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 14 2019
Archive
Articles | Electronic documents | Books | Journals | Films | African Literature | Sound
See also the ASCL overview of recently published journal articles
Articles
Africa
Tendances actuelles de l'évaluation des mécanismes universels de protection des droits de l'homme pour les États africains / Martial Jeugue Doungue.
In: Revue africaine des sciences juridiques, no. 2, pages 195-235 (2015).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Africa ; human rights
Cameroon
La réforme du contentieux du 29 décembre 2006 au Cameroun : regards rétrospectif d'un auditeur de justice administrative / Samuel Eric Koua.
In: Revue africaine des sciences juridiques, no. 2, pages 139-164 (2015).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; administrative law ; legal reform
Cameroon
Le régime préventif des libertés de réunion et de manifestation publiques au Cameroun à l'épreuve des autres / Agnès Makougoum.
In: Revue africaine des sciences juridiques, no. 2, pages 165-194 (2015).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; freedom of assembly ; freedom of association
Cameroon
L'ordre public et l'exercice des libertés publiques en droit camerounais / Martine Bikoe.
In: Revue africaine des sciences juridiques, no. 2, pages 237-275 (2015).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; national security ; civil and political rights
Electronic documents
Kenya
Makueni district profile : soil management and conservation, 1989-1998 / F.N. Gichuki. - Crewkerne: Drylands Research, 2000.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; soil management ; farmers ; conference papers (form) ; 1999
https://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/9939212866302711.pdf
Kenya
Makueni district profile : synthesis / Abdou Fall. - Crewkerne: Drylands Research, 2000.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; farm management ; rural development ; agricultural policy
https://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/9939222265202711.pdf
Books
Africa
Caravans of gold, fragments in time : art, culture, and exchange across medieval Saharan Africa / edited by Kathleen Bickford Berzock. - Princeton, NJ: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University : In association with Princeton University Press, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Northern Africa ; West Africa ; Sahara ; trade routes ; archaeological artefacts ; exhibition catalogues (form)
Africa
Wide Sargasso Sea : themes of colonialism and patriarchy / Ogo Ubabukoh. - Beau Bassin, Mauritius: Lap Lambert Academic Publishing, International Book Market Service, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; Great Britain ; Afro-Caribbeans ; women writers ; novels ; patriarchy ; colonialism
Africa
Ananse und andere Erzählungen aus Afrika : zur narrativen Kultur Afrikas aus deutscher und afrikanischer Perspektive / Bea Lundt (Hg.). - Berlin: Lit, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; Ghana ; Benin ; folk tales ; myths ; storytelling
Africa
Théories des organisations africaines / sous la direction de Jean Biwolé-Fouda, Geneviève Causse et Alexis Ngantchou. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; Cameroon ; management ; enterprises ; African culture ; social environment ; conference papers (form)
Africa
Queer theory in film & fiction / guest editor John C. Hawley, editor Ernest N. Emeyonu. - Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY: James Currey, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; Lgbt ; literature ; cinema ; gender roles ; identity ; literary criticism
Africa
State of the continent : a mid-century assessment of political performance in Africa / John Fobanjong. - Denver, United States of America: Spears Media Press, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; political conditions ; economic conditions ; governance ; political history
Africa
L'idéal panafricain contemporain : fondements historiques, perspectives futures / sous la direction de Lazare V. Ki-Zerbo, Jean-Jacques N. Sène. - Dakar: Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; pan-Africanism ; African identity ; regionalism ; African organizations ; self-determination
Africa
Littératures africaines et spiritualité / textes réunis par Pierre Halen & Florence Paravy. - Pessac [France]: Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; literature ; spirituality ; religion ; conference papers (form)
Africa
Migration internationale africaine / sous la coordination de Rachid Chaabita. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; international migration ; illegal migration ; return migration ; migrants ; conference papers (form) ; 2016
Africa
Red Africa : affective communities and the Cold War / edited by Mark Nash. - London, UK: Black Dog Publishing, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; Communist countries ; cultural cooperation ; exhibition catalogues (form)
Algeria
Au temps du royaume Zeiyyanide / Fatima Zohra Bouzina-Oufriha. - Alger: ENAG Éditions, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Algeria ; Maghreb ; monarchy ; historiography ; political history ; economic history ; cultural history Algeria
Burkina Faso
Bien choisir votre futur conjoint / Hortense Karambiri. - Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso): Rhema Media Center, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; marriage ; counselling ; Christianity
Burkina Faso
Cours de droit administratif : 3ème année droit, licence, sciences juridiques et politiques / Jean-Paul Kabore. - Ouaga (Burkina Faso): Edition Maison du Droit, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; administrative law ; textbooks (form)
Burkina Faso
Histoire - Géographie 5ème : I -Histoire - 260 questions réponses de cours, II - Géographie - 200 questions réponses de cours - cartes - graphiques, III -Devoirs - 24 devoirs d'histoire - géographie et corrigés (375 questions réponses de cours et 215 questions - réponses de devoirs surveillés d'histoire - géographie). - [Place of publication not identified]: Education Plus, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; history education ; geography education ; secondary education ; textbooks (form)
Burkina Faso
Histoire - géographie 6ème : I -Histoire - 260 questions réponses de cours, II -Géographie - 115 questions réponses de cours - cartes - graphiques, III -Devoirs - 21 devoirs d'histoire - géographie et corrigés, (375 questions réponses de devoirs surveillés d'histoire - géographie). - [Place of publication not identified]: Education Plus, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; history education ; geography education ; secondary education ; textbooks (form)
Burkina Faso
Histoire geographie : 4ème : -Cours en questions réponses et résumés, -Méthodologie de commentaire synthèse de textes, -25 devoirs corrigés dont 10 commentaires et syntheses de textes, -20 sujets tests de niveau. - [Place of publication not identified]: Education plus, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; history education ; geography education ; secondary education ; textbooks (form)
Burkina Faso
Sciences de la vie et de la terre (S.V.T) 4ème : 320 questions réponses de cours, 30 devoirs corrigés, schemas. - [Place of publication not identified]: Education Plus, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; geology ; secondary education ; textbooks (form)
Burkina Faso
Sciences de la vie et de la terre (S.V.T) 6ème : I -Plantes a fleurs - 125 questions réponses de cours, II -Les vertèbres - 120 questions réponses de cours, III -Schemas, IV -Devoirs - 27 devoirs surveillés de S.V.T et corrigés, (245 questions réponses de cours et 219 questions réponses de devoirs surveillés de S.V.T). - [Place of publication not identified]: Education Plus, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; biology ; secondary education ; textbooks (form)
Burkina Faso
Sciences de la vie et de la terre (S.V.T.) 5ème : I -Plantes a fleurs - 144 questions réponses de cours, II -Les vertèbres - 156 questions réponses de cours, III -Schemas, IV -Devoirs - 27 devoirs surveillés de S.V.T et corrigés, (300 questions réponses de cours et 219 questions réponses de devoirs surveillés de S.V.T). - [Place of publication not identified]: Education Plus, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; biology ; secondary education ; textbooks (form)
Burkina Faso
Succes total au B.E.P.C. et culture generale : Histoire Geographie : Exercices et corriges : sigles-questions reponses-Q.C.M - vrai ou faux- conseils generaux en commentaire et synthese - B.E.P.C. 2010-2015. - Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso): Presses Africaines, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; history education ; geography education ; examinations ; textbooks (form)
Burkina Faso
Aller a l'école d'Akhenaton et de Socrate : pour l'initiation à la philosophie en Afrique : histoire-notions-methodologies-exemples : manuel pedagogique et didactique de philosophie à l'usage des élèves (2nde - 1ère - Tles), étudiants et enseignants. Marc Wend-Lassida Tapsoba. - [Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)]: [Editions Travel & Trade Burkina, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; philosophy ; textbooks (form)
Cameroon
Comment réussir après ses études : Le chemin en sept étapes / Bourèma Sere. - Ouagadougou: Les Editions AZ, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; school leavers ; motivational literature
Cameroon
The sacred forest : gender and matriliny in the Laimbwe history (Cameroon), C. 1750-2001 / Henry Kam Kah. - Zürich: Lit, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; Laimbwe ; matriarchy ; social history
http://d-nb.info/106501712X/04 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366287
Cameroon
We were here too! : the chronicles of Yamba colonial experience in Cameroon 1884-1961 / Mark Bolak Funteh ; preface of Verkijika G. Fanso. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; Yamba ; colonial history ; missionary history
Cameroon
Éducation islamique pour les jeunes / Mohammad Amîn Cheikhou, Prof. A. K. John alias Al-Dayrani. - [Cameroon]: [Rchss],
ASC Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; Islamic education
Democratic Republic of Congo
Expérience congolaise de la justice transitionnelle : essai / Adolphe Kilomba Sumaili. - Enghien: Les éditions du pangolin, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; transitional justice
Democratic Republic of Congo
Mettre un enfant au monde / Daniel M. Kimuha. - Enghien: Les éditions du pangolin, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; family life education ; parents ; motivational literature
Egypt
The future of Islam / Wilfrid Scawen Blunt ; ed. by Riad Nourallah. - London [etc.]: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002.
ASC Subject·Headings: Egypt ; Maghreb ; Turkey ; Saudi Arabia ; Great Britain ; Islam ; pilgrimages ; imperialism ; political conditions ; international relations ; fundamentalism ; Islamic movements
Ghana
The corrupt elites : anatomy of power and wealth in Ghana / Kwame Akon Ninsin. - Accra: Freedom Publications, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ghana ; corruption
Liberia
Between the Kola forest and the Salty Sea : a history of the Liberian people before 1800 / Carl Patrick Burrowes, Ph. D. - Bomi County, Republic of Liberia Charleston, South Carolina: Know Your Self Press printed by Create Space., 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Liberia ; ethnic groups ; precolonial period ; social history
Malawi
The church as the family of God and the care for creation / Maximian Khisi. - Luwinga, Mzuzu: Mzuni Press, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Malawi ; Catholic Church ; family
Morocco
Arts plastiques et litterature francographe au "Maroc" : - localite et mondialite / coordination Hassan Moustir, Ijjou Cheikh Moussa. - Rabat: Université Mohammed V, Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; arts ; visual arts ; literature ; French language ; identity ; women writers ; Arabs ; Jews
Morocco
Mohammed VI : le roi stabilisateur / Jean-Claude Martinez. - Paris: Godefroy, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; heads of State ; politics ; international relations
Morocco
Maroc du sud et du sahara : défis structurels et mondialisation / ouvrage coordonné par Mohamed Bouchelkha. - Agadir: Gers, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; globalization ; economic development ; rural development ; environmental management ; immigrants ; illegal migration ; tourism
Namibia
Fictioning Namibia as a space of desire : an excursion into the literary space of Namibia during colonialism, Apartheid and the liberation struggle / Renzo Baas. - Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Namibia ; literature ; literary criticism ; national literatures ; colonialism ; apartheid ; national liberation struggles
Nigeria
Unshared identity : posthumous paternity in a contemporary Yoruba community / Babajide Ololajulo. - Grahamstown: NISC (Pty) Ltd, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; Yoruba ; fathers ; spirits ; kinship
North Africa
Regard sur la sécurité euro maghrébine face aux enjeux sahariens / auteur: Mohammed Boughadadi. - Paris: Auto-Edition, 2009.
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; Maghreb ; Mauritania ; Western Sahara ; Europe ; international conflicts ; international relations ; national security ; Union du Maghreb Arabe
Senegal
Language, literature, economics, social and political sciences / (Dir.) Mamadou Kandji. - Dakar Paris: Diaspora-Académie L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; Gabon ; languages ; literature ; enterprises ; politics
Senegal
Tourisme et communication : enjeux du risque et de ses représentations socioculturelles au Sénégal / Adama NDiaye ; préface du Pr Ousmane Sène ; postface du Pr Alioune Kane. - Dakar: Harmattan Sénégal, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; tourism ; culture conflict ; culture contact ; communication
Somalia
Somaliland : the way forward : achieving its rightful international status. edited by Jama Musse Jama. - Pisa: Ponte Invisibile, 2011.
ASC Subject·Headings: Somaliland ; national liberation movements ; separatism ; politicians
South Africa
Chota Motala : a biography of political resistance in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands / Goolam Vahed. - Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; anti-apartheid resistance ; biographies (form)
South Africa
Hendrik Swellengrebel in Afrika : journalen van drie reizen in 1776-1777 / geredigeerd en ingeleid door Gerrit Schutte = Hendrik Swellengrebel in Africa : journals of three journeys in 1776-1777 / edited and introduced by Gerrit Schutte. - Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society for the Publication of Southern African Historical Documents, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; Xhosa ; The Cape ; travel books (form) ; exploration literature (form) ; 1700-1799
South Africa
In a time of plague : memories of the 'Spanish' flu epidemic of 1918 in South Africa / collected and edited by Howard Phillips. - Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society for the Publication of Southern African Historical Documents, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; influenza ; 1918 ; letters (form) ; interviews (form)
South Africa
Narrating the new nation : South African Indian writing / Jaspal Kaur Singh and Rajendra Chetty. - New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; India ; postcolonialism ; diasporas ; democracy ; literature ; literary criticism
South Africa
The scholarship girl : life writing / Abigail George. - Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe: Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; women writers ; autobiographies (form)
Subsaharan Africa
Enquêtes en milieu rural sahélien / R. Billaz, Y. Diawara ; illustration et mise en forme pédagogique de J. Mercoiret. - Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1981.
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa ; Sahel ; rural areas ; agricultural development ; economic development ; environmental management ; surveys
Sudan
To be or not to be : Sudan at crossroads : a Pan-African perspective / M. Jalal Hashim. - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Sudan ; pan-Africanism ; Arabization ; Arabs ; Africans ; social conditions
West Africa
Les systèmes de numération parlée en Afrique de l'Ouest : modes de dénombrement et imaginaire social / Abdoulaye Élimane Kane. - Dakar: L'Harmattan Sénégal : Presses universitaires de Dakar, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: West Africa ; number systems ; oral traditions ; African languages ; Mande languages ; semantics ; symbols ; dissertations (form)
West Africa
Bulambemba / S. Diantantu. - [Lamentin, Guadeloupe]: Caraïbeditions, 2010.
ASC Subject·Headings: Central Africa ; slavery ; comic strips (form)
West Africa
Confréries soufies d'Afrique : nouveaux rôles, nouveaux enjeux : actes du colloque international / organisé par l'Institut des Etudes Africaines Rabat, 2-4 Octobre 2001 ; édition: Aïcha Taim, Fatima El Moujahid, Saida Bel Moqaddam. - Rabat: Institut des Etudes Africaines, 2004.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; Mauritania ; West Africa ; United States ; Sufism ; Muslim brotherhoods ; conference papers (form) ; 2004
Zambia
Tried and tested : my first fifty years / Maureen Nkandu. - Lusaka, Zambia: Gadsden Publishers, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zambia ; women ; journalists
Films
Africa
African metropolis : six stories from six African cities / by Jim Chuchu, Ahmed Ghoneimy, Folasakin Iwajomo, Marie KA, Philippe Lacote, Vincent Moloi. South Africa: Goethe-Institut South Africa, 2013.
Subject·Headings: Africa ; CoÌ‚te d'Ivoire ; Egypt ; Kenya ; Nigeria ; Senegal ; capitals ; social life ; short films (form) ; videos (form)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--LvSnuzxEE (Trailer)
Burkina Faso
Burkinabe bounty : agroecology in Burkina Faso / director and producer, Iara Lee. [San Francisco]: Cultures of resistance films, 2018.
Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; agricultural ecology ; food production ; documentary films (form) ; videos (form)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sArENYaf1Us (Trailer)
Democratic Republic of Congo
Les choses et les mots de Mudimbe : a Jean Pierre Bekolo production / un film de Jean-Pierre Bekolo. [Yaounde, Cameroun]: Jean-Pierre Bekolo Productions, 2014.
Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; academics ; philosophy ; interviews (form) ; documentary films (form) ; videos (form)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjh9_IkuHug (Trailer)
Kenya
Watatu / a S.A.F.E. production ; in association with Breakthrough ; director, Nick Reding ; producers, Ali Mlatso & Nick Reding. [Princeton, N.J.]: Juno Films, 2018.
Subject·Headings: Kenya ; youth ; social problems ; Islam ; fundamentalism ; conflict resolution ; feature films (form) ; documentary films (form) ; videos (form)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaGaBGk0e6A (Trailer)
Senegal
La grammaire de grand mère / JBA production ; director, Jean-Pierre Bekolo ; producer, Jacques Bidou ; director of photography, Regis Blondeau. [Paris]: JBA production, 1996.
Subject·Headings: Senegal ; filmmakers ; cinema ; interviews (form) ; documentary films (form) ; short films (form) ; videos (form)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aJX98RdN8Y (Trailer)
African Literature
Benin
L'Homme dit fou et la mauvaise foi des hommes / Florent Couao-Zotti. - Langres: Serpent à plumes, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Benin ; novels (form)
Chad
Au Tchad sous les étoiles : contes / Joseph Brahim Seid ; préface de Netonon Noël Ndjekery. - Paris: Presence Africaine, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Chad ; short stories (form)
Chad
Aube des désirs / Abdelkerim Sougour Bourigué. - N'Djamena: Editions SAO, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Chad ; novels (form)
Chad
Les conquêtes malsaines : roman / Elysée Ndilbe Nabe. - [Ndjamena?]: Editions Sao, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Chad ; novels (form)
Chad
Un si bel échec / Djimingar Arsène. - N'Djaména, Tchad: Éditions SAO, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Chad ; novels (form)
Chad
Goudangou, ou, Les vicissitudes du pouvoir : tragédie en 13 tableaux / Noël Nétonon Ndjekery. - N'Djaména, Tchad: Editions SAO, 2011.
ASC Subject·Headings: Chad ; drama (form)
Democratic Republic of Congo
Demain est un autre jour : récit / Charles Djungu-Simba K. - Enghien: Le éditions du Pangolin, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; prose (form)
Democratic Republic of Congo
Makalamba, patriote congolais / Yoka Mampunga ; traduit du lingala par André-Patient Bokiba. - Kinshasa: Éditions Nzoi, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; anticolonialism ; novels (form)
Senegal
De Tendième à Tamianghone : récit / Fidèle Diémé. - Dakar: L'Harmattan-Sénégal, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; family ; novels (form)
South Africa
Die Lucky Strike / Steve Hofmeyr. - Kaapstad: Zebra Press, 'n druknaam van Penguin Random House Suid-Afrika, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; crime novels (form)
Zimbabwe
Ghetto symphony : anthology of Zimbabwean street writing / compiled and edited by Mandhla A. Mavolwane. - Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe: Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; youth ; short stories ; poetry (form)
Zimbabwe
The big noise and other noises / Christopher Kudyahakudadirwe. - Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe: Mwanaka Media and Publishing, [2018], 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; political change ; short stories (form)
Zimbabwe
The Gods sleep through it all : a collection of essays / Wonder Guchu. - Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe: Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; political conditions ; short stories (form)
Zimbabwe
Tiny human protection agency : children's novel / written by Megan Landman ; illustrated by Andres Eben. - Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe: Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; youth literature (form)

