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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 ASCL Library and a link to the ASCL journal articles alert.

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New acquisitions - week 21 2015

Week 21 2015

Books

Africa
La figure du père en Afrique : lieu anthropologique d'une ecclésiologie / Célestin Coomlan Avocan. - Torino : L'Harmattan Italia, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; Catholic Church ; fathers

Congo (Brazzaville)
L'Église et l'État au Congo de 1960 à 1991 / Sylvain Makosso-Makosso. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Catholic Church ; Church and State ; Church history ; Congo (Brazzaville) ; political history

Democratic Republic of Congo
Et si le maréchal Mobutu était de l'autre rive? / René Sakas. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; ethnicity ; genealogy ; heads of State ; identity

East Africa
Savannas of our birth : people, wildlife, and change in East Africa / Robin S. Reid. - Berkeley, CA [etc.] : University of California Press, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: biodiversity ; East Africa ; land use ; pastoralists ; savannas

Egypt
Egypt in the future tense : hope, frustration, and ambivalence before and after 2011 / Samuli Schielke. - Bloomington, IN [etc.] : Indiana University Press, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: class relations ; Egypt ; Islam ; marriage ; protest ; social change ; social conditions

Egypt
Auto/biography and the construction of identity and community in the Middle East / ed. by Mary Ann Fay. - New York, NY [etc.] : Palgrave, 2002
ASC Subject Headings: biography ; Egypt ; historiography ; history ; Maghreb ; Middle East ; women

Gabon
Une autre vision du Gabon : prémices pour la démocratie / Pierre-André Kombila-Koumba. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: authoritarianism ; Gabon ; governance ; patronage ; political conditions

Kenya
Dash before dusk : a slave descendants journey in freedom / Joe Khamisi. - Nairobi [etc.] : Kenway Publications [etc.], 2014
ASC Subject Headings: autobiographies (form) ; Kenya ; politicians

Nigeria
Moment of truth : the compelling story of pastor Tunde Bakare / comp. by Victorson Agbenson. - Ibadan : Safari Books, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: African Independent Churches ; biographies (form) ; clergy ; Nigeria

Northeast Africa Ethiopia
A socio-cultural history of Ethiopia and the Horn : a historical survey of social service developments and cultural diversities in Ethiopia and the Horn / Adane Kassie. - Saarbrücken : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: cultural pluralism ; Ethiopia ; Northeast Africa ; social services

Senegal
Carnets politiques du Sénégal : regard critique sur la décennie post-alternance / Cheikh Mbacké Gueye. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: 2000-2009 ; articles (form) ; political history ; Senegal

Senegal
Le barrage de Diama : évaluation des avantages sociaux et environnementaux de la retenue d'eau / Ousmane Thiam ; préf. de Mohamed Salem Merzoug. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: dams ; environmental management ; irrigation ; river basin organizations ; river basins ; Senegal ; water resources

South Africa
Healing roots : anthropology in life and medicine / Julie Laplante. - New York [etc.] : Berghahn Books, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: folk medicine ; medical anthropology ; medicinal plants ; social environment ; South Africa

South Africa
Ben Dekker : larger than life / comp. by Gerald McCann. - [South Africa] : [Gerald McCann], 2014
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; South Africa

South Africa
What's gone wrong? : South Africa on the brink of failed statehood / Alex Boraine ; foreword by Desmond Tutu. - New York [etc.] : New York University Press, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: African National Congress (South Africa) ; corruption ; governance ; political conditions ; South Africa ; State collapse

South Africa
Zumanomics : which way to shared prosperity? / ed. by Raymond Parsons. (Abstract available) - Johannesburg : Jacana Media, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: economic conditions ; economic policy ; fiscal policy ; industrial policy ; labour policy ; South Africa ; trade policy

Subsaharan Africa
Asia-Africa development divergence : a question of intent / David Henley. - London : Zed Books Ltd, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Asia ; development ; economic development ; governance ; poverty ; Subsaharan Africa

Subsaharan Africa
Reconstructing economic governance after conflict in resource-rich African countries / ed. by Karl Wohlmuth and Tino Urban. (Abstract available) - Münster : Lit Verlag, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: 2006 ; Angola ; conference papers (form) ; Côte d'Ivoire ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; economic policy ; Ghana ; governance ; natural resource management ; Nigeria ; petroleum industry ; political conflicts ; Subsaharan Africa

United States
U.S. trade with developing countries : policy, programs and trends / Kalan R. Geisler, ed. (Abstract available) - New York, NY : Nova Science Publishers, Inc, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: developing countries ; development cooperation ; foreign policy ; international trade ; Subsaharan Africa ; United States

West Africa
Le franc CFA, ou la monnaie des pays PMA (les pays Pas Moyen d'Avancer) : l'impératif de l'intégration régionale avec une monnaie unique pour une zone monétaire optimale en Afrique de l'Ouest / Yacouba Fassassi. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: ECOWAS ; franc zone ; monetary areas ; monetary policy ; West Africa

West Africa
The divine flood : Ibrhm Niasse and the roots of a twentieth-century Sufi revival / Rüdiger Seesemann. - New York [etc.] : Oxford University Press, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: religious history ; Sufism ; ulema ; West Africa

African Literature

Cameroon
God the artist and other poems / Sammy Oke Akombi. - Mankon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; poetry (form)

Ghana
Taboo / Mawuli Adzei. - Accra-Ghana : Kwadwoan Publishing, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: clergy ; extramarital sexuality ; Ghana ; novels (form)

Sierra Leone
The ghosts of Ngaingah / Michael Fayia Kallon. - Accra : Sierra Leonean Writers Series, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: folk tales (form) ; Kissi ; myths ; Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone
Journey to dreamland : a novel / J. Sorie Conteh. - [S.l. : s.n.], 2012
ASC Subject Headings: diasporas ; novels (form) ; Sierra Leone ; United States

Somalia
A man of good hope / Jonny Steinberg. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; Somalia

South Africa
Buys 'n grensroman / Willem Anker. - Kaapstad : Kwela Boeke, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; South Africa

South Africa
Chameleon house : short stories / Mellisa De Villiers. - Cape Town : Modjaji Books, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: short stories (form) ; South Africa

South Africa
My children have faces / Carol Campbell. - Cape Town : Umuzi, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: identity ; living conditions ; nomads ; novels (form) ; South Africa