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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 50 2018

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See also the ASCL overview of recently published journal articles

Articles

Africa
Military intervention in Africa : French and US approaches compared / Stephen Burgess.
In: ASPJ : Africa and Francophonie , volume 9, no. 2 (2nd quarter 2018), pages 5-25 (2018).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Africa ; France ; United States ; military intervention

Mali
Sharia as "desert business" : understanding the links between criminal networks and Jihadism in Northern Mali / Rikke Haugegaard.
In: ASPJ : Africa and Francophonie , volume 9, no. 1 (1st quarter 2018), pages 52-70 (2018).
ASC·Subject·Headings: Mali ; jihads ; terrorism ; organized crime ; economic conditions

South Africa
The annexation of the Transvaal in 1877 : the first Boer reactions / Michal Lésniewski.
In: Werkwinkel : a journal of Low Countries and South African studies, vol. 12(1), pages 35-48 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: South Africa ; Transvaal ; annexation ; Afrikaners
https://doi.org/10.1515/werk-2017-0003

South Africa
The australopithecines - an extinct group of human ancestors : my scientific interest in South Africa / Katarzyna A. Kaszycka.
In: Werkwinkel : a journal of Low Countries and South African studies, vol. 12(1), pages 1-17 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: South Africa ; human evolution ; prehistory
https://doi.org/10.1515/werk-2017-0001

South Africa
From Central Asia to South Africa : in search of inspiration in rock art studies / Andrzej Rozwadowski.
In: Werkwinkel : a journal of Low Countries and South African studies, vol. 12(1), pages 19-33 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: South Africa ; Russian Federation ; rock art
https://doi.org/10.1515/werk-2017-0002

South Africa
Gender and eroticism in contemporary art from South Africa / Aneta Pawlowska.
In: Werkwinkel : a journal of Low Countries and South African studies, vol. 12(1), pages 85-106 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: South Africa ; visual arts ; gender ; Lgbt
https://doi.org/10.1515/werk-2017-0006

South Africa
Land reform in the Republic of South Africa : social justice or populism? / Arkadiusz Zukowski.
In: Werkwinkel : a journal of Low Countries and South African studies, vol. 12(1), pages 71-84. (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: South Africa ; land reform ; social justice ; populism ; African National Congress (South Africa)
https://doi.org/10.1515/werk-2017-0005

South Africa
Long distance solidarity : Polish public opinion and the Boer War 1899-1902 / Piotr Szlanta.
In: Werkwinkel : a journal of Low Countries and South African studies, vol. 12(1), pages 49-69 (2017).
ASC·Subject·Headings: South Africa ; Poland ; Anglo-Boer wars ; public opinion
https://doi.org/10.1515/werk-2017-0004

Books

Africa
The open veins of Africa : the dynamics of extractive accumulation by dispossession in 21st century Africa / Tatah Mentan. - Mankon, Bamenda: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; imperialism ; globalization ; economic development ; natural resource management

Africa
The African affairs reader : key texts in politics, development, and international relations / edited by Nic Cheeseman, Lindsay Whitfield, and Carl Death. - Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; China ; State ; political economy ; democracy ; elections ; globalization ; gender-based violence ; African Union ; articles (form)

Africa
African studies in Russia : works of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences : yearbook 2014-2016 / [editors L.L Fituni and I.O. Abramova ; translated from the Russian by S.V. Kostelyanets, N.A. Voronina]. - Moscow Lac-Beauport, QC: Institute for African Studies RAS Meabooks Inc., 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; Russian Federation ; African studies ; yearbooks (form)

Africa
Castells in Africa : universities and development / edited by Johan Muller, Nico Cloete & François van Schalkwyk. - Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; South Africa ; higher education ; universities ; development

Africa
Der graue Unterstrom : Walfänger und Küstengesellschaften an den tiefen Stränden Afrikas (1770-1920) / Felix Schürmann. - Frankfurt am Main ; New York: Campus Verlag, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; whaling ; seamen ; Europeans ; trade ; ethnic relations

Africa
FAVT: Future Africa Visions in Time / edited by Katharina Fink, Susanne Gerhard, Nadine Siegert ; Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies. - [Nairobi, Kenya]: Contact Zones NRB, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; future ; exhibition catalogues (form)

Africa
Knowledge production and African universities : a struggle against social death / edited by Claude G. Mararike and Obvious Vengeyi. - Harare: University of Zimbabwe, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; sociology of knowledge ; higher education

Burkina Faso
Combats contre les démons et les sorciers / Abou Zeyd. - Burkina Faso: Editions ESIF SARL, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; spirit possession ; witchcraft ; witch-hunting ; Koran ; prayer ; Islam

Burkina Faso
L'insurrection populaire Burkina Faso octobre 2014 : vers un monde plus juste / sous la direction de Peter Stepan, préface Cheriff Moumina Sy, contributions Yacouba Banhoro [et al.], photographies Moussa Guibla [et al.]. - Berlin Cotonou: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Département Afrique subsaharienne Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bureau de Cotonou/République de Bénin, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; revolutions ; protest ; political change ; 2014 ; photography ; pictorial works (form)

Burkina Faso
Histoire rurale du Burkina Faso / sous la direction de Moussa Willy Bantenga. - Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Puo, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; agriculture ; agroforestry ; food production ; food security ; weaving ; agricultural history

Burkina Faso
Le Burkina Faso passé et présent / sous la direction de Hamidou Diallo et Moussa Willy Bantenga. - [Ouagadougou]: P.U.O., 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; history ; precolonial period ; colonial period ; independence

Burkina Faso
Pour mieux réussir l'éducation des enfants : psycho - pedagogie : guide d'éducation : nouvelle édition / Adama Roger Pare. - [Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso] Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Editions Wokana Universel Imprimerie Sabenof, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; education ; child rearing

Burundi
We are all children of God : the story of the forty young martyrs of Buta-Burundi / Zacharie Bukuru. - Nairobi, Kenya: Paulines Publications Africa, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burundi ; martyrs ; civil wars ; ethnic relations ; pupils ; homicide

Comoros
Mayotte, j'écris ton nom / Saïd Ahamadi. - [Paris]: Menaibuc, 2009.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mayotte ; society ; social conditions ; economic conditions ; institutions

East Africa
Increasing production from the land : a sourcebook on agriculture for teachers and students in East Africa / Andrew Coulsin, Antony Ellman and Emmanuel Mbiha. - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers Ltd, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: East Africa ; Tanzania ; agricultural production ; agricultural productivity ; agricultural cooperatives ; agricultural extension ; agricultural innovations ; textbooks (form)

Egypt
Conflicting Interests in Egypt : political, business, religious, gender, popular culture / Sherifa Zuhur and Mārlīn Tādrus. - Lewiston, Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Egypt ; political conditions ; economic conditions ; popular culture ; protest

Gabon
Le rap, ça vient d'ici! : musiques, pouvoir et identités dans le Gabon contemporain / Alice Aterianus-Owanga. - Paris: Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Gabon ; hip hop ; gender relations ; identity ; political action

General
Passion and compassion : the ecumenical journey with HIV / Manoj Kurian. - Geneva: World Council of Churches, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Aids ; Christianity ; Shilluk language

Ghana
Migration in a globalizing world : perspectives from Ghana / edited by Mariama Awumbila, Delali Badasu, Joseph Teye. - Legon-Accra, Ghana: For the University of Ghana by Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ghana ; international migration ; migrants

Ghana
Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo : New Patriotic Party presidential candidate for 2016 : "arise for change" / [Nana Addo Wo Kuromu ; author, Baffuor Osei Akoto Amoatin]. - [Ghana]: [West African International Promoters for Cultural Heritage (Gh Ltd.)], 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ghana ; presidential elections ; election campaigns ; New Patriotic Party ; speeches (form)

Ghana
The Catholic voice in Ghana : speaking the spirit of Vatican II, 1966-1972 / edited by Baba G. Jallow. - Legon-Accra, Ghana: Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ghana ; Catholic Church ; social conditions ; 1900-1999

Kenya
People's resistance to colonialism and imperialism in Kenya and reflections on resistance Karimi Nduthu / Shiraz Durrani. - Nairobi, Kenya: Vita Books, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; colonialism ; anticolonialism ; Mau Mau ; trade unions

Kenya
Practices of multiple justice systems in Kenya / authored by Dr. Steve Ouma Akoth. - Nairobi, Kenya: The Kenyan Section of the Internatinal Commission for Jurists (ICJ Kenyan Section), 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; legal systems ; administration of justice

Mali
Le Mali 50 ans après : de Modibo Keïta à Amadou Toumani Touré / Doumbi-Fakoly. - Paris: Menaibuc, 2010.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mali ; heads of State ; social policy ; economic policy ; social history ; economic history ; political history

Nigeria
Boko Haram : du problème nigérian à la menace régionale : Sambe Bakary. - Montréal: Presses Panafricaines, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; Islamic movements ; terrorism ; regional security

Nigeria
Eyes of history / Lukman Olaonipekun. - Nigeria: [publisher not identified], 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; photography ; pictorial works (form)

Senegal
Contestations islamisées : le Sénégal entre diplomatie d'influence et islam politique / Bakary Sambe. - Montréal, Québec: Editions Afrikana, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; Arab countries ; Islam ; State ; religious policy ; foreign policy ; international relations

South Africa
Respectable mothers, tough men and good daughters : producing persons in Manenberg township South Africa / Elaine R. Salo. - Mankon, Bamenda: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; townships ; identity ; race relations ; gender relations

South Africa
Cradock : how segregation and apartheid came to a South African town / Jeffrey Butler ; edited by Richard Elphick and Jeannette Hopkins. - Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; segregation ; race relations ; social conditions ; social history ; local history ; apartheid ; 1920-1929 ; 1930-1939 ; 1940-1949

South Africa
Special issue: new frontiers of mining in South Africa = Numéro thématique: Afrique du sud : nouvelles frontières dans le secteur minier / Suzanne Dansereau (editor). - Montréal: Centre for Developing-Area Studies, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; mining

South Africa
The king's journal : from the horse's mouth / Kgafela Kgafela II. - Bloomington: AuthorHouse UK Ltd, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; United States ; Kgatla ; traditional rulers ; personal narratives (form)

Southern Africa
Neo-Pentecostalism in Southern Africa : some critical reflections / Hermen Kroesbergen (editor). - Wellington [South Africa]: Christian Literature Fund, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Southern Africa ; Pentecostalism

Southern Africa
Women in Church and society : voices of women from the IMBISA region / edited by Alice Zinyemba. - [Harare, Zimbabwe]: [Imbisa], 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Southern Africa ; women ; Catholic Church

Subsaharan Africa
Blue economy handbook of the Indian Ocean region / edited by Vishva Nath Attri and Narnia Bohler-Muller. - Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Indian Ocean ; sustainable development ; climate change ; environmental management

Subsaharan Africa
Africa's progress in regional and global economic integration : towards new trade and investment policies / ed. by Reuben A Alabi ... [et al.]. - Berlin [etc.]: Lit, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa ; Sudan ; Nigeria ; Uganda ; Tunisia ; Gambia ; economic development ; economic integration ; trade policy ; foreign investments

Subsaharan Africa
Informal mining and family vulnerability in Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe : advocacy for human dignity and integrity of creation / Elias O. Opongo, SJ (Ed.). - Harare: African Forum for Social Teaching, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; Zambia ; Zimbabwe ; mining ; informal sector

Subsaharan Africa
Cahier Dakar-Djibouti / Marcel Griaule, Michel Leiris, Deborah Lifchitz, Éric Lutten, Jean Mouchet, Gaston-Louis Roux, André Schaeffner ; édition établie, présentée et annotée par Éric Jolly et Marianne Lemaire ; avec la collaboration de Julien Bondaz, Claire Bosc-Tiessé, Marie Gautheron, Brice Gérard, Jean Jamin, Makeda Ketcham, Cécile van den Avenne, Anaïs Wion. - [Meurcourt, France]: Éditions les Cahiers, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa ; Benin ; Cameroon ; Djibouti ; Ethiopia ; Mali ; Senegal ; France ; expeditions ; fieldwork ; anthropology ; Dogon ; articles (form)

Sudan
The Sammāniyya : doctrine, history and future / Dr. Abdulgalil Abd Allah Salih. - [Khartoum]: [A.A. Salih], 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Sudan ; Muslim brotherhoods ; Sufism

Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe agenda for sustainable socio-economic transformation : critical perspectives and debates in public policy / edited by Innocent Chirisa and Peter Kwaira. - Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; sustainable development ; social change

Zimbabwe
The Dziva Hungwe Kalanga communities / by Aeneas Chigwedere. - Marondera [Zimbabwe]: Mutapa Publishing House, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; Kalanga ; history

Zimbabwe
The Great Zimbabwe state and its off-shoots : A.D.1000-1700 / by Aeneas Chigwedere. - Harare: Mutapa Publishing House, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; Great Zimbabwe ; political history

Zimbabwe
Succession and the ZANU PF body politic / Derek Matyszak. - Harare, Zimbabwe: Southern African Political Economy Series, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; Zanu-pf ; party structure ; succession

Zimbabwe
Engaging with the past : same-sex relationships in pre-colonial Zimbabwe / edited by Ezra Chitando. - Harare: Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiative in Africa, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; homosexuality ; Shona ; precolonial period

Zimbabwe
Floods in Zimbabwe : a social-economic rights perspective / [Charlton C. Tsodzo]. - [Harare]: Mindstore, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; floods ; government policy
 

African Literature

Algeria
1994 / Adlène Meddi. - Paris: Rivages Editions, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Algeria ; novels (form)

Burkina Faso
"Corinne" en haut et "Gildas" en bas : (Roman) / Edouard Yoni. - Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso): Céprodif, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; novels (form)

Burkina Faso
Les tuiles sur la tête : (roman) / David R. Sawadogo. - Ouagadougou: Céprodif, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; novels (form)

Burkina Faso
Une lune rouge : l'histoire d'Ismaël le réfugié / Pakisba Al Ouédraogo. - [Ouagadougou]: Editions Mercury, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; novels (form)

Burkina Faso
Voyage de nuages : roman / Timothée H. Kaboré ; [préface de Mgr Anselme T. Sanon]. - Ouagadougou: ITA Editions, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; novels (form)

Burkina Faso
La dynastie maudite : (roman) / Yamba Elie OUEDRAOGO. - [Burkina Faso]: Éditions Atelier Théâtre Burkinabè (ATB), 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; novels (form)

Burkina Faso
Parcours d'un combattant : roman / Zounogo Léandre Ouédraogo ; préface de Serge Théophile Balima. - [Ouagadougou]: Les Éditions Empreintes-Burkina Faso, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; novels (form)

Burkina Faso
Falagountou : suivi de Le rire / Yamba Elie Ouedraogo. - [Burkina Faso]: Edition Atelier Théâtre Burkinabè (ATB), 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; folk tales (form) ; novels (form)

Burkina Faso
Du ministère au mystère : Recueil de poèmes / Alfred Jean Michel Bationo. - Ouagadougou: Presses Universitaires de Ouagadougou (PUO), 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; poetry (form)

Burkina Faso
Kabena, l'Instituteur / Hado Paul Zabre. - [Burkina Faso]: [Hado Paul Zabre], 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; teachers ; novels (form)

Burkina Faso
Les sillons de lʼexistence : poesie / Emile Lalsaga. - Ouagadougou: Le GERSTIC, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; poetry (form)

Burkina Faso
Histoires pour enfants : légendes / Timothée H. Kabore. - Ouagadougou: Harmattan Burkina, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; youth literature (form)

Burkina Faso
Victime d'amour / Sanhouba Gildas Kere. - Ouagadougou: Les Nouvelles Editions pour la Promotion des Langues Nationales, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; short stories (form)

Burkina Faso
La liberté enivrante : théâtre / Alfred Jean Michel Bationo. - Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Presses Universitaires de Ouagadougou, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; drama (form)

Burkina Faso
SPR : théâtre / Dieudonné Niangouna. - Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso): Découvertes du Burkina, 2010.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; drama (form)

Burkina Faso
Parchemins migrateurs : poèmes / Jacques Prosper Bazié. - Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso [Ouagadougou]: Editions Kraal Presses africaines, 2009.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; poetry (form)

Burkina Faso
Secrets d'alcôve : Nouvelle / Ansomwin Ignace Hien. - Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso): Éditions Le Lis, 2009.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; short stories (form)

Burkina Faso
Hymne à l'amour : poems / Henri-Michel Nasssaris. - Ouagadougou ©2008: Découvertes du Burkina, 2008.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burkina Faso ; poetry (form)

Chad
Femme Tchadienne, femme de toute part / Clarisse Nomaye. - [N'Djamena, Tchad]: Editions SAO, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Chad ; poetry (form)

Egypt
J'ai couru vers le Nil / Alaa El Aswany ; roman traduit de l'arabe (Égypte) par Gilles Gauthier. - Arles: Actes Sud, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Egypt ; novels (form)

Ghana
Father Boateng / Kwaku Bamfi Adomako. - Legon-Accra, Ghana: Adwinsa Publications (Gh) Ltd., 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ghana ; novels (form)

Mauritius
Quatre beaux contes / Balgangadhur Seetohul. - [Mauritius]: Balgangadhur Seetohul, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mauritius ; short stories (form)

South Africa
In de stille achterkamer : gedichten bij schilderijen van Adriaen Coorte en Jan Mankes / Marlene van Niekerk ; [vertaald door Marlene van Niekerk en Henda Strydom]. - Amsterdam: Querido, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; Netherlands ; painting ; poetry (form)

Togo
Au clair de mon âme / Marie Kétline Adodo. - [Lomé, Togo]: ACCT-BRAO : Editions HAHO, 1998.
ASC Subject·Headings: Togo ; poetry (form)
 

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