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Africa
The impact of global trade policies on the right to access essential medicines in Africa / Moses Mulumba & Ginamia Melody Ngwatu.(Abstract available)
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights : (2011), vol. 17, no. 2, p. 456-467
ASC Subject Headings: access to health care ; Africa ; international trade ; medicinal drugs ; trade policy

Kenya
Human rights critique in post-colonial Africa : practices among Luo in Western Kenya / Steve Ouma Akoth.(Abstract available)
In: Anthropology Southern Africa : (2014), vol. 37, nos. 1/2, p. 94-106
ASC Subject Headings: attitudes ; human rights ; Kenya ; Luo ; modernization ; postcolonialism

Nigeria
Popular misconceptions of entrepreneurship education in a higher education institution in Niger Delta Region of Nigera / Clara Olele & Chinize Uche.
In: Zimbabwe Journal of Educational Research : (2013), vol. 25, no. 1, p. 38-60 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: Curriculum ; entrepreneurs ; higher education ; Nigeria

Nigeria
Balancing the concept of the best interests of the child and the application of corporal punishment in Nigera / Simisola O. Akintola.(Abstract available)
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights : (2011), vol. 17, no. 2, p. 297-319
ASC Subject Headings: children ; corporal punishment ; criminal law ; Nigeria ; schools

Nigeria
Issues in African family law : Nigeria in perspective / O.A. Fatula, O.S. Oyelade & A.A. Adedeji.(Abstract available)
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights : (2011), vol. 17, no. 2, p. 320-342
ASC Subject Headings: family law ; law of inheritance ; Nigeria ; women's rights

Nigeria
Poverty and the realization of the millennium development goals in Nigeria : disability rights the missing link / Ruth Akinbola Bukola.(Abstract available)
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights : (2011), vol. 17, no. 2, p. 532-550
ASC Subject Headings: disabled ; discrimination ; human rights ; Nigeria ; poverty

Nigeria
Transnational corporations and the protection of human rights in Nigeria : towards an integrated functional approach / Nlerum S. Okogbule.(Abstract available)
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights : (2011), vol. 17, no. 2, p. 407-428
ASC Subject Headings: human rights ; multinational enterprises ; Nigeria

Northeast Africa
The Cooperative Framework Agreement (CFA) 2010 legal regime for river Nile and future peace prospects in the Nile Basin / Philip Apuuli Kasaija.(Abstract available)
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights : (2011), vol. 17, no. 2, p. 468-480
ASC Subject Headings: African agreements ; international law ; Nile River ; Northeast Africa ; river basins

South Africa
'An African way of doing things' : reproducing gender and generation / Nolwazi Mkhwanazi.(Abstract available)
In: Anthropology Southern Africa : (2014), vol. 37, nos. 1/2, p. 107-118
ASC Subject Headings: adolescents ; child care ; pregnancy ; South Africa ; townships

South Africa
Knowledge of life : health, strength and labour in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Thomas Cousins.(Abstract available)
In: Anthropology Southern Africa : (2014), vol. 37, nos. 1/2, p. 30-41
ASC Subject Headings: diet ; folk medicine ; KwaZulu ; Natal ; South Africa ; wood industry ; workers

South Africa
Milk and management : breastfeeding as a project /Miriam H.A. Waltz.(Abstract available)
In: Anthropology Southern Africa : (2014), vol. 37, nos. 1/2, p. 42-49 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: attitudes ; breastfeeding ; middle class ; mothers ; South Africa

South Africa
The miracle workers : obstacles and opportunities for restoring sight to children in KwaZulu-Natal / Susan Levine, Lene Øverland & Prasidh Ramson.(Abstract available)
In: Anthropology Southern Africa : (2014), vol. 37, nos. 1/2, p. 81-93
ASC Subject Headings: child care ; child health ; KwaZulu ; Natal ; parents ; physically disabled ; South Africa

South Africa
Warriors of the rainbow nation? : South African rugby after apartheid / Isak Niehaus.(Abstract available)
In: Anthropology Southern Africa : (2014), vol. 37, nos. 1/2, p. 68-80
ASC Subject Headings: Afrikaners ; masculinity ; nation building ; nationalism ; rugby ; South Africa ; Whites

South Africa
"I Read What I Like" : politics of reading and reading politics in apartheid South Africa / Rachel Matteau-Matsha.(Abstract available)
In: Transformation : (2013), no. 83, p. 56-85
ASC Subject Headings: apartheid ; censorship ; political consciousness ; reading ; social change ; South Africa

South Africa
Cross-sectoral state co-ordination, skill regimes and economic development : lessons for South Africa from Finland, Ireland and Malaysia / Andre Kraak.(Abstract available)
In: Transformation : (2013), no. 83, p. 1-31 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: economic development ; government departments ; government policy ; South Africa

South Africa
South Africa as a Party to the ICERD : a briefing paper / Michael Banton.(Abstract available)
In: Transformation : (2013), no. 83, p. 86-93
ASC Subject Headings: international agreements ; racism ; South Africa

South Africa
Woza eNanda : perceptions of and attitudes towards heritage and tourism in a South African township / Sabine Marschall.(Abstract available)
In: Transformation : (2013), no. 83, p. 32-55 : krt
ASC Subject Headings: attitudes ; cultural heritage ; South Africa ; tourism ; townships

South Africa
The constitutional role of the South African Human Rights Commission in investigating hate speech allegations / Joshua Azriel.(Abstract available)
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights : (2011), vol. 17, no. 2, p. 393-406
ASC Subject Headings: constitutional law ; freedom of speech ; human rights institutions ; South Africa

Tanzania
"I didn't want to write this": the social embeddedness of translating moonsighting verses of the Quran into Swahili / Gerard C. van de Bruinhorst.
In: Journal of Qur'anic Studies : (2015), vol. 17, no. 3, p. 206-231
ASC Subject Headings: Arabic language ; calendars ; Islam ; Koran ; Oman ; Swahili language ; Tanzania ; translation ; Zanzibar
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/39423782X.pdf

Tanzania
The jurisdiction of the Commission for Mediation and Arbitration and the Labour Court in determining tortious matters arising in the course of employment in Tanzania / Marwa Maridadi Phanuel.(Abstract available)
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights : (2011), vol. 17, no. 2, p. 480-495
ASC Subject Headings: employment ; jurisdiction ; labour courts ; labour law ; Tanzania

Uganda
How should the most evil of law breakers be punished? : the death penalty versus life imprisonment in Uganda, 1993-2009 / Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi.(Abstract available)
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights : (2011), vol. 17, no. 2, p. 429-455
ASC Subject Headings: capital punishment ; imprisonment ; Uganda

Zimbabwe
An assessment of the vacation school conduct : stakeholders' views / Simbarashe Munikwa & Emmanuel Chinamasa.
In: Zimbabwe Journal of Educational Research : (2013), vol. 25, no. 1, p. 61-76 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: schooling ; special education ; Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe
An evaluation of how students learn to write research proposals : a case study of the Master of Education students in the Faculty of Education, University of Zimbabwe / Morrin Phiri.
In: Zimbabwe Journal of Educational Research : (2013), vol. 25, no. 1, p. 77-97
ASC Subject Headings: research methods ; students ; writing ; Zimbabwe

Electronic documents

Cameroon
Rapport national sur l'etat de la population. - Cameroun : BUCREP, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; population ; statistics
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/394208064-2011.pdf http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/394208064-2012.pdf http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/394208064-2013.pdf http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/394208064-2014.pdf

East Africa
Unlocking the potential of agricultural research and development in the highlands of East and Central Africa / A.A. Adekunle [and 10 others]. - Accra, Ghana : Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural innovations ; agricultural research ; Central Africa ; East Africa ; economic development
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docx/394217381.pdf

Gabon
La10ème édition tropicale Amissa Bongo 2015 : le livre de route. - [Libreville : Le Comité dOrganisation de la Tropicale Amissa Bongo 2015], 2014
ASC Subject Headings: cycling ; Gabon
http://www.tropicaleamissabongo.com/images/documents/Livre%20de%20route%202015%20(en%20entier)%20Web.pdf

Ghana
Medium-term national development policy framework : Ghana shared growth and development agenda (GSGDA) II, 2014-2017 / Government of Ghana, National Development Planning Commission ((NDPC). - [Ghana] : The Commission, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: economic development ; economic planning ; Ghana
http://www.ndpc.gov.gh/GPRS/MnE/Ghana%20Shared%20Growth%20and%20Development%20Agenda%202014-2017%20(GSGDA%20II)_December2014.pdf

Ghana
Medium-term national development policy framework : Ghana shared growth and development agenda (GSGDA), 2010-2013 / Government of Ghana, National Development Planning Commission ((NDPC). - [Ghana] : The Commission, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: economic development ; economic planning ; Ghana
http://www.ndpc.gov.gh/GPRS/MnE/Ghana%20Shared%20Growth%20and%20Development%20Agenda%202014-2017%20(GSGDA%20II)_December2014.pdf

Books

Africa
In the name of the mother : reflections on writers & empire / Ngg wa Thiongo. - Suffolk [etc.] : James Currey [etc.], 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; colonialism ; essays (form) ; literary criticism ; postcolonialism

Africa
Reading contemporary African literature : critical perspectives / ed. by Reuben Makayiko Chirambo and J.K.S. Makokha. - Amsterdam [etc.] : Rodopi, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African Americans ; black women ; feminism ; literary criticism ; popular literature ; United States

Ghana
Looking back, moving forward : tranformation and ethical practice in the Ghanaian Church of Pentecost / Girish Daswani. - Toronto [etc.] : University of Toronto Press, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: diasporas ; Ghana ; Great Britain ; Pentecostalism

Middle East
Political civility in the Middle East / edited by Frédéric Volpi. (Abstract available) - London [etc] : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: Cape Verde ; civil society ; Egypt ; Middle East ; Morocco ; political participation ; social change ; State-society relationship

Middle East
Public opinion in the Middle East : survey research and the political orientations of ordinary citizens / Mark Tessler. - Bloomington [etc.], IN : Indiana University Press, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Algeria ; democracy ; Egypt ; gender inequality ; Islam ; Middle East ; Morocco ; political attitudes ; political conflicts ; public opinion ; Tunisia

Middle East
Protestanten im Orient / hrsg. von Martin Tamcke [und] Arthur Manukyan. (Abstract available) - Würzburg : Ergon Verlag, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: Christianity ; Church history ; Egypt ; Germany ; Middle East ; missions ; Morocco ; Protestant churches ; Tunisia

Middle East
State-owned enterprises in the Middle East and North Africa : privatization, performance and reform / ed. by Merih Celasun. (Abstract available) - London [etc] : Routledge, 2001
ASC Subject Headings: economic policy ; Egypt ; Middle East ; Northern Africa ; privatization ; public enterprises ; Sudan ; Turkey

South Africa
Special Issue : reflections on 20 years of South African democracy from below / Lisa Thompson. (Abstract available) - Abingdon [etc.] : Routledge [etc.], 2014
ASC Subject Headings: action groups ; citizenship ; civil society ; political participation ; South Africa ; trade unions

South Africa
The selfless constitution : experimentalism and flourishing as foundations of South Africa's basic law / Stu Woolman. - Cape Town : Juta, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: constitutional law ; constitutionalism ; education ; housing policy ; human rights ; social services ; South Africa

South Sudan
The state of post-conflict reconstruction : land, urban development and state-building in Juba, Southern Sudan / Naseem Badiey. - Woodbridge : James Curry, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: capitals ; conflict resolution ; land tenure ; peacebuilding ; South Sudan ; State formation ; urban development

Tanzania
Building a peaceful nation : Julius Nyerere and the establishment of sovereignty in Tanzania, 1960-1964 / Paul Bjerk. - Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: 1960-1969 ; independence ; postcolonialism ; sovereignty ; TANU ; Tanzania

Tanzania
Surgeon of Jack of all trades? : a mission doctor in Tangayika 1949-1990 / by Marion Bartlett. - Bentham : Words by Design, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: 1950-1999 ; doctors ; missions ; personal narratives (form) ; Tanzania

Journals

West Africa
Journal of West African history.
ASC Subject Headings: history ; West Africa

African literature

South Africa
Three women out of love / Gertrud Strauss. - Cowies Hill : Solo Collective, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Germans ; Natal ; novels (form) ; South Africa ; women

South Africa
Cabin fever / Diane Awerbuck. - Cape Town : Umuzi, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; South Africa

South Africa
Iago's last dance : a trilogy of plays / Mike van Graan. - Mowbray : Junkets Publisher, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: AIDS ; drama (form) ; South Africa

South Africa
Chapters of childhood / Gertrud Strauss. - Cowies Hill : Solo Collective, 2006
ASC Subject Headings: farms ; Germans ; KwaZulu ; Natal ; personal narratives (form) ; South Africa

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