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Week 25 2017

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Articles

Mauritius
Contested terrain : identity and womens suffrage in Mauritius / Ramola Ramtohul. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of Southern African Studies : (2016), vol. 42, no. 6, p. 1225-1239
ASC Subject Headings: Mauritius ; political history ; right to vote ; women
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2016.1253928 (Restricted access)

Mozambique
'Hidrunisa samora' : invocations of a dead political leader in Maputo rap / Janne Rantala. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of Southern African Studies : (2016), vol. 42, no. 6, p. 1143-1160 : graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: heads of State ; hip hop ; memory ; Mozambique
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2016.1253929 (Restricted access)

South Africa
'The day that fell off the calendar' : 16 June, South African newspapers, and the making of a national holiday, 1977-1996 / Rachel E. Johnson. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of Southern African Studies : (2016), vol. 42, no. 6, p. 1143-1160
ASC Subject Headings: commemorations ; newspapers ; South Africa ; Soweto uprising
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2016.1256145 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Dangerous AIDS myths or preconceived perceptions? : a critical study of the meaning and impact of myths about HIV/AIDS in South Africa / Jonas Sivelä. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of Southern African Studies : (2016), vol. 42, no. 6, p. 1179-1191
ASC Subject Headings: AIDS ; popular beliefs ; South Africa ; Xhosa
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2016.1246225 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Falling through the cracks of South Africa's liberation : comrades' counter-memories of squatter resistance in the 1980s / Kim Wale. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of Southern African Studies : (2016), vol. 42, no. 6, p. 1193-1206
ASC Subject Headings: anti-apartheid resistance ; memory ; social status ; South Africa ; squatters
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2016.1249144 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Icons of the old regime : challenging South African public memory strategies in #RhodesMustFall / Carolyn E. Holmes & Melanie Loehwing. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of Southern African Studies : (2016), vol. 42, no. 6, p. 1207-1223
ASC Subject Headings: colonial period ; commemorations ; memory ; monuments ; protest ; South Africa ; students
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2016.1253927 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Making and unmaking 'African foreignness' : African settings, African migrants and the migrant detective in contemporary South African crime fiction / Rebecca Fasselt. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of Southern African Studies : (2016), vol. 42, no. 6, p. 1109-1124
ASC Subject Headings: crime novels ; migrants ; South Africa ; xenophobia
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2016.1253925 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Part special issue : Nadine Gordimer then and now / [edited by Dennis Walder]. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of Southern African Studies : (2016), vol. 42, no. 6, p. 1033-1094
ASC Subject Headings: literary criticism ; novels ; South Africa
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjss20/42/6 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Perceptions of Daisy de Melker : representations of a sensational trial / Bridget Grogan. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of Southern African Studies : (2016), vol. 42, no. 6, p. 1125-1142
ASC Subject Headings: 1930-1939 ; homicide ; images ; South Africa ; trials ; Whites ; women
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2016.1258822 (Restricted access)

South Africa
The idea of reading in early 20th-century South Africa / Corinne Sandwith. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal of Southern African Studies : (2016), vol. 42, no. 6, p. 1095-1108
ASC Subject Headings: cultural history ; reading ; South Africa
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2016.1246223 (Restricted access)

Books

Africa
Mining in Africa : are local communities better off? / Punam Chuhan-Pole, Andrew L. Dabalen, and Bryan Christopher Land ; in collaboration with Michael Lewin, Aly Sanoh, Gregory Smith, and Anja Tolonen. - Washington, DC : World Bank, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; Burkina Faso ; community development ; Ghana ; gold mining ; Mali ; mining ; natural resources ; Tanzania
 

Africa
Re-thinking values in Africa : for collective well-being / Bawa Kuyini. - [S.l. : s.n.], 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African religions ; Christianity ; Dagomba ; Islam ; philosophy ; Yoruba
 

Africa
Trade unionism : towards convergelism : a neo-Marxist perspective / Olawale Olawepo. - Lagos : Senior Staff Association of Communications, Transport and Corporations, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; Caribbean ; globalization ; industrial organization ; labour policy ; Marxism ; trade unions
 

Algeria
Recompositions urbaines et nouveaux espaces de consommation en Algérie : les dynamiques commerciales aux périphéries des villes de l'Est algérien / Nadia Kerdoud. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Algeria ; commercial areas ; Consumption ; suburban areas ; urban development ; urban planning
 

Algeria
Vécu frontalier algéro-marocain depuis 1994 : quotidien d'une population séparée / Fatiha Daoudi. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Algeria ; boundaries ; boundary conflicts ; human trafficking ; illicit trade ; Morocco ; social life
 

Burkina Faso
Résiliences sociales et politiques publiques participatives / Siaka Coulibaly. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: associations ; Burkina Faso ; civil society ; local government ; political parties
 

Cameroon
Histoire et anthropologie du peuple bamiléké / Dieudonné Toukam. - Paris : L'Harmattan Cameroun, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Bamileke ; Cameroon ; customs ; ethnogenesis ; history ; traditional polities
 

Cameroon
Une société rizicole camerounaise : l'exemple de la SEMRY / Joseph Domo. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural projects ; agroindustry ; Cameroon ; rice ; rural development ; rural poverty
 

Cameroon
Récits sur mon village / Philippe Tchissakbé ; préf. de Clément Dili Palai ; postf. d'Alain Taino Kari. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; Mundang ; personal narratives (form) ; social life ; traditional society ; villages
 

Democratic Republic of Congo
Body and affect in the intercultural encounter / Rene Devisch. - Bamenda [etc.] : Langaa Research & Publishers CIG [etc.], 2017
ASC Subject Headings: anthropological research ; body ; culture contact ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; folk medicine ; missions ; Yaka (Angola,Democratic Republic of Congo)
 

Democratic Republic of Congo
La société congolaise face à la modernité (1700-2010) : mélanges eurafricains offerts à Jean-Luc Vellut / sous la dir. de Pamphile Mabiala Mantuba-Ngoma et Mathieu Zana Etambala. - (Abstract available) - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Belgium ; colonial history ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; festschrifts (form) ; social conditions ; social history
 

Democratic Republic of Congo
Ressources naturelles et développement : le paradoxe congolais / sous la dir. de Theodore Trefon et Thierry de Putter. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural production ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; forest resources ; mineral resources ; natural resource management ; petroleum ; water
 

Democratic Republic of Congo
Réalités sociales en République démocratique du Congo : analyse de quelques cas / Étienne Tshimanga-Kutangidiku. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; language usage ; social conditions
 

Democratic Republic of Congo
Congo-Zaire : les acteurs de l'histoire / Ngimbi Kalumvueziko. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; political action ; political history ; politicians ; resistance
 

Ethiopia
The bible in Ethiopia : the book of acts / by Curt Niccum. - Eugene, OR : Pickwick Publications, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Bible ; Ethiopia ; Ge'ez language ; manuscripts
 

Gabon
Les règles coutumières au Gabon : parenté, mariage, succession / Faviola Tapoyo. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: customary law ; Gabon ; kinship ; law of inheritance ; marriage law ; Mpongwe
 

Gabon
La bataille de Libreville : De Gaulle contre Pétain : 50 morts / Barthélémy Ntoma Mengome. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: colonial history ; France ; French Equatorial Africa ; Gabon ; military history ; military operations ; World War II
 

Guinea
Pour une véritable indemnisation des victimes : la sauvegarde de la dignité humaine / Amadou Thidiane Kaba ; préf. de Mamadou Lamine Fofana. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: compensation ; Guinea ; legal remedies ; offences against human rights ; victims
 

Guinea
Williams Sassine, itinéraires d'un indigné guinéen / Élisabeth Degon. - Paris : Éditions Karthala, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; Guinea ; writers
 

Kenya
A literature workbook on David Mulwa's play: Redemption / Anne Syomwene Kisilu, Charles Chumbe. - Saarbrücken : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: drama ; Kenya ; textbooks (form)
 

Malawi
Fake healing claims for HIV and AIDS in Malawi : traditional, christian and scientific / Klaus Fiedler. - Mzuzu : Mzuni Press, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: AIDS ; circumcision ; faith healing ; folk medicine ; Malawi
 

Mali
Le terroir du Bélédougou : un pays, des hommes, une civilisation / Mamadou Issa Tapo ; préf. d'Agota Kristof. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Bambara ; local history ; Mali ; political conditions ; social conditions ; traditional society
 

Niger
Risque et adaptation climatique dans la région de Tillabéri, Niger : pour renforcer les capacités d'analyse et d'évaluation / sous la dir. de Vieri Tarchiani et Maurizio Tiepolo. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: cartography ; climate change ; droughts ; environmental management ; floods ; Niger ; risk ; Sahel
 

Nigeria
Debating Nigeria : a collection of essays / by Jideofor Adibe. - London : Adonis & Abbey Publishers, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: economic conditions ; federalism ; Islamic movements ; journalists ; nation building ; newspapers ; Nigeria
 

Nigeria
Exactions of colonial governing : workplace anguish and pleasure in Northern Nigeria / Philip Atsu Afeadie. - Accra : Woeli Publishing Services, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: colonial administrators ; colonial history ; governance ; Nigeria ; Northern Nigeria
 

Nigeria
Arresting the arrester : an exposition of spiritual authority / D.K. Olukoya. - Lagos : Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministeries, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Bible ; cults ; Nigeria ; Pentecostalism ; witchcraft
 

Nigeria
Nigerian feminist theatre : essays on female axes in contemporary Nigerian drama / Mabel Tobrise. - Ibadan : Wits Publishing Ltd, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: drama ; feminism ; Nigeria ; women writers
 

Nigeria
The Nigerian civil service of the future : a prospective analysis / Tunji Olaopa. - Ibadan : Bookcraft, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: civil servants ; civil service ; civil service reform ; Nigeria ; public administration
 

Nigeria
The judgement day : signs, stages & proceedings / Zafaran Adeniyi. - Nigeria : Islamic Heritage Foundation, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Islam ; Nigeria
 

Nigeria
Dyed thoughts : a conversation in and from my country / Nwachukwu Egbunike. - Ibadan : Feathers & Ink, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: articles (form) ; attitudes ; journalists ; Nigeria
 

Nigeria
Guided destiny : an autobiography / Afolabi Soyode. - Ibadan : Leksilicon Publishing Company Ltd, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: academics ; autobiographies (form) ; educational management ; Nigeria ; universities
 

Nigeria
The fourteenth Commissar of Works : the life and labour of Rauf Aregbesola / Ayodeji Olukoju. - Lagos [etc.] : Bluesign Publications [etc.], 2007
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; infrastructure ; local government ; Nigeria ; politicians
 

Rwanda
Le problème des sectes et l'Église catholique au Rwanda / Tharcisse Semana. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Catholic Church ; Christianity ; religious movements ; Rwanda
 

Senegal
Suintements de couleurs sous fichues banderoles : essai sur l'art de l'in-vu - (Yiyaaka, Nanaaka/Gissuñu-ko, Degguñu-ko) / Abderrahmane Ngaide ; préf. de Babacar Mbaye Diop ; postf. de Kalidou Kassé. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: aesthetics ; exhibitions ; pictorial works (form) ; Senegal ; visual arts
 

Senegal
Créations et défis au Sénégal : Sembène, Diop, Diadji et Awadi / Hélène Colette Tissières. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: artists ; cinema ; hip hop ; literature ; protest ; Senegal ; social problems
 

Senegal
Trois romanciers sénégalais devant l'histoire : Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Abdoulaye Elimane Kane, Boubacar Boris Diop / Birahim Thioune ; préf. de Fallou Mbow. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: literary history ; literature ; philosophy ; Senegal ; writers
 

Senegal
Djibril Diop Mambety : la caméra au bout-- du nez / Nar Sene. - Paris : L'Harmattan [etc.], 2001
ASC Subject Headings: cinema ; filmmakers ; films ; Senegal
 

South Africa
Singing of slavery, performing the past : folk songs of the Cape coloured community as cultural memory of the South African slave past, 1657-present = Zingen over slavernij, het verleden beleven : volksliederen van de Kaapse kleurling gemeenschap als cultureel geheugen van het Zuid-Afrikaanse slavernijverleden, van 1657 tot heden / door Anne Marieke van der Wal-Rémy. - [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Afrikaans language ; Coloureds ; memory ; oral history ; popular music ; slavery ; South Africa
 

South Africa
Writing the city into being : essays on Johannesburg, 1998-2008 / Lindsay Bremner ; [edited by Bronwyn Law-Viljoen]. - Johannesburg : Fourthwall Books, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: architecture ; essays (form) ; pictorial works (form) ; South Africa ; towns ; urban planning ; urban sociology
 

Subsaharan Africa
Procréation médicale et mondialisation : expériences africaines / sous la dir. de Doris Bonnet & Véronique Duchesne. - (Abstract available) - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: family planning ; health care ; infertility ; reproductive health ; Subsaharan Africa
 

Tanzania
Painted devils and the land of ordinary men / Tuan Marais. - Greyton : Tuan Marais, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: 1964 ; biographies (form) ; revolutions ; Tanzania ; Zanzibar
 

Tunisia
Le chercheur, le diplomate et la révolution tunisienne : mémoires d'un directeur d'Institut français en Tunisie (2008-2013) / Pierre-Noel Denieuil. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Arab Spring ; France ; French ; research centres ; scientific cooperation ; social sciences ; social scientists ; Tunisia
 

Tunisia
Le prix de l'engagement politique dans la Tunisie autoritaire : gauchistes et islamistes sous Bourguiba et Ben Ali (1957-2011) / Michael Béchir-Ayari. - Paris [etc.] : Karthala [etc.], 2016
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; elite ; generations ; political action ; protest ; student movements ; Tunisia
 

West Africa
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa : corporate gangsters, multinationals & rogue politicians / Chernoh Alpha M. Bah. - Philadelphia : Africanist Press, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: diseases ; Ebola ; West Africa

Films

South Africa
Die wonder van 'n nuwe taal in Afrika / teks Jaap Steyn, eindred. Hermann Giliomee. - - [Vredekloof] : ULULA Produksies, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Afrikaans language ; documentary films (form) ; language history ; South Africa ; videos (form)

African Literature

Kenya
Redemption / David Mulwa. - Nairobi : Longman Kenya, 1991
ASC Subject Headings: Christianity ; drama (form) ; Kenya
 

Nigeria
Cupid's Catapult : a compilation of 12 romantic stories / Hannah Onoguwe. - Lagos : The Book Company Ltd, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Nigeria ; short stories (form)
 

South Africa
De vrouw in de blauwe mantel / Deon Meyer ; vertaald uit het Afrikaans door Martine Vosmaer en Karina van Santen. - [Amsterdam] : Stichting Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: crime novels (form) ; South Africa
 

South Africa
Die helder oomblik : kortverhale / John & Ria Smuts. - Kaapstad : Tafelberg, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: short stories (form) ; South Africa
 

South Africa
Lugkasteel / Annelie Botes. - Johannesburg : Penguin, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; South Africa
 

West Africa
Tabbara, la princesse de Bantoura / Sacké Kouyaté Kaba Diakité ; préf. de Damien Giot. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Bantu-speaking peoples ; folk tales (form) ; novels (form) ; West Africa ; women rulers

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