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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.

N.B. The next issue will be published on Monday 3 June 2024.

New acquisitions - week 22 2014

Week 22 2014 - Beta version

Journal articles

'Meta-societies' and 'play communities' : the function of play to Liberian youth football players / Holly Collison
In: Cadernos de Estudos Africanos: (2013), no. 26, p. 105-126.
ASC Subject Headings: football ; Liberia ; youth
http://cea.revues.org/1135

'Ooh, eh eh ... just one small cap is enough!' : servants, detergents, and their prosthetic significance / Shireen Ally
In: African Studies: (2013), vol. 72, no. 3, p. 321-352 : ill.
ASC Subject Headings: advertising ; domestic workers ; race relations ; soap industry ; South Africa ; stereotypes
A story of heroes, of epics: the rise of football in Nigeria / Wiebe Boer¬
ASC Subject Headings: football/Nigeria

As corridas de cavalos na colônia alemã do sudoeste africano (1884-1914) / Sílvio Marcus de Souza Correa
In: Cadernos de Estudos Africanos: (2013), no. 26, p. 127-152 : foto's, krt. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: 1890-1899 ; 1900-1909 ; colonial period ; equestrian sports ; Namibia ; sports associations
http://cea.revues.org/1146

Borders of mutuality, frontiers of resistance : paternalism and working identities of farm labourers in the Sundays River Valley, South Africa / Teresa Connor
In: African Studies: (2013), vol. 72, no. 3, p. 375-398 : krt.
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural workers ; group identity ; labour relations ; South Africa ; tenancy

Das bancas de matraquilhos ao "campo dos caranguejos", dos estádios aos terreiros : campos de jogos num espaço microinsular do tempo colonial ao pós-independência / Augusto Nascimento
In: Cadernos de Estudos Africanos: (2013), no. 26, p. 177-222 : foto's.
ASC Subject Headings: football ; political change ; social change ; São Tomé and Principe
http://cea.revues.org/1166

Disorderly Dakar: the cultural politics of household waste in Senegal's capital city / Rosalind Fredericks
In: The Journal of Modern African Studies: (2013), vol. 51, no. 3, p. 435-458 : tab.
ASC Subject Headings: government policy ; Senegal ; trade unions ; urban households ; waste management

Enacting the Mines and Minerals Act (2009) of Sierra Leone : actors, interests and outcomes / Fodei Batty
In: African Studies: (2013), vol. 72, no. 3, p. 353-374 : graf. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: legislation ; mineral resources ; mining law ; public revenue ; Sierra Leone ; Subsaharan Africa

Etnia e raça no desporto beirense da época colonial : o caso dos 'sino-moçambicanos' / Eduardo Medeiros
In: Cadernos de Estudos Africanos: (2013), no. 26, p. 43-81 : foto's, tab.
ASC Subject Headings: 1950-1959 ; 1960-1969 ; Chinese ; Mozambique ; sports ; sports associations
http://cea.revues.org/1115

Following the ball : African soccer players, labor strategies and emigration across the Portuguese colonial empire, 1949-1975 / Todd Cleveland
In: Cadernos de Estudos Africanos: (2013), no. 26, p. 15-41 : ill.
ASC Subject Headings: Angolans ; colonial period ; football ; immigrants ; Mozambicans ; Portugal
http://cea.revues.org/1109

Food security and social protection in highland Ethiopia: linking the Productive Safety Net to the land question / Tom Lavers
In: The Journal of Modern African Studies: (2013), vol. 51, no. 3, p. 459-485 : graf. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: Ethiopia ; food security ; land tenure ; social security
Football in Algeria: between violence and politics / Youssef Fatès¬
ASC Subject Headings: Algeria/football

Land restitution, traditional leadership and belonging: defining Barokologadi identity / Robin L. Turner
In: The Journal of Modern African Studies: (2013), vol. 51, no. 3, p. 507-531 : krt.
ASC Subject Headings: chieftaincy ; government policy ; group identity ; land conflicts ; South Africa ; Tswana

Land strategies and livelihood dynamics in peri-urban communities : challenges to land and agricultural policy in Lesotho / Vusilizwe Thebe & Mapepe F. Rakotje
In: African Studies: (2013), vol. 72, no. 3, p. 399-415.
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural land ; land law ; Lesotho ; livelihoods ; urbanization

Managing racial diversity : positional segregation in South African rugby union in the post-apartheid era / Bernard Cros
In: Cadernos de Estudos Africanos: (2013), no. 26, p. 153-176 : fig., tab
ASC Subject Headings: 1990-1999/2000-2009/discrimination/race relations/rugby/South Africa

The Banyamulenge of South Kivu : the "Nationality Question" / Anthony Court
In: African Studies: (2013), vol. 72, no. 3, p. 416-439.
ASC Subject Headings: Banyamulenge ; citizenship ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; ethnic relations ; national identity ; political history ; State-society relationship

The nature of the land: the Dukuduku forest and the Mfoozi flats, KwaZulu-Natal / Knut G. Nustad & Frode Sundnes
In: The Journal of Modern African Studies: (2013), vol. 51, no. 3, p. 487-506 : krt.
ASC Subject Headings: expropriation ; forests ; land conflicts ; land use ; South Africa

Tourisme sportif et identités : les pratiquants de canoe en Zambie / Antoine Marsac
In: Cadernos de Estudos Africanos: (2013), no. 26, p. 83-103.
ASC Subject Headings: identity ; ships ; social relations ; sports ; tourism ; Zambia
http://cea.revues.org/1177

Electronic documents

Africans and Hague Justice : realities and Perceptions of the International Criminal Court in Africa. - Leiden : Nederlandse Vereniging voor Afrika Studies, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: 2014 ; Africa ; attitudes ; conferences ; International Criminal Court
http://www.scienceguide.nl/media/1700733/programmaboekje_african_justice_04-13_spread.pdf http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/375655123.pdf

Conservation in a crowded place : forest and people on Mount Elgon Uganda Conservation in a crowded place : forest and people on Mount Elgon Uganda / Marieke Sassen. - Wageningen : Wageningen University, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: deforestation ; dissertations (form) ; forest management ; fuelwood ; national parks and reserves ; Uganda
http://edepot.wur.nl/293853

Creating inclusive communities: the results of resettlement in Zimbabwe / Marleen Dekker, Abigail Barr & Marcel Fafchamps. - Leiden : African Studies Centre, 2011. - (ASC infosheet ; 10)
ASC Subject Headings: community development ; land reform ; resettlement ; Zimbabwe
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/17951

From idealism to realism : a social history of the Dutch in Zambia 1965-2013 From idealism to realism : a social history of the Dutch in Zambia 1965-2013 / Anne Lot Hoek. - Leiden : Afrika-Studiecentrum, 2014. - (ASC occasional publications ; 20)
ASC Subject Headings: attitudes ; development cooperation ; Dutch ; Netherlands ; social history ; Zambia
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/25710

Books

Africa : financial sectors : a guide to the financial infrastructure of sub-Saharan Africa / Paula Mitchell. - Washington, DC : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, International Trade Administration, 2001
ASC Subject Headings: banking ; finance ; insurance ; Subsaharan Africa

Démocratie et développement en Afrique : perspectives des jeunes chercheurs africains / Alain Laurent Aboa. - Paris : l'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings:

Esiaba Irobi's drama and the postcolony : theory and practice of postcolonial performance / Isidore Diala. - Ibadan : Kraft Books, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: folk drama ; Igbo ; Nigeria ; postcolonialism ; theatre

La gestion décentralisée des ressources pastorales de la commune de Kouri : association agriculture/élevage, organisation paysanne et négociation dans le Minyankala (Sud-Est du Mali) / Peter Hochet. - Paris : Groupe de recherche et d'échanges technologiques (GRET), 2005. - (Collection Foncier et ressources renouvelables, ISSN 1764-0997)
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural cooperatives ; agriculture ; agropastoralism ; decentralization ; farmers' associations ; Mali ; Senufo

La périodisation dans l'écriture de l'histoire du Maghreb : actes, table ronde de Marrakech les 26-29 mai 2005, table ronde de Tunis les 21-23 septembre 2005 / Fatma Ben Slimane & Hichem Abdessamad. - Tunis : Arabesques éditions, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: historiography ; Maghreb ; time

Le refus de la colonisation dans l'ancien royaume de Danxome / Joseph Adrien Djivo. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013. - (Langues et cultures du Bénin)
ASC Subject Headings:

Malawi mailings : reflections on missionary life 2000 - 2003 / Rodney Schofield & Sarah Schofield. - Mzuzu : Mzuni Press, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Malawi ; missions ; personal narratives (form)

Porto Novo : patrimoine et développement / Christine Mengin & Alain Godonou. - Paris : Publications Sorbonne, 2013. - (Histoire de l'art)
ASC Subject Headings: architecture ; Benin ; capitals ; conservation of cultural heritage ; cultural heritage ; tourism ; urban development ; urban history

Sustainable shelter in the desert : appropriate methods for Niger / Luther Eric Lindberg. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2004
ASC Subject Headings: deforestation ; housing construction ; microfinance ; Niger ; theses (form)

T. E. A. Salubi : witness to British colonial rule in Urhoboland & Nigeria / Peter Palmer Ekeh. - Buffalo, NY : Urhobo Historical Society (UHS), 2008. - (Monograph ; 4)
ASC Subject Headings: autobiographies (form) ; colonial administrators ; colonial history ; Great Britain ; leadership ; Nigeria ; Urhobo

Visions of a better world : football in the Cameroonian social imagination / Beata Vidacs. - Berlin [etc.] : Lit, 2010. - (Ethnologie ; Bd. 21)
ASC Subject Headings: attitudes ; Cameroon ; football ; politics ; social conditions