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Articles

Cameroon
Making sense of fifty years of U.S. Peace Corps service in Cameroon / by Julius A. Amin.(Abstract available)
In: International Journal of African Historical Studies : (2014), vol. 47, no. 2, p. 319-338
ASC Subject Headings: aid workers ; Cameroon ; development cooperation ; education ; health aid ; United States

Cameroon
The 'bildungsroman' in Cameroon Anglophone literature : John Nkemngong Nkengasong's 'Across the Mongolo' and Margaret Afuh's 'Born before her time' / Eunice Ngongkum.(Abstract available)
In: Research Review : (2010), vol. 26, no. 2, p. 55-74
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; English language ; identity ; literary criticism ; literature ; postcolonialism

Central African Republic
Briefing : crisis in the Central African Republic and the international response / Martin Welz.(Abstract available)
In: African Affairs : (2014), vol. 113, no. 453, p. 601-610
ASC Subject Headings: African Union ; Central African Republic ; Chad ; civil wars ; Communauté Économique des Etats de l'Afrique Centrale ; foreign intervention ; France ; international politics ; UN
http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/content/113/453/601.short (Restricted access)

Côte d'Ivoire
Land tenure reform and politics in post-conflict Côte d'Ivoire : a precarious peace in the western cocoa regions / Matthew I. Mitchell.(Abstract available)
In: Canadian Journal of African Studies : (2014), vol. 48, no. 2, p. 203-221
ASC Subject Headings: cocoa ; Côte d'Ivoire ; land conflicts ; land tenure

Côte d'Ivoire
The progress in establishing the rule of law in Côte dIvoire under Ouattaras presidency / Maja Bovcon.(Abstract available)
In: Canadian Journal of African Studies : (2014), vol. 48, no. 2, p. 185-202
ASC Subject Headings: courts ; Côte d'Ivoire ; leadership ; legal reform ; rule of law

Côte d'Ivoire
Warlord undone? : Strongman politics and post-conflict state-building in Northeastern Côte d'Ivoire (20022013) / Jeremy Speight.(Abstract available)
In: Canadian Journal of African Studies : (2014), vol. 48, no. 2, p. 223-241
ASC Subject Headings: conflict ; Côte d'Ivoire ; leadership ; local politics ; political participation ; State formation

Democratic Republic of Congo
Ending impunity for sexual and gender-based crimes : the International Criminal Court and complementarity in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Milli Lake.(Abstract available)
In: African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review : (2014), vol. 4, no. 2, p. 1-32 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; International Criminal Court ; legal reform ; legal systems ; offences against the person ; sexual offences

Equatorial Guinea
They never finished their journey : the territorial limits of Fang ethnicity in Equatorial Guinea, 1930-1963 / by Enrique N. Okenve.(Abstract available)
In: International Journal of African Historical Studies : (2014), vol. 47, no. 2, p. 259-285 : krt
ASC Subject Headings: boundaries ; Cameroon ; colonial territories ; Equatorial Guinea ; ethnic identity ; ethnicity ; Fang ; Gabon ; nationalism

Ghana
A poststructuralist approach to the Dagbon chieftancy crisis in Northern Ghana / Ken Ahorsu.(Abstract available)
In: African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review : (2014), vol. 4, no. 2, p. 95-119
ASC Subject Headings: chieftaincy ; conflict ; Dagomba ; Ghana ; social change

Ghana
Verandah boys versus reactionary lawyers : nationalist activism in Ghana, 1946-1956 / by George M. Bob-Milliar.(Abstract available)
In: International Journal of African Historical Studies : (2014), vol. 47, no. 2, p. 287-318 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: 1940-1949 ; elections ; Ghana ; nationalism ; political action ; political participation ; political parties

Ghana
Recognition and integration of traditional medicine in Ghana : a perspective / Stephen Owoahene-Acheampong and Elisa Vasconi.(Abstract available)
In: Research Review : (2010), vol. 26, no. 2, p. 1-17
ASC Subject Headings: folk medicine ; Ghana ; government policy ; national identity

Ghana
The social and reproductive health implications of independent north-south child migration in Ghana / Stephen O. Kwankye.(Abstract available)
In: Research Review : (2010), vol. 26, no. 2, p. 19-36 : fig., graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: children ; Ghana ; migration ; social conditions ; street children ; working conditions

Kenya
Model students : policy emulation, modernization, and Kenya's Vision.(Abstract available)
In: African Affairs : (2014), vol. 113, no. 453, p. 540-562
ASC Subject Headings: Asia ; development plans ; government policy ; Kenya
http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/content/113/453/540.abstract (Restricted access)

Kenya
Students, arson, and protest politics in Kenya : school fires as political action / Elizabeth Cooper.(Abstract available)
In: African Affairs : (2014), vol. 113, no. 453, p. 583-600
ASC Subject Headings: arson ; Kenya ; protest ; pupils ; secondary education
http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/content/113/453/583.abstract (Restricted access)

Nigeria
Manipulative and coercive power and the social-ecological determinants of violent conflicts in the Niger Delta of Nigeria / Isidore A. Udoh and Matthew S. Ibok.(Abstract available)
In: African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review : (2014), vol. 4, no. 2, p. 60-94 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: conflict ; corruption ; government ; Nigeria ; oil companies ; petroleum industry

Nigeria
An investigation into the influence of modernity on the traditional pottery industry of the Igbo of Southeastern Nigeria during the colonial and post-colonial eras / Vincent Egwu Ali.(Abstract available)
In: Research Review : (2010), vol. 26, no. 2, p. 75-89 : graf., krt., tab
ASC Subject Headings: Afikpo ; Igbo ; Nigeria ; pottery

Electronic documents

Africa
The crises of postcoloniality in Africa / ed. by Kenneth Omeje. - Dakar : CODESRIA, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; conflict resolution ; globalization ; political conflicts ; postcolonialism
http://www.codesria.org/spip.php?article2289&lang=en

Africa
Guidebook : addressing climate change challenges in Africa : a practical guide towards sustainable development / coordinated by Emily Massawa. - Nairobi [etc.'] : AMCEN [etc.], 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; climate change ; environmental policy
http://www.unep.org/roa/amcen/docs/publications/guidebook_CLimateChange.pdf

Africa
Solar lighting for the base of the pyramid : overview of an emerging market / Lighting Africa ; Edwin Macharia ... [et al.]. - Washington, DC : World Bank, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; marketing ; solar energy
http://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/a68a120048fd175eb8dcbc849537832d/Sola...

East Africa
Environmental governance and climate change in Africa : legal perspectives / Rose Mwebaza and Louis J Kotzé. - Pretoria : Institute for Security Studies, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; climate change ; East Africa ; environmental policy ; Nigeria
http://www.iss.co.za/uploads/M167Full.pdf http://www.area-net.org/fileadmin/user_upload/AREA/AREA_downloads/Climat...

Ethiopia
The impact of Ethiopia's community-based health insurance on household economic welfare : a policy brief / Zelalem Yilma ... [et al.]. - Leiden : African Studies Centre, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Ethiopia ; health insurance ; household expenditure
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/32717

Mali
Peuls et mobilité dans le cercle de Douentza : lespace social et la téléphonie mobile en question / Boukary Sangaré. - Bamako : Université de Bamako ; Faculté des Lettres, Langues, Arts et Sciences Humaines Sociologie, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: communication ; Fulani ; Mali ; mobile telephone ; mobility ; theses (form)
http://www.connecting-in-times-of-duress.nl/wp-content/uploads/memoire-s...

Niger
Lélevage mobile dans la région de Zinder : une recherche socio-anthropologique : rapport de synthèse / J.P. Olivier de Sardan ... [et al.]. - Niamey : LASDEL, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: economic behaviour ; livestock policy ; Niger ; pastoralists ; water supply
http://www.lasdel.net/spip/IMG/248.pdf

Niger
Les pouvoirs locaux dans la commune de Filingué / Mahaman Tidjani Alou. - Niamey : LASDEL, 2005
ASC Subject Headings: administrative divisions ; decentralization ; local government ; Niger ; public services
http://www.lasdel.net/spip/IMG/118.pdf

Niger
Conflits fonciers et aménagements hydro-agricoles dans le canton de Dessa / Abdoua Elhadji Dagobi. - Niamey : LASDEL, 2004
ASC Subject Headings: irrigation ; land conflicts ; Niger ; taxation
http://www.lasdel.net/spip/IMG/116.pdf

Niger
Des pouvoirs locaux dans lattente de la décentralisation (Niger) / J.P. Olivier de Sardan. - Niamey : LASDEL, 2004
ASC Subject Headings: decentralization ; local government ; Niger ; traditional rulers
http://www.lasdel.net/spip/IMG/114.pdf

Niger
Foncier agropastoral, conflits et gestion des aléas climatiques au Niger : cas de Dakoro et Abalak / A. Mohamadou. - Niamey : LASDEL, 2004
ASC Subject Headings: droughts ; economic behaviour ; food shortage ; land conflicts ; local government ; Niger ; risk
http://www.lasdel.net/spip/IMG/113.pdf

Niger
Le foncier pastoral : cas du terroir de Dembouten / A. Mohamadou. - Niamey : LASDEL, 2004
ASC Subject Headings: customary law ; land conflicts ; land rights ; Niger ; pastoralists ; Tuareg ; water management
http://www.lasdel.net/spip/IMG/117.pdf

Niger
Partis et dynamiques politiques locales dans les futures communes rurales de Bankilaré et du Gorouol / Eric Komlavi Hahonou. - Niamey : LASDEL, 2004
ASC Subject Headings: decentralization ; local government ; local politics ; Niger ; political parties
http://www.lasdel.net/spip/IMG/115.pdf

Sierra Leone
The GoBifo project evaluation report : assessing the impacts of community-driven development in Sierra Leone / Katherine Casey, Rachel Glennerster and Edward Miguel. - New Delhi : International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: community development ; community participation ; development projects ; evaluation ; Sierra Leone
http://www.povertyactionlab.org/sites/default/files/publications/45_64%2...

Southern Africa
PRODDER directory / comp. by SANGONeT. - Braamfontein : Southern African NGO Network (SANGONeT), 2008
ASC Subject Headings: development ; directories (form) ; NGO ; South Africa ; Southern Africa
http://www.prodder.org.za/

Subsaharan Africa
Ivory's curse: the militarization and professionalization of poaching in Africa / Varun Vira and Thomas Ewing. - Washiongton : Born Free USA, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: armed forces ; elephants ; illicit trade ; ivory ; nature conservation ; poaching ; Subsaharan Africa
http://a362a94f6d3f5f370057-c70bddd8faa4afe1b2ec557b907836d0.r4.cf1.rack...

Subsaharan Africa
Corruption, good governance and the African state : a critical analysis of the political-economic foundations of corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa / Joseph Patrick Ganahl. - Potsdam : Potsdam University Press, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: corruption ; economic conditions ; governance ; politics ; Subsaharan Africa
https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/opus4-ubp/frontdoor/index/index/docId/6664

West Africa
Historiographie africaine : Afrique de louest - Afrique centrale / Thierno Moctar Bah. - Dakar : CODESRIA, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: Central Africa ; historiography ; West Africa
http://www.codesria.org/spip.php?article2286&lang=en

Books

Africa
Divining the future of Africa : healing the wounds, restoring dignity and fostering development / Munyaradzi Mawere. - Bamenda : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African identity ; culture ; development ; globalization ; indigenous knowledge ; international relations

Africa
Le christianisme outragé : la misère religieuse en procès / Dieudonné Zognong. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; Cameroon ; Christianity ; fraud ; Pentecostalism ; popular beliefs

Africa
Mobile community reporting : a grassroots perspective on journalism / Olivier Nyirubugara. - Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; journalism ; mobile telephone

Africa
Religion and AIDS-treatment in Africa : saving souls, prolonging lives / ed. by Rijk van Dijk, Hansjörg Dilger, Marian Burchardt, Thera Rasing. (Abstract available) - Farnham : Ashgate, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; AIDS ; medicinal drugs ; religion

Burkina Faso
Au temps jadis à Monfa : légende dagara du Burkina Faso / Jémal Dazoaba Sila. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Burkina Faso ; Dagari ; legends (form) ; oral literature (form)

Cameroon
Apports de l'archéologie à l'histoire du Cameroun : le sol pour mémoire / Bienvenu Denis Nizésété. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Adamawa polity ; archaeology ; Cameroon ; Dii ; Mbum (Cameroon,Central African Republic) ; metalworking industry ; pottery

Chad
Dictionnaire pratique du français du Tchad / Djarangar Djita Issa. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Chad ; dictionaries (form) ; French language

Great Lakes region
Losing your land : dispossession in the Great Lakes / ed. by An Ansoms & Thea Hilhorst. (Abstract available) - Woodbridge : James Currey, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Burundi ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; eviction ; farmers ; Great Lakes region ; land acquisition ; Rwanda ; small farms ; Uganda

Kenya
Muslim women in postcolonial Kenya : leadership, representation, and social change / Ousseina D. Alidou. - Madison, WI : The University of Wisconsin Press, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: gender inequality ; Islam ; Islamic education ; Kenya ; leadership ; women ; women's rights

Kenya
Nairobi : then & now / Stephen & Bhavna Mills. - [Nairobi] : Mills Publishing Ltd, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: architectural history ; buildings ; capitals ; Kenya ; photography ; pictorial works (form)

Northeast Africa
Diasporas, development and peacemaking in the Horn of Africa / edited by Liisa Laakso and Petri Hautaniemi. (Abstract available) - London : Zed Books, in association with Nordic Africa Institute, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: development ; diasporas ; Ethiopia ; Northeast Africa ; peacebuilding ; Somalia

Senegal
Comprendre les investissements au Sénégal : entre subsistance, profit, paraître et consentement social / Pascal Oudiane. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: attitudes ; enterprises ; households ; investments ; profit ; public administration ; Senegal

Senegal
De l'origine des Fulbés (Peuls) à l'Empire Satigui (Deniyanké) / Ibrahima Mamadou Ba. - Paris : Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Fulani ; Futa Toro polity ; genealogy ; history ; Senegal

Subsaharan Africa
Le droit du développement et de l'intégration économique dans l'espace OHADA / Hygin Didace Amboulou. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: economic integration ; economic policy ; OHADA ; Subsaharan Africa ; unification of law

Tanzania
Ujamaa : the hidden story of Tanzania's socialist villages / Ralph Ibbott. - London : Crossroads Books, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: political history ; social history ; Tanzania ; ujamaa

Togo
Et demain l'agriculture togolaise : une analyse critique des maux qui ruinent l'agriculture togolaise du point de vue du chercheur / Dr Comlan Atsu Luc Agbobli ; préf. du Dr Papa A. Seck. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural policy ; agricultural productivity ; agriculture ; Togo

West Africa
L'exposition postcoloniale : musées et zoos en Afrique de l'Ouest (Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso) / Julien Bondaz. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Burkina Faso ; cultural heritage ; decolonization ; exhibitions ; Mali ; museums ; Niger ; West Africa ; zoological gardens

West Africa
Les peuples d'Ajatado : Accra et Lagos : des origines à la rencontre avec l'Occident et le christianisme aux XVe siècle / Roberto Pazzi. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Aja ; Allada polity ; Benin ; historical sources ; migration ; oral history ; Tado polity ; Togo ; West Africa

Journals

Côte d'Ivoire
Akwaba : revue semestrielle de théologie et de culture.
ASC Subject Headings: Catholic Church ; Christian orders ; Christian theology ; Côte d'Ivoire

Films

Algeria
Silent stories : four people, three continents, one dream / a documentary by Hanne Phlypo, Catherine Vuylsteke. - Brussel : Caviar Films, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Algeria ; Belgium ; Guinea ; immigrants ; LGBT ; refugees ; Senegal

Ethiopia
Abyssinia Ethiopia : meeting point / dir. by Denis Khalifa. - [Saint Mande] : Docsud, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: documentary films (form) ; Ethiopia ; Ethiopian Church ; Falasha ; Jewish culture ; religious festivals ; travel

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