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Journal articles

"A universal garden of many-coloured flowers": place and scale in the works of Ngg wa Thiong'o / Dustin Crowley
In: Research in African Literatures: (2013), vol. 44, no. 3, p. 13-29.
ASC Subject Headings: Kenya ; literary criticism ; novels ; space ; writers
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Brecht in Algeria: on the question of influence in Kateb Yacine's late theater / Neil Doshi
In: Research in African Literatures: (2013), vol. 44, no. 3, p. 72-86.
ASC Subject Headings: Algeria ; theatre
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Category errors: the 'roman de l'identité' and the impossibility of identity / Audrey Small
In: Research in African Literatures: (2013), vol. 44, no. 3, p. 1-12.
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; French language ; identity ; literary criticism ; novels
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Complicity with Orientalism in Third-World women's writing: Fatima Mernissi's fictive memoirs / Carine Bourget
In: Research in African Literatures: (2013), vol. 44, no. 3, p. 30-49.
ASC Subject Headings: autobiography ; Morocco ; women writers
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The confessions of a "Buddhist Catholic" : religion in the works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie / Daria Tunca
In: Research in African Literatures: (2013), vol. 44, no. 3, p. 50-71.
ASC Subject Headings: literature ; Nigeria ; religion ; women writers
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Two African child soldiers: the Kourouma and Dongala contretemps / Stephen Gray
In: Research in African Literatures: (2013), vol. 44, no. 3, p. 152-159.
ASC Subject Headings: child soldiers ; Congo (Brazzaville) ; Côte d'Ivoire ; novels

Electronic documents

African economic outlook 2013 : structural transformation and natural resources. - [Paris] : African Development Bank [etc.], 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; economic policy ; employment creation ; natural resource management
http://www.africaneconomicoutlook.org/fileadmin/uploads/aeo/2013/PDF/AEO...

African youth in agriculture, natural resources and rural development / Foday Bojang & Ada Ndeso-Atanga. - Accra : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2013. - (Nature et faune, ISSN 2026-5611 ; vol. 28, no. 1)
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; agricultural development ; Cameroon ; Gabon ; Mali ; natural resource management ; Nigeria ; youth employment
Abstract available
http://www.fao.org/docrep/019/as290e/as290e.pdf

Decent work country programme for Zimbabwe 2012-2015. - Geneva : International Labour Organization, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: employment creation ; labour policy ; Zimbabwe
http://www.ilo.org/addisababa/information-resources/publications/WCMS226...

Fertility and fontanels : womens knowledge of medicinal plants for reproductive health and childcare in western Africa / Alexandra Maria Towns. - [Netherlands] : [publisher not identified], 2014
ASC Subject Headings: child care ; dissertations (form) ; folk medicine ; medicinal plants ; reproductive health ; West Africa ; women
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/28942

Gender and citizenship in the global age / Laroussi Amri & Ramola Ramtohul. - Dakar : CODESRIA, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: citizenship ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; gender ; gender relations ; globalization ; Kenya ; Mauritius ; Morocco ; Nigeria ; South Africa ; Uganda ; women ; Zimbabwe
Abstract available
http://www.codesria.org/spip.php?article1987&lang=en

Macroeconomic policy for "full and productive employment and decent work for all" : Uganda country study / Elisa Van Waeyenberge & Hannah Bargawi. - Geneva : International Labour Office, Employment Sector, Employment Policy Department, 2011. - (Employment working paper ; 91)
ASC Subject Headings: economic policy ; employment creation ; labour policy ; poverty reduction ; Uganda
http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_emp/---emp_policy/document...

Mobilisation des ressources financières locales : documentation des registres fonciers urbains des communes du Bénin / René Perier & David Houssou. - Nairobi : ONU-Habitat, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: Benin ; land registration ; municipal government ; real property ; real property tax
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/377065714.pdf

Promoting productive employment in Sub-Saharan Africa : a review of the literature / Adam Szirmai. - Maastricht : United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), 2013. - (UNU-MERIT working paper series, ISSN 1871-9872 ; 2013-062)
ASC Subject Headings: employment creation ; labour policy ; literature reviews (form) ; Subsaharan Africa
http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2013/wp2013-062.pdf

Recensement général de la population et de lhabitat, de lagriculture et de lélevage (RGPHAE) 2013 : rapport provisoire / Babakar Fall. - [Dakar] : Ministère du Plan, Agence nationale de la statistique et de la démographie, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: 2013 ; censuses ; household composition ; labour force ; population distribution ; rural households ; Senegal ; statistics
http://www.gouv.sn/IMG/pdf/Rapport_provisoire_RGPHAE_2013.pdf

Structural transformation in Africa : static gains, dynamic losses / Gaaitzen de Vries, Marcel Timmer & Klaas de Vries. - Groningen : University of Groningen, Groningen Growth and Development Centre, 2013. - (Groningen Growth and Development Centre ; 136)
ASC Subject Headings: labour policy ; labour productivity ; statistics ; Subsaharan Africa
http://ggdc.eldoc.ub.rug.nl/FILES/root/WorkPap/2013/GD-136/gd136.pdf

Trade and industrial development in Africa: rethinking strategy and policy / Theresa Moyo. - Dakar : CODESRIA, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: industrial development ; industrial policy ; international trade ; North-South relations ; Subsaharan Africa ; trade policy
Abstract available
http://www.codesria.org/spip.php?article1982&lang=en

Unearthing productive employment : a diagnostic tool for sub-Saharan Africa / Pedro Martins. - Londen : Overseas Development Institute, 2013. - (Development progress working paper ; 1)
ASC Subject Headings: economic development ; employment creation ; poverty reduction ; Subsaharan Africa
http://www.developmentprogress.org/file/1911/download?token=E5vqN9lN

Books

A political and administrative history of Onitsha, 1917-1970 / Okechukwu Okeke. - Trenton, N.J. Africa World Press, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: 1900-1999 ; Igbo ; local government ; Nigeria ; political conditions ; political conflicts ; public administration ; urban history

African organic farmers : field crop manual : farming and marketing of organic crops in Zambia, Southern and Eastern Africa / Susan Wren, Laura Davies & Bridget O'Connor. - Bath : Pagoda Tree Press, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural marketing ; crops ; cultivation systems ; East Africa ; handbooks (form) ; Southern Africa ; sustainable agriculture ; Zambia

African placenames : origins and meanings of the names for natural features, towns, cities, provinces and countries / Adrian Room. - Jefferson, NC [etc.] : McFarland, 2008
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; dictionaries (form) ; place names

After the party : a personal and political journey inside the ANC / Andrew Feinstein. - Johannesburg [etc.] : Ball, 2008
ASC Subject Headings: African National Congress (South Africa) ; corruption ; personal narratives (form) ; politics ; South Africa

Anti-apartheid and the emergence of a global civil society / Håkan Thörn. - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. - (St. Antony's series)
ASC Subject Headings: anti-apartheid resistance ; civil society ; globalization ; Great Britain ; social history ; South Africa ; Sweden

Barthélemy Boganda : premier prêtre oubanguien, fondateur de la République centrafricaine / Benoît Basile Siango. - Pierrefitte-sur-Seine : Bajag-Meri, 2004
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; Central African Republic ; clergy ; decolonization ; French Equatorial Africa ; independence ; political history ; politicians

Beyond the Niger / Sylvia Leith-Ross & Joan Kiddell-Monroe. - London : Lutterworth Press, 1951
ASC Subject Headings: Igbo ; Nigeria ; personal narratives (form) ; travel

Chiefs, priests, and praise-singers : history, politics, and land ownership in northern Ghana / Wyatt MacGaffey. - Charlottesville [etc.] : University of Virginia Press, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: chieftaincy ; Dagomba ; Dagomba polity ; Ghana ; land tenure ; political history ; traditional rulers

Classical readings in African library development / Basil Amaeshi. - Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: information science education ; information services ; libraries ; Nigeria ; Subsaharan Africa

Conjonctures congolaises 2013 : percée sécuritaire, flottements politiques et essor économique / Stefaan Marysse & Jean Omasombo Tshonda. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014. - (Cahiers africains)
ASC Subject Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; foreign investments ; forestry ; land reform ; mining ; national security ; political conditions
Abstract availabe

Daudi Kintu Mutekanga : administrator & entrepreneur / David J. Bakibinga. - Kampala : Professional Books Publishers & Consultants Ltd, 2006
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; entrepreneurs ; local government ; Uganda

Die Kyrenaika als römische Provinz : mit Blick auf Urgeschichte und frühislamische Zeit / Erwin Maria Ruprechtsberger. - Linz : Nordico Stadtmuseum Linz, 2012. - (Linzer archaeologische Forschungen ; Bd. 42)
ASC Subject Headings: Antiquity ; archaeology ; Cyrenaica ; history ; Libya

Experiences, innovations and issues in agricultural extension in Uganda : lessons and prospects / Margaret Najjingo Mangheni. - Kampala : Fountain Publishers, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural education ; agricultural extension ; innovations ; privatization ; Uganda
Abstract availabe

Gordon B.K. Wavamunno : the story of an African entrepreneur / Gordon Babala Kasibante Wavamunno. - Kampala : Wavah Books, 2000
ASC Subject Headings: autobiographies (form) ; entrepreneurs ; Uganda

High spring : the story of Iyi Enu Hospital / Margaret P. Roseveare. - London : Church Missionary Society, 1946
ASC Subject Headings: hospitals ; missions ; Nigeria ; nurses ; personal narratives (form)

Housing as governance : interfaces between local government and civil society organisations in Cape Town, South Africa / Astrid Ley. - Berlin : Lit Verlag, 2010. - (Habitat-International, Schriften der Habitat Unit Fakultät VI Planen Bauen UImwelt Technische Universität Berlin ; Bd. 14)
ASC Subject Headings: civil society ; dissertations (form) ; housing policy ; municipal government ; South Africa ; urban housing

Into the past : a memoir / Phillip Tobias. - Johannesburg : Picador Africa, 2005
ASC Subject Headings: anthropology ; autobiographies (form) ; natural history ; palaeontology ; scientists ; South Africa

Kampala A to Z : a complete guide. - Kampala [Uganda] : Tourguide Publications, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: capitals ; guidebooks (form) ; maps (form) ; Uganda

Le décollage économique de l'Afrique / Jean Claude Tchatchouang. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014. - (Études africaines)
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; economic development ; economic history ; economic policy

Le développement de l'information au Cameroun : diachronie de la marche vers la société de liberté et de savoir / Eugène Booh Bateng. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; freedom of information ; information dissemination ; journalism ; libraries ; media history ; media policy ; press ; publishing ; radio ; television

Le traitement de la cybercriminalité devant le juge : l'exemple du Sénégal / Papa Assane Touré. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: administration of justice ; crime ; criminal law ; dissertations (form) ; information technology ; international cooperation ; Internet ; legal procedure ; legislation ; Senegal

Lessons from North American telecommunications for developing nations in the new information era : case studies of India, South Africa and Chile / Rajni Gupta. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: Chile ; dissertations (form) ; India ; international agreements ; media policy ; North America ; South Africa ; telecommunications

Lixus-3 : área suroeste del sector monumental : (Cámaras Montalbán), 2005-2009 / Carmen Aranegui Gascó & Hicham Hassini. - Valencia : Universitat de Valencia, Facultat de Geografia i Historia, Departament de Prehistòria i Arqueologia, 2010. - (Saguntum, ISSN 0210-3729 ; 8)
ASC Subject Headings: Antiquity ; archaeology ; Morocco

Mining and mineral industries in post-apartheid South Africa / Kossouth Snyder. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2005
ASC Subject Headings: dissertations (form) ; land reform ; mineral resources ; mining ; mining policy ; South Africa

Nederlands als poort naar Afrika / Bart de Graaff & Riet de Jong-Goossens. - Schiedam : Scriptum, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Afrikaans language ; Dutch language ; literature ; local history ; short stories (form) ; South Africa

Out of Africa's Eden: the peopling of the world / Stephen Oppenheimer. - Jeppetown : Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; archaeology ; climate ; genetics ; human evolution ; migration

Peacebuilding, power, and politics in Africa / Devon Curtis & Adekeye Adebajo. - Athens : Ohio University Press, 2012. - (Cambridge Centre of African Studies series)
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; disarmament ; international organizations ; peacebuilding ; State formation
Abstract availabe

Peasant entrepreneurship and rural poverty reduction : the case of model farmers in Bure Woreda, West Gojjam Zone / Berhanu Abeje & Amdework Ezana. - Addis Ababa : Forum for Social Studies (FSS), 2011. - (FSS monograph ; no. 8)
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural extension ; Ethiopia ; farmers ; government policy ; poverty reduction ; rural development

Pornography in Uganda : the naked truth / Stephen Langa. - [Kampala] : New Life Publishers, 2004
ASC Subject Headings: sexuality ; Uganda

Revenue law in Uganda / D. J. Bakibinga. - Kampala : Fountain Publishers, 2006
ASC Subject Headings: fiscal law ; income tax ; Uganda

Standpoints on African orature / Nol Alembong. - Yaoundé : Presses universitaires de Yaoundé, 2011. - (Connaissances)
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; oral poetry ; proverbs ; riddles ; songs ; storytelling

Taxation handbook : a guide to taxation in Uganda. - Kampala : Fountain Publishers, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: handbooks (form) ; taxation ; Uganda

The concept of good luck and back luck among the Basoga / Richard Kayaga Gonza. - Kisubi : Marianum Publishing Company, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: popular beliefs ; Soga ; Uganda

The kings of Buganda and the roots of a 700-year-old kingdom / Robert Mugagga, Odoobo C. Bichachi & Mariam Nakisekka. - Kampala : Fountain Publishers, 2011. - (Treasures of Uganda series)
ASC Subject Headings: Buganda polity ; traditional rulers ; Uganda

The power of the ancestors : the life of a Zulu traditional healer / P. H. Mtshali. - Mbabane : Kamhlaba Publications, 2004
ASC Subject Headings: autobiographies (form) ; folk medicine ; healers ; South Africa ; Zulu

The United States, South Africa and Africa : of grand foreign policy aims and modest means / Brian J. Hesse. - Aldershot [etc.] : Ashgate Publishers, 2001
ASC Subject Headings: 1990-1999 ; Africa ; foreign policy ; South Africa ; United States

The world's great question : Olive Schreiner's South African letters 1889-1920 / Olive Schreiner, Liz Stanley* & Andrea Salter. - Cape Town : Van Riebeeck Society for the Publication of Southern African Historical Documents, 2014. - (Van Riebeeck Society for the publication of South African historical documents = Van Riebeeck-vereniging vir die publikasie van Suid-Afrikaanse historiese dokumente ; second series/tweede reeks, no. 45)
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; letters (form) ; politics ; race relations ; South Africa ; women writers

Uganda - my inheritance / Norsam Samuel Bwaya & Natenela Gertrude Bwaya. - Kampala : Netmedia Publishers Ltd, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: diaries (form) ; travel ; Uganda

Violent intermediaries : African soldiers, conquest, and everyday colonialism in German East Africa / Michelle R. Moyd. - Athens [etc.] : Ohio University Press, 2014. - (New African histories)
ASC Subject Headings: black soldiers ; colonial forces ; colonization ; German East Africa ; Germany ; Tanzania ; World War I

Films

Empire of dust / Bram van Paesschen. - Paris : Cats & Docs, 2011.
ASC Subject Headings: China ; culture contact ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; documentary films (form) ; entrepreneurs ; international economic relations ; road construction ; videos (form)
Abstract available
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzyaa2tfwBk

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