New titles

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.

N.B. The next issue will be published on Monday, 6 January 2025.

New acquisitions - week 20 2015

Week 20 2015

Articles

Africa
Determinants of election outcomes : new evidence from Africa / Kjell Hausken and Mthuli Ncube.
In: African Development Review : (2014), vol. 26, no. 4, p. 610-630 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; elections
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8268.2014.12117.x (Restricted access)

Africa
Measuring multi-membership in economic integration and its trade impact : a comparative study of ECOWAS and SADC / Sylvanus Kwaku Afesorgbor and Peter A.G. van Bergeijk. (Abstract available)
In: The South African Journal of Economics : (2014), vol. 82, no. 4, p. 518-530 : fig., tab
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; economic integration ; economic models ; ECOWAS ; SADC

Africa
Software piracy and scientific publications : knowledge economy evidence from Africa / Simplice A. Asongu.(Abstract available)
In: African Development Review : (2014), vol. 26, no. 4, p. 572-583 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; fraud ; intellectual property ; software
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8268.12113 (Restricted access)

Africa
Woman-to-woman marriage : a cultural paradox in contemporary Africa's consitutional profile / by Jackton B. Ojwang and Emily Nyiva Kinama.(Abstract available)
In: Verfassung und Recht in Übersee : (2014), Jg. 47, Quart. 4, S. 412-433
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; constitutions ; family law ; international law ; Kenya ; woman-to-woman marriage

Africa
Antirassismus und Antikolonialismus unter afrikanischen Intellektuellen, 1850 bis 1970 : ideengeschichtliche Anmerkungen / Arno Sonderegger.(Abstract available)
In: Stichproben : (2013), Jg. 13, Nr. 25, S. 53-74 : graf
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; anticolonialism ; intellectual history ; intellectuals ; pan-Africanism
http://stichproben.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_ stichproben/Artikel/Nummer25/Stichproben_25_Sonderegger.pdf

Cameroon
Regulation, SMEs' growth and performance in Cameroon's central and littoral provinces' manufacturing and retail sectors / Oludele A. Akinboade.(Abstract available)
In: African Development Review : (2014), vol. 26, no. 4, p. 597-609 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; environmental law ; fiscal law ; labour law ; small enterprises
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8268.12116 (Restricted access)

Democratic Republic of Congo
The protection of the right to health under the Constitution of the Democratic Republic of Congo / by Dady Mumbanika Mbwisi.(Abstract available)
In: Verfassung und Recht in Übersee : (2014), Jg. 47, Quart. 4, S. 434-446
ASC Subject Headings: constitutions ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; health ; social and economic rights

Egypt
The missing revolution : El-Sisi's presidency in the light of the army's historical role in Egypt / Robert Priewasser.(Abstract available)
In: Stichproben : (2014), Jg. 13, Nr. 27, S. 55-78
ASC Subject Headings: armed forces ; civil-military relations ; Egypt ; military regimes
http://stichproben.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_ stichproben/Artikel/Nummer27/Stichproben27_03_Priewasser.pdf

Eritrea
The political representation of women in totalitarian states : a case study of Eritrea / Tirhas T. Habtu.(Abstract available)
In: Stichproben : (2013), Jg. 13, Nr. 24, S. 33-63
ASC Subject Headings: Eritrea ; political participation ; women
http://stichproben.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_ stichproben/Artikel/Nummer24/24_Habtu.pdf

Ghana
Agency conflict and bank interest spreads in Ghana / Sam Mensah and Joshua Yindenaba Abor. (Abstract available)
In: African Development Review : (2014), vol. 26, no. 4, p. 549-560 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: banking ; Ghana ; interest rates
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8268.12111 (Restricted access)

Ghana
From saint to devil : the visual transformations of Kwame Nkrumah in 'Accra Evening News' cartoons / Baba G. Jallow.(Abstract available)
In: Stichproben : (2014), Jg. 13, Nr. 27, S. 79-103 : ill
ASC Subject Headings: cartoons ; Ghana ; heads of State
http://stichproben.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_ stichproben/Artikel/Nummer27/Stichproben27_04_Jallow.pdf

Mauritius
Central Bank independence and inflation : evidence from Mauritius / B. Seetanah, R. V. Sannassee, and S. Dilmohamed.(Abstract available)
In: African Development Review : (2014), vol. 26, no. 4, p. 561-571 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: central banks ; inflation ; Mauritius
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8268.12112 (Restricted access)

Nigeria
The 2014 Nigerian National Conference and the development of environmental law and governance / by Uzuazo Etemire.
In: Verfassung und Recht in Übersee : (2014), Jg. 47, Quart. 4, S. 482-490
ASC Subject Headings: environmental law ; environmental management ; national conferences ; Nigeria

Nigeria
Hierarchiewandel im Niger-Delta : über den Generationskonflikt bei den Ogoni und Ijaw / Paul Beitzer.(Abstract available)
In: Stichproben : (2013), Jg. 13, Nr. 25, S. 75-95
ASC Subject Headings: generation conflicts ; Ijo ; Niger Delta conflict ; Nigeria ; Ogoni
http://stichproben.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_ stichproben/Artikel/Nummer25/Stichproben_25_Beitzer.pdf

Nigeria
The colonial public sphere in Nigeria, 1920-1943 / Katharina Oke.(Abstract available)
In: Stichproben : (2013), Jg. 13, Nr. 25, S. 29-52
ASC Subject Headings: 1920-1929 ; 1930-1939 ; newspapers ; Nigeria ; public opinion
http://stichproben.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_ stichproben/Artikel/Nummer25/Stichproben_25_Oke.pdf

Senegal
Analyse d'une controverse : les discours sur l'homosexualité dans l'espace public au Sénégal / Ndèye Ndiagna Gning.
In: Stichproben : (2013), Jg. 13, Nr. 24, S. 93-120
ASC Subject Headings: homosexuality ; images ; public opinion ; Senegal ; values
http://stichproben.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_ stichproben/Artikel/Nummer24/24_Gning.pdf

South Africa
Capital flows : the South African experience / Logan Rangasamy.(Abstract available)
In: The South African Journal of Economics : (2014), vol. 82, no. 4, p. 551-566 : graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: balance of payments ; capital movements ; economic models ; South Africa

South Africa
Inflation and market uncertainty in South Africa / Philippe Burger.(Abstract available)
In: The South African Journal of Economics : (2014), vol. 82, no. 4, p. 583-602 : graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: economic models ; inflation ; South Africa

South Africa
Quantifying inefficient expenditure in local government : a free disposable hull analysis of a sample of South African municipalities / Jugal Mahabir.(Abstract available)
In: The South African Journal of Economics : (2014), vol. 82, no. 4, p. 493-517 : graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: economic models ; municipal government ; public expenditure ; South Africa

South Africa
Resource utilisation efficiency : a South African provincial evaluation / C. Van Heerden and Riaan Rossouw.(Abstract available)
In: The South African Journal of Economics : (2014), vol. 82, no. 4, p. 475-492 : graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: economic models ; industrial productivity ; infrastructure ; South Africa

South Africa
Sudden stops and current account reversals : potential macroeconomic consequences for South Africa / Ben Smit, Christelle Grobler and Carmen Nel.(Abstract available)
In: The South African Journal of Economics : (2014), vol. 82, no. 4, p. 616-627 : graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: balance of payments ; capital movements ; economic conditions ; economic models ; South Africa

South Africa
The determinants of time-varying exchange rate pass-through in South Africa / Charl Jooste and Yaseen Jhaveri.(Abstract available)
In: The South African Journal of Economics : (2014), vol. 82, no. 4, p. 603-615 : graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: economic models ; exchange rates ; monetary policy ; South Africa

South Africa
A gold rush to nowhere? : the rights-based approach to environmental governance in South Africa's mining sector in question / by Louis J. Kotzé and Anél Du Plessis.
In: Verfassung und Recht in Übersee : (2014), Jg. 47, Quart. 4, S. 447-481
ASC Subject Headings: environmental law ; environmental management ; mining ; pollution ; social and economic rights ; South Africa

Tanzania
Trustworthy trader or creditworthy debtor? : competing moralities and trader subjectivities at the Kariakoo Market in Dar es Salaam / Benjamin Brühwiler.(Abstract available)
In: Stichproben : (2014), Jg. 13, Nr. 27, S. 27-53
ASC Subject Headings: credit ; identity ; loans ; Tanzania ; traders
http://stichproben.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_ stichproben/Artikel/Nummer27/Stichproben27_02_Bruehwiler.pdf

Tanzania
"... what tribe should we call him?" : the Indian diaspora, the state and the nation in Tanzania since ca. 1850 / Eric Burton.(Abstract available)
In: Stichproben : (2013), Jg. 13, Nr. 25, S. 1-28
ASC Subject Headings: Indians ; social history ; State-society relationship ; Tanzania
http://stichproben.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_ stichproben/Artikel/Nummer25/Stichproben_25_Burton.pdf

Tanzania
Transient justice : colonial judges on circuit in interwar Tanganyika / Paul Swanepoel. (Abstract available)
In: Stichproben : (2013), Jg. 13, Nr. 24, S. 65-91
ASC Subject Headings: colonial history ; judges ; judicial system ; legal history ; Tanzania
http://stichproben.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_ stichproben/Artikel/Nummer24/24_Swanepoel.pdf

Togo
Nutritional health inequalities among children in Togo / Kodjo Abalo, Akoété Ega Agbodji and Akoété Ega Agbodji.(Abstract available)
In: African Development Review : (2014), vol. 26, no. 4, p. 584-596 tab
ASC Subject Headings: child health ; child nutrition ; Togo
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8268.12115 (Restricted access)

Uganda
Women's land rights and tenure security in Uganda : experiences from Mbale, Apac and Ntungamo / Barbara Gärber.(Abstract available)
In: Stichproben : (2013), Jg. 13, Nr. 24, S. 1-32
ASC Subject Headings: land rights ; land tenure ; Uganda ; women
http://stichproben.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_ stichproben/Artikel/Nummer24/24_Gaerber.pdf

Zimbabwe
Private returns to education, migration and development policies : the case of Zimbabwe / Prudence Kwenda and Miracle Ntuli.(Abstract available)
In: African Development Review : (2014), vol. 26, no. 4, p. 535-548 : graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: brain drain ; economic policy ; emigration ; Zimbabwe
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8268.12110 (Restricted access)

Electronic documents

East Africa
The song of Lionogo : an Indian Ocean mythological remix / Jiba Molei Anderson. - Chicago, Ill : Griot Enterprises, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: comic strips (form) ; East Africa ; Indian Ocean ; literature (form) ; Oman ; Swahili
http://africa.si.edu/pdf/LionogoComic.pdf

Guinea
République de Guinée: réorganisation administrative de la Caisse Nationale de Sécurité Sociale : résultats du projet et recommandations en découlant / Bureau International du Travail ; Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement. - Genève, 1989
ASC Subject Headings: Guinea ; labour law ; legal reform ; social security
http://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/1989/89B09_414_fren.pdf

Kenya
Makueni district profile: farm development 1946-1999 / F.N. Gichuki. - Crewkerne : Drylands Research, 2000
ASC Subject Headings: Kenya ; land reform ; rural development
http://www.drylandsresearch.org.uk/pdfs/WP_Gich_Farm_development.pdf

Books

Africa
Sovereignty and struggle : Africa and Africans in the era of the Cold War, 1945-1994 / Jonathan T. Reynolds. - New York, NY [etc.] : Oxford University Press, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; cold war ; decolonization ; Ghana ; music ; nation building ; transport

Africa
Kolonialismus und Entwicklung : paternalistische Kontrolle und "zivilisatorische Mission" / Walter Schicho (Hg.). (Abstract available) - Wien : ECCO, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; colonial period ; development ; development cooperation

Africa
Special issue on the 2013 African Economic Conference on "Regional integration in Africa" / Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa ... [et al.]. (Abstract available) - Oxford : Blackwell, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: 2014 ; Africa ; conference papers (form) ; economic integration ; international economic relations ; international trade

Africa
Governance for development in Africa : solving collective action problems / David Booth and Diana Cammack. - London [etc.] : Zed Books, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; economic development ; governance ; Malawi ; Niger ; Rwanda ; Uganda

Africa
Roman africain et esthétique du conte / Effoh Clément Ehora. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; folk tales ; novels ; oral literature ; storytelling

Africa
The challenges of administrative political and developmental renewal in Africa : essays on rethinking government and reorganization / John W. Forje. - New York, NY : Nova Science Publishers, Inc, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: administrative reform ; Africa ; Cameroon ; civil service ; democracy ; governance ; Liberia ; public administration ; South Africa ; sustainable development

Algeria
Violent beginnings : literary representations of postcolonial Algeria / Lucie Knight-Santos. - Lanham, MD [etc.] : Lexington Books, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Algeria ; Arabic language ; French language ; literary criticism ; literature ; postcolonialism ; violence

Congo (Brazzaville)
Les NTIC et la modernisation de la société congolaise : cas pilote du sous-secteur de l'enseignement technique, professionnel, de la formation qualifiante et de l'emploi / Rufin Ndinga. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Congo (Brazzaville) ; educational policy ; government policy ; information technology ; Internet

Congo (Brazzaville)
OUA-UA : les deux mandats de Denis Sassou N'Guesso / Émile Gankama ; préf. de Firmin Ayessa. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: African Union ; Congo (Brazzaville) ; foreign policy ; heads of State ; OAU

Egypt
The Intellectual and the people in Egyptian literature and culture : Amra and the 2011 revolution / Ayman A. El-Desouky. - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: 2011 ; Egypt ; identity ; intellectuals ; literature ; revolutions

Eritrea
Nation as network : diaspora, cyberspace, and citizenship / Victoria Bernal. - Chicago [etc.] : the University of Chicago Press, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: diasporas ; Eritrea ; Internet ; political action

Ethiopia
Katalog der Äthiopienabteilung / Annegret Marx. - Sankt Augustin : Museum Haus Völker und Kulturen, 2001
ASC Subject Headings: arts ; Ethiopia ; exhibition catalogues (form) ; religious art

Ghana
'The long garden master in the Gold Coast : life and times of a colonial agricultural officer in the Gold Coast, 1929-1947 / Sylvia Lynn-Meaden, Charles Lynn, Marjorie Lynn. - Bedfordshire : Authors OnLine, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural development ; autobiographies (form) ; colonial administration ; Ghana ; letters

Niger
Niger, une décentralisation importée : une comparaison avec la France / Mahamadou Danda. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: administrative reform ; decentralization ; history ; legislation ; local politics ; Niger

Nigeria
Ancient text messages of the Yorùbá bàtá drum : cracking the code / Amanda Villepastour. - Farnham [etc.] : Ashgate, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: drum language ; drumming ; Nigeria ; Yoruba

Rwanda
Mémorialistes et témoins rwandais (1994-2013) : bibliographie critique / François Lagarde. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: autobiography ; ethnic relations ; genocide ; Hutu ; memory ; Rwanda ; Tutsi

Senegal
Sébikhotane : territoire d'intégration, histoire des communautés et des mentalités / Mamadou Kandji ; préf. de Babacar Buuba Dioip. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: 1850-1899 ; 1900-1999 ; 2000-2009 ; local history ; Senegal ; Serer ; small towns

Subsaharan Africa
Südlich der Sahara : Afrikanische Litératur in französicher Sprache / Jànos Riesz. - Tübingen : Stauffenburg Verlag, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: French language ; literature ; Subsaharan Africa

Subsaharan Africa
The case for the COMESA-EAC-SADC tripartite arrangement / Francis Mangeni ; [ed. by Ann Mugunga]. - Lusaka : COMESA Secretariat, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: COMESA ; East African Community ; free trade areas ; SADC ; Subsaharan Africa

Uganda
Resistance and politics in contemporary East African theatre : trends in Ugandan theatre since 1960 / Samuel Kasule. - London [etc.] : Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: 1900-1999 ; national identity ; political repression ; political violence ; resistance ; theatre ; Uganda

Uganda
Primary four : social studies syllabus / National Curriculum Development Centre. - Kampala : NCDC, Ministry of Education and Sports, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: Curriculum ; social studies ; Uganda

Uganda
Essays in African banking law and practice / by Grace Patrick Tumwine-Mukubwa ; with contr. from Peter Mukidi Walubiri and Richard Okumu-Wengi. - Kampala : Uganda Law Watch, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: banking law ; Commonwealth ; Uganda

Uganda
Fiscal decentralisation and local government accountability relations in natural resources management in Uganda / Frank Emmanuel Muhereza. - Kampala : Centre for Basic Research, 2006
ASC Subject Headings: Uganda

West Africa
Pour un autre tourisme en Afrique de l'Ouest / Nathalie Casanovas. - Paris : l'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Burkina Faso ; ecotourism ; sustainable development ; tourism ; West Africa

West Africa
Rôle et responsabilité des acteurs africains dans les relations sino-africaines : ethnographie et sociogenèse des stratégies de réceptivité / Serge Banyongen. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: China ; dissertations (form) ; economic aid ; elite ; foreign investments ; foreign policy ; Gabon ; Senegal ; West Africa

World
Development aid confronts politics : the almost revolution / Thomas Carothers, Diane de Gramont. - Washington, DC [etc.] : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: development cooperation ; economic development ; international economic relations ; world