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Articles

Africa
50 years of independence : reflections on the role of publishing and progressive African intellectuals / Walter Bgoya.
In: Africa Spectrum : (2014), vol. 49, no. 3, p. 107-119
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; intellectuals ; publishing ; Tanzania

Africa
African women's movements in the twentieth century : a hidden history / Iris Berger.(Abstract available)
In: African Studies Review : (2014), vol. 57, no. 3, p. 1-19
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; feminism ; Kenya ; Nigeria ; social history ; South Africa ; women healers ; women's organizations
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2014.89 (Restricted access)

Africa
Religion and politics in Africa : the future of the secular / Jon Abbink.(Abstract available)
In: Africa Spectrum : (2014), vol. 49, no. 3, p. 83-106
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; Church and State ; politics ; religion ; State

Africa
The elephant in the room : how China stalked the corridors at the United States-Africa Leaders' Summit even though it wasn't there / Peter Fabricius.(Abstract available)
In: African Security Review : (2014), vol. 23, no. 4, p. 412-421
ASC Subject Headings: 2014 ; Africa ; China ; conferences ; international relations ; United States
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2014.964924 (Restricted access)

Africa
The empire's new clothes : Africa, liberal interventionism and contemporary world order / Zubairu Wai.(Abstract available)
In: Review of African Political Economy : (2014), vol. 41, no. 142, p. 483-499
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; foreign intervention ; neocolonialism
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.928278 (Restricted access)

Angola
"When freedom died" in Angola : Alves and after / John S. Saul.(Abstract available)
In: Review of African Political Economy : (2014), vol. 41, no. 142, p. 609-622
ASC Subject Headings: 1977 ; Angola ; MPLA ; political repression ; protest
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.928279 (Restricted access)

Angola
Anatomy of Kuduro : articulating the Angolan body politic after the war / Marissa J. Moorman.(Abstract available)
In: African Studies Review : (2014), vol. 57, no. 3, p. 21-40
ASC Subject Headings: Angola ; dance ; images ; politics
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2014.90 (Restricted access)

Burundi
The eye of the beholder: service provision and state legitimacy in Burundi / Nora Stel and Réginas Ndayiragije.(Abstract available)
In: Africa Spectrum : (2014), vol. 49, no. 3, p. 3-28
ASC Subject Headings: Burundi ; legitimacy ; public services ; State

Ethiopia
The chronology of Aksum (Tigrai, Ethiopia) : a view from Bieta Giyorgis / Kathryn A. Bard ... [et al.].(Abstract available)
In: Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa : (2014), vol. 49, no. 3, p. 285-316 : ill., graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: archaeology ; chronology ; Ethiopia
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2014.943484 (Restricted access)

Gambia
Land, power, and dependency along the Gambia river, late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries / Assan Sarr.(Abstract available)
In: African Studies Review : (2014), vol. 57, no. 3, p. 101-121
ASC Subject Headings: Gambia ; land tenure ; power ; social classes ; social history ; wealth
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2014.94 (Restricted access)

Ghana
Informal institutions and personal rule in urban Ghana / Jeffrey W. Paller.(Abstract available)
In: African Studies Review : (2014), vol. 57, no. 3, p. 123-142
ASC Subject Headings: Ghana ; institutions ; patronage ; political elite ; politicians
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2014.95 (Restricted access)

Ghana
Modernity in material form? : mobile phones in the careers of Ghanaian market women / Jenna Burrell.(Abstract available)
In: Review of African Political Economy : (2014), vol. 41, no. 142, p. 579-593
ASC Subject Headings: Ghana ; mobile telephone ; social change ; women traders
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.928611 (Restricted access)

Great Lakes region
Regulation, taxation and violence : the state, quasi-state governance and cross-border dynamics in the Great Lakes Region / Filip Reyntjens. (Abstract available)
In: Review of African Political Economy : (2014), vol. 41, no. 142, p. 530-544 : fig
ASC Subject Headings: boundaries ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; Great Lakes region ; State collapse ; State-society relationship
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.928612 (Restricted access)

Guinea
Mining for peace : diamonds, bauxite, iron ore and political stability in Guinea / Mamadou Diouma Bah.(Abstract available)
In: Review of African Political Economy : (2014), vol. 41, no. 142, p. 500-515
ASC Subject Headings: conflict prevention ; Guinea ; natural resources ; political stability ; poverty
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.917370 (Restricted access)

Guinea
Reversals of exile : Williams Sassine's "Wirriyamu" and Tierno Monénembo's "Pelourinho" / Audrey Small.(Abstract available)
In: African Studies Review : (2014), vol. 57, no. 3, p. 41-54
ASC Subject Headings: exile ; Guinea ; literary criticism ; novels
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2014.91 (Restricted access)

Kenya
Inscribing identity and agency on the landscape : of pathways, places, and the transition of the public sphere in East Pokot, Kenya / Michael Bollig, Clemens Greiner, and Matthias Österle.(Abstract available)
In: African Studies Review : (2014), vol. 57, no. 3, p. 55-78
ASC Subject Headings: Kenya ; pastoralists ; sedentarization ; social change ; Suk
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2014.92 (Restricted access)

Kenya
The impact of drug trafficking on informal security actors in Kenya / Moritz Schuberth.(Abstract available)
In: Africa Spectrum : (2014), vol. 49, no. 3, p. 55-81
ASC Subject Headings: drug trafficking ; Kenya ; militias ; private security services ; West Africa

Nigeria
Nigerias 2015 election in perspective / Nkwachukwu Orji.(Abstract available)
In: Africa Spectrum : (2014), vol. 49, no. 3, p. 121-133
ASC Subject Headings: election campaigns ; elections ; Nigeria ; political violence

Nigeria
The development planning era and developmental statehood: the pursuit of structural transformation in Nigeria / Eka Ikpe.(Abstract available)
In: Review of African Political Economy : (2014), vol. 41, no. 142, p. 545-560 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: development planning ; liberalism ; Nigeria ; State
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.952275 (Restricted access)

Nigeria
The evolving menace of baby factories and trafficking in Nigeria / Freedom C. Onuoha.(Abstract available)
In: African Security Review : (2014), vol. 23, no. 4, p. 405-411 : graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: human trafficking ; infants ; Nigeria
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2014.941886 (Restricted access)

Senegal
Hunting on the margins of medieval West African states : a preliminary study of the zooarchaeological record at Diouboye, Senegal / Stephen A. Dueppen and Cameron Gokee.(Abstract available)
In: Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa : (2014), vol. 49, no. 3, p. 354-385 : ill., krt., tab
ASC Subject Headings: archaeological artefacts ; hides and skins ; hunting ; Middle Ages ; Senegal
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2014.931628 (Restricted access)

Sierra Leone
Chiefs, NGOs and alternative conflict resolution mechanisms in post-conflict Sierra Leone / Felix Marco Conteh.(Abstract available)
In: Review of African Political Economy : (2014), vol. 41, no. 142, p. 516-529
ASC Subject Headings: chieftaincy ; conflict resolution ; NGO ; Sierra Leone
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.928614 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Explaining the Howiesons Poort to post-Howiesons Poort transition : a review of demographic and foraging adaptation models / Gerrit L. Dusseldorp.(Abstract available)
In: Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa : (2014), vol. 49, no. 3, p. 317-353 : ill., graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: archaeology ; South Africa ; Southern Africa ; Stone Age
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2014.937080 (Restricted access)

South Africa
The late pre-colonial site of Komkans 2 (KK002) and an evaluation of the evidence for indigenous copper smelting in Namaqualand, southern Africa / Jayson Orton.(Abstract available)
In: Azania : (2014), vol. 49, no. 3, p. 386-410 : ill., krt., tab
ASC Subject Headings: archaeological artefacts ; copper mining ; South Africa ; Stone Age
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2014.925625 (Restricted access)

South Sudan
Commentary : the political crisis in South Sudan / Douglas H. Johnson.(Abstract available)
In: African Studies Review : (2014), vol. 57, no. 3, p. 167-174
ASC Subject Headings: 2013 ; militias ; political conflicts ; political parties ; South Sudan
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2014.97 (Restricted access)

Subsaharan Africa
Dependency in international regimes : the case of the apparel industry in sub-Saharan Africa / Moses Mpuria Kindiki.(Abstract available)
In: Review of African Political Economy : (2014), vol. 41, no. 142, p. 594-608
ASC Subject Headings: clothing industry ; dependence ; ideologies ; international relations ; Subsaharan Africa
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.930023 (Restricted access)

Sudan
"Wasta!" : the long-term implications of education expansion and economic liberalisation on politics in Sudan / Laura Mann.(Abstract available)
In: Review of African Political Economy : (2014), vol. 41, no. 142, p. 561-578 : graf
ASC Subject Headings: higher education ; Islamic movements ; liberalism ; patronage ; social change ; State-society relationship ; Sudan
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.952276 (Restricted access)

Sudan
Comparing the SPLA's role in Sudan's 1997 and 2005 comprehensive peace agreements : to spoil or not to spoil / Keisha S. Haywood.(Abstract available)
In: African Studies Review : (2014), vol. 57, no. 3, p. 143-165
ASC Subject Headings: 1997 ; 2005 ; civil wars ; militias ; peace negotiations ; political parties ; South Sudan ; Sudan
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2014.96 (Restricted access)

Uganda
Tradition?! : traditional cultural institutions on customary practices in Uganda / Joanna R. Quinn.(Abstract available)
In: Africa Spectrum : (2014), vol. 49, no. 3, p. 29-54
ASC Subject Headings: conflict resolution ; traditional polities ; traditional rulers ; transitional justice ; Uganda

Zimbabwe
Forced resettlement, ethnicity, and the (un)making of the Ndebele identity in Buhera District, Zimbabwe / Francis Musoni.(Abstract available)
In: African Studies Review : (2014), vol. 57, no. 3, p. 79-100 : krt
ASC Subject Headings: boundary conflicts ; ethnic identity ; ethnic relations ; Ndebele (Zimbabwe) ; resettlement ; Shona ; Zimbabwe
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2014.93 (Restricted access)

Books

Africa
The emerging middle class in Africa / ed. by Mthuli Ncube and Charles Leyeka Lufumpa. - New York, NY : Routledge, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; middle class

Africa
Making art in Africa 1960-2010 / ed. by Polly Savage ; with a forew. by Sir Anthony Caro and essays by Robert Loder, John Picton and Polly Savage. - Farnham : Lund Humphries Publishers, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; art history ; artists ; arts ; biographies (form) ; interviews (form)

Africa
African stories / by Al J. Venter and friends. - Pretoria : Protea Book House, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; civil wars ; mercenaries

Central Africa
The art of conversion : Christian visual culture in the Kingdom of Kongo / Cécile Fromont. - Chapel Hill : published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: art history ; Central Africa ; Christianity ; cultural change ; Kongo polity ; missionary history

East Africa
Contesting visibility : photographic practices on the East African coast / Heike Behrend. - Bielefeld : Transcript, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: East Africa ; images ; Islam ; Kenya ; photography

Kenya
Muthaiga Country Club : the first one hundred years / Stephen Mills & Yoyo Vetch. - [Nairobi] : Muthaiga County Club, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: colonial history ; Kenya ; memorial volumes (form) ; Whites

Nigeria
Nok : African sculpture in archaeological context / ed. by Peter Breunig. - Frankfurt am Main : Africa Magna Verlag, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: archaeological artefacts ; archaeology ; Nigeria ; prehistory ; sculpture

South Africa
Mandela's Kinsmen : nationalist elites & Apartheid's first Bantustan / Timothy Gibbs. - Woodbridge [etc.] : James Currey, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: African National Congress (South Africa) ; apartheid ; bantustans ; political history ; South Africa ; Transkei

South Africa
The experience of economic redistribution : the growth, employment and redistribution strategy in South Africa / Clarence Tshitereke. - London : Routledge, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: economic policy ; employment ; gold mining ; income distribution ; political economy ; South Africa

Subsaharan Africa
Examining human rights issues and the democracy project in Sub-Saharan Africa : a theoretical critique and prospects for progress in the millenium / E. Ike Udogu. - Lanham, MD [etc.] : Lexington Books, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: democracy ; development ; human rights ; Subsaharan Africa

Subsaharan Africa
Visions of grace : 100 african masterpieces from the collection of Daniel and Marian Malcolm / Heinrich C. Schweizer. - Milan : 5 Continents Edition, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: exhibition catalogues (form) ; sculpture ; Subsaharan Africa ; visual arts

Swaziland
'Akusiko Kwami, Kwebantfu' : unearthing King Sobhuza II's philosophy / by Prophet LaNdwandwe. - [Pretoria] : Umgangatho, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: Swaziland ; traditional rulers ; world view

Tanzania
Race, nation, and citizenship in post-colonial Africa : the case of Tanzania / Ronald Aminzade. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: liberalism ; nation building ; nationalism ; political history ; race relations ; socialism ; Tanzania

World
Unmasking social science imperialism : globalization theory as a phase of academic colonialism / Tatah Mentan. - Mankon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; neocolonialism ; social sciences ; world

African Literature

Botswana
Death of the mantis / Michael Stanley. - New York : Harper Collins, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Botswana ; crime novels (form) ; San

Ghana
Death at the voyager hotel / Kwei Quartey. - Accra : Afram Publications (Ghana) Limited, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: crime novels (form) ; Ghana

Kenya
The fall of saints : a novel / Wanjiku wa Ngg. - New York : Atria Books, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: adoption ; crime novels (form) ; Kenya

South Africa
Finders weepers / Penny Lorimer. - Cape Town : Umuzi, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: crime novels (form) ; South Africa

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Posted on 8 June 2015, last modified on 18 June 2015