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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 African Library and a link to the ASCL journal articles alert.

N.B.  The next issue will be published on December 1st 2025.


New acquisitions - week 24 2019

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Articles | Electronic documentsBooks | Journals | Films | African Literature | Sound

See also the ASCL overview of recently published journal articles

Electronic documents

Cameroon
Conflicts, participation and co-management in protected areas : a case study of Lobéké National Park, Cameroon / Cosmas Kombat, Julia Maria Bayer, Tobias Beyer, Konstantin Engelbrecht, May Hokan, Yannic Kiewitt, Nicolas Mielich, Henrice C. Stöbesand. - Berlin: Centre for Rural Development (SLE), 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; national parks and reserves ; nature conservation ; community participation ; livelihoods
http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/20025

Egypt
Engaged ephemeral art : street art and the Egyptian Spring / Saphinaz Amal Naguib. - Heidelberg: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Egypt ; mural art ; protest ; political action ; Arab Spring
http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-62941 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heiup-ts-235904

Egypt
Street art and the Egyptian Revolution / Lina Khatib. - Barcelona: Instituto Europeo del Mediterraneo (IEMed), 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Egypt ; mural art ; protest ; political action ; revolutions ; Arab Spring
https://www.iemed.org/observatori-es/arees-danalisi/arxius-adjunts/anuar...

Ethiopia
Taking the forbidden space : graffiti and resistance in Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia / Mulumebet Zenebe. - Leiden: Brill, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ethiopia ; mural art ; students ; resistance ; universities
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004356368_007 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctvbqs5zx.12

Senegal
"These walls belong to everybody" : the graffiti art movement in Dakar / Leslie W. Rabine. - Gainesville, FL: Center for African Studies, University of Florida, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; mural art
http://asq.africa.ufl.edu/files/Volume-14-Issue-3-Rabine.pdf

South Africa
The functions of public art in post-apartheid South Africa / Annette Sophia Pretorius. - University of the Witwatersrand: Johannesburg, 2007.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; monuments ; visual arts ; theses (form)
http://hdl.handle.net/10539/2175

Subsaharan Africa
Escravidão, trabalho forçado e resistência na África meridional / sob a direcção de Sílvia Hunold Lara, Lucilene Reginaldo e José C. Curto. - Lisboa: Centro de Estudos Africanos, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa ; Angola ; Congo (Brazzaville) ; Mozambique ; forced labour ; resistance ; rail transport ; missions
https://journals.openedition.org/cea/2151

Subsaharan Africa
Desporto e lazer em África : entre os vínculos do passado e as dinâmicas do presente / sob a direcção de Marcelo Bittencourt, Paulo Jorge Fernandes e Victor Melo. - Lisboa: Centro de Estudos Africanos, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa ; Ethiopia ; Madagascar ; Mozambique ; São Tomé and Principe ; South Africa ; sports ; music
https://journals.openedition.org/cea/2051

Uganda
Public art in Kampala : unveiling political confusion / Dominic Muwanguzi. - Cape Town: Asai, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Uganda ; visual arts ; sculpture ; urban areas ; government policy ; State-society relationship
http://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/TTA-EA-010-Muwanguzi.pdf

Uganda
KLA ART 014, Kampala Contemporary Art Festival : project report / [KLA ART 014 Committee]. - Kampala: [KLA ART 014 Committee], 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Uganda ; visual arts ; community participation
https://klaart.org/2014/KLA_ART_014_Project_Report.pdf

Zimbabwe
Graffitti : deviance or a sigh of and for suppressed expressions? / Muchinako, George Alex, Matsika, Abel Blessing & Muchinako, Mary. - Singapore: International Journal Research Publications, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; mural art
http://www.theinternationaljournal.org/ojs/index.php?journal=tij&page=ar...

Zimbabwe
Postcolonial monuments and public sculpture in Zimbabwe / Biggie Samwanda. - Grahamstown: Rhodes University, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; monuments ; national identity ; dissertations (form)
http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006825

Books

Africa
The historical origin of the African economic crisis : from colonialism to China / by Alemayehu Geda. - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; China ; international trade ; finance ; economic development ; economic conditions ; colonialism ; economic history

Africa
Urban land grabs in Africa / guest editors: Griet Steel, Femke van Noorloos, Kei Otsuki. - Oxon: Alexandrine Press, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; Mozambique ; Kenya ; Ghana ; Senegal ; Sudan ; urban development ; land acquisition ; public investments ; urban renewal ; land rights ; mosques ; international migration

Africa
Afrique-Occident : le new deal industriel : stratégie et politique économique / Amos René Martin Tonye. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; Cameroon ; Western countries ; economic development ; industrial development ; economic policy ; development cooperation

Africa
Africans are not black : the case for conceptual liberation / Kwesi Tsri. - London ; New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; Blacks ; Africans ; literature ; identity ; racism ; colonialism

Africa
Political behaviour / Aloysius Michaels Okolie. - Enugu: Academic Pub. Co., 2004.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; political participation

Burkina Faso
Construction et reconfigurations de l'action publique contre le sida au Burkina Faso : acteurs, controverses et dynamiques / Kamba André-Marie Soubeiga. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; Aids ; Ngo ; associations

Burkina Faso
Le travail non rémunéré : enjeux pour le développement / Barbara Ky ; préface de Jacques Charmes. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; women ; gender division of labour ; poverty ; women's work

Cameroon
Le politique, le journaliste et l'intellectuel dans la société camerounaise : jeux et enjeux de pouvoir / Valentin Nga Ndongo. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; intellectuals ; journalists ; politicians ; power

Cameroon
Le récit du disciple déchu : dénonciation et analyse d'un gouvernement despotique / Charles Biwole Atangana. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; authoritarianism ; corruption ; prose (form)

Democratic Republic of Congo
Le Kasaï, son histoire, ses peuples et son développement : mémoires / Germain Mania Katompua ; préface Grégoire Bakandeja wa Mpungu. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; regional development ; local history

Democratic Republic of Congo
Médias pionniers au Congo : Su Kukianga (1891) et Minsamu Miayenge (1892) / Jean-Chrétien D. Ekambo ; préface de Bertrand Cabedoche. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; Christian press ; missions ; Protestant churches ; media history

Democratic Republic of Congo
Que reste-t-il de l'école catholique en R.D. Congo? / Victor Biduaya Badiunde M. ; préface de Dries Vanysacker. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; Christian education ; Catholic Church ; missions ; educational history

Democratic Republic of Congo
La province de l'Ituri (RDC) : rôles des communautés de base face aux enjeux géostratégiques, géopolitiques et socio-économiques / Innocent Unyon Vakpa Katumba Oruma. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; regional government ; community participation ; regional development ; civil society

Ethiopia
Challenges and opportunities for inclusive development in Ethiopia: proceedings of conferences Held in 2017 / Dessalegn Rahmato and Meheret Ayenew (editors). - Addis Ababa: Forum for Social Studies, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ethiopia ; sustainable development ; social security ; youth employment ; gender ; self-help associations ; civil service ; private enterprises ; rural-urban relations ; international migration ; conference papers (form)

Gabon
Les finances publiques du Gabon : droit budgétaire et droit de la comptabilité publique / Fidèle Mengue Me Engouang. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Gabon ; public finance ; public accounting ; fiscal law

Guinea
Hadja Rabiatou Sérah Diallo : vie et combats d'une égérie syndicale / Mody Sory Diallo, Mamadou Hafiziou Barry, Mamadou Saliou Diallo. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Guinea ; trade unions ; women ; biographies (form)

Guinea
La Guinée en quête de rupture! / Boubacar Yacine Diallo. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Guinea ; political conditions ; social conditions ; judicial system

Guinea
M'Balia Camara n'a pas été assassinée : livre posthume / Émile Tompapa ; préfacé et édité par Thiany Yansané. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Guinea ; violence ; national liberation struggles ; traditional rulers ; colonial administrators ; Parti Démocratique de Guinée ; heroes ; history

Ivory Coast
Anthologie de chants kyaman de Côte d'Ivoire / Théophile Djoke Bodjé. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Côte d'Ivoire ; Ebrié ; Ebrié language ; women ; songs (form) ; anthologies (form)

Kenya
Fundamental theories of ethnic conflict : explaining the root causes of ethnic and racial hate / edited by Muli wa Kyendo. - Nairobi: Syokimau Cultural Centre, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; ethnic conflicts ; social sciences

Malawi
Fostering girl child education in Malawi / Cecilia Mzumara. - Luwinga: Luviri Press, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Malawi ; girls ; secondary education ; Catholic Church

Mauritania
L'éducation non formelle islamique mahadra de Mauritanie / Mohamed Salem Ould Maouloud. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mauritania ; Islamic education ; nonformal education ; educational policy ; educational systems Ould Maouloud, Mohamed Salem.

Morocco
The impact of male migration on rural women in Morocco : a case study on gender and migration / Eva Fuchs. - Berlin: LIT Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, 2010.
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; international migration ; labour mobility ; migrant workers ; gender roles ; rural women ; remittances ; rural sociology

Niger
Flore et faune du Niger et des pays voisins / Ibrahim Najada. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Niger ; Sahel ; drylands ; flora ; fauna ; environmental management ; handbooks (form)

Nigeria
The seduction of the Nigerian Church / Gary S. Maxey, Peter Ozodo. - Ipaja, Lagos, Nigeria: WATS Publications, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; Christianity ; Church history

Nigeria
Dynamiques politico-économiques dans l'histoire du Nigeria : évolution historique des rapports de forces entre élites et non-élites / Hervé Lado ; préface de Gaël Giraud. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; elite ; power-sharing ; history

Nigeria
Criminal law : accessing bail in Nigeria / Asari Effanga Young, Faculty of Law, University of Calabar, Calabar. - Calabar, Cross River State: Presby Press Limited, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; bail ; criminal law

Nigeria
Grace beyond the bar and the bench / Joseph Eton, the family pastor ; foreword by hon. justice Godwin Abraham. - Lagos ©2014: Green and Cherished Limited, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; Presbyterian church ; clergy ; motivational literature

Nigeria
Lasting marriage without regrets / Joseph Eton, the family pastor. - Lagos: Green and Cherished Limited, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; Presbyterian church ; clergy ; marriage ; motivational literature

Nigeria
The godly family / Michael Eze Ani. - Lagos: Green and Cherished Nig. Ltd, 2011.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; Presbyterian church ; clergy ; motivational literature

Nigeria
Youth reformation / by Dominion Joshua. - Uyo, Akwa Iborn State (Nigeria): GT Technologies, 2010.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; secret societies ; cults ; students ; universities

Nigeria
Whatever kills others will not kill you / Joseph Eton, the family pastor. - Lagos: Precious Connections Ltd., 2008.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; Presbyterian church ; clergy ; motivational literature

Nigeria
God can do it again / Christian Jireh. - [Nigeria]: Jireh Publications, 2000.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; Presbyterian church ; clergy ; motivational literature

Senegal
Macky Sall : du Plan Sénégal émergent (PSE) au temps des actions d'un réformateur / Bara Diop ; préface d'Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr. - Dakar: Harmattan Sénégal, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; economic conditions ; political conditions ; 2010-2019

Senegal
Le prix de la survie : l'enfer des industries d'exploitation minière au Sénégal / Iba Fall. - Dakar: L'Harmattan Sénégal, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; phosphate mining ; chemical industry ; miners ; working conditions ; occupational health ; occupational safety

Senegal
Le secteur privé sénégalais : jambe faible de l'émergence, entre entreprenants et entrepreneurs / Moustapha Kassé. - Dakar: Harmattan Sénégal, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; private enterprises ; entrepreneurs ; industrial development ; economic policy

Senegal
Le transfert électronique de fonds : le transfert rapide d'argent et la monnaie électronique / Cheikh Abdou Wakhab Ndiaye. - Dakar: Harmattan Sénégal, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; West Africa ; mobile money ; banking ; legislation ; Banque Centrale des Etats de l'Afrique de l'Ouest ; Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest-Africaine

Senegal
Ndoumbélane : la jungle sénégalaise / Papa Makhtar Diallo. - Dakar: Harmattan Sénégal, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; society ; political conditions ; social conditions ; broadcasting

Senegal
Dermatologie moderne et médecines alternatives : soigner le ndoxum siti au Sénégal / Fatimata Ly. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; skin diseases ; health care ; folk medicine

South Africa
Traditional leaders in a democracy : resources, respect and resistance / editors: Mbongiseni Buthelezi, Dineo Skosana & Beth Vale. - Johannesburg: Mapugunbwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA), [2019], 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; traditional rulers ; chieftaincy ; leadership ; democracy

South Africa
How to steal a city : the battle for Nelson Mandela Bay, an inside account / Crispian Olver. - Johannesburg ; Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; corruption ; organized crime ; local government ; municipal government ; African National Congress (South Africa) ; politicians ; personal narratives (form)

South Africa
Entrepreneurship 101 : tackling the basics of businesss start-ups in South Africa / Joshua Maluleke. - Auckland Park, South Africa: BlackBird Books, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; entrepreneurs ; business ; labour law

South Africa
Exit! : a true story / Grizelda Grootboom. - Auckland Park, South Africa: Blackbird Books, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; prostitution ; human trafficking ; drug use ; autobiographies (form)

South Africa
Seven essential money skills : building a healthy relationship with your money / R. Nelson Letshwene. - Rustenburg, South Africa: Moedi Publishing, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; money ; income ; finance

Southern Africa
Traces and tracks : a thirty-year journey with the San / Paul Weinberg. - Auckland Park, South Africa: Jacana, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Southern Africa ; Botswana ; Namibia ; South Africa ; San ; social life ; anthropology ; travel ; social conditions ; pictorial works (form)

Subsaharan Africa
Pour une Afrique émergente : une culture tournée vers l'avenir : hommage au professeur Maurice Tadadjeu / Jules Assoumou, Gabriel Mba, Julia Ndibnu Messina (éd.) ; préface de Samuel Efoua Mbozo'o. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa ; Cameroon ; indigenous languages ; multilingualism ; language instruction ; literature ; culture ; development ; festschrifts (form) ; conference papers (form)

Tanzania
Education in Tanzania in the era of globalisation : challenges and opportunities / edited by Joe L.P. Lugalla, J. Marriote Ngwaru. - Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Tanzania ; educational policy ; special education ; preschool education ; teaching methods ; information technology ; community education ; students ; schools

West Africa
Le crime organisé dans le Sahel : l'utilisation du numérique et les politiques de prévention / Mamadou Mouth Bane. - Dakar: L'Harmattan Sénégal, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Sahel ; West Africa ; organized crime ; crime prevention ; information technology ; Internet

West Africa
Noël Ballay, l'Africain : avec et sans Brazza / Lydie Delanoue. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: West Africa ; French West Africa ; Congo (Brazzaville) ; colonial administrators ; expeditions ; colonial history ; biographies (form)

West Africa
Eden in sumer on the Niger / Catherine Obianuju Acholonu. - Saarbrücken: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: West Africa ; anthropology ; archaeology ; culture

West Africa
Exposition the Hebrew origin of the West African peoples and the need to return to the worship of the true God in a true way : Ewe, Yoruba, Idoma, Akan, Igala, Edo, Igbo, Nupe, Aku, Efik, Ga, Ibibio, Urhobo, Ijaw, Kanuri, Fon, Itsekiri, Tiv / Olalekan Abiola-Kushehin. - Surulere (Lagos): Liberal Consults, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: West Africa ; Judaism ; Christianity

African Literature

Mali
Maana surunw denmisɛnninw ka baarako masalakun kan / baabu bayɛlɛmanenw ka bɔ tubabukan na Mori Tarawore fɛ. = Histoires courtes sur le thème du travail des enfants / traduites du français par Mory Traoré. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mali ; child labour ; textbooks (form) ; short stories (form)

Mauritania
Les barbelés de sables : pardonner sans oublier, s'ouvrir sans se renier / Cheikh Baïdy Diop ; préface de M. Moustapha Niasse, Président de l'Assemblée nationale du Sénégal. - Dakar: Harmattan Sénégal, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mauritania ; political violence ; political prisoners ; personal narratives (form) ; novels (form)

Sound

[Portrait de] Kofi Annan / par Alain Foka. - [Paris] : Radio France Internationale, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ghana ; diplomats ; UN ; biographies (form) ; radio broadcasts (form)

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