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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 5 January 2026.


New acquisitions - week 01 2019

book cover "Debating witchcraft in Africa : the "Magritte effect"

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See also the ASCL overview of recently published journal articles

Articles

Africa
Multilingualism, translanguaging, and linguistic superdiversity : an Africanist’s perspective on ‘language’ / H. Ekkehard Wolff.
In: Nordic journal of African studies, volume 27, number 2 (2018) (2018).
ASC·Subject·Headings: multilingualism ; sociolinguistics
https://www.njas.fi/njas/article/view/333/317

Cameroon
Le législateur camerounais et les objectifs de l'Ohada / par Salifou Mouhouain.
In: Penant : revue de droit des pays d'Afrique , cent vingt-huitième année, numéro 903 (Avril-Juin 2018), pages 155-179 (2018).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; Ohada ; legislation

Cameroon
À propos de la gestion de la "question anglophone" au Cameroun : réflexions sur l'equilibre régional comme technologie gouvernante au service de l' intégration nationale / Serge Paulin Akono Evang.
In: Cahiers africains d'administration publique, no. 82, pages 181-199 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; nation building

Cameroon
Clair-obscur sur la répartition des compétences entre le juge administratif et le juge judiciaire au Cameroun : à propos des actes administratifs des personnes privées / Salomon Tonon Bilong.
In: Cahiers africains d'administration publique, no. 82, pages 107-119 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; judges ; administrative law

Cameroon
Election présidentielle du 9 octobre 2011 au Cameroun, l'électeur écartelé entre les déterminants structuro-culturels et les stratégies utilitaristes : analyse des résultats de l'arrondissement de Makak / Albert Mandjack.
In: Cahiers africains d'administration publique, no. 82, pages 141-159 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; presidential elections ; 2011

Cameroon
La taxation forfaitaire d'après les signes extérieures de richesse en droit fiscal camerounais / Issa Abiaba.
In: Cahiers africains d'administration publique, no. 82, pages 215-228 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; taxation ; income tax ; corporation tax

Cameroon
Quelques réflexions sur le statut des agents contractuels de l'administration au Cameroun / François Narcisse Djame.
In: Cahiers africains d'administration publique, no. 82, pages 33-53 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; civil servants ; labour law

Chad
Les pratiques déviantes des marchés publics au Tchad / Tadin Macra.
In: Cahiers africains d'administration publique, no. 82, pages 91-106 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Chad ; purchasing ; tendering ; contracts ; offences
http://cnrd-td.org/revue_cnar/index.php/revue/article/view/66

General
The role of the state in de-bureaucratizing the public service / Stephen Olufemi Obassa.
In: Cahiers africains d'administration publique, no. 82, pages 161-180 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: civil service ; civil service reform

Ghana
Inherently diseased and insanitary? : the health status of the Gold Coast [Ghana] from the 18th to the late 19th century / Akwasi Kwarteng Amoako-Gyampah.
In: Nordic journal of African studies, volume 27, number 2 (2018) (2018).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Ghana ; health ; sanitation ; climate ; diseases ; 1700-1799 ; 1800-1899
https://www.njas.fi/njas/article/view/332/316

Ghana
Conservativism in Gold Coast politics : from Ku-Hee (New Party) to the National Democratic Party, 1943-1951 / Jon Olav Hove and Kofi Baku.
In: Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, new series, no. 17, pages 27-61 (2015).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Ghana ; conservative parties ; political history ; 1940-1949

Ghana
The 'golden age' in the history of the pre-colonial Gold Coast : the era of gold exports (15th to 17th centuries) re-examined / Robin Law.
In: Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, new series, no. 17, pages 108-235 (2015).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Ghana ; Europeans ; trade ; economic history

Ghana
A social history of gold mining in Bole, Northern Ghana : from precolonial to recent times / Samuel Aniegye Ntewusu.
In: Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, new series, no. 17, pages 1-36 (2015).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Ghana ; gold mining ; Gonja polity ; 1900-1999

Ghana
Tuberculosis control in the Gold Coast, 1900-1960 / Joshua Amo-Adjei, Kofi Awusabo-Asare, Frank Bonsu.
In: Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, new series, no. 17, pages 93-108 (2015).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Ghana ; tuberculosis ; health policy ; medical history

Namibia
Changing urbanscapes : colonial and postcolonial monuments in Windhoek / Heike Becker.
In: Nordic journal of African studies, volume 27, number 1 (2018) (2018).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Namibia ; monuments ; national liberation movements
https://www.njas.fi/njas/article/view/266/250

Namibia
Feeding body and soul: Finnish missionaries and famine relief in German South West Africa at the beginning of the 20th century / Essi Huuhka.
In: Nordic journal of African studies, volume 27, number 1 (2018) (2018).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Namibia ; Finland ; missions ; Ovambo ; famine ; missionary history
https://www.njas.fi/njas/article/view/265/257

Namibia
Mission, relationships and agendas embodied in objects : formation of the Karl Emil Liljeblad Collection of Ovamboland (1900–1932) / Kaisa Harju.
In: Nordic journal of African studies, volume 27, number 1 (2018) (2018).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Namibia ; Finland ; Ovambo ; missions ; anthropology ; African studies collections
https://www.njas.fi/njas/article/view/270/256

Namibia
Public health and traditional medicine in Namibia / Maylin Meincke.
In: Nordic journal of African studies, volume 27, number 1 (2018) (2018).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Namibia ; public health ; folk medicine
https://www.njas.fi/njas/article/view/268/252

Nigeria
Challenges of human capacity development in Nigerian public service : a theoretical outlook / Oscar Edoror Ubhenin.
In: Cahiers africains d'administration publique, no. 82, pages 56-90 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; civil service ; capacity building

Nigeria
Culture, democracy and good governance in Nigeria : finding the missing link / Chinyeaka Justine Igbokwe-Ibeto & Oteh Chekwemeka Okpo.
In: Cahiers africains d'administration publique, no. 82, pages 201-214 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; culture ; democracy ; governance

Nigeria
Language of power Pidgin English in colonial governing of Northern Nigeria / Philip Atsu Afeadie.
In: Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, new series, no. 17, pages 63-92 (2015).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; Pidgin English ; language history

South Africa
Lagos is a country : slum, city, nation and globalization in Welcome to Lagos / Aghogho Akpome.
In: Nordic journal of African studies, volume 27, number 2 (2018) (2018).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; capitals ; images ; films
https://www.njas.fi/njas/article/view/331/315

South Africa
Of pools and birds : celebrating motherhood in the first millennium / Jean-Marie Dederen, Jennifer Mokakabye.
In: Nordic journal of African studies, volume 27, number 2 (2018) (2018).
ASC·Subject·Headings: South Africa ; archaeology ; pottery ; birds ; rites of passage
https://www.njas.fi/njas/article/view/334/318

Subsaharan Africa
Les controverses autour de l'efficacité des procedures d'urgence : la problématique du sursis à exécution / Stéphane Monney Mouandjo, Ismaël Kamate.
In: Cahiers africains d'administration publique, no. 82, pages 9-31 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa ; administrative law ; civil procedure

Swaziland
The dynamics of democratic governance, separation of powers and accountability : the case of Swaziland / Musa P. Dlamini.
In: Cahiers africains d'administration publique, no. 82, pages 121-140 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Swaziland ; governance ; separation of powers ; responsibility

West Africa
L'apatridie : un phénomène récurrent en Afrique de l'Ouest / par Amadou Sow.
In: Penant : revue de droit des pays d'Afrique , cent vingt-huitième année, numéro 903 (Avril-Juin 2018), pages 221-266 (2018).
ASC·Subject·Headings: West Africa ; stateless persons

Books

Africa
Debating witchcraft in Africa : the "Magritte effect" / edited by Didier Péclard and Jean-Pierre Warnier. - Mankon, Bamenda: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; witchcraft

Africa
Education for life in Africa / Anneke Breedveld and Jan Jansen (eds.). - Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; education ; educational quality ; literacy ; languages of instruction ; vocational education ; employment ; conference papers (form) ; 2017

Africa
People-centred public works programmes : a strategy for poverty alleviation and rural development in sub-Saharan Africa? / Costain Tandi & Munyaradzi Mawere. - Mankon, Bamenda: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; public works ; poverty reduction
Africa
La santé parfaite et le bien-être : une appoche holistique / Dr Kassoum Zerbo. - Ouaga: Educ Afrique, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; Burkina Faso ; health ; mental health

Africa
Made in Africa: innovation and efficiency at the level of the firm / Laura Nelima Barasa. - [The Netherlands]: [Publisher not identified], 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; Kenya ; industry ; production factors ; innovations ; market ; institutions ; dissertations (form)

Africa
Special issue : human-environmental relations and African natures / Michael Hauhs and Georg Klute. - a Hradec Králové: Philosophical Faculty, University of Hradec Králové, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; Ethiopia ; Niger ; Zimbabwe ; Sahara ; man ; environment ; nature conservation ; cosmology ; Afar
https://doi.org/10.26806/modafr.v5i2.195

Africa
Illusions démocratiques en Afrique / Hado Paul Zabre. - Ouagadougou: L'imprimerie des Assemblees de Dieu, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; democracy ; political conditions ; political history

Africa
Africa yesterday and today / edited by Clark D. Moore and Ann Dunbar. - New York: Bantam Books, 1968.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; social conditions ; society ; culture ; history

Burkina Faso
L'Amour la loi royale / Hortense Karambiri. - Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso): Rhema Media Center, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; values ; interpersonal relations ; Protestant churches ; Bible

Burkina Faso
Mon rêve pour le Burkina Faso : Les défis d'un pays post-insurrectionnel / Dibi Alfred Millogo ; préface de le Larlé Naaba Tigré ; postface de Anselme Titianma Sanon. - [Ouagadougou?]: Éditions Afrolivre, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; development ; society ; attitudes ; social conditions ; economic conditions

Chad
Deuxième recensement général de la population et de l'habitat (RGPH2, 2009). - [N'Djamena?]: République du Tchad, Ministère du plan et de la coopération internationale, Institut national de la statistique, des études économiques et démographiques (INSEED), 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Chad ; population ; urban areas ; rural areas ; censuses

Chad
Deuxième recensement général de la population et de l'habitat (RGPH2, 2009). - [N'Djaména]: Inseed, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Chad ; population ; urban areas ; rural areas ; censuses

Chad
Deuxième recensement général de la population et de l'habitat (RGPH2, 2009). - [N'Djamena?]: République du Tchad, Ministère du plan, de l'économie et de la coopération internationale, Institut national de la statistique, des études économiques et démographiques (INSEED), 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Chad ; population ; urban areas ; rural areas ; censuses

Comoros
L'ouverture régionale et européenne de Mayotte : une nécessité économique et sociale / Saïd Ahamadi. - Paris: Menaibuc, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mayotte ; France ; international relations ; regional economic relations

Democratic Republic of Congo
Congo kitabu, by Jean-Pierre Hallet. With the editorial collaboration of Alex Pelle. - New York: Random House, 1965.
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; East Africa ; Belgians ; Whites ; colonial period ; personal narratives (form)

East Africa
East African qualifications framework for higher education. - Kampala, Uganda: Inter-University Council for East Africa, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: East Africa ; higher education ; human resources

East Africa
The East African Community industrialisation strategy, 2012-2032 : structural transformation of the manufacturing sector through high value addition and product diversification based on comparative and competitive advantages of the region. - Arusha: East African Community, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: East Africa ; East African Community ; industrial development ; industry

East Africa
Year book & guide to East Africa 1964 / edited by A. Gordon-Brown. - London: Robert Hale, 1965.
ASC Subject·Headings: East Africa ; guidebooks (form) ; almanacs (form)

Gabon
Revue gabonaise d'anthropologie. - Paris: Harmattan, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Gabon ; West Africa ; anthropology

Ghana
Electoral laws / compiled by the Electoral Commission of Ghana. - [Ghana]: Electoral Commission of Ghana, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ghana ; election law ; laws (form)

Ghana
Literary features of Akan proverbs / Emmanuel Kweku Tetteh. - Madina-Accra, Ghana: Dwumfuor, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ghana ; Akan ; proverbs

Kenya
Existence versus extinction : human-hippo conflicts in Lake Victoria Area, Kenya / A.W.C.H.M. Post. - [The Netherlands] Leiden: [Publisher not identified] De Bink BV., 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; wild animals ; wildlife protection ; human-animal relationships ; dissertations (form)

Kenya
Progress in achievement of millennium development goals in Kenya, report 2015. - [Nairobi]: Ministry of Devolution and Planning, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; social development ; social conditions

Kenya
Towards integrated management of Kenya's coastal and marine resources : awareness and behaviour change connumication strategy, 2016-2021 / Government of Kenya. - Nairobi, Kenya: National Environment Management Authority, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; nature conservation ; environmental management ; coastal management ; communication

Kenya
The Kenya we want : report of the Convention on Social and Economic Development in the Emerging Kenya Nation--held in Nairobi, August 12th-17th, 1962. - [Nairobi, Kenya]: [The Convention], 1962.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; economic planning ; economic development ; social development ; conference papers (form) ; 1962

Malawi
Final evaluation of the Joint Programme on Adolescent Girls in Malawi / [by Alister C. Munthali, Mathias Mbendela, Hope Mezuwa and Tendai Banda, Centre for Social Research]. - [Zomba, Malawi?]: [University of Malawi, Centre for Social Research?], 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Malawi ; women's education ; girls ; adolescents ; sexuality

Malawi
My African neighbors : man, bird, and beast in Nyasaland, by Hans Coudenhove. - Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1925.
ASC Subject·Headings: Malawi ; travel ; wild animals ; Blacks ; Whites ; personal narratives (form)

Mali
Le Mali Sous Ibrahima Boubacar Keïta : après erreur sur la personne : y a-t-il quelqu'un pour sauver le Mali ? / Doumbi-Fakoly. - Paris ©2015.: Menaibuc, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mali ; heads of State ; political conditions ; corruption

Mauritius
Retour aux Chagos! : Fernand Mandarin raconte / propos recueillis et rédigés par Emmanuel Richon. - [Port Louis?] Baie du Tombeau: [Blue Penny Museum?] Graphic Press, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mauritius ; deportation ; memory ; biographies (form)

Mauritius
Au Chercheur d'Or : genèse d'un projet / par Marc Gossé. - Ile Rodrigues: Decoculture, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mauritius ; architecture ; culture ; development projects

Mauritius
Maurice, 1967-2014 : regards sur cinq décennies d'analyse économique et politique / Pierre Dinan. - Rose-Hill, Ile Maurice: Pierre Dinan, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mauritius ; economic conditions ; national budget ; economic policy ; economic history ; articles (form)

Mauritius
L'accorité / Emmanuel Richon. - Grand-Baie, Maurice: Mauritiana, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mauritius ; cultural pluralism ; plural society

Mauritius
Kaya : autopsie d'une légende / Sedley Richard Assonne. - Port Louis [Mauritius]: Éditions de la Tour, 2009.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mauritius ; musicians ; popular music ; biographies (form)

Morocco
Les paysages gravés du Haut-Atlas marocain : ethnoarchéologie de l'agdal / Laurent Auclair, Ewague Abdelhadi, Benoît Hoarau. - Arles: Errance, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; rock art

Morocco
La poterie féminine au Maroc = Women's pottery in Marocco / Hammad Berrada ; préface de Moulim El Aroussi. - Rabat: Editions MARSAM, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; pottery

Namibia
"Land is life, conservancy is life" the San and the Na Jaqna Conservancy, Tsumkwe District West, Namibia / Cameron Welch. - Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Namibia ; San ; national parks and reserves ; natural resource management ; community participation

Reunion
Les voyages en Afrique orientale du baron Carl Claus von der Decken. [editor] Otto Kersten ; traduit de l'allemand par Marlene Tolède ; édition présentée par Marlene Tolède et de Gabriele Fois-Kaschel. - [Saint-Paul, Réunion]: Les Éditions de Villèle, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Réunion ; Germans ; expeditions ; exploration literature (form)

Reunion
Nouveaux propos sur les femmes à Bourbon/La Réunion (XVIIe-XXe siècle) / Prosper Eve. - Sainte-Clotilde, La Réunion: Surya éditions, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Réunion ; women ; social history ; slavery ; domestic violence ; divorce ; women's organizations

Reunion
L'éruption d'avril 2007 à La Réunion : une géographie redessinée : accompagnée de patrimoine et souvenirs engloutis / Wilfrid Bertile. - Sainte-Clotilde (La Réunion): Surya éd., 2011.
ASC Subject·Headings: Réunion ; volcanic eruptions ; 2007
http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb42740270h

South Africa
Like a bridge over troubled water : an ethnography on strategies of bodily navigation of male refugees in Cape Town / Leah Davina Junck. - Mankon, Bamenda: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; refugees ; xenophobia

South Africa
Seleksies uit die briewe van President M.T. Steyn, 1904-1910 / redakteurs Con de Wet, Elizabeth van Heyningen ; vertaler Chris van der Merwe = Selections from the letters of President M.T. Steyn, 1904-1910 / editors Con de Wet, Elizabeth van Heyningen ; translator Chris van der Merwe. - Cape Town: Vrs/Vrv, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; Afrikaners ; political conditions ; 1900-1909 ; letters (form)

Southern Africa
From Cunene to Cabo Delgado / Louis Lubbe. - South Africa Louis Lubbe: 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Angola ; Mozambique ; Namibia ; Zimbabwe ; South Africa ; colonial wars ; war ; military personnel ; pictorial works (form)

Southern Africa
SADC gender protocol 2018 barometer / edited by Colleen Lowe Morna, Danny Glenwright and Lucia Makamure. - Johannesburg: Gender Links, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Southern Africa ; Sadc ; gender ; women's rights ; gender inequality ; women parliamentarians ; women politicians ; women workers

Tanzania
Agents for social change in Tanzania : new trends in leadership : be a part of it! : IFP alumni transform communities through leadership for social justice, 2001-2013. - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Tanzania ; social change ; social justice ; development ; leadership

Tanzania
A short history of Tanganyika / P.H.C. Clarke. - Nairobi: Longmans, 1963.
ASC Subject·Headings: Tanzania ; history

Uganda
A comprehensive report on the Universal Post Primary Education & Training (UPPET/USE) & Universal Post O' Level Education & Training (UPOLET) national headcount exercise 2014. - Kampala, Uganda: Ministry of Education, Science, Technology, and Sports, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Uganda ; secondary education ; access to education

Zambia
Post-harvest survey : report for the 2010/2011 agricultural season / [editors, John Kalumbi, Director, Census and Statistics and six others]. - Lusaka, Zambia: published by Central Statistical Office, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zambia ; agricultural production ; crops ; livestock ; cassava ; storage ; irrigation ; agricultural prices

Zambia
Update of the situation analysis of children and women in Zambia / project coordinator, Paul Quarles Van Ufford ; editor, Joshua Kakaire ; lead writers and researchers, Marcio A. Carvalho and Buleti G. Nsemukila. - Lusaka, Zambia: UNICEF Zambia, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zambia ; children's rights ; children ; social conditions ; poverty ; child mortality ; maternal mortality ; Aids ; education ; child care ; orphans

Zimbabwe
Beyond appearances : reflections on principles and practice / David Harold Barry, SJ. - Avondale, Harare: Weaver Press, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; clergy ; social relations ; power ; articles (form)

Zimbabwe
Socio economic barometer : baseline study / Dr. Charlton C. Tsodzo. - Harare: Mindstore Publishing, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; economic conditions ; social conditions
 

African Literature

Africa
Tradition and change in African tribal life / [by] Colin M. Turnbull. - Cleveland, New York ©1966: the World Publishing Company, 1966.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; social life ; customs ; family ; social relations ; youth literature (form)

Senegal
Strum your kora : conversations with Macky Sall / Momodou Sabally. - Banjul, The Gambia: Guelwaar, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; heads of State ; interviews (form) ; prose (form)
 

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