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 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 17 2019

Archivebook cover "Alfred Farag and the Egyptian theater"

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

See also the ASCL overview of recently published journal articles

Articles

Malawi
The rule on corroboration in sexual offences and women's access to justice in Malawi / by Bernadette Malunga.
In: Zambia law journal, volume 46, pages 121-150 (2015).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Zambia ; sexual offences ; criminal law ; access to justice ; women

Zambia
An analysis of the Anti-Gender-Based Violence Act as a positive mechanism against harmful customary practices affecting women / by Muchinda Muma.
In: Zambia law journal, volume 46, pages 151-183 (2015).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Zambia ; gender-based violence ; legislation ; women's rights

Zambia
Compensation of a surface rights holder by a resource extraction licence holder : Zambian perspective / by Mabvuto Sakala and Kelly Kapianga.
In: Zambia law journal, volume 45, pages 29-55 (2014).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Zambia ; mining law ; land law

Zambia
Domestication and implementation of the CRC in Zambia: the rights of the child victim of defilement / by R.L. Mbambi.
In: Zambia law journal, volume 45, pages 105-127 (2014).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Zambia ; children's rights ; international agreements

Zambia
The impact of prohibiting disclaimer notices on freedom of contract / by Milan Dipakkumar Desai.
In: Zambia law journal, volume 45, pages 129-162 (2014).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Zambia ; law of contract ; consumer protection

Zambia
Land titles or deeds registration as it relates to the new model of land registration system for Zambia / by Fatima Mandhu.
In: Zambia law journal, volume 45, pages 57-78 (2014).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Zambia ; land registration ; land law

Electronic documents

Ethiopia
Land consolidation, canals and apps : reshaping agriculture in Ethiopia / Atakilte Beyene. Uppsala : The Nordic Africa Institute, cop. 2019.
ASC Subject Headings: Ethiopia  ; agricultural policy ; agricultural development ;  agriculture ; land reform
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:nai:diva-2303

Books

Africa
Narrating African futureS : in(ter)ventions and agencies in African and African diasporic fiction / edited by Susan Arndt and Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard ; with the assistance of Shirin Assa and Abioseh Porter. - London, New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; diasporas ; literature ; future

Africa
African migration narratives : politics, race, and space / edited by Cajetan Iheka and Jack Taylor. - Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; poetry ; migration ; diasporas ; films ; illegal migration ; Nollywood ; filmmakers ; novels ; return migration ; literature

Africa
Africanologie, ébauche d'une discipline scientifique / Jonas Shamuana Mabenga ; préface d'Elikia M'Bokolo, postface de Pélerìn Kimwanga Nkeny. - Brazzaville: L'Harmattan Congo, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; African studies

Africa
Le cotonnier et ses produits / par Georges Parry. - Paris: G.-P. Maisonneuve & Larose, 1982.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; French-speaking Africa ; cotton

Africa
Mémento de l'agronome / République française, Ministère de la Coopération. - [Paris]: Ministère de la Coopération, 1980.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; agriculture ; agricultural technology ; handbooks (form)

Algeria
Un demi-siècle de recherches en sciences humaines : parcours d'un anthropologue iconoclaste / Nadir Marouf. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Algeria ; academics ; anthropology ; sociology ; interviews (form) ; articles (form)

Benin
Une veillée de contes lokpas au Bénin / Akéouli Nouhoum Baoum. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Benin ; Lukpa ; folk tales (form)

Congo Brazzaville
De Johnny Chien Méchant d'Emmanuel Dongala à Johnny Mad Dog de Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire : littérature, cinéma et politique / Germain-Arsène Kadi. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Congo (Brazzaville) ; France ; novels ; films ; civil wars ; child soldiers ; images ; international relations

Democratic Republic of Congo
Les Bavira du Sud-Kivu (RDC) : histoire, culture et renaissance d'un peuple bantou / sous la direction de Augustin Ramazani Bishwende et Di-Kuruba Dieudonné Muhinduka. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; Bavira ; ethnographies (form)

Democratic Republic of Congo
La corruption en République démocratique du Congo / Justin Kabongo Tunsala ; préface de Baudouin Bomandeke Bonyeka. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; corruption

Democratic Republic of Congo
Les problèmes de l'administration publique en RDC / Marius Mengeli Longomo. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; public administration ; civil service

Democratic Republic of Congo
Parenté et patrimoine foncier chez les Bena Mambwe de la République démocratique du Congo : la réappropriation de la dépouille de l'épouse par son lignage / Sylvain Musinde Sangwa ; préface de Françoise Lestage. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; funerals ; married women ; women ; kinship ; Mambwe

Democratic Republic of Congo
Au coeur de Kinshasa : les chroniques de radio Okapi / Céleste Ipoli. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; radio ; broadcasting ; urban life

Democratic Republic of Congo
Patrimoine naturel et conflits armés : cas des parcs nationaux, sites du patrimoine mondial en République démocratique du Congo / Cosma Wilungula Balongelwa ; avant-propos de François Xavier de Donnea, ministre d'État belge. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; national parks and reserves ; war ; environmental management ; UN

Gabon
Médicaliser l'Afrique : enjeux, processus et stratégies d'introduction de la médecine occidentale au Gabon (XIXe-XXe siècle) / Hines Makiba Ognandzi. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Gabon ; France ; health care ; colonial policy ; medical history

Gabon
La famille : miroir de la société gabonaise / [présentation Claudine Augée Angoue]. - Paris Libreville: L'Harmattan CRES, Centre de recherches et d'études sociologiques, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Gabon ; family ; Pentecostalism ; interpersonal relations

Gabon
The African sermons / Albert Schweitzer ; edited and translated from the French by Steven E.G. Melamed, Sr. - Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2003.
ASC Subject·Headings: Gabon ; Germany ; doctors ; missions ; sermons ; speeches (form)

Mali
Dynamiques patrimoniales et enjeux pastoraux en milieu peul : les fêtes de transhumance y̳aaral et degal au Mali / Anaïs Leblon ; préface de Gaetano Ciarcia. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mali ; Fulani ; pastoralists ; cultural heritage ; religious festivals ; globalization

Mali
Écoles communautaires au Mali : fonctionnement, gestion et conflits / Sidy Lamine Bagayoko. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mali ; schools ; community education

Nigeria
Power against dream criminals / D.K. Olukoya. - Ikeja, Lagos: The Battle Cry Christian Ministries, 2001.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; dreams ; motivational literature

Northeast Africa
The Sudan-Ethiopia boundary dispute / by Faisal Abdel Rahman Ali Taha. - Khartoum]: [publisher not identified], 1983.
ASC Subject·Headings: Sudan ; South Sudan ; Ethiopia ; boundaries ; boundary conflicts ; international agreements ; negotiation

Rwanda
Colonialisme et révolution : histoire du Rwanda sous la Tutelle / François Lagarde. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Rwanda ; Belgium ; colonialism ; revolutions ; ethnic conflicts ; Hutu ; Tutsi ; colonial policy ; UN ; decolonization ; history
http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb45389030f

Senegal
Les femmes de Sébikhotane de 1900 à nos jours : histoire économique et sociale des générations africaines / Mamadou Kandji ; préface de madame le professeur Rokhaya Fall Sokhna. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; women ; women entrepreneurs ; local history ; economic history ; social history ; 1900-1999

Senegal
Disparités régionales et émergence des pôles économiques au Sénégal / Latif Dramani. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; economic conditions ; economic concentration ; centre and periphery ; poverty ; economic policy

Senegal
Mouhamadou Lamine Darame : entre jihad et résistance anticoloniale / Yaya Sy. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; Islamic movements ; anticolonialism ; biographies (form)

South Africa
Gangster state : unravelling Ace Magashule's web of capture / Pieter-Louis Myburgh. - Cape Town: Penguin Books, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; politicians ; African National Congress (South Africa) ; corruption

South Africa
We don't talk about it. ever. : a girl who searched for love but found destruction instead / Desiree-Anne Martin. - Joburg: MF Books, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; women ; Coloureds ; drug use ; child abuse ; biographies (form)

South Sudan
Aʻlām al-nukhab al-janūbīyah al-Sūdānīyah : al-aḥdāth, al-aḥzāb, al-shakhṣīyāt / iʻdād wa-taqdīm, U. ʻĀdil Aḥmad Ibrāhīm Muḥammad = Elites in the history of Southern Sudan : the events, the parties, the outstanding figures / prepared and presented by Adel Ahmed Ibrahim‏‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Sudan ; political parties ; politicians ; military personnel ; intellectuals ; biographies (form) ‏

Subsaharan Africa
Ethnies et guerre froide : pour une histoire de la région des Grands Lacs d'Afrique. Carlo Carbone ; préface de Nicolao Merker ; postface de Bogumil Jewsiewicki ; traduit de l'italien par Mathilde Lenoir. - Paris: L'Harmattan Editions Distribution, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Great Lakes region ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; Burundi ; Rwanda ; cold war ; colonial history ; independence

Subsaharan Africa
Seuchen in der Geschichte Afrikas / Hrsg. Roman Loimeier. - Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2011.
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa ; epidemics ; infectious diseases ; animal diseases ; yearbooks (form)
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366300

Togo
Histoire du Togo : le coup de force permanent (2006-2011) / Godwin Tété ; préface de Didier Amah Dossavi. - Paris: Harmattan, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Togo ; political conditions ; political history

West Africa
Writing spatiality in West Africa : colonial legacies in the Anglophone/Francophone novel / Madhu Krishnan. - Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, New York: James Currey, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: West Africa ; literature ; novels ; space ; postcolonialism ; women writers

West Africa
Les figures de l'inégalité et le renouveau des luttes sociales / [coordonné par Placide Ondo]. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Benin ; Gabon ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; Senegal ; social conflicts ; civil society ; protest ; strikes

Zimbabwe
Chameleon aura / Billy Chapata. - Kansas City, Missouri: Andrews McMell Publishing, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; poetry (form)

Zimbabwe
These bones will rise again / Panashe Chigumadzi. - London: The Indigo Press, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; coups d'état ; 2017 ; personal narratives (form)

African Literature

Egypt
Alfred Farag and Egyptian theater : the poetics of disguise, with four short plays and a monologue / Dina A. Amin ; with a foreword by Roger Allen. - Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2008.
ASC Subject·Headings: Egypt ; writers ; drama ; literary criticism ; drama (form)

Ghana
The hundred wells of Salaga / Ayesha Harruna Attah. - New York: Other Press, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ghana ; slavery ; precolonial period ; historical novels (form)

South Africa
Twelve + one : some Jo'burg poets : their artistic lives and poetry / interviewed by Mike Alfred. - Braamfontein: Botsotso, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; writers ; poetry ; interviews (form) ; poetry (form)

South Sudan
The tears of Juba and other poems from Southern Sudan / Severino M. Matti. - Juba [Sudan]: St. Anthony's Printing Press--Wau, 1993.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Sudan ; poetry (form)

Sudan
The other lovely side : a play in one act & Prophet Muhammad : the culmination of a long process of dialogue / by Siddig Alhaj Abudafirah. - Khartoum: Shahira Printing Press, 2007.
ASC Subject·Headings: Sudan ; drama (form) ; Islam ; essays (form)

Zimbabwe
Chameleon aura / Billy Chapata. - Kansas City, Missouri: Andrews McMell Publishing, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; poetry (form)

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