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 09 2019
Archive
Articles | Electronic documents | Books | Journals | Films | African Literature | Sound
See also the ASCL overview of recently published journal articles
Articles
Botswana
Coexisting tensions between the 'tradition-modernity' and the 'sustainability-integration' approaches to urban development policy and planning practices in Botswana / Tshenesani Nigel Tapela.
In: Indilinga : African journal of indigenous knowledge systems , vol. 15, no. 1, p. 78-110 (2016).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Botswana ; urban development ; settlement patterns ; physical planning
http://reference.sabinet.co.za/webx/access/electronic_journals/linga/lin...
Botswana
"But having small houses spreads HIV" : a critical discourse analysis of HIV/AIDS prevention on Botswana / Violet Bridget Lunga.
In: Lonaka, issue 2013, pages 35-50 (2013).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Botswana ; Aids ; health education ; women ; stereotypes
Botswana
"I will start tomorrow" : procrastination and its bearing on academic performance : a study of students at the University of Botswana / Selebaleng Seepi & Ilse Elisabeth Plattner.
In: Lonaka, issue 2013, pages 27-34 (2013).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Botswana ; academic achievement ; attitudes ; higher education
Botswana
Innovating group work in higher education : using the University of Botswana languages and social sciences education courses as case studies / Lily Mafela, Annah Molosiwa, Sana Mmolai.
In: Lonaka, issue 2013, pages 13-26 (2013).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Botswana ; higher education ; teaching methods ; groups
General
The final cut : accomodation of asylum victims of female genital mutilation in the West / Patricia N. Jjemba.
In: East African journal of peace & human rights, volume 24, number 1, pages 121-145 (2018).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Western countries ; refugees ; right of asylum ; female circumcision ; legislation
General
In-vitro fertilization in developing countries : emerging issues / Dennis Odigie & Florence Iyasere.
In: East African journal of peace & human rights, volume 24, number 1, pages 109-120 (2018).
ASC·Subject·Headings: developing countries ; Nigeria ; reproductive health ; legislation
South Africa
African customary law and the protection of indigenous cultural heritage : challenges and issues in the digitization of indigenous knowledge in South Africa / Ken Chisa and Ruth Hoskins.
In: Indilinga : African journal of indigenous knowledge systems , vol. 15, no. 1, p. 1-15 (2016).
ASC·Subject·Headings: South Africa ; customary law ; indigenous knowledge ; cultural heritage
http://reference.sabinet.co.za/webx/access/electronic_journals/linga/lin...
Uganda
Access to published works for persons who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print disabled in Uganda / R. Kakungulu-Mayambala.
In: East African journal of peace & human rights, volume 24, number 1, pages 38-63 (2018).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Uganda ; physically disabled ; publishing ; copyright ; access to education
Uganda
Disability policies, access to empoyment, and the private sector in Uganda / Dianah Ahumuza Ateenyi.
In: East African journal of peace & human rights, volume 24, number 1, pages 92-108 (2018).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Uganda ; disabled ; employment ; social and economic rights
Uganda
Maternal health rights for women with disabilities in Uganda / Ben K. Twinomugisha.
In: East African journal of peace & human rights, volume 24, number 1, pages 5-37 (2018).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Uganda ; women's health ; maternal and child health care ; disabled ; women's rights
Uganda
We have a right to love : the right to marry and reproduce for women with disabilities in Uganda / Zahara Nampweo.
In: East African journal of peace & human rights, volume 24, number 1, pages 64-91 (2018).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Uganda ; women ; disabled ; marriage ; sexuality ; family planning ; women's rights
Electronic documents
Africa
Ten things to watch in Africa in 2019 / Tabea Lakemann and Christian von Soest. - Hamburg: Giga, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa. ; political change. ; elections. ; economic development. ; economic integration.
https://www.giga-hamburg.de/de/system/files/publications/gf_afrika_1901_...
Africa
Magnifying perspectives : contribution to history : a Festschrift for Robert Ross / Iva {dollar}a Peša and Jan-Bart Gewald (editors) ; maps Nel de Vink. - Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa. ; Ghana. ; Nigeria. ; Angola. ; Zambia. ; Africa. ; history. ; social history. ; festschrifts (form)
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/49802
Nigeria
A (wo)man for all seasons : Amos Tutuola and the gendering of peace in Africa / Heidi Hudson. - Uppsala: The Nordic Africa Institute, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria. ; literature. ; feminism. ; women. ; peacebuilding.
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:nai:diva-2295
Subsaharan Africa
Regional reconciliation in Africa : the elusive dimension of peace and security / Tim Murithi. - Uppsala: The Nordic Africa Institute, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa. ; Great Lakes region. ; Northeast Africa. ; conflict resolution. ; regional security. ; peacebuilding. ; regional development.
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:nai:diva-2294
West Africa
Sunjata : roem duurt langer dan een leven : het verhaal over koning Sunjata / zoals verteld door Familie Diabate uit Kela (Mali) ; [Jan Jansen]. - Leiden: Afrika-Studiecentrum, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: West Africa. ; Mali polity. ; history. ; traditional polities. ; epics (form)
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/55807
Books
Africa
African twilight : the vanishing rituals and ceremonies of the African continent. Carol Beckwith; Angela Fisher; Aidan Hartley. - New York, Paris, London, Milan: Rizzoli International, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; rituals ; pictorial works (form)
Africa
Die Glaubensmissionen in Afrika : Geschichte und Kirchenverständnis / Klaus Fiedler. - Luwinga, Malawi: Luviri Press, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; missions ; Church history
Africa
Sexe, race & colonies : la domination des corps du XVe siècle à nos jours / sous la direction de Pascal Blanchard [and 4 others] ; préface de Achille Mbembe & Jacques Martial ; postface de Leïla Slimani. - Paris: La Découverte, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; sexuality ; colonialism ; racism ; body ; images ; social history ; pictorial works (form)
Africa
"To give publicity to our thoughts" : Journale asiatischer und afrikanischer Christen um 1900 und die Entstehung einer transregionalen indigen-christlichen Öffentlichkeit. = Journals of Asian and African Christians Around 1900 and the Making of a Transregional Indigenous-Christian Public Sphere / herausgegeben von / edited by Klaus Koschorke, Adrian Hermann, Frieder Ludwig & Cirprian Burlacioiu. - Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; Asia ; Christianity ; Church history ; periodicals
Africa
The Palgrave handbook of African philosophy / Adeshina Afolayan, Toyin Falola, editors. - New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; philosophy
http://ezproxy.library.dal.ca/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.co...
Africa
Religious conversion : an African perspective / Brendan Carmody, editor. - Lusaka, Zambia: Gadsden Publishers, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; religious conversion ; Christianity ; Islam
Algeria
L'assaut de Bou-Gafer / Brahim Rais. - [Algérie]: Editions Dalimen, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; comic strips (form)
Burkina Faso
ABC de la geomorphologie structurale / Dya Christophe Sanou. - Ouagadougou: Sankofa & Gurli, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; geomorphology ; handbooks (form)
Burkina Faso
Ten-peelem et transition au Burkina Faso : La terre et le ciel, deux juges équitables / Justine Marie Philippe Ouedraogo. - Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso): Céprodif, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; political change ; popular justice
Burkina Faso
Droit pénal spécial : les incriminations fondamentales répréhensibles au Burkina Faso / Dé Albert Millogo. - Ouaga (Burkina Faso): Maison du Droit, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; criminal law ; textbooks (form)
Burkina Faso
Dictionnaire kusaal-français-anglais : plus de 5200 mots et expressions / Société Internationale de Linguistique en collaboration avec: l'Association Win Nongete, Zamé ; l'Association Nationale pour la Traduction de la Bible et l'Alphabétisation ; la Sous-commission kusaal. - Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso): Societe Internationale de Linguistique SIL, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; Kusaal language ; French language ; English language ; dictionaries (form)
Cameroon
Mulatako : Tome 1: Immersion / de Reine Dibussi. - Paris Cameroun: Pulsio Sarl [No publisher identified], 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; comic strips (form)
Cameroon
Rio dos Camaroes / collectif d'auteurs camerounais. - Cameroun: Editions du Balafon, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; comic strips (form) ; anthologies (form)
Congo Brazzaville
Les dessous de pointe-noire / KHP ; suivi de KHP, dessinateur engagé et talent hors normes par Christophe Cassiau-Haurie. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Congo (Brazzaville) ; comic strips (form)
Ethiopia
Ethnographie des fusils jaunes. Serge A. M. Tornay. - Saint-Maur: Sépia, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ethiopia ; Nyangatom ; pastoralists ; social life ; anthropology ; social scientists ; fieldwork ; diaries (form) ; personal narratives (form)
Ethiopia
Ethnographie des fusils jaunes. Serge A.M. Tornay. - Paris: Éditions Sépia, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ethiopia ; Nyangatom ; pastoralists ; social life ; anthropology ; social scientists ; fieldwork ; diaries (form) ; personal narratives (form)
General
The many hidden faces of extreme poverty : inclusion and exclusion of extreme poor people in development interventions in Bangladesh, Benin and Ethiopia / Anika Altaf. - [The Netherlands] Enschede ©2018: [publisher not identified] Gildeprint., 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Benin ; Ethiopia ; Bangladesh ; poverty ; poverty reduction ; dissertations (form)
Ghana
Curing our Ills : the psychology of chronic disease risk, experience and care in Africa / Ama de-Graft Aikins. - Legon-Accra, Ghana: Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ghana ; diseases ; health care ; morbidity
Ghana
Trickster theatre : the poetics of freedom in urban Africa / Jesse Weaver Shipley. - Bloomington ; Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ghana ; theatre ; trickster tales
Guinea
Code minier de la République de Guinée : bilingue français-anglais. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Guinea ; mining law ; legislation ; laws (form)
Malawi
The homosexuality debate in Malawi / Jones Hamburu Mawerenga. - Luwinga, Malawi: Mzuni Press, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Malawi. ; homosexuality. ; public opinion. ; attitudes.
Morocco
Histoire des Marocains aux Pays-Bas / Abdellatif Mâroufi. - Casablanca: Croisée des chemins, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; Netherlands ; migrants ; international migration
Morocco
Les femmes dans l'historiographie de la resistance marocaine / Ilarzeg Karima. - Rabat: Haut Commissariat aux Anciens Résistants et Anciens Membres de l'Armée de Libération, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; women ; resistance ; national liberation struggles ; historiography
Morocco
Un si long chemin : paroles de réfugiés au Maroc / Jalil Bennani ; photographies de M'Hammed Kilito ; en collaboration avec le Haut Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés. - Casablanca: Éditions la Croisée des chemins, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; refugees
Morocco
Traditions pastorales dans l'Ouest Saharien / Rahal Boubrik (sous direction) ; Pierre Bonte, Corinne Frontier, Ahmed Joumani, Odette du Puigaudeau ; direction editoriale, Georgi Dimov. - Rabat: Dtgsn, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; Western Sahara ; pastoralists ; camels
Morocco
Emir van de Rif : Ben Abdelkrim : Marokko 1920-22, oorlog tegen de Spanjaarden / M. Nadrani. - Amsterdam ©2018: Xtra, 2008.
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; Spain ; colonial wars ; rebellions ; 1920-1929 ; comic strips (form)
Nigeria
Understanding Nigeria and the new imperialism : essays 2000-2006 / Edwin Madunagu ; edited by Biodun Jeyifo [and others]. - Calabar: Clear Lines, 2006.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; political conditions ; international politics ; articles (form)
Somalia
Making Mogadishu safe : localisation, policing and sustainable security / Alice Hills. - Abingdon: Routledge Journals, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Somalia ; national security ; police ; crime prevention ; social conditions ; neighbourhoods
South Africa
Democracy and delusion : 10 myths in South African politics / Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh. - Cape Town, South Africa: Tafelberg, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; public opinion ; democracy ; political conditions
South Africa
On top of Table Mountain : remarkable visitors over 500 years / Joan Kruger. - Paternoster [South Africa]: Paternoster Books, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; mountains ; travel books (form)
South Sudan
Borders / boundaries of Padan Jieng (Dinka) and Collo (Shilluk) in the former Upper Nile Province of the Republic of Sudan : Padang Jieng (Dinka) detailed and precised accounts on the borders between the two tribes, settlement of border issues and centuries long neighborhood in peace / [authored by Dr. Thon Giei Ajak, Chairperson, Padang Jieng (Dinka) Borders/Boundaries Committee (Rapporteurs)]. - Juba, South Sudan: Padang Jieng (Dinka) Borders/Boundaries Committee, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Sudan ; Dinka ; Shilluk ; boundaries ; ethnic relations ; land conflicts
Subsaharan Africa
Systèmes agraires et changement climatique au Sud les chemins de l'adaption / Hubert Cochet, Olivier Ducourtieux et Nadège Garambois, coord. - Paris: Quae, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa ; Asia ; farmers ; agricultural policy ; agricultural ecology ; climate change ; environmental degradation
Subsaharan Africa
Facing forward : schooling with learning in Africa / by Sajitha Bashir, Marlaine Lockheed, Elizabeth Ninan and Jee-Peng Tan. - Washington: World Bank, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa ; basic education ; learning ; teacher education ; educational quality ; educational planning
Uganda
Gracia & gentil : Church hymn stories for our contemporary Christian lifestyles, vol. 3, the global edition / Paul Mugerwa. - Kampala: Asante Capital Hub Publishers Limited, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Uganda ; religious songs ; Protestant churches
Zimbabwe
A cat & mouse affair : exploring sustainable measures of resolving the vendor-local authority conflict : a case of Marondera Municipality, Zimbabwe / Bruno Shora. - Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe: Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; market vendors ; local government ; conflict
Films
Democratic Republic of Congo
Collection Congo-Zaïre : 1990-2015 / Thierry Michel, un livre préfacé par Colette Braeckman. - Paris : Films Passerelle, [2017])
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; filmmakers ; films ; doctors ; entrepreneurs ; politicians ; assassination ; Katanga ; mining ; travel ; human rights ; Whites ; urban life ; documentary films (form) ; videos (form)
African Literature
Burkina Faso
Feuilles en jaune et vert : recueil de poèmes / Lamine M. Ouédraogo ; préface du Professeur Georges Sawadogo. - Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Jel, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; poetry (form)
Burkina Faso
La sagesse du Moogo : recueil de contes / Larlé Naaba Tigré et Patrice Kouraogo. - Ouagadougou: Jel, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; short stories (form)
Burkina Faso
Sibidou de Tanlong-Noore : Nouvelle / Noraogo Frédéric Samtouma. - Ouagadougou: Editions Jethro SA, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; romantic relationships ; novels (form)
Burkina Faso
Poèmes d'insurrection. Songuy Manegré. - Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Les éditions du millenium,
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; poetry (form)
Mali
Béléko / Jacqueline Gondwe. - Mzuzu, Malawi: Luviri Press, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mali ; social life ; villages ; prose (form)
Mozambique
Die Liebe aller Tage : Erzählungen aus Moçambique / Elisa Fuchs/Elsa Fuchs-de Merlo (Hrsg.) ; aus dem moçambikanischen Portugiesisch von Elisa Fuchs und Elsa Fuchs-de Melo. - Frankfurt am Main: Dipa Verlag, 1992.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mozambique ; folk tales (form) ; short stories (form)
Senegal
Bris d'ombre : roman / Sokhna Benga. - Dakar: Harmattan Sénégal, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; novels (form)

