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 6 May 2024.

New acquisitions - week 12 2014

Week 12 2014 - Beta version

Journal articles

'A dog with a collar...': field notes on an 'indigenous wedding gown' / J. M. Dederen
In: Anthropology Southern Africa: (2011), vol. 34, no. 3/4, p. 89-95 : ill.
ASC Subject Headings: female dress ; girls' initiation ; South Africa ; Venda

'She's just like my mother': measuring motherhood in the context of the HIV epidemic in South Africa / Naomi Marshak
In: Anthropology Southern Africa: (2011), vol. 34, no. 3/4, p. 122-128.
ASC Subject Headings: AIDS ; child care ; mothers ; South Africa

"First and foremost the evangelist"? : mission and government priorities for the treatment of leprosy in Uganda, 1927-48 / Kathleen Vongsathorn
In: Journal of Eastern African Studies: (2012), vol. 6, no. 3, p. 544-560.
ASC Subject Headings: colonial administration ; health care ; health policy ; leprosy ; missions ; Uganda

A crack in the 'dam(ned)' wall? : cooperation and collaboration among higher education libraries in South Africa / Reggie Raju & Jaya Raju
In: Innovation: (2011), no. 42, p. 79-97.
ASC Subject Headings: educational policy ; higher education ; South Africa ; university libraries

An 'historic victory' for the Basarwa in Botswana? : reading the evidence / Emile Boonzaier
In: Anthropology Southern Africa: (2011), vol. 34, no. 3/4, p. 96-103.
ASC Subject Headings: Botswana ; land rights ; minority groups ; San

Assessing the returns to education in The Gambia / Jeremy D. Foltz & Ousman Gajigo
In: Journal of African Economies: (2012), vol. 21, no. 4, p. 580-608 : graf. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: cost-benefit analysis ; education ; Gambia ; schooling ; wage differentials

Beastly whiteness: animal kinds and the social imagination in South Africa / Hylton White
In: Anthropology Southern Africa: (2011), vol. 34, no. 3/4, p. 104-113.
ASC Subject Headings: images ; rural households ; social relations ; South Africa ; Zulu

Between town and country : shifting identity and migrant youth in Uganda / Caroline Barratt, Martin Mbonye & Janet Seeley
In: The Journal of Modern African Studies: (2012), vol. 50, no. 2, p. 201-223.
ASC Subject Headings: identity ; rural-urban migration ; Uganda ; youth

Cameroun-Maurice: pour une convergence des imaginaires / Jean Claude Abada Medjo
In: Kaliao: (2010), vol. 2, no. 4, p. 211-228.
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; cultural cooperation ; cultural history ; Mauritius

Civil-military relations and political order in Guinea-Bissau / Birgit Embaló
In: The Journal of Modern African Studies: (2012), vol. 50, no. 2, p. 253-281.
ASC Subject Headings: civil-military relations ; Guinea-Bissau ; political elite ; politics

Conflict between State sovereignty and the right of intervention under the Constitutive Act of the African Union / Tom Mboya
In: Africa Insight: (2009/10), vol. 39, no. 2, p. 77-89.
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African agreements ; African Union ; right of intervention ; sovereignty

Cooperating internationally over water : explaining l'espace OMVS / Undala Alam
In: The Journal of Modern African Studies: (2012), vol. 50, no. 2, p. 175-199 : fig. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: international cooperation ; river basin organizations ; West Africa

Do limitations in land rights transferability influence mobility rates in Ethiopia? / Alan De Brauw & Valerie Mueller
In: Journal of African Economies: (2012), vol. 21, no. 4, p. 548-579 : graf. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: Ethiopia ; land rights ; migration

Executive dominance and the politics of quota representation in Uganda / Ragnhild L. Muriaas & Vibeke Wang
In: The Journal of Modern African Studies: (2012), vol. 50, no. 2, p. 309-338 : tab.
ASC Subject Headings: electoral systems ; parliamentary representation ; Uganda

Farm households' preferences for cash-based compensation versus livelihood-enhancing programmes : a choice experiment to inform avian flu (HPAI H5N1) compensation policy in Nigeria / Adewale Oparinde & Ekin Birol
In: Journal of African Economies: (2012), vol. 21, no. 4, p. 637-668 : fig. , graf. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: animal diseases ; compensation ; farmers ; Nigeria ; pest control

HIV/AIDS policies in Mozambique and the new aid architecture : successes, shortcomings and the way forward / Eduardo Bidaurratzaga-Aurre & Artur Colom-Jaén
In: The Journal of Modern African Studies: (2012), vol. 50, no. 2, p. 225-252 : graf. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: AIDS ; development cooperation ; health policy ; Mozambique

In search of African developmental States : challenges and missed opportunities / Godfrey Okoth
In: Africa Insight: (2009/10), vol. 39, no. 2, p. 60-76.
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; development ; State

Infected and affected : what the HIV/AIDS epidemic entails for girls and women in Africa / Pinky Lalthapersad-Pillay
In: Africa Insight: (2009/10), vol. 39, no. 2, p. 13-25.
ASC Subject Headings: AIDS ; gender inequality ; Subsaharan Africa ; women

Influence des grandes villes du Sud dans les régions agricoles : l'exemple de la ville de Yaoundé dans la région de Foumbot sur les Hauts Plateux de l'Ouest Cameroun / Jean Noel Ngapgue
In: Kaliao: (2010), vol. 2, no. 4, p. 103-122 : foto's, graf. , krt. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural production ; Cameroon ; food market ; rural-urban relations

Is xenophobia racism? / Kenneth Tafira
In: Anthropology Southern Africa: (2011), vol. 34, no. 3/4, p. 114-121.
ASC Subject Headings: racism ; South Africa ; xenophobia

Knowledge and use of library resources by academic staff at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg (UKZNP) campus / Dumisani Nkosi, Athol Leach & Ruth Hoskins
In: Innovation: (2011), no. 42, p. 54-78 : graf. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: academics ; information behaviour ; South Africa ; university libraries

La case soro chez les Dii dans l'Adamaoua au Cameroun : un patrimoine architectural en péril / Iya Moussa
In: Kaliao: (2010), vol. 2, no. 4, p. 29-40 : foto's, krt. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; Dii ; dwellings ; vernacular architecture

La résistance à l'impôt dans la plaine du Diamaré de 1916 à 1995 : cas des Guiziga et des Moundang / Patrice Pahimi
In: Kaliao: (2010), vol. 2, no. 4, p. 81-102.
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; Giziga ; Mundang ; resistance ; tax evasion ; taxation

Les élèves de Maroua (Cameroun) et l'interdiction du téléphone à l'école : opinions et stratégies de détournement : pour une gouvernance techno-scolaire systémique et participative / Emmanuel Béché
In: Kaliao: (2010), vol. 2, no. 4, p. 9-25 : tab.
ASC Subject Headings: attitudes ; Cameroon ; educational management ; mobile telephone

Negotiating social change : Ugandan discourses on Westernisation and neo-colonialism as forms of social critique / Julia Vorhölter
In: The Journal of Modern African Studies: (2012), vol. 50, no. 2, p. 283-307.
ASC Subject Headings: images ; modernization ; neocolonialism ; social change ; Uganda

Network structure and innovative performance of African entrepreneurs : the case of Uganda / Gerrit Rooks, Adam Szirmai & Arthur Sserwanga
In: Journal of African Economies: (2012), vol. 21, no. 4, p. 609-636 : fig. , graf. tab.
ASC Subject Headings: entrepreneurs ; innovations ; social networks ; Uganda

New regionalism in Africa : waves of integration / Karin Bachinger & Johan Hough
In: Africa Insight: (2009/10), vol. 39, no. 2, p. 43-59 : fig. , graf.
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; economic integration ; international trade ; regionalism

Official bilingualism at tertiary level education in Cameroon: the case of the University of Yaounde II (Soa) / Jean Paul Kouega
In: Kaliao: (2010), vol. 2, no. 4, p. 193-209 : tab.
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; languages of instruction ; multilingualism ; universities

Pratiques architecturales et stratégies identitaires dans les monts Mandara du Cameroun / Chétima Melchisedek
In: Kaliao: (2010), vol. 2, no. 4, p. 41-61 : fig. , foto's.
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; ethnic identity ; vernacular architecture

Promoting equitable access to school libraries in KwaZulu-Natal : the role of the Education Library Information and Technology Services (ELITS) / Khanyi Dubazana & Ruth Hoskins
In: Innovation: (2011), no. 42, p. 113-131 : fig. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: school libraries ; South Africa

Prostitution et lutte contre les maladies vénériennes au Cameroun, 1923-1964 : discours et pratiques / Idrissou Alioum
In: Kaliao: (2010), vol. 2, no. 4, p. 123-141 : ill. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; colonial period ; health policy ; prostitution ; sexually transmitted diseases

Seasonal variation in price transmission between tomato markets in Ghana / Joseph Amikuzuno & Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel
In: Journal of African Economies: (2012), vol. 21, no. 4, p. 669-686 : graf. , krt. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: Ghana ; market ; prices ; seasonality ; tomatoes

Study of information needs of juveniles in Asero remand home, Abeokuta, Nigeria / Bosede Akintola & Fehintol Onifade
In: Innovation: (2011), no. 42, p. 23-32 : tab.
ASC Subject Headings: children ; information behaviour ; Nigeria

The Bakooki in Buganda: identity and assimilation on the peripheries of a Ugandan kingdom / Aidan Stonehouse
In: Journal of Eastern African Studies: (2012), vol. 6, no. 3, p. 527-543.
ASC Subject Headings: acculturation ; Buganda polity ; centre and periphery ; ethnic identity ; social integration ; Uganda

The challenges facing the International Criminal Court in prosecuting cases of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes / Frank Khachina Matanga
In: Africa Insight: (2009/10), vol. 39, no. 2, p. 103-113.
ASC Subject Headings: genocide ; International Criminal Court ; Rwanda ; Sudan ; war crimes

The Heglig oil dispute between Sudan and South Sudan / Douglas H. Johnson
In: Journal of Eastern African Studies: (2012), vol. 6, no. 3, p. 561-569 : krt.
ASC Subject Headings: boundary conflicts ; conflict resolution ; petroleum ; South Sudan ; Sudan

The microfilm of the new millennium : the digitization of the liberation struggle archives heritage in east and southern Africa / Francis Garaba, Christine Stilwell & Patrick Ngulube
In: Innovation: (2011), no. 42, p. 33-53.
ASC Subject Headings: archives ; conservation of cultural heritage ; electronic resources ; national liberation struggles ; Subsaharan Africa

The role of regional economic communities in Africa's economic integration : prospects and constraints / Ufo Okeke Uzodike
In: Africa Insight: (2009/10), vol. 39, no. 2, p. 26-42 : krt. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; common markets ; economic integration ; regionalism

The role of the municipal bond market in municipal infrastructure development in South Africa : an exploratory study / Phillip Mantso & Derick Blaauw
In: Africa Insight: (2009/10), vol. 39, no. 2, p. 1-12.
ASC Subject Headings: infrastructure ; local finance ; municipal government ; South Africa

The Rome statute and Omar Al Bashir's indictment by the International Criminal Court / Patrick Lumumba
In: Africa Insight: (2009/10), vol. 39, no. 2, p. 90-102.
ASC Subject Headings: heads of State ; International Criminal Court ; Sudan ; war crimes

What drives corruption? : evidence from North African firms / Clara Delavallade
In: Journal of African Economies: (2012), vol. 21, no. 4, p. 499-547 : graf. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: corruption ; enterprises ; Maghreb ; tax evasion

Electronic documents

Oral literature in Africa / Ruth Finnegan. - Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, 2012. - (World oral literature series ; vol. 1)
ASC Subject Headings: oral literature ; Subsaharan Africa
http://www.openbookpublishers.com/reader/97 ; https://unglue.it/work/81724/

Books

'A' level Zimbabwean history / C. K. Mhuri & G. Shoko. - Bulawayo : Turn-up College Zimbabwe, 2006
ASC Subject Headings: history ; textbooks (form) ; Zimbabwe

'A' level Zimbabwean history / C.K. Mhuri 1: Study pack / C. K. Mhuri & G. Shoko. - Bulawayo : Turn-up College Zimbabwe, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: history ; textbooks (form) ; Zimbabwe

'A' level Zimbabwean history / C.K. Mhuri 2: Questions and answers / C. K. Mhuri & G. Shoko. - Bulawayo : Turn-up College Zimbabwe, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: history ; textbooks (form) ; Zimbabwe

Afrique du Sud : l'apartheid sans masque / Jeff Tremblay & Jean Pierre Richard. - Paris : Comité Catholique contre la Faim et pour le Développement (CCFD) [etc.], 1987. - (D'un monde à l'autre)
ASC Subject Headings: apartheid ; France ; South Africa

Ajagunmale : drama / Ahmed Yerima. - Ibadan : Kraft Books Limited, 2009. - (Kraftgriots)
ASC Subject Headings: drama (form) ; Nigeria

Ajarat : it's the story of an unripe mango / Bunmi Julius-Adeoye. - Lagos : ICS Services, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: children ; drama (form) ; girls ; marriage ; Nigeria

Allahou Akbar : islam, terrorisme et tolérance : une perspective africaine / Lansiné Kaba. - Paris : Présence africaine, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: Guinea ; Islam ; Islamic culture ; Islamic history ; politics ; West Africa

Biodiversité au Sahel : les forêts du Mali / Philippe Birnbaum. - Versailles : Édition Quae, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: biodiversity ; ecosystems ; environmental management ; forests ; Mali

Curriculum evaluation in Zimbabwe : an appraisal of case studies / B. R. S. Chivore. - Harare : Books for Africa Publising House, 1988
ASC Subject Headings: dropouts ; evaluation ; nonformal education ; secondary education ; teacher education ; vocational education ; Zimbabwe

Die, the beloved country? / Jim Peron. - Johannesburg [etc.] : 1999
ASC Subject Headings: African National Congress ; political conditions ; social conditions ; South Africa

Europe, crimes et censure au Congo / Charles Onana. - Paris : Duboiris, 2012. - (Secrets d'état)
ASC Subject Headings: corruption ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; diplomacy ; European Union ; foreign policy ; Great Lakes region ; international relations ; Rwanda ; war

Feminisms, HIV and AIDS : subverting power, reducing vulnerability / Vicci Tallis. - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: AIDS ; feminism ; gender inequality ; social conditions ; South Africa ; Subsaharan Africa ; women

Financial aspects of economic sanctions on South Africa / Simon Clarke. - Geneva : International University Exchange Fund, 1981. - (Economic sanctions against South Africa ; 6)
ASC Subject Headings: economic sanctions ; foreign investments ; South Africa

For my love of Africa / Kathy Hull. - [Milton Keynes : Lighting Source], 2012
ASC Subject Headings: personal narratives (form) ; white women ; Zimbabwe

Four days in Lusaka : whites in a changing society : Five Freedoms Forum-African National Congress Conference, Intercontinental Hotel, Lusaka, Zambia, June 29-July 2, 1989 / Raymond Louw. - Excom : Five Freedoms Forum, 1989
ASC Subject Headings: 1989 ; African National Congress ; conferences ; political change ; South Africa ; Whites

Genocide by attrition : the Nuba mountains of Sudan / Samuel Totten. - New Brunswick, NJ [etc.] : Transaction Publishers, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: genocide ; government policy ; interviews (form) ; Nuba ; offences against human rights ; Sudan

Guerre, histoire et mythologie africaine / Jean François Owaye. - Paris : Mon petit éditeur, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: epics ; Gabon ; Mbete ; migration ; military history ; war

Histoire de la Banque africaine de développement et de sa contribution à l'essor de la Côte d'Ivoire de 1963 à 2005 / Frédéric Miezan. - Lille : ANRT, 2006
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African Development Bank ; Côte d'Ivoire ; dissertations (form) ; economic development ; economic history ; economic policy ; financing

Histoires politiques du syndicalisme malien, de ses origines à nos jours / Hamed Sidibé. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: French West Africa ; labour history ; Mali ; trade unions

HIV & AIDS, communication, and secondary education in Kenya / Ndeti Ndati. - Eldoret : Zapf Chancery, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: adolescents ; AIDS ; health education ; Kenya ; secondary education

L'homme qui répare les femmes : violences sexuelles au Congo : le combat du docteur Mukwege / Colette Braeckman. - Bruxelles : André Versaille, 2012. - (L'international en jeu)
ASC Subject Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; doctors ; gynaecology ; personal narratives (form) ; sexual offences ; war crimes ; women's health

Le franc CFA : instrument de sous-développement / Séraphin Prao Yao. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2012. - (Défense, stratégie et relations internationales)
ASC Subject Headings: franc zone ; French-speaking Africa ; international monetary relations ; monetary policy ; underdevelopment ; West Africa

Le rebelle et le camarade président : roman / Venance Konan. - Paris : Picollec, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: civil wars ; Côte d'Ivoire ; novels (form)

Le sang des volcans : des Kalach et des Comores : roman / Sast. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2011. - (Lettres de l'océan Indien)
ASC Subject Headings: assassination ; Comoros ; heads of State ; novels (form)

Les larmes d'une martyre / Abdou Diagne. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2012. - (Ecrire l'Afrique)
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; Senegal

Longman secondary history. - Nairobi : Longman Kenya, 1989
ASC Subject Headings: East Africa ; Kenya ; political history ; textbooks (form)

Longman secondary history Book two: History and government of Kenya / E. S. Atieno Odhiambo & Peter Wanyande. - Nairobi : Longman Kenya, 1989
ASC Subject Headings: East Africa ; history ; Kenya ; textbooks (form)

Mais qui a tué Sambala? / Aboubacar Eros Sissoko. - Paris [etc.] : L'Harmattan [etc.], 2011. - (Ecrire l'Afrique)
ASC Subject Headings: corruption ; elections ; Mali ; novels (form) ; social conditions

Medical law and ethics in Nigeria / Festus Oghenemaro Emiri. - Lagos [etc.] : Malthouse Press, 2012. - (Malthouse law books)
ASC Subject Headings: jurisprudence ; legislation ; medical sciences ; Nigeria ; professional ethics ; textbooks (form)

Melancholia of freedom : social life in an Indian township in South Africa / Thomas Blom Hansen. - Princeton, NJ [etc.] : Princeton University Press, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: Indians ; race relations ; social history ; social life ; South Africa ; townships

Mutira Mission : an African church comes of age in Kirinyaga, Kenya, 1912-2012 / Julius Gathogo & C. B. Peter. - Limuru : Zapf Chancery, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: 1900-1999 ; Anglican Church ; Church history ; clergy ; Kenya

Nation-building and the Kgatla : the role of the Anglo-Boer war / Louis W. Truschel. - Mochudi : Phuthadikobo Centre, 1972
ASC Subject Headings: Anglo-Boer wars ; Botswana ; colonial period ; Kgatla

No pennies for mama : drama / Ahmed Yerima. - Ibadan : Kraft Books Limited, 2011. - (Kraftgriots)
ASC Subject Headings: begging ; domestic violence ; drama (form) ; Nigeria

Pauvreté urbaine à Kinshasa / Francis Lelo Nzuzi & Claudine Tshimanga Mbuyi. - La Haye : Cordaid, 2004
ASC Subject Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; living conditions ; urban poverty

Pulse : passages in democracy-building : assessing South Africa's transition / Wilmot James & Moira Levy. - Cape Town : IDASA, 1998
ASC Subject Headings: democracy ; government ; social conditions ; South Africa

Rimbaud l'Africain : diseur de silence : poésie / Chehem Watta. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: Djibouti ; poetry (form)

Stratégies discursives de la satire et rhétorique de la honte chez Ahmadou Kourouma / Gyno Noel Mikala. - Libreville : Éditions Odette Maganga, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Côte d'Ivoire ; literary criticism ; satire ; writers

Tafida & other plays : drama / Ahmed Yerima. - Ibadan : Kraft Books Limited, 2013. - (Kraftgriots)
ASC Subject Headings: death ; drama (form) ; Nigeria ; political conditions ; social conditions

Three plays : drama / Ahmed Yerima. - Ibadan : Kraft Books Limited, 2011. - (Kraftgriots)
ASC Subject Headings: drama (form) ; Niger Delta conflict ; Nigeria ; women

Verhandlungen in Südafrika : Chancen, Risiken, Perspektiven / Joachim Becker. - Bonn : AAB, 1991
ASC Subject Headings: African National Congress ; National Party ; Pan Africanist Congress ; peace negotiations ; political change ; sourcebooks (form) ; South Africa

Wanneer die koedoehoring draai / Charlotte De Beer. - Vanderbijlpark : Corals Publishers, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: girls' initiation ; Griqua ; novels (form) ; South Africa

We are motor men : the making of the South African motor industry / David Duncan. - Latheronwheel : Whittles Publishing, 1997
ASC Subject Headings: automobile industry ; industrial history ; South Africa

Young Mandela / David James Smith. - London : Phoenix, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: 1950-1959 ; African National Congress ; anti-apartheid resistance ; biographies (form) ; national liberation movements ; South Africa

Films

Lobola the movie / Munya Chidzonga, Dalma Chiwerewa, & Joe Njagu. - Harare : The Decent Arthouse, 2010.
ASC Subject Headings: feature films (form) ; marriage rites ; videos (form) ; Zimbabwe
http://youtu.be/4DMNruL2BuY

Lula / Ladi Bidinga Mpoyi. - [S.l.] : [AJC! atelier jeunes cinéastes], 2008.
ASC Subject Headings: adolescents ; dance ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; feature films (form) ; girls ; mothers ; videos (form)

Searching for Sugar Man / Malik Bendjelloul. - [Amsterdam] : A-Film, 2012.
ASC Subject Headings: apartheid ; biographies (form) ; documentary films (form) ; musicians ; South Africa ; United States ; videos (form)
http://youtu.be/tDw7OqVBT-w

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