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Articles

Africa
La formalisation de l'informel : des systèmes financiers décentralisés à l'entreprenant / par Mohamadou Boye.
In: Penant : (2014), année 124, no. 886, p. 58-88
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; fiscal law ; informal savings and credit associations ; informal sector ; legal status ; microfinance ; Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest-Africaine

Africa
Toward a victim-survivor narrative: rape and form in Yvonne Vera's Under the Tongue and Calixthe Beyala's Tu t'appelleras Tanga / Régine Michelle Jean-Charles.(Abstract available)
In: Research in African Literatures : (2014), vol. 45, no. 1, p. 39-62
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; literature ; novels ; sexual offences ; victims

Botswana
The missionary and the rainmaker : David Livingstone, the Bakwena, and the nature of medicine / Brian Stanley.(Abstract available)
In: Social Sciences and Missions : (2014), vol. 27, no. 2-3, p. 145-162
ASC Subject Headings: Botswana ; Christianity ; Kwena ; missions ; rainmaking

Democratic Republic of Congo
'Broken glass' or broken text?: the translatability of Alain Mabanckous 'Verre cassé' (2005) into English / Vivan Steemers.(Abstract available)
In: Research in African Literatures : (2014), vol. 45, no. 1, p. 107-124
ASC Subject Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; literature ; novels ; translation

Democratic Republic of Congo
Queer complicity in the Belgian Congo: autobiography and racial fetishism in Jef Geeraerts's (post)colonial novels / Thomas Hendriks.(Abstract available)
In: Research in African Literatures : (2014), vol. 45, no. 1, p. 63-84
ASC Subject Headings: Belgium ; colonialism ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; literature ; racism ; sexuality

Democratic Republic of Congo
Congo wars and the conflict resource debacle : a contemporary perspective / James Tsabora.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of African and International Law : (2013), vol. 6, no. 3, p. 477-499
ASC Subject Headings: conflict ; crime ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; natural resources ; war

Malawi
Draft cybercrime legislation in Malawi : a comparative analysis of proposed cybercrime law against international standards and best practices / Lewis C. Bande.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of African and International Law : (2013), vol. 6, no. 2, p. 591-702
ASC Subject Headings: bill drafting ; crime ; information technology ; legislation ; Malawi

Morocco
The Moudawana syndrome: gender trouble in contemporary Morocco / Jimia Boutouba.(Abstract available)
In: Research in African Literatures : (2014), vol. 45, no. 1, p. 24-38
ASC Subject Headings: family law ; films ; gender relations ; legal reform ; masculinity ; Morocco

Mozambique
Christianity's role in dispute resolution in Mozambique / Carolien Jacobs, Linda van de Kamp.(Abstract available)
In: Social Sciences and Missions : (2014), vol. 27, no. 2-3, p. 192-218
ASC Subject Headings: Christianity ; conflict resolution ; family ; Mozambique ; Pentecostalism

Mozambique
Special theme section: the Human Economy Project: first steps / guest ed.: John Sharp, Theodore Powers and Vito Laterza.(Abstract available)
In: Anthropology Southern Africa : (2013), vol. 36, no 3/4 : p. 99-138
ASC Subject Headings: economic anthropology ; informal sector ; livelihoods ; Mozambique ; South Africa

Namibia
Alien invasive 'Prosopis': a curse of a blessing? / by H. Auala ... [et al.].(Abstract available)
In: Journal / Namibia Scientific Society : (2014), vol. 62, p. 83-128 : foto's, graf., krt, tab
ASC Subject Headings: livelihoods ; Namibia ; plants ; weeds

Namibia
Bush thickening in Namibia - a historical perspective / by Peter Cunningham.(Abstract available)
In: Journal / Namibia Scientific Society : (2014), vol. 62, p. 164-185 : foto's, tab
ASC Subject Headings: expeditions ; flora ; Namibia

Namibia
Spirits - some thoughts on ancient Damara folk belief / by Sigrid Schmidt.
In: Journal / Namibia Scientific Society : (2014), vol. 62, p. 133-160 : foto
ASC Subject Headings: Nama ; Namibia ; popular beliefs ; spirits

Namibia
Stone fortifications at !Areb: the political-economy of pastoralism and the constructs of the 'open' and 'closing/closed' frontier - a first exploration / by André Du Pisani.(Abstract available)
In: Journal / Namibia Scientific Society : (2014), vol. 62, p. 37-78 : foto's, ill, tab
ASC Subject Headings: 1850-1899 ; boundaries ; fortifications ; Namibia ; pastoralists

Namibia
Towards sustainability of marine wildlife-watching in Namibia / by Ruth Leeny.(Abstract available)
In: Journal / Namibia Scientific Society : (2014), vol. 62, p. 9-33 : foto's, krt, tab
ASC Subject Headings: Namibia ; sea ; tourism ; wildlife protection

Nigeria
"The purest mode of looking": (post)colonial trauma in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman / Andrew Barnaby.(Abstract available)
In: Research in African Literatures : (2014), vol. 45, no. 1, p. 125-149
ASC Subject Headings: colonialism ; drama ; literature ; Nigeria

Nigeria
Pioneer workers, invaluable helpmeets, good mothers / Helga Harnes.(Abstract available)
In: Social Sciences and Missions : (2014), vol. 27, no. 2-3, p. 163-191
ASC Subject Headings: gender roles ; married women ; missions ; Nigeria ; Uganda

Nigeria
The differential analyses between the revised UCC Article 9 and the Canadian Personal Property Security Act : the reasons Nigeria should transplant the former and not the latter / Iheme C. Williams.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of African and International Law : (2013), vol. 6, no. 2, p. 559-590
ASC Subject Headings: business financing ; debt repayment ; legislation ; Nigeria ; property

Nigeria
The legal implications of appointment and removal of directors under Nigerian CAMA and the UK Company's Act / Michael C. Ogwezzy.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of African and International Law : (2013), vol. 6, no. 2, p. 543-558
ASC Subject Headings: business organization ; company law ; enterprises ; Great Britain ; managers ; Nigeria

Nigeria
Body, space, and technology: interrogating conventionality in postmodern african dance theatre / Charles E. Nwadigwe.(Abstract available)
In: African Performance Review : (2012), vol. 6, no. 2, p. 27-42
ASC Subject Headings: dance ; modernization ; Nigeria ; theatre

Nigeria
Gender ambiguity and iconic paradox in Ebiran Ekuechi 'facekuerade' ritualization / Sunday Enessi Ododo.(Abstract available)
In: African Performance Review : (2012), vol. 6, no. 2, p. 7-26
ASC Subject Headings: gender roles ; masquerades ; Nigeria

South Africa
"Forget maps": documenting global apartheid and creating novel cartographies in Ishtiyaq Shukri's The Silent Minaret / M. Neelika Jayawardane.(Abstract available)
In: Research in African Literatures : (2014), vol. 45, no. 1, p. 1-23
ASC Subject Headings: apartheid ; imperialism ; literature ; novels ; South Africa

South Africa
'Distraction from the real difficulties': ethical deliberations in international health research / Helen Macdonald, Andrew D. Spiegel.(Abstract available)
In: Anthropology Southern Africa : (2013), vol. 36, no. 3/4, p. 146-154
ASC Subject Headings: anthropological research ; educational exchanges ; ethics ; health care ; South Africa ; United States

South Africa
Contextualizing the hate speech debate : the United States and South Africa / Alexander Traum.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of African and International Law : (2013), vol. 6, no. 2, p. 501-525
ASC Subject Headings: constitutional law ; freedom of speech ; legislation ; social conditions ; South Africa ; United States

South Africa
Spirit and society: in defence of a critical anthropology of religious life / Hylton White.(Abstract available)
In: Anthropology Southern Africa : (2013), vol. 36, no. 3/4, p. 139-145
ASC Subject Headings: ancestor worship ; anthropological research ; political economy ; South Africa ; spirits ; Zulu

South Africa
Acting as survival: the plays of Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona / Anwaar A. Khalik Ibrahim Abdalla.(Abstract available)
In: African Performance Review : (2012), vol. 6, no. 2, p. 75-86
ASC Subject Headings: apartheid ; resistance ; South Africa ; theatre

South Africa
Un-performing racial and ethnic prejudice in tertiary institutional spaces in South Africa / Kennedy C. Chinyowa.(Abstract available)
In: African Performance Review : (2012), vol. 6, no. 2, p. 43-57
ASC Subject Headings: apartheid ; drama ; memory ; race relations ; South Africa ; universities

Tanzania
Child marital sex and the violation of human rights in Tanzania / Stella N. Ahanor & Sekela M. Kalangson.(Abstract available)
In: Journal of African and International Law : (2013), vol. 6, no. 2, p. 703-719
ASC Subject Headings: children ; legislation ; marriage ; offences against human rights ; Tanzania

Uganda
Kinyankore folk poetry: structure and context / Viola Karungi.
In: African Performance Review : (2012), vol. 6, no. 2, p. 58-74
ASC Subject Headings: Nyankole ; oral poetry ; praise poetry ; Uganda

Zambia
From an agency of cultural destruction to an agency of public health : transformations in Catholic missionary medicine in post-colonial eastern Zambia, 19641982 : Walima T. Kalusa.(Abstract available)
In: Social Sciences and Missions : (2014), vol. 27, no. 2-3, p. 219-238
ASC Subject Headings: 1960-1969 ; 1970-1979 ; doctors ; health care ; missions ; Zambia

Electronic documents

Kenya
Quest for justice : a journey with torture survivors and families of victims to access justice in Kenya : 1999 to February 2008 / a publication by Independent Medico-Legal Unit (IMLU). - Nairobi, Kenya : IMLU, Independent Medico-Legal Unit, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: Kenya ; torture
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docx/390773549.pdf

Tanzania
Vanishing point : criminality, corruption and the devastation of Tanzanias elephants / Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). - London [etc.] : EIA, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: China ; elephants ; illicit trade ; ivory ; nature conservation ; poaching ; Tanzania
http://eia-global.org/images/uploads/EIA_Tanzanian_Ivory_report.pdf

Tanzania
Violence against children in Tanzania : findings from a national survey. - Dar es Salaam : United Nations Childrens Fund, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: child abuse ; Tanzania
http://www.unicef.org/media/files/VIOLENCE_AGAINST_CHILDREN_IN_TANZANIA_...

Books

Africa
Special Issue : the ethics of archaeological practice in Africa / guest ed.: John Giblin, Rachel King & Benjamin Smith. (Abstract available) - Nairobi : British Institute in Eastern Africa, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; archaeology ; ethics ; Lesotho ; South Africa ; Tanzania
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/raza20/49/2 (Restricted access)

Africa
State-building and multilingual education in Africa / Ericka A. Albaugh. - New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; educational policy ; language policy ; multilingualism ; State formation

Africa
Applied drama and theatre as an interdisciplinary field in the context of HIV/AIDS in Africa / ed. by Hazel Barnes. (Abstract available) - Amsterdam [etc.] : Rodopi, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; AIDS ; drama ; health education ; South Africa ; theatre

Africa
Globalectics : theory and the politics of knowing / Ngugi wa Thiong'o. - Nairobi [etc.] : East African Educational Publishers [etc.], 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; globalization ; literature ; neocolonialism ; oral literature

Africa
Social development issues in Africa / ed. by Aklilu Kidanu and Asfaw Kumssa. (Abstract available) - Nairobi : United Nations Centre for Regional Development, Africa Office, 2001
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; community participation ; social development ; sustainable development

Angola
Le drame angolais / André Kisalu Kiala. - Paris [etc.] : L'Harmattan, 2005
ASC Subject Headings: Angola ; civil wars ; colonialism ; decolonization ; history ; national liberation movements ; national liberation struggles

Benin
Cohabitation interculturelle au Bénin : poids des préjugés ethniques et quête de la paix / Gaston Ogui Cossi. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Bariba ; Benin ; conflict resolution ; cultural pluralism ; ethnic relations ; Fon ; Yoruba

Democratic Republic of Congo
Économie mondialisée, coopératives délaissées : sociologie du développement et de la coopération en République Démocratique du Congo / Nuah M. Makungu Masudi. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: cooperatives ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; economic conditions ; globalization

Democratic Republic of Congo
Gouvernance en RD Congo : regard et témoignage / Jean-Claude Mashini. - Louvain-La-Neuve : Editions Academia, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; governance ; international relations ; political conditions ; political stability

Ethiopia
The chains of heaven : an Ethiopian romance / Philip Marsden. - London : HarperCollins Publishers, 2005
ASC Subject Headings: Ethiopia ; travel books (form)

Kenya
Compilation of the decisions made by the Supreme Court of Kenya on the presidential election petitions filed in March 2013 / ed. Michael Murungi. - Nairobi : Kenya Law, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: 2013 ; judgments ; Kenya ; presidential elections ; supreme courts

Libya
Searching for justice in post-Gaddafi Libya : a socio-legal exploration of people's concerns and institutional responses at home and from abroad / [eds.]: Jan Michiel Otto, Jessica Carlisie, Suliman Ibrahim ; [authors]: Nasser Algheitta... [et al.]. (Abstract available) - [Leiden] : Published by Van Vollenhoven Institute, Leiden University, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: access to justice ; administration of justice ; judicial system ; Libya

Malawi
Christianity and socio-cultural issues : the charismatic movement and contextualization of the gospel in Malawi / Rhodian G. Munyenyembe. - Zomba : Kachere Series, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Christianity ; Malawi ; Pentecostalism

Malawi
Shire, the river of Malawi : an analysis of the political and socio-economic roles of Shire River in colonial and contemporary Malawi / Dean Kampanje-Phiri. - Kampala : Fountain Publishers, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: economic history ; Malawi ; rivers

Mali
Le fil de lumière / Sophie Pétronin. - Bamako : Ruche à livres, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: children ; food security ; humanitarian assistance ; Mali ; malnutrition ; personal narratives (form) ; Tuareg

Mali
Les pistes d'amélioration / Moussa Mara. - Bamako : Nouvelle Imprimerie Bamakoise, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: governance ; Mali

Namibia
La narrativa namibia en inglés anterior a la independencia : John ya-Otto, Ndeutala Hishongwa y Joseph Diescho / Pablo Rubio Gijón. - San Vicente : Editorial Club Universitario, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: autobiography ; literary criticism ; Namibia ; novels

Nigeria
Sects & social disorder : Muslim identities & conflict in Northern Nigeria / ed. by Abdul Raufu Mustapha. (Abstract available) - Woodbridge [etc.] : James Currey, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: fundamentalism ; Islam ; Nigeria ; religious movements ; Sufism ; violence

Sahel
Special issue: Nomadism and mobility in the Sahara-Sahel / Elisabeth Boesen, Laurence Marfaing & Mirjam de Bruijn. (Abstract available) - Abingdon : Taylor & Francis, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: labour migration ; mobility ; nomads ; pastoralists ; Sahel
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcas20/48/1 (Restricted access)

Senegal
Civil society-based governance in Africa : theories and practices : a case study of Senegal / Mbaye Lo. - [Khartoum] : Society Studies Center, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; civil society ; governance ; Senegal ; State-society relationship

South Africa
Koning Eenoog : een migrantenverhaal : leven en werk van Henk van Woerden / Toef Jaeger. - Amsterdam : Uitgeverij Atlas Contact, 2015
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; Dutch ; migrants ; Netherlands ; South Africa ; writers

South Africa
Special issue : South Africas publishing and reading culture / [ed. by Elizabeth le Roux]. (Abstract available) - Abingdon [etc.] : Routledge [etc.], 2014
ASC Subject Headings: book industry ; publishing ; South Africa
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcrc20/28/5 (Restricted access)

South Africa
Angels of mercy : foreign women and the Anglo-Boer War / Chris Schoeman. - Cape Town : Zebra Press, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Anglo-Boer wars ; biographies (form) ; South Africa ; women

South Africa
Govan Mbeki / Colin Bundy. - Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: African National Congress (South Africa) ; biographies (form) ; politicians ; South Africa ; South African Communist Party

Subsaharan Africa
Code bleu OHADA / sous la dir. de Jean Michel Mbock Biumla ; avec la pref. de Marcel Serekoisse-Samba et l'avant propos de Ivan Veroudgstraete. - Saint Gratien : Juriafrica, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: French-speaking Africa ; jurisprudence ; laws (form) ; OHADA ; Subsaharan Africa

Subsaharan Africa
Natural resource management in sub-Saharan Africa : consequences and policy options for Africa : AERC Senior Policy Seminar XIII, Maputo, Mozambique, 28-30 March 2011 : seminar papers / African Economic Research Consortium. (Abstract available) - Nairobi : African Economic Research Consortium, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: 2011 ; conference papers (form) ; economic policy ; natural resource management ; natural resources ; Subsaharan Africa

Sudan
Fé, guerra e escravidão : uma história da conquista colonial du Sudão (1881-1898) / Patricia Teixeira Santos. - São Paulo :Editora Fap-Unifesp, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Christianity ; colonial conquest ; Islam ; missions ; religious history ; Sudan ; Sufism

Tanzania
The political economy of Tanzania : decline and recovery / Michael F. Lofchie. - Philadelphia : PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: economic development ; economic policy ; political economy ; Tanzania

Tanzania
Petty corruption in Health Services in Dar es Salaam and Coast Regions / by E.P.Y. Muhondwa, T. Nyamhanga and G. Frumence. - Dar es Salaam : E&D Readership and Development Agency for Sikaka, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: corruption ; health care ; health personnel ; Tanzania

West Africa
Colbert et la Guinée : le voyage en Guinée de Louis de Hally et Louis Ancelin de Gémozac (1670-1671) / Gérard Chouin. - Saint-Maur-des-Fossés : Éditions Sépia, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Equatorial Guinea ; exploration literature (form) ; France ; trade ; West Africa

Journals

South Africa
Southern African Journal of Policy and Development
ASC Subject Headings: development planning ; development research ; South Africa
 

Films

Mali
Escale Tringa Marena / un film de Cécile Canut avec Mamadou Bathily. - Aulas : Tutti Quanti films, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: documentary films (form) ; France ; illegal migration ; Mali ; return migration ; videos (form)

Mali
Profession cinéaste / un film de Cécile Canut. - Montreuil : Athénaise, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: cinema ; documentary films (form) ; film history ; filmmakers ; Mali ; videos (form)

Morocco
C'est eux les chiens / un film de Hicham Lasri ; [avec] Hassan Bandida ... [et al.]. - Paris : Éditions Montparnasse, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: feature films (form) ; Morocco ; political repression ; protest ; social change ; videos (form)
#Trailer# =A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn0tXyVIPLA

South Africa
Beyond forgiving : a South African story / produced and directed by Imad N. Karam. - London : Initiatives of Change, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: conflict resolution ; documentary films (form) ; race relations ; South Africa ; videos (form)
#trailer# =A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inghPuBNSEE

Uganda
Call me Kuchu = Lege me Kuchu / produced by Malika Zouhali-Worrall & Katherine Fairfax Wright ; dir. by Katherine Fairfax Wright & Malika Zouhali-Worrall. - Paris : Cats & Dogs, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: documentary films (form) ; homosexuality ; human rights ; legislation ; LGBT ; Uganda ; videos (form)
#trailer# =A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1m020Mp39E

African Literature

Kenya
Point Lenana : a short story / Nicholas Best. - [S.l.] : Nicolas Best, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Kenya ; novels (form)

Uganda
Duel with a dictator : an African woman's political struggle / Emmanuel Acheta. - [Palo Alto, CA] : Fultus Books, 2005
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; political opposition ; Uganda ; women

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