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Week 37 2017

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Articles

Africa
Whither the state? : mining codes and mineral resource governance in Africa / Terhemba Ambe-Uva. - (Abstract available)
In: Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines : (2017), vol. 51, no. 1, p. 81-101 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; BRICS ; governance ; mineral resources ; mining law ; mining policy ; natural resource management
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00083968.2016.1277148 (Restricted access)

Africa
Witchcraft and space : a theoretical analysis of unseen political spaces in Ghana and Cameroon / Shelagh Roxburgh. - (Abstract available)
In: Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines : (2017), vol. 51, no. 1, p. 145-165
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; Cameroon ; Ghana ; power ; space ; witchcraft
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00083968.2017.1306450 (Restricted access)

Burundi
"C'est comme ça que cela pourrait recommencer" : l'épineuse question foncière au Burundi / Katrin Wittig. -
In: Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines : (2017), vol. 51, no. 1, p. 1-22 : graf
ASC Subject Headings: Burundi ; conflict resolution ; institutions ; land conflicts ; refugees
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00083968.2016.1274264 (Restricted access)

Democratic Republic of Congo
Light, dark and the powers that be : a hydroelectric project in Butembo / Kristien Geenen. - (Abstract available)
In: Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines : (2017), vol. 51, no. 1, p. 43-59
ASC Subject Headings: dams ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; electricity ; hydroelectricity ; political conditions ; power
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00083968.2016.1276849 (Restricted access)

Mauritania
"A river is not a boundary" : interplays of national and linguistic citizenship in Pulaar language activism / John Hames. - (Abstract available)
In: Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines : (2017), vol. 51, no. 1, p. 103-122 : foto's
ASC Subject Headings: Fulani ; language policy ; Mauritania ; political action ; Senegal
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00083968.2016.1277149 (Restricted access)

Morocco
Exploring Euro-African pasts through an analysis of Spanish colonial practices in Africa (Morocco and Spanish Guinea) / Yolanda Aixelà-Cabré. - (Abstract available)
In: Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines : (2017), vol. 51, no. 1, p. 23-42
ASC Subject Headings: colonial policy ; Equatorial Guinea ; Morocco ; Spain
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00083968.2016.1276848 (Restricted access)

Namibia
An evaluation into why some people in Windhoek want to stay (job embeddedness) and others want to leave their jobs (turnover intention) / Wesley R. Pieters. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal for studies in humanities and social sciences : (2016), vol. 5, no. 2, p. 73-86 : fig., tab
ASC Subject Headings: job satisfaction ; labour turnover ; Namibia ; social environment ; working conditions
 

Namibia
Comparative best practices to manage corruption / Johan Coetzee. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal for studies in humanities and social sciences : (2016), vol. 5, no. 2, p. 98-107 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: Asia ; corruption ; governance ; government policy ; Great Britain ; Namibia ; United States
 

Namibia
Factors that cause poor performance in mathematics at National School Secondary Certificate level compared to Junior Secondary Certificate level in four selected schools in the two Kavango educational regions / Muhongo Mateya, Christina Utete, and Alex Ilukena. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal for studies in humanities and social sciences : (2016), vol. 5, no. 2, p. 108-115 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: academic achievement ; mathematics education ; Namibia ; secondary education
 

South Africa
Rethinking xenophobia in the wake of human insecurity in South Africa / Josphat Chivurugwi. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal for studies in humanities and social sciences : (2016), vol. 5, no. 2, p. 139-151 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: immigrants ; migration policy ; South Africa ; xenophobia
 

Zambia
Hybrid land markets : monetarised customary land transactions in Zambia / Horman Chitonge ... [et al.]. - (Abstract available)
In: Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines : (2017), vol. 51, no. 1, p. 123-143 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: customary law ; land tenure ; money ; Zambia
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00083968.2017.1303389 (Restricted access)

Zimbabwe
Patriotic history and anti-LGBT rhetoric in Zimbabwean politics / Jeremy Youde. - (Abstract available)
In: Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines : (2017), vol. 51, no. 1, p. 61-79
ASC Subject Headings: homosexuality ; LGBT ; political history ; political terminology ; ZANU-PF ; Zimbabwe
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00083968.2016.1276850 (Restricted access)

Zimbabwe
Analysis of factors influencing first year university undergraduate performance in selected pure Mathematics courses at the National University of Science and Technology - Zimbabwe / Kudakwashe Hove, Amon Masache and Sarudzai Showa. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal for studies in humanities and social sciences : (2016), vol. 5, no. 2, p. 172-183 : graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: academic achievement ; mathematics education ; students ; universities ; Zimbabwe
 

Zimbabwe
Being and nothingness : trauma, loss and alienation in Tsitsi Dangarembga's "The book of not" / Yuleth Chigwedere. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal for studies in humanities and social sciences : (2016), vol. 5, no. 2, p. 116-125
ASC Subject Headings: African identity ; novels ; women writers ; Zimbabwe
 

Zimbabwe
Gender representation in children's literature : limits and potential in Stephen Alumenda's "Marita goes to school" and "Marita's great idea", and Jairos Kangira's "The bundle of firewood" / Wesley R. Pieters. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal for studies in humanities and social sciences : (2016), vol. 5, no. 2, p. 87-97
ASC Subject Headings: gender roles ; girls ; women's education ; youth literature ; Zimbabwe
 

Zimbabwe
Individual agency and responsibility in African proverbial discourse / Alex Pongweni. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal for studies in humanities and social sciences : (2016), vol. 5, no. 2, p. 152-171
ASC Subject Headings: Botswana ; proverbs ; Shona language ; Zimbabwe
 

Zimbabwe
Language use and the depiction of violence in pre-colonial Shona folk narratives / Francis Matambirofa. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal for studies in humanities and social sciences : (2016), vol. 5, no. 2, p. 126-138 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: oral history ; precolonial period ; Shona ; violence ; Zimbabwe
 

Zimbabwe
Literary perspectives of healing practices and approaches to medicine in Chinodya's "Strife" / Coletta M. Kandemiri and Talita C. Smit. - (Abstract available)
In: Journal for studies in humanities and social sciences : (2016), vol. 5, no. 2, p. 184-191
ASC Subject Headings: folk medicine ; novels ; spirituality ; Zimbabwe

Electronic documents

Angola
Reform or unravel? : prospects for Angolas transition / Paula Cristina Roque. - [ Pretoria] : Institute for Security Studies, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Angola ; economic policy ; economic research ; international relations ; national security ; political change ; succession
https://www.africaportal.org/publications/reform-or-unravel-prospects-an...

Kenya
Primary schooling and agricultural education in Kenya : can principles of "modern" agriculture be taught effectively in schools? / by Jared O. Abagi. - [Montreal] : McGill University Libraries, 1990
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural education ; dissertations (form) ; Kenya
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/412451727.pdf

Books

Africa
Philosophic explorations / Felix-Nestor Ahoyo. - Ibadan : Hope Publications, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; philosophy ; world view
 

Africa
Economics : an African perspective / Joe U. Umo. - Lagos : Millennium Text Publishers Ltd, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; economics ; textbooks (form) ; universities
 

Burkina Faso
Accompagner les femmes à la maternité au Burkina Faso : anthropologie et santé publique dans un projet d'amélioration des soins obstétricaux / sous la dir. de Fatoumata Ouattara ... [et al.]. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: Burkina Faso ; maternal and child health care ; medical anthropology
 

Cape Verde
Contravento, pedra-a-pedra : conferências do I Seminário Internacional de Estudos Cabo-Verdianos (2008) / Simone Caputo Gomes (org.). - Praia : Biblioteca Nacional, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Cape Verde ; conference papers (form) ; literary history ; literature ; oral literature ; oral traditions ; youth literature
 

Cape Verde
Parlamento cabo-verdiano : os fundamentos de uma reforma / Lívio Lopes. - Praia, Cabo Verde : Alfa-Comunicações, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: administrative reform ; Cape Verde ; democracy ; e-government ; information technology ; legislation ; parliament
 

Democratic Republic of Congo
Suturing new medical histories of Africa / Nancy Rose Hunt. - Zürich [etc.] : LIT Verlag, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; media history ; speeches (form)
 

Gambia
Changing times : a West African patriarch tells his-story / Bakary Sidibe and Ulla Fells. - Hamburg : Tredition, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Gambia ; Great Britain ; migrants ; personal narratives (form)
 

journalists
Murder of Dele Giwa : the answered question / Richard Akinnola. - Alausa, Lagos : Nigeria Union of Journalists, Lagos State Council, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: assassination ; homicide ; journalists
 

Kenya
The status of student involvement in university governance in Kenya : the case of public and private universities / Munyae M. Mulinge, Josephine N. Arasa, Violet Wawire. - Dakar : Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: Kenya ; management ; students ; universities
 

Kenya
Raila Odinga : the flame of freedom / Raila Odinga ; [foreword by Olusegun Obansanjo] ; with Sarah Elderkin. - Nairobi : Mountain Top Publishers Limited, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; Kenya ; politicians
 

Nigeria
This is Lagos : live the African American dream / Frederick Ohiaeri. - Lagos : 62:15 Associated Industries Limited, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: Nigeria ; towns ; urban life
 

Nigeria
Understanding microfinance in Nigeria & the practice in other nations / R.F. Akinyooye. - Oyo State : Foly Foly Publishers, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: banks ; corruption ; microfinance ; Nigeria
 

Nigeria
Emergence, growth and challenges of films and home videos in Nigeria / ed. by Olufemi S. Onabajo, Ritchard M'Bayo. - Bowie, MD : African Renaissance Books, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: cinema ; films ; Nigeria
 

Nigeria
How to be a better Nigerian / Oliver Ifeanyi Anyabolu. - Enugu : Classic Pubishing Company, 2002
ASC Subject Headings: motivational literature ; Nigeria
 

Portuguese-speaking Africa
"Parlamento e desenvolvimento" : conferência dos presidentes dos parlamentos da CPLP / Assembleia Nacional, Cabo Verde. - Praia : Alfa-Comunicações, 2005
ASC Subject Headings: 2005 ; Angola ; Cape Verde ; conference papers (form) ; development ; Mozambique ; parliament ; Portuguese-speaking Africa
 

South Africa
Competition or co-operation? South African and migrant entrepreneurs in Johannesburg / Sally Peberdy. - Cape Town : Southern African Migration Programme, 2017
ASC Subject Headings: entrepreneurs ; informal sector ; migrants ; small enterprises ; South Africa
 

South Africa
South Africa and the case for renegotiating the peace/ edited by Pierre du Toit, Charl Swart, Salomé Teutenberg. - Stellenbosch : Sun Media, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: 1996 ; constitutions ; democracy ; peacebuilding ; South Africa
 

South Africa
Workers and warriors : masculinity and the struggle for nation in South Africa / Thembisa Waetjen. - Urbana [etc.] : University of Illinois Press, 2004
ASC Subject Headings: gender ; masculinity ; nationalism ; South Africa ; Zulu
 

South Africa
Railway postal history of South Africa : the close association between railways and postal services / H.S. Hagen and S.P. Naylor ; with contributions by J.T.L. Stinson and A.J.C. Borostein. - Johannesburg : Philatelic Federation of Southern Africa, 1998
ASC Subject Headings: postage stamps ; postal services ; rail transport ; South Africa
 

South Sudan
Living on earth in the sky : the Anyuak : an analytic account of the history and the culture of a Nilotic people / Conradin Perner. - Basel : Schwabe Verlag, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Ethiopia ; ethnographies (form) ; leadership ; political elite ; political systems ; South Sudan
 

South Sudan
Living on earth in the sky : the Anyuak : an analytic account of the history and the culture of a Nilotic people / Conradin Perner. - Basel : Schwabe Verlag, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: administration of justice ; Anuak ; Ethiopia ; ethnographies (form) ; housing ; identity ; South Sudan ; villages
 

Subsaharan Africa
African history through sources / [compiled by] Nancy J. Jacobs. - New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: colonial period ; historical sources ; Subsaharan Africa

African Literature

Nigeria
Rose in the sky / Emiola Opasina. - Lagos : Frontline Educational Services, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: development ; migration ; Nigeria ; novels (form)
 

Nigeria
Sweet taste of shame : a play / Elaigwu Ameh. - Ibadan : University Press PLC, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: adolescents ; Nigeria ; novels (form) ; pregnancy
 

Nigeria
Service to fatherland / Folu Agoi. - Lagosa : FLAG Publications, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Nigeria ; poetry (form)
 

Nigeria
The rejected stone / Uchenna Nwosu. - [S.l.] : Xlibris, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: Nigeria ; novels (form) ; sexual offences ; victims
 

South Africa
It takes two : Fundza celebrates young writers / compiled by Rosamund Haden. - [S.l.] : Cover2Cover Books, 2016
ASC Subject Headings: short stories (form) ; South Africa
 

South Africa
Kopskoot / Rudie van Rensburg. - Kaapstad : Queillerie, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: crime novels ; South Africa
 

South Africa
Veelvuldige gebruike vir huishoudelike toestelle / Andries Bezuidenhout. - Pretoria : Protea Boekhuis, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: poetry (form) ; South Africa

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