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Articles

Africa
On a long neglected player: the religious factor in poverty alleviation : the example of the so-called 'Prosperity Gospel' in Africa / Christine Schliesser. - (Abstract available)
In: Exchange : (2014), vol. 43, no. 4, p. 339-359
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African religions ; Christian theology ; Pentecostalism ; poverty ; poverty reduction
 

Africa
Reading the Bible in Africa: a critique of enchanted Bible reading / David T. Ngong. - (Abstract available)
In: Exchange : (2014), vol. 43, no. 2, p. 174-191
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; Bible ; cosmology ; inculturation
 

Africa
Trends and challenges of disability rights in Africa : perspectives of national legal frameworks / Futsum Abbay. - (Abstract available)
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights : (2014), vol. 20, no. 2, p. 244-264
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; disabled ; human rights
 

Africa
L'État africain, le développement inégal et la question nationale / Youssouph Mbargane Guissé. - (Abstract available)
In: Éthiopiques : (2013), no. 90, p. 183-193
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; nation ; State
 

Africa
Le roman des "nouvelles guerres" africaines : corpus, champs et enjeux / Jean-Fernand Bédia. - (Abstract available)
In: Éthiopiques : (2013), no. 90, p. 97-115
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; civil wars ; novels ; war
 

Africa State
Républicanisme kantien et État-nation : contribution à l'intégration africaine / Éric Inespéré Koffi. - (Abstract available)
In: Éthiopiques : (2013), no. 90, p. 195-212
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; economic integration ; nation building ; peacebuilding ; State
 

Burkina Faso
Diversité des uvres de Laongo et culture de la paix / Edwige Zagré Kaboré. - (Abstract available)
In: Éthiopiques : (2013), no. 90, p. 249-260 : ill
ASC Subject Headings: Burkina Faso ; sculpture
 

Finland
The prosperity gospel in the African diaspora : unethical theology or gospel in context? / Mika Vähäkangas. - (Abstract available)
In: Exchange : (2015), vol. 44, no. 4, p. 353-380
ASC Subject Headings: Africans ; Christian theology ; Finland ; inculturation
 

Ghana
Coping with evil in Ghanaian Pentecostalism / Joseph Quayesi-Amakye. - (Abstract available)
In: Exchange : (2014), vol. 43, no. 3, p. 254-272
ASC Subject Headings: cosmology ; Ghana ; Pentecostalism ; witchcraft
 

Morocco
Art journals in Morocco: new ways of seeing and saying / Mary Vogl. -
In: The Journal of North African Studies : (2016), vol. 21, no. 2, p. 235-257
ASC Subject Headings: arts ; Morocco ; periodicals
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2016.1130936 (Restricted access)

Niger
Croyances, ethnies et identité au Sahel : du multiple à l'un / Boubé A. Namaiwa. - (Abstract available)
In: Éthiopiques : (2013), no. 90, p. 135-157 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: acculturation ; cults ; ethnic identity ; Niger ; Sahel
 

Nigeria
Validity of the Benin custom of male primogeniture for succession to property / Edoba B. Omoregie. - (Abstract available)
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights : (2014), vol. 20, no. 2, p. 265-278
ASC Subject Headings: customary law ; Edo ; gender inequality ; law of inheritance ; Nigeria
 

Rwanda
God in the public domain: life giver, protector or indifferent sleeper during the Rwandan tragedies? / Tharcisse Gatwa. - (Abstract available)
In: Exchange : (2014), vol. 43, no. 4, p. 313-338
ASC Subject Headings: 1994 ; Christian theology ; genocide ; Rwanda
 

Rwanda
Nouveaux paradigmes narratifs dans les récits du génocide rwandais du fest'Africa / Issa Ngom. - (Abstract available)
In: Éthiopiques : (2013), no. 90, p. 73-96
ASC Subject Headings: genocide ; novels ; Rwanda
 

Senegal
Fatou Diome: l'autre visualisation de l'émigré et l'exception dans la mise en écrit de l'émigration / Denis Assane Diouf. - (Abstract available)
In: Éthiopiques : (2013), no. 90, p. 61-71
ASC Subject Headings: emigration ; novels ; Senegal
 

Senegal
Mysticisme et identité négro-africaine. Activité politique et pratiques mystiques / Lamine Ndiaye. - (Abstract available)
In: Éthiopiques : (2013), no. 90, p. 159-182
ASC Subject Headings: mysticism ; politics ; power ; Senegal
 

Somalia
Sovereign trespass and the problems of hasty withdrawal : a case study from Somalia / Bright Bazuaye and Amos O. Enabulele. - (Abstract available)
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights : (2014), vol. 20, no. 2, p. 279-300
ASC Subject Headings: foreign intervention ; liability ; military intervention ; Somalia ; United States
 

South Africa
"That gear stick is not your husband's p----." : why the dissent in "Vance v. Ball State University" got it right, and a comparison of the law of employer vicarious liability for sexual harassment in the United States and South Africa / Justin Behravesh. - (Abstract available)
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights : (2014), vol. 20, no. 2, p. 338-367
ASC Subject Headings: jurisprudence ; sexual offences ; South Africa ; trials ; United States
 

South Africa
The role of grandmothers as the primary caregivers in poor households and their own right to adequate food : examining two communities in the Breede valley, Western Cape Province, South Africa / K.T. Rendal ... [et al.]. - (Abstract available)
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights : (2014), vol. 20, no. 2, p. 414-436
ASC Subject Headings: elderly ; food consumption ; households ; South Africa
 

Tanzania
The emerging constitutioinal indigenous peoples' land rights in Tanzania / Kennedy Gastorn. - (Abstract available)
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights : (2014), vol. 20, no. 2, p. 216-243
ASC Subject Headings: group rights ; indigenous peoples ; land rights ; legislation ; Tanzania
 

Tunisia
Political, aesthetic, and ethical positions of Tunisian women artists, 2011-13 / Lilia Labidi. - (Abstract available)
In: The Journal of North African Studies : (2014), vol. 19, no. 2, p. 151-171
ASC Subject Headings: political change ; Tunisia ; women artists
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2014.880826 (Restricted access)

Uganda
Environmental impact assessment as a tool for enforcing environmental law in the oil and gas industry in Uganda / Adron Naggayi Nalinya. - (Abstract available)
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights : (2014), vol. 20, no. 2, p. 395-413
ASC Subject Headings: environmental law ; petroleum industry ; Uganda
 

Uganda
Gender and property relations among pastoral communities of Karamoja / Sam Tindifa. - (Abstract available)
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights : (2014), vol. 20, no. 2, p. 368-394
ASC Subject Headings: gender inequality ; government policy ; pastoralists ; Uganda
 

Uganda
Reinvigorating the struggle for the Batwa in Uganda : a case for the domestication of international indigenous peoples rights and standards / R. Kakungulu-Mayambala. - (Abstract available)
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights : (2014), vol. 20, no. 2, p. 301-337
ASC Subject Headings: government policy ; group rights ; indigenous peoples ; Uganda
 

Zimbabwe
Light of Life Christian Group as a new religion movement in Zimbabwe : essential steps towards eucharistic intercommunion / Misheck Mudyiwa. - (Abstract available)
In: Exchange : (2015), vol. 44, no. 2, p. 144-176
ASC Subject Headings: Christianity ; ecumenism ; religious movements ; Zimbabwe

Electronic documents

Africa
Partner countries for Dutch bilateral development assistance 1962-2015 / [Ton Dietz, A. Kazimierczuk and [maps] Nel de Vink]. - Leiden : African Studies Centre, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; development cooperation ; maps (form) ; Netherlands
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/37733

Bangladesh
Bangladesh field report : defining, targeting and reaching the very poor / Anika Altaf. - Leiden : African Studies Centre, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Bangladesh ; living conditions ; microfinance ; NGO ; poverty ; poverty reduction
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/37714

Benin
Benin field report : defining, targeting and reaching the very poor / Anika Altaf. - Leiden : African Studies Centre, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Benin ; living conditions ; NGO ; poverty ; poverty reduction
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/37715

Benin
Synthesis report defining, targeting and reaching the very poor: Bangladesh, Benin and Ethiopia / Anika Altaf. - Leiden : African Studies Centre, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Bangladesh ; Benin ; Ethiopia ; microfinance ; NGO ; poverty ; poverty reduction
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/37718

Ethiopia
Addis Ababa field report : defining, targeting and reaching the very poor / Anika Altaf . - Leiden : African Studies Centre, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: aid agencies ; Ethiopia ; living conditions ; poverty ; poverty reduction
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/37717

Ethiopia
Jeldu (Ethiopia) field report : defining, targeting and reaching the very poor / Anika Altaf. - Leiden : African Studies Centre, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Ethiopia ; living conditions ; NGO ; poverty ; poverty reduction
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/37716

Gabon
Bwiti : an ethnography of the religious imagination in Africa / James W. Fernandez ; drawings by Renate Lellep Fernandez. - Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1982
ASC Subject Headings: African Independent Churches ; African religions ; Fang ; Gabon
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.09253

Malawi
Becoming fathers : reproductive journeys in Malawi = Ulendo wakufuma kuchinyamata kuya ku udada ku Malawi / Fiona Parrott ... [et al.]. - (Abstract available) - [Amsterdam] : University of Amsterdam [... et al.], 2016
ASC Subject Headings: attitudes ; exhibition catalogues (form) ; fathers ; Malawi ; photography ; reproductive health
http://www.ascleiden.nl/sites/default/files/becoming_fathers.pdf

Nigeria
Violence in Nigeria : "a qualitative and quantitative analysis"/ ed. by Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos. - (Abstract available) - Leiden [etc.] : African Studies Centre [etc.], 2016
ASC Subject Headings: crime ; databases ; Nigeria ; political violence ; traffic accidents ; violence ; witchcraft
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/37759

Sierra Leone
Rebellious histories : the Amistad slave revolt and the cultures of late twentieth-century black transnationalism / Matthew J. Christensen. - Albany : SUNY Press, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Sierra Leone ; slave rebellions ; United States
http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?sid=98ca33a6-f213-48c8-97...

South Africa
Performance, trance, possession and mysticism : an analysis of the Rtib al-Rifyah in South Africa / by Goolam Mohamed Karim. - Cape Town : University of Cape Town, Department of Religious Studies, 1998
ASC Subject Headings: dissertations (form) ; healing rites ; Islamic movements ; South Africa ; Sufism
http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17489

South African Communist Party
Pivoting to Russia, China and anti-Western rhetoric : South Africas foreign policy shifts / Heinrich Matthee. - Leiden : African Studies Centre, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: African National Congress (South Africa) ; China ; foreign policy ; international relations ; Russian Federation ; South African Communist Party
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/37490

Books

Africa
Promoting progressive African thought leadership / Aziz Pahad, Garth Le Pere and Miranda Strydom (eds). - (Abstract available) - Pretoria : Africa Institute of South Africa, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; Egypt ; foreign intervention ; international politics ; Kenya ; Mali ; military intervention ; nation building ; political conflicts ; South Africa ; UN ; Zimbabwe
 

Africa
Harnessing land and water resources for improved food security and ecosystem services in Africa / edited by Effiom E. Oku, Kwabena O. Asubonteng and Praise Nutakor. - (Abstract available) - Ghana : United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; climate change ; Ethiopia ; food security ; Ghana ; land degradation ; natural resource management ; Nigeria ; waste management ; water pollution
 

Africa
Unite or perish : Africa fifty years after the founding of the OAU / ed. by Mammo Muchie ... [et al.]. - (Abstract available) - Pretoria : Africa Institute of South Africa, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; democracy ; development ; education ; governance ; OAU ; pan-Africanism
 

Africa
The SMA African Art museum : guide to collections / text by Robert J. Koenig, photography by Peter H. Cade. - Tenafly, N.J. : African Art Museum of the S.M.A. Fathers, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; arts ; exhibition catalogues (form) ; museums ; United States
htm =A http://smafathers.org/museum/resources-ebooks/

Africa
Power, gender and social change in Africa / ed. by Muna Ndulo and Margaret Grieco. - (Abstract available) - Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; gender inequality ; political action ; women entrepreneurs ; women's education ; women's health ; women's rights
 

Angola
The battle of Savate : 32 Battalion's greatest operation / Piet Nortje. - Cape Town : Zebra Press, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: 1980-1989 ; Angola ; boundary conflicts ; military operations ; military personnel ; South Africa
 

Cameroon
African modernities and mobilities : an historical ethnography of Kom, Cameroon, c. 1800-2008 / Walter Gam Nkwi ; foreword by Jean-Pierre Warnier. - Mankon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; ethnic identity ; innovations ; Kom ; Kom polity ; social change ; social history
 

Cameroon
Practice & procedure in civil matters in the courts of records in Anglophone Cameroon / Michael A. Yanou. - Mankon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; civil law systems ; courts
 

Central Africa
Foundations for an African philosophy and theology of human rights: rethinking the human condition in post-colonial Central Africa (1965-1997) / by Mutombo Nkulu-N'Sengha. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Dissertation Services, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: African culture ; Central Africa ; Christian theology ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; ethnophilosophy ; human rights ; inculturation ; philosophy
 

Ghana
Economic and financial analyses of small and medium food crops agro-processing firms in Ghana / Timothy Afful-Koomson ... [et al.]. - Ghana : United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: agroindustry ; food crops ; Ghana ; private enterprises
 

Great Britain
West Africans in Britain, 1900-1960 : nationalism, pan-Africanism and communism / Hakim Adi. - London : Lawrence & Wishart, 1998
ASC Subject Headings: 1900-1999 ; Gambia ; Ghana ; Great Britain ; Nigeria ; political action ; racism ; Sierra Leone ; social life ; students
 

Malawi
Polygamy in northern Malawi : a Christian reassessment / Moses Mlenga. - Mzuzu : Mzuni Press, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Christian theology ; Malawi ; missions ; polygamy
 

Morocco
Ahmad al-Tijânî de Fès : un sanctuaire soufi aux connexions transnationales / Johara Berriane. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Islam ; Morocco ; Muslim brotherhoods ; pilgrimages ; religious buildings ; shrines ; Sufism ; West Africa
 

Namibia
Indigenous knowledge of Namibia / ed. by Kazhila C. Chinsembu ... [et al.]. - (Abstract available) - Windhoek : University of Nambia Press, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: AIDS ; edible plants ; education ; food preservation ; indigenous knowledge ; medicinal plants ; Namibia
 

Netherlands
Des Bédouins dans le polder : histoires tragi-comiques de l'émigration / Fouad Laroui. - Casablanca : Éditions Le Fennec, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: immigrants ; Moroccans ; Netherlands ; personal narratives (form)
 

Senegal
Empty promises? : compliance with the human rights framework in relation to female genital mutilation/cutting in Senegal / Maria Johanna Middelburg. - [S.l.] : M.J. Middelburg, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: dissertations (form) ; female circumcision ; human rights ; international law ; Senegal
 

South Africa
'An entirely different world' : Russian visitors to the Cape, 1797-1870 / ed. by Boris Gorelik. - Cape Town : Van Riebeeck Society, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: 1800-1899 ; personal narratives (form) ; Russians ; South Africa ; The Cape ; travel
 

South Africa
Twenty years of education : transformation in Gauteng 1994-2014 : an independent review / ed. by Felix Maringe and Martin Prew. - (Abstract available) - Somerset West : African Minds, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: adult education ; educational financing ; educational policy ; educational systems ; regional government ; South Africa ; teacher education
 

World
Islam/Occident : le dialogue nécessaire / Mohammed Saâd Zemmouri. - Rabat : Top Press, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: culture contact ; Islam ; Islamic countries ; Western countries ; world

African Literature

Cameroon
De wil van mijn vader : een vrouw in Kameroen strijdt tegen het juk van de traditie / Mireille Makampé ; [vert. uit het Duits naar het oorspr. Frans: Expertekst, Sietske Chardon]. - Baarn : Tirion, 2001
ASC Subject Headings: autobiographies (form) ; Cameroon ; empowerment ; women
 

Ghana
Wounded stranger and other stories / Alice Mina. - Accra : Step Publishers, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Ghana ; short stories (form)
 

Ghana
Kwaw Ansah's legendary Love brewed in the African pot / ill. by Peter 'Poka' Asamoah ; ed. by Maame Adwoa Opoku-Agyemang. - [Ghana?] : [Film Africa Limited?], 2014
ASC Subject Headings: comic strips (form) ; Ghana
 

Kenya
Den of inequities / Kinyanjui Kombani. - Nairobi : Longhorn Publishers (Kenya) Ltd, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Kenya ; novels (form)
 

Kenya
Rode maan : roman / Kuwana Haulsey ; uit het Engels vert. door Marianne Gaasbeek. - Breda : De Geus, 2002
ASC Subject Headings: Kenya ; novels (form) ; Samburu ; United States ; women
 

Morocco
Best-seller : roman / Réda Dahil. - Casablanca : Éditions le Fennec, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Morocco ; novels (form) ; writers
 

Sierra Leone
In the belly of the lion : an anthology of new Sierra Leonean short stories / ed. by Gbanabom Hallowell. - Accra : Sierra Leonean Writers Series, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: anthologies (form) ; short stories ; Sierra Leone
 

South Africa
Jimfish ; or ten years on the wrong side of history / Christopher Hope. - London : Atlantic Books, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: apartheid ; novels (form) ; power ; South Africa
 

Uganda
All our names / Dinaw Mengestu. - London : Sceptre, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; Uganda ; United States
 

Zimbabwe
Mukoma's marriage and other stories / Emmanuel Sigauke. - Gweru : Booklove Publishers, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: gender relations ; marriage ; short stories (form) ; Zimbabwe

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