumental : (Cámaras Montalbán), 2005-2009 / Carmen Aranegui Gascó & Hicham Hassini. - Valencia : Universitat de Valencia, Facultat de Geografia i Historia, Departament de Prehistòria i Arqueologia, 2010. - (Saguntum, ISSN 0210-3729 ; 8)
ASC Subject Headings: Antiquity ; archaeology ; Morocco

Mining and mineral industries in post-apartheid South Africa / Kossouth Snyder. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2005
ASC Subject Headings: dissertations (form) ; land reform ; mineral resources ; mining ; mining policy ; South Africa

Nederlands als poort naar Afrika / Bart de Graaff & Riet de Jong-Goossens. - Schiedam : Scriptum, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Afrikaans language ; Dutch language ; literature ; local history ; short stories (form) ; South Africa

Out of Africa's Eden: the peopling of the world / Stephen Oppenheimer. - Jeppetown : Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; archaeology ; climate ; genetics ; human evolution ; migration

Peacebuilding, power, and politics in Africa / Devon Curtis & Adekeye Adebajo. - Athens : Ohio University Press, 2012. - (Cambridge Centre of African Studies series)
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; disarmament ; international organizations ; peacebuilding ; State formation
Abstract availabe

Peasant entrepreneurship and rural poverty reduction : the case of model farmers in Bure Woreda, West Gojjam Zone / Berhanu Abeje & Amdework Ezana. - Addis Ababa : Forum for Social Studies (FSS), 2011. - (FSS monograph ; no. 8)
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural extension ; Ethiopia ; farmers ; government policy ; poverty reduction ; rural development

Pornography in Uganda : the naked truth / Stephen Langa. - [Kampala] : New Life Publishers, 2004
ASC Subject Headings: sexuality ; Uganda

Revenue law in Uganda / D. J. Bakibinga. - Kampala : Fountain Publishers, 2006
ASC Subject Headings: fiscal law ; income tax ; Uganda

Standpoints on African orature / Nol Alembong. - Yaoundé : Presses universitaires de Yaoundé, 2011. - (Connaissances)
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; oral poetry ; proverbs ; riddles ; songs ; storytelling

Taxation handbook : a guide to taxation in Uganda. - Kampala : Fountain Publishers, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: handbooks (form) ; taxation ; Uganda

The concept of good luck and back luck among the Basoga / Richard Kayaga Gonza. - Kisubi : Marianum Publishing Company, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: popular beliefs ; Soga ; Uganda

The kings of Buganda and the roots of a 700-year-old kingdom / Robert Mugagga, Odoobo C. Bichachi & Mariam Nakisekka. - Kampala : Fountain Publishers, 2011. - (Treasures of Uganda series)
ASC Subject Headings: Buganda polity ; traditional rulers ; Uganda

The power of the ancestors : the life of a Zulu traditional healer / P. H. Mtshali. - Mbabane : Kamhlaba Publications, 2004
ASC Subject Headings: autobiographies (form) ; folk medicine ; healers ; South Africa ; Zulu

The United States, South Africa and Africa : of grand foreign policy aims and modest means / Brian J. Hesse. - Aldershot [etc.] : Ashgate Publishers, 2001
ASC Subject Headings: 1990-1999 ; Africa ; foreign policy ; South Africa ; United States

The world's great question : Olive Schreiner's South African letters 1889-1920 / Olive Schreiner, Liz Stanley* & Andrea Salter. - Cape Town : Van Riebeeck Society for the Publication of Southern African Historical Documents, 2014. - (Van Riebeeck Society for the publication of South African historical documents = Van Riebeeck-vereniging vir die publikasie van Suid-Afrikaanse historiese dokumente ; second series/tweede reeks, no. 45)
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; letters (form) ; politics ; race relations ; South Africa ; women writers

Uganda - my inheritance / Norsam Samuel Bwaya & Natenela Gertrude Bwaya. - Kampala : Netmedia Publishers Ltd, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: diaries (form) ; travel ; Uganda

Violent intermediaries : African soldiers, conquest, and everyday colonialism in German East Africa / Michelle R. Moyd. - Athens [etc.] : Ohio University Press, 2014. - (New African histories)
ASC Subject Headings: black soldiers ; colonial forces ; colonization ; German East Africa ; Germany ; Tanzania ; World War I

Films

Empire of dust / Bram van Paesschen. - Paris : Cats & Docs, 2011.
ASC Subject Headings: China ; culture contact ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; documentary films (form) ; entrepreneurs ; international economic relations ; road construction ; videos (form)
Abstract available
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzyaa2tfwBk

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