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 16 2019
Archive
Articles | Electronic documents | Books | Journals | Films | African Literature | Sound
See also the ASCL overview of recently published journal articles
Articles
Africa
African holdings of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin / by Bernth Lindfors.
In: African research and documentation : the journal of the African Studies Association of the UK and the Standing Commission [Conference] on Library Materials on Africa no. 133, p. 14-19 (2018).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Africa ; United States ; archives ; universities
Africa
Literary archives in Africa : an overview with examples of recent initiatives / by David C. Sutton.
In: African research and documentation : the journal of the African Studies Association of the UK and the Standing Commission [Conference] on Library Materials on Africa no. 133, p. 3-13 (2018).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Africa ; Burkina Faso ; South Africa ; Namibia ; Cameroon ; Cabo Verde ; archives ; writers
Nigeria
The Christopher Okigbo collection : from family heritage to public archive / by Obiageli Okigbo and Sofia Dati, Christopher Okigbo Foundation, Brussels, Belgium.
In: African research and documentation : the journal of the African Studies Association of the UK and the Standing Commission [Conference] on Library Materials on Africa no. 133, p. 20-32 (2018).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; Belgium ; archives ; writers ; Nigerian-Biafran War
South Africa
South African literary archives after the "archival turn" : a case study of the Guy Butler collection at the National English Literary Museum / by Beth Wyrill.
In: African research and documentation : the journal of the African Studies Association of the UK and the Standing Commission [Conference] on Library Materials on Africa no. 133, p. 33-41 (2018).
ASC·Subject·Headings: South Africa ; archives ; writers ; postcolonialism
Electronic documents
Senegal
Région de Diourbel : synthesis / Adama Faye, Abdou Fall, Mary Tiffen, Michael Mortimore, John Nelson. - Crewkerne: Drylands Research, 2001.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; agricultural crisis ; agricultural development ; conference papers (form) ; 2000
https://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/9939232964502711.pdf
Senegal
Diourbel region : the family, local institutions and education / Wendy Wilson Fall. - Crewkerne: Drylands Research, 2000.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; community development ; agricultural credit ; conference papers (form) ; 2000
https://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/9939232966502711.pdf
West Africa
Long-term change in food provisioning and marketing in the Kano region, 1960-2000 / J. Ayodele Ariyo, J.P. Voh, B. Ahmed. - Crewkerne: Drylands Research, 2001.
ASC Subject·Headings: Niger ; Nigeria ; food prices ; grain trade ; livestock
https://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/9939256353602711.pdf
West Africa
Profile of demographic change in the Kano-Maradi region, 1960-2000 / Mary Tiffen. - Crewkerne: Drylands Research, 2001.
ASC Subject·Headings: Niger ; Nigeria ; demographic change ; censuses
https://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/9939395267902711.pdf
West Africa
Synthèse sur les évolutions à long terme dans le département de Maradi, Niger, 1960-2000 / Michael Mortimore, Mary Tiffen, Yamba Boubacar, John Nelson. - Crewkerne: Drylands Research, 2001.
ASC Subject·Headings: Niger ; Nigeria ; regional development ; agricultural production
https://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/9939256353402711.pdf
West Africa
Évolution à long terme des productions agricoles, du système de commercialisation et des prix des produits dans la zone de Maradi / Seyni Hamadou. - Crewkerne: Drylands Research, 2000.
ASC Subject·Headings: Niger ; Nigeria ; crops ; agricultural production ; agricultural market
https://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/9939256353802711.pdf
Books
Africa
Heineken in Africa : a multinational unleashed / Olivier van Beemen. - London: Hurst & Company, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; multinational enterprises ; beer
Africa
L'écriture de la transgression : viol, violence, violation dans la littérature africaine / sous la direction de Stéphane Amougou Ndi, Rosine Paki Sale, Raphaël Ngwe ; préface de Lucien Ayissi ; avant-propos de Rosine Pake Sale. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; French-speaking Africa ; literature ; novels ; violence
Africa
Histoire des traites négrières : Critique afrocentrée d'une négrophobie académique / KLAH POPO. - Paris: Anibwe Editions, 2010.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; slave trade ; historiography
Africa
Notre Afrique : débats sur le Tiers Monde / [Sally N'Dongo, Claude Meillassoux, Marie-José Moumbaris, Claude Reboul, Louis Odru, Pierre Jalée ; publié par l']Union générale des travailleurs sénégalais en France. - Paris: F. Maspero, 1978.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; economic conditions ; development ; conference papers (form)
Benin
L'adolescence au Bénin / Yves Charbit. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Benin ; adolescents ; reproductive health ; social conditions ; demography
Botswana
The Botswana legal system / Charles M. Fombad. - Durban, South Africa: LexisNexis (Pty) Ltd, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Botswana ; legal systems ; administration of justice ; legal practitioners
Chad
Le développement touristique en Afrique centrale : une région aux marges du tourisme / Marabé Ngar-Odjilo ; préface de Philippe Bachimon. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Chad ; tourism
Congo Brazzaville
Patrimoine et tourisme au Congo : pour une valorisation et une gestion efficaces / Ulrich Kévin Kianguebeni. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Congo (Brazzaville) ; conservation of cultural heritage ; tourism
Democratic Republic of Congo
Les sciences de l'éducation au service de la communauté : offre de l'éducation en République démocratique du Congo / sous la direction de Florentin Azia Dimbu et Pierre Fonkoua ; préface d'Emmanuel Kimwanga Nkeny. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; education ; educational management ; pedagogy ; teaching methods
Democratic Republic of Congo
Prémontrés et Dominicains belges au Congo : Uele, 1898-1924 / Richard Dane Lokando. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; Congo Free State ; missions ; Catholic Church ; missionary history
Democratic Republic of Congo
Résilience, ou, Sursis de l'État : l'identité nationale au secours de la RD Congo / Guy Aundu Matsanza. - Louvain-La-Neuve: Académia-L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; State ; nation building ; national identity ; ethnicity
Democratic Republic of Congo
Géographie et territorialité en RD Congo : réflexions sur une discipline en mutation / Jean-Claude Mashini ; préface de C.E. Maboloko Ngulambangu. - Louvain-la-Neuve: Academia - L'Harmattan, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; geographical research ; geography education
Democratic Republic of Congo
Les sciences de l'information et de la communication en RD Congo : les traces ignorées d'un champ de recherche / sous la direction de Jean-Marie Dikanga Kazadi et Jean-Chrétien D. Ekambo. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; information technology ; communication ; conference papers (form)
Gabon
1er Congrès international fang de Mitzic-Gabon (1947) : objectifs, enjeux, perspectives : texte patrimonial fang / Cyriaque Simon-Pierre Akomo-Zoghe ; préface français-espagnol d'Eugenio Nkogo Ondó. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Gabon ; French Equatorial Africa ; Fang ; conferences ; 1947 ; ethnic identity ; cultural heritage ; colonial period ; history
Gabon
Hommages à Pierre N'Dombi : Université Omar Bongo (Libreville) / sous la direction de Gilchrist Anicet Nzenguet Iguemba. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Gabon ; academics ; economic history ; research centres ; memorial volumes (form)
Ghana
Towards food self-sufficiency in West Africa / edited by Kodwo Ewusi. - Tema, Ghana: Ghana Publishing Corporation, 1989.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ghana ; West Africa ; food supply ; agricultural economy ; agricultural development
Guinea
Les transitions politiques en Guinée de son indépendance à 2010 / Ibrahima Bah ; préface de Dominique Bangoura. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Guinea ; political change ; political history
Ivory Coast
Marchés, gouvernance et pauvreté : le cas de la Côte d'Ivoire / Camara Loukimane. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Côte d'Ivoire ; poverty ; economic conditions ; economic policy
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366299
Ivory Coast
Radiographie du droit foncier en Côte d'Ivoire / Abou Kanaté, Charles Capo Zahuit. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Côte d'Ivoire ; land tenure ; land conflicts ; real property
Mozambique
The war within : new perspectives on the civil war in Mozambique, 1976-1992 / edited by Eric Morier-Genoud, Michel Cahen & Domingos Manuel do Rosário. - Suffolk ; Rochester, NY: James Currey, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mozambique ; civil wars ; 1970-1979 ; 1980-1989 ; 1990-1999
Niger
Bergers de lumière : voyage au pays des Peuls / Jean-Michel Mariotti ; préface de Tierno Monénembo. - Saint-Maur: éditions Sépia, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Niger ; Fulani ; folk medicine ; healers ; surgery ; aid workers ; personal narratives (form)
Nigeria
Les enjeux de la crise dans le delta du Niger : Nigéria / Alexandra Fouilloux. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; Niger River ; deltas ; petroleum industry ; corruption ; militias ; ethnic relations ; regional security ; economic conditions
North Africa
Masques berbères et théâtre maghrébin / Mohand Aït Ahmed ; préface de Camille Lacoste-Dujardin. - Paris: Harmattan, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Northern Africa ; Maghreb ; masks ; rituals ; theatre
Senegal
De Diourbel et des confréries / Mamadou Barro. - Dakar: L'Harmattan Sénégal, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; regional development ; family ; Muslim brotherhoods ; Islam
South Africa
Always been here : the story of a Stellenbosch community / Hermann Giliomee. - Pinewood Village: Africana Publishers, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; communities ; race relations ; racially mixed persons ; segregation ; local history
South Africa
And what's your excuse today, sir? : a selection of PS columns from die Burger, 2015-2018 / John Scott. - Pinewood Village: Africana Publishers, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; humour ; articles (form)
South Africa
At the fault line : writing white in South African literary journalism / Claire Scott. - Pietermaritzburg ©2018: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; journalism ; writers ; Whites ; ethnic identity
South Africa
Divided country : the history of South African cricket retold. by André Odendaal, Krish Reddy, and Christopher Merrett. - Cape Town: BestRed, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; cricket ; apartheid ; history ; 1900-1949 ; 1950-1959
South Africa
Exploring decolonising themes in SA sport history : issues and challenging / edited by Francois Johannes Cleophas. - Stellenbosch: African Sunmedia, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; sports ; discrimination ; colonialism ; decolonization
South Africa
Santu Mofokeng : a silent solitude : photographs 1982-2011 / edited by / a cura di Simon Njami ; translations / traduzioni: Felicity Lutz, Jacopo Pes. - Milano, Italy New York, NY, USA: Skira distributed in USA, Canada, Central & South America by Rizzoli International Publications Inc., 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; photography ; artists ; pictorial works (form)
Subsaharan Africa
Le terrorisme international existe-t-il en Afrique noire? : essai / Diensia Oris-Armel Bonhoulou. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa ; Mali ; Niger ; terrorism ; fundamentalism ; Islam
Subsaharan Africa
La décolonisation économique de l'Afrique noire française : par l'émergence des entreprises nationales et compétitives / Joubert Nouafo. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa ; French-speaking Africa ; decolonization ; economic development ; economic policy
West Africa
Les contes d'ailleurs : Afrique centrale / Jessica Reuss-Nliba. - Paris: A vol d'oiseaux éditions, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Angola ; Cameroon ; Chad ; Congo (Brazzaville) ; Gabon ; folk tales (form)
West Africa
Sociologie de la chanson congolaise : cours expérimental sur la rumba congolaise / Gaston M'bemba-Ndoumba. - Paris: Harmattan, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Congo (Brazzaville) ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; popular music ; songs ; urban society
Zimbabwe
Violence, peace & everyday modes of justice and healing in post-colonial Africa / edited by Ngonidzashe Marongwe, Fidelis Peter, Thomas Duri and Munyaradzi Mawere. - Mankon, Bamenda: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; Mozambique ; violence ; conflict resolution ; transitional justice ; Shona
Zimbabwe
Terug naar Afrika : vier bezoeken aan Zimbabwe / Doris Lessing ; [vertaald uit het Engels door Geertje Lammers]. - Amsterdam: Bakker, 1994.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; travel ; travel books (form) ; personal narratives (form)
Films
Algeria
En attendant les Hirondelles / Ad Vitam, Les Filmes Pelléas présente ; un film de Karim Moussaoui , scénario ; Mohamed Djouhri, Sonia Mekkiou =257 \\ France Germany Algeria. [Paris]: Les Films Pelléas, 2018.
Subject·Headings: Algeria ; society ; social life ; feature films (form) ; videos (form)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHZqiYubyE4 (Trailer)
Benin
Le camp / un film de Jean-Frédéric de Hasque. [Brussel]: Michigan Films, 2012.
Subject·Headings: Benin ; refugees ; Togolese ; social life ; documentary films (form) ; videos (form)
https://vimeo.com/138721322 (Trailer)
Cameroon
Afrique, une économie en sursis / un film documentaire de Sébastien Tézé sur une idéé de Guy Foumane et Blaise Pascal Tanguy. Paris: Editions l'Harmattan, 2009.
Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; informal sector ; market vendors ; documentary films (form) ; videos (form)
Nigeria
Maami / a film by Tunde Kelani ; screenplay by Tunde Babalola ; producer/director, Tunde Kelani. Lagos: Ajimson Integrated Services Ltd., 2014.
Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; single mothers ; single-parent family ; boys ; poverty ; feature films (form) ; videos (form)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BouSTEZKkVU (Trailer)
African Literature
Guinea
Terre noire ; suivi de Les industries locales du Fouta et d'autres textes inédits / Oswald Durand ; présentation de Roger Little. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Guinea ; agricultural innovations ; novels ; crafts ; colonial administrators ; novels (form)

