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Articles

Africa
Emerging powers, state capitalism and the oil sector in Africa / Ian Taylor.
In: Review of African Political Economy : (2014), vol. 41, no. 141, p. 341-357
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; international economic relations ; petroleum industry ; State capitalism
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2013.864630 (Restricted access)

Africa
Philanthrocapitalism : appropriation of Africa's genetic wealth / Carol B. Thompson.(Abstract available)
In: Review of African Political Economy : (2014), vol. 41, no. 141, p. 389-405
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; agriculture ; capitalism ; charities
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.901946 (Restricted access)

Democratic Republic of Congo
The death of Dag Hammarskjöld / Henning Melber.(Abstract available)
In: Review of African Political Economy : (2014), vol. 41, no. 141, p. 458-465
ASC Subject Headings: air transport ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; Katanga ; separatism ; traffic accidents ; UN ; Zambia
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.902810 (Restricted access)

Ethiopia
EPRDF's nation-building : tinkering with convictions and pragmatism / Jean-Nicolas Bach.
In: Cadernos de estudos Africanos : (2014), no. 27, p. 103-126
ASC Subject Headings: Ethiopia ; Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front ; nation building ; nationalism
http://cea.revues.org/1501

Ghana
A review of the achievements and policy lessons of public management reform in five Anglophone African countries / E.K. Sakyi.
In: African Journal of Management Research : (2014), vol. 22, no. 1, p. 47-61
ASC Subject Headings: 1980-1989 ; 1990-1999 ; Ghana ; Kenya ; public sector ; public services ; reform ; Tanzania ; Uganda ; Zambia

Ghana
Balanced sourcing as an important attribute of operations strategy : reality ofr myth amoung Ghanaian firms? / F.Y. Banuro, J.K. Banuro.
In: African Journal of Management Research : (2014), vol. 22, no. 1, p. 3-15 : fig., tab
ASC Subject Headings: business ; enterprises ; Ghana

Ghana
Mining sector CSR behaviour : a developing country perspective / D.F. Ofori, A.T. Ofori.
In: African Journal of Management Research : (2014), vol. 22, no. 1, p. 62-84 : krt., tab
ASC Subject Headings: business ; ethics ; Ghana ; gold mining ; responsibility

Malawi
Two transitions : the political economy of Joyce Banda's rise to power and the related role of civil society organisations in Malawi / Clive Gabay.(Abstract available)
In: Review of African Political Economy : (2014), vol. 41, no. 141, p. 374-388
ASC Subject Headings: civil society ; Malawi ; patronage ; political economy
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.901949 (Restricted access)

Mozambique
A fronteira Moçambique-Zimbabué e os ndau : práticas e representações transfronteiriças no distrito Moçambicano de Mossurize (de.
In: Cadernos de estudos Africanos : (2014), no. 27, p. 79-102 : krt
ASC Subject Headings: boundaries ; images ; Mozambique ; Ndau ; Zimbabwe
http://cea.revues.org/1480

Mozambique
Cooperação Sul-Sul, investimentos externos e desenvolvimento : existem novas perspectivas a partir do sul global? / Marta Zorzal e Silva.
In: Cadernos de estudos Africanos : (2014), no. 27, p. 33-54
ASC Subject Headings: Brazil ; economic development ; foreign investments ; international economic relations ; Mozambique ; South-South relations
http://cea.revues.org/1454

Mozambique
Processos e dinâmicas de intervenção no espaço peri-urbano : o caso de Maputo / Sílvia Jorge, Vanessa Melo.
In: Cadernos de estudos Africanos : (2014), no. 27, p. 55-77 : foto's
ASC Subject Headings: Mozambique ; suburban areas ; urban development ; urban planning ; urban renewal
http://cea.revues.org/1488

Nigeria
Empirical analysis of the impact of capital market on economic growth in Nigeria (1980-2010) / T.A. Olaniyi, W.O. Abiola, S.A. Adebayo.
In: African Journal of Management Research : (2014), vol. 22, no. 1, p. 34-46 : fig., graf., tab
ASC Subject Headings: economic development ; financial market ; gross national product ; Nigeria

Nigeria
The value-adding potentials of corporate social responsibility report audit to corporate reporting in Nigerian banks / Z. Abdul-Baki, A.B. Uthman, K.O. Lawal.
In: African Journal of Management Research : (2014), vol. 22, no. 1, p. 16-33 : fig., tab
ASC Subject Headings: banks ; business ; Nigeria ; responsibility ; social accounting

Somalia
Resource conflict and militant Islamism in the Golis Mountains in northern Somalia (2006-2013) / Markus Virgil Hoehne.(Abstract available)
In: Review of African Political Economy : (2014), vol. 41, no. 141, p. 358-373 : krt
ASC Subject Headings: conflict ; Islamic movements ; militias ; natural resources ; Somalia
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.901945 (Restricted access)

South Sudan
Dwindling but surviving : South Sudan and external involvement in the current crisis / Aleksi Ylönen.(Abstract available)
In: Review of African Political Economy : (2014), vol. 41, no. 141, p. 466-473
ASC Subject Headings: civil wars ; international relations ; political conditions ; South Sudan
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.907780 (Restricted access)

United States
How and why chiefs formalise land use in recent times : the politics of land dispossession through biofuels investments in Ghana / Festus Boamah.(Abstract available)
In: Review of African Political Economy : (2014), vol. 41, no. 141, p. 406-423 : krt., tab
ASC Subject Headings: Ghana ; land acquisition ; land tenure ; traditional rulers ; United States
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.901947 (Restricted access)

Zanzibar
Os dhow do Zanzibar : a técnica de construção de uma antiga embarcação de origem árabe e o seu papel socioecónomico na actualidade / Fernando da Piedade Carvalho.
In: Cadernos de estudos Africanos : (2014), no. 27, p. 149-170 : foto's
ASC Subject Headings: maritime transport ; shipbuilding ; ships ; Zanzibar
http://cea.revues.org/1535

Zimbabwe
It's all about sex : what urban Zimbabwean men know of labia minora elongation / Guillermo Martínez Pérez, Concepción Tomás Aznar, Harriet Namulondo.
In: Cadernos de estudos Africanos : (2014), no. 27, p. 127-147 : tab
ASC Subject Headings: female circumcision ; images ; men ; Zimbabwe
http://cea.revues.org/1522

Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's 'new' smallholders : who got land and where did they come from? / Gareth David James.(Abstract available)
In: Review of African Political Economy : (2014), vol. 41, no. 141, p. 424-440 : graf., krt., tab
ASC Subject Headings: land reform ; resettlement ; small farms ; Zimbabwe
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.901948 (Restricted access)

Electronic documents

Benin
La corruption dans les transports et la douane au Bénin, au Niger et au Sénégal / Nassirou Bako Arifari. - Niamey : LASDEL, 2005
ASC Subject Headings: Benin ; corruption ; Niger ; Senegal ; tariff policy ; transport
http://www.lasdel.net/spip/IMG/129.pdf

Chad
Chad's oil, miracle or mirage? : following the money in Africa's newest petro-state / Ian Gary, Nikki Reisch. - Baltimore, MD [etc.] : Bank Information Center [etc.], 2005
ASC Subject Headings: Chad ; petroleum industry ; revenue allocation
http://internationalbudget.org/wp-content/uploads/Chads-Oil-Miracle-or-M...

Ghana
Public financial management reforms in developing countries : lessons of experience from Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda / Andy Wynne. - Harare : African Capacity Building Foundation, 2005
ASC Subject Headings: financial management ; Ghana ; reform ; Tanzania ; Uganda
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/343010623.pdf

Niger
Les pouvoirs locaux à Namaro (2) / J.P. Olivier de Sardan, Y. Issa, N. Issaley. - Niamey : LASDEL, 2005
ASC Subject Headings: 2004 ; elections ; local government ; local politics ; Niger
http://www.lasdel.net/spip/IMG/134.pdf

Books

Africa
The bright continent : breaking rules and making changes in modern Africa / Dayo Olopade. - London : Duckworth, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; economic conditions ; governance ; social conditions

Africa
Devoir de citoyenneté : Afrique lève-toi! / Clotaire A. Olihide. - Cotonou [etc.] : Star Éditions [etc.], 2012
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; democracy ; development ; globalization

Benin
Professeur Albert Tévoédjrè : entre masque et visage / Albert Kiki (avec la coll. de Sédoly Soton) ; préf. de Jérôme Carlos. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: academics ; Benin ; biographies (form) ; ILO ; interviews (form) ; ombudsman ; politicians

Benin
Coffi Codjia : un sifflet en or : (vie et parcours exceptionnel d'une icône de l'arbitrage africain : biographie) / Sabin Loumedjinon ; préf. de Gérard Dreyfus. - [Cotonou, Benin?] : [s.n.], 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Benin ; biographies (form) ; football

Benin
Vodun in coastal Bénin : unfinished, open-ended, global / Dana Rush. - Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Benin ; voodoo

Cameroon
Neighbors, strangers, witches, and culture-heroes : ritual powers of smith/artisans in Tuareg Society and beyond / Susan Rasmussen. (Abstract available) - Lanham, MD [etc.] : University Press of America, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: artisans ; Cameroon ; Ethiopia ; iron forging ; Mali ; Mauritania ; Niger ; power ; rituals ; social relations ; Tuareg

Cameroon
Magie : die Kraft zum Schaden oder zum Guten / Godula Kosack. - Bad Schussenried : Gerhard Hess Verlag, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; Mafa ; magic

Cameroon
French investment in colonial Cameroon : the FIDES era (1946-1957) / Martin Atangana. - New York, NY [etc.] : Lang, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: 1940-1949 ; 1950-1959 ; Cameroon ; economic conditions ; economic history ; France ; international economic relations ; investments

Congo (Brazzaville)
Tchicaya U Tam'si, le viol de la lune : vie et uvre d'un maudit / Boniface Mongo-Mboussa. - [La Roque-d'Anthéron] : Vents d'ailleurs, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; Congo (Brazzaville) ; literature ; writers

Côte d'Ivoire
Traiter l'insalubrité en Côte d'Ivoire / Charles Agbadou Casimir ; préf. de Koi Sopie Madeleine épouse Aonon. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Côte d'Ivoire ; hygiene ; waste management

Democratic Republic of Congo
Le rétablissement et la consolidaton de la paix en République Démocratique du Congo de 1990 à 2008 : le rôle des acteurs internationaux / Rachel Maendeleo Rutakaza. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: African Union ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; foreign intervention ; peacekeeping forces ; peacekeeping operations ; SADC ; UN

Egypt
Cairo rewind : the first two years of Egypt's revolution 2011-2013 / Azza Radwan Sedky. - Victoria, BC : FriesenPress, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Egypt ; personal narratives (form) ; political change ; revolutions

Egypt
Development policy and cultural diversity : a case study of Bedouin participation in South Sinai development policies / by Rachel A. Silberstein. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Dissertation Services, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: Arabs ; economic policy ; Egypt ; minority groups ; political participation ; public administration ; regional development

Eritrea
Joining Africa : from anthills to Asmara / Charles Cantalupo. - East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: Eritrea ; personal narratives (form) ; poetry ; travel

France
Fleur de béton : roman / Wilfried N'Sondé. - Arles : Actes Sud, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: Congo (Brazzaville) ; France ; immigrants ; novels (form) ; suburban areas

Ghana
Decentralization and democratic local governance in Ghana : assessing the performance of district assemblies and exploring the scope of partnerships / by Matthias Zana Naab. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Dissertation Services, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: decentralization ; dissertations (form) ; Ghana ; local councils ; local government ; political participation ; public administration

Kenya
Culture clash : the death of a district commissioner in the Loita Hills / Rupert Watson. - Naivasha : Old Africa Books, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: cattle ; homicide ; Kenya ; Maasai ; trials

Kenya
The effectiveness of community based organizations in low-income housing in less developed countries under the enabling approach : Nairobi and Santo Domingo, a comparative study / by Petronella W.K. Muraya. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: community participation ; dissertations (form) ; housing policy ; Kenya ; Latin America ; NGO ; urban housing

Mayotte
Le statut juridique de Mayotte : concillier droit interne et droit international : réconcilier la France et les Comores / Ahmed Ali Abdallah ; préf. de Laurent Sermet. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Comoros ; constitutional law ; France ; international law ; Mayotte ; overseas territories ; sovereignty

Morocco
The Moor's account : a novel / Laila Lalami. - New York : Pantheon Books, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: historical novels (form) ; Morocco ; United States

Namibia
Understanding Namibia : the trials of independence / Henning Melber. - London : Hurst & Company, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: decolonization ; economic conditions ; independence ; Namibia ; one-party systems ; political history ; State formation

Nigeria
My salad days : the primary school years / Adelola Adeloye. - Ibadan : BookBuilders-Editions Africa, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: 1940-1949 ; children ; Nigeria ; personal narratives (form) ; primary education

Nigeria
Christian-Muslim relations in a contemporary multiethnic, multireligious society : toward Nigerian national identity / by Chukwunulokwu Fyne Nsofor. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2005
ASC Subject Headings: Christianity ; group identity ; interreligious relations ; Islam ; national identity ; Nigeria ; religion

Senegal
Promesses et désespoirs d'un service public : la radiodiffusion télévison sénégalaise / Kadialy Diakhité. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: propaganda ; radio ; Senegal ; State ; television

Senegal
Clothes talk : youth modernities and commodity consumption in Dakar, Senegal / by Suzanne Scheld. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: clothing ; consumer goods ; Consumption ; dissertations (form) ; Senegal ; urban youth

Senegal
The effectiveness of family planning service delivery guidelines in developing countries / John Stanback. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2002
ASC Subject Headings: dissertations (form) ; family planning ; reproductive health ; Senegal

South Africa
Disability care in Africa : community-based rehabilitation in rural regions / ed. by Adri Vermeer, Zsoka Magyarszeky. (Abstract available) - Amsterdam : VU University Press, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: children ; communities ; disabled care ; education ; rural areas ; South Africa ; townships ; Uganda ; Zimbabwe

South Africa
False river / Dominique Botha. - Cape Town : Umuzi, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; rural areas ; South Africa

South Africa
Are trout South African? : stories of fish, people and places / Duncan Brown. - Johannesburg : Picador Africa, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: environment ; fish ; identity ; interpersonal relations ; social history ; South Africa

South Africa
The shining girls / Lauren Beukes. - London : HarperCollins, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: crime novels (form) ; South Africa

Subsaharan Africa
De Gaulle et la décolonisation de l'Afrique subsaharienne / Fondation Charles de Gaulle ; ouvrage co-dirigé par Philippe Oulmont et Maurice Vaisse. - Paris : Éditions Karthala, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: conference papers (form) ; decolonization ; foreign policy ; France ; French-speaking Africa ; independence ; Subsaharan Africa

Subsaharan Africa
Gender terrains in African cinema / Dominica Dipio. - Braamfontein : Unisa Press, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: cinema ; feminism ; gender relations ; Subsaharan Africa ; women

Subsaharan Africa
Half a piece of cloth : the courage of africa's countless widows / Jane L. Crane. - Santa Fe, CA : Hearkening Press, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: education ; personal narratives (form) ; religion ; Subsaharan Africa ; traditions ; widows ; women's rights

Subsaharan Africa
Africa emerges : consummate challenges, abundant opportunities / Robert I. Rotberg. - Cambridge : Polity Press, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: economic development ; governance ; infrastructure ; political change ; Subsaharan Africa

Tanzania
De hemel boven Afrika / Kerstin Cameron ; [vert. uit het Duits: Wim van der Zande]. - Baarn : De Kern, 2008
ASC Subject Headings: personal narratives (form) ; prisons ; Tanzania ; white women

Uganda
The challenges of social, political, and economic change : multiple portraits of the Uganda museum / by Susan Clarke Plumb. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: cultural heritage ; dissertations (form) ; museums ; Uganda

Films

Benin
The journey / Gérard Bassalè, Marlijn Franken. - [ S.l.] : Cultural Centre OUADA, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: artists ; Benin ; documentary films (form) ; videos (form) ; visual arts ; voodoo
#Trailer# =A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnbuGaQy_NI

Egypt
Of flesh and blood / written and dir. by Azza Shabaan. - Cairo : Zusa House, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: boundaries ; documentary films (form) ; Egypt ; Israel ; social life ; videos (form)
#Trailer# =A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFmTL1jhdwI

Madagascar
6ème Rencontres Film Court de Madagascar / Ranto Ramilijaonina [... et al.]. - [S.l.] : Association Rencontres du Film Court [etc.], 2011
ASC Subject Headings: animated cartoons (form) ; documentary films (form) ; Madagascar ; short films (form) ; social life
#Trailer# =A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zOaPv88AOM

Nigeria
Champions of our time / dir. by Mak 'Kusare ; starr.: Treasure Obasi ... [et al.]. - Lagos : Macnuel productions, 2009
ASC Subject Headings: disabled ; feature films (form) ; girls ; Nigeria ; social inequality ; videos (form)
#Trailer# =A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOh2o4MWQVA

South Africa
Elegy for a revolutionary / written and dir. by Paul van Zyl ; starr. Martin Copping... [et al.]. - [Venice, CA] : Market Street Productions, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: anti-apartheid resistance ; feature films (form) ; friendship ; South Africa ; treason ; videos (form) ; violence
#Trailer# =A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMgYQuXlc1g

African Literature

France
Fleur de béton : roman / Wilfried N'Sondé. - Arles : Actes Sud, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: Congo (Brazzaville) ; France ; immigrants ; novels (form) ; suburban areas

Morocco
The Moor's account : a novel / Laila Lalami. - New York : Pantheon Books, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: historical novels (form) ; Morocco ; United States

South Africa
False river / Dominique Botha. - Cape Town : Umuzi, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; rural areas ; South Africa

South Africa
The shining girls / Lauren Beukes. - London : HarperCollins, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: crime novels (form) ; South Africa

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