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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.
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New acquisitions - week 37 2014
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Journal articles
African customary laws and the new Constitution of the post-apartheid South Africa: a case study of the African traditional marriage system and the Civil Union Act of 2006 / Itumeleng Mekoa
In: Indilinga: (2012), vol. 11, no. 2, p. 221-232.
ASC Subject Headings: Bill of Rights ; constitutions ; customary law ; homosexuality ; marriage law ; South Africa
http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC132014
African intellectuals and cultural diversity: discussions of the ethnic question in Equatorial Guinea / Ana Lúcia Sá
In: Nordic Journal of African Studies: (2013), vol. 22, no. 1/2, p. 105-128.
ASC Subject Headings: colonialism ; dictatorship ; discrimination ; Equatorial Guinea ; ethnicity
http://www.njas.helsinki.fi/pdf-files/vol22num1-2/sa.pdf
Afrikology and community conversations on restorative cultural practices in the Mt. Elgon area / Ronald Elly Wanda
In: CODESRIA Bulletin: (2013), no. 3/4, p. 44-54.
ASC Subject Headings: African identity ; communities ; cultural philosophy ; epistemology ; Kenya ; Uganda
Bubi government at the end of the 19th century: resistance to the colonial policy of evangelization on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea / Nuria Fernández Moreno
In: Nordic Journal of African Studies: (2013), vol. 22, no. 1/2, p. 23-48 : fig. , krt. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: Bioko ; Bubi ; colonization ; resistance ; traditional polities
http://www.njas.helsinki.fi/pdf-files/vol22num1-2/moreno.pdf
Dynamics of food price inflation in Eastern Ethiopia : a meso-macro modeling / Abebe Ambachew
In: Ethiopian Journal of Economics: (2012), vol. 21, no. 2, p. 1-32 : graf. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: economic models ; Ethiopia ; food prices ; inflation
Dynamique et pesanteurs de la mise en uvre de la décentralisation territoriale au Cameroun / Jean Tobie Hond
In: Cahiers africains d'administration publique: (2012), no. 78, p. 93-109.
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; decentralization
Exchange rate pass-through to import and consumer prices : evidence from Ethiopia / Helen Berga
In: Ethiopian Journal of Economics: (2012), vol. 21, no. 2, p. 89-126 : graf. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: consumer prices ; economic models ; Ethiopia ; exchange rates ; imports
From the unbearable 'resilience' of coupism to ethnicisation: a short journey for the armed forces of Guinea-Bissau / Eduardo Costa Dias
In: Nordic Journal of African Studies: (2013), vol. 22, no. 1/2, p. 6-22.
ASC Subject Headings: armed forces ; drug trafficking ; ethnicity ; Guinea-Bissau
http://www.njas.helsinki.fi/pdf-files/vol22num1-2/dias.pdf
Gender inequality as a recurring theme in songs performed at a specific traditional and ritual ceremony in Zwelibomvu / Nompumelelo Zondi
In: Indilinga: (2012), vol. 11, no. 2, p. 194-205.
ASC Subject Headings: gender inequality ; girls' initiation ; songs ; South Africa ; Zulu
http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC132016
Households' willingness to pay for restoring environmental resource : a case study of forest resource from Dire Dawa area, Eastern, Ethiopia / Alem Mezgebo
In: Ethiopian Journal of Economics: (2012), vol. 21, no. 2, p. 33-61 : krt. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: attitudes ; deforestation ; Ethiopia ; forest resources ; households
Imitation or innovation? : reflections on administrative reforms in Nigeria / Tunde Agara & Osumah Oarhe
In: Cahiers africains d'administration publique: (2012), no. 78, p. 111-128.
ASC Subject Headings: administrative reform ; Nigeria
Indigenising the school curriculum: an alternative approach for ensuring relevance to the context / D. M. Yishak & M. T. Gumbo
In: Indilinga: (2012), vol. 11, no. 2, p. 179-193 : fig.
ASC Subject Headings: Africanization ; basic education ; curriculum development ; Ethiopia
http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC132017
L'État post-conflit en Côte d'Ivoire / N. ' Kouadio
In: Cahiers africains d'administration publique: (2012), no. 78, p. 65-75.
ASC Subject Headings: authority ; Côte d'Ivoire ; public administration ; State
L'organisation juridictionnelle et la construction de l'État de droit au Cameroun / Siméon Patrice Kouam
In: Revue juridique et politique des états francophones: (2013), année 67, no. 1, p. 79-122.
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; constitutional law ; judicial system
La faillite des organismes financiers de l'UEMOA / Sandrine Kouame Gbanny
In: Revue juridique et politique des états francophones: (2013), année 67, no. 1, p. 123-136.
ASC Subject Headings: banking law ; bankruptcy ; banks ; OHADA ; Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest-Africaine ; West Africa
Le conseil de discipline budgétaire et financière à l'épreuve de la protection de la fortune publique au Cameroun / Mpessa Aloys
In: Cahiers africains d'administration publique: (2012), no. 78, p. 129-156.
ASC Subject Headings: administrative agencies ; Cameroon ; commercial crimes ; jurisdiction ; public sector
Leadership training: a panacea for productive public enterprises in Nigeria / Olufemi Obasa
In: Cahiers africains d'administration publique: (2012), no. 78, p. 157-180.
ASC Subject Headings: management education ; managers ; Nigeria ; public enterprises
Les décrets des 15 mars et 18 avril 2012 ou l'effectivité d'une réforme et la résurgence des problématiques de l'accès et de l'autonomie de la justice administrative au Cameroun / Olivier Fandjip
In: Revue juridique et politique des états francophones: (2013), année 67, no. 1, p. 60-78.
ASC Subject Headings: administrative law ; Cameroon ; decentralization ; legal reform
Luanda in the 17th century: diversity and cultural interaction in the process of forming an Afro-Atlantic city / Arlindo Manuel Caldeira
In: Nordic Journal of African Studies: (2013), vol. 22, no. 1/2, p. 72-104.
ASC Subject Headings: 1600-1699 ; Angola ; slaves ; social structure ; urban population
http://www.njas.helsinki.fi/pdf-files/vol22num1-2/caldeira.pdf
New media, new truths, new lies : popular struggles in Africa in the media / Firoze Manji
In: CODESRIA Bulletin: (2013), no. 3/4, p. 21-26 : graf.
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; images ; journalism ; mass media ; social conditions ; social media
Of colonists, migrants and national identity : the historic difficulties of the socio-political construction of Equatorial Guinea / Yolanda Aixelà
In: Nordic Journal of African Studies: (2013), vol. 22, no. 1/2, p. 49-71.
ASC Subject Headings: colonialism ; dictatorship ; Equatorial Guinea ; national identity ; social stratification
http://www.njas.helsinki.fi/pdf-files/vol22num1-2/aixela.pdf
Peacekeeping as occupation : the African Union mission in Somalia / Samar Al-Bulushi
In: CODESRIA Bulletin: (2013), no. 3/4, p. 14-16 : ill.
ASC Subject Headings: African Union ; peacekeeping operations ; Somalia ; violence
Political representation of minorities as collateral damage or gain : the Batwa in Burundi and Rwanda / Stef Vandeginste
In: Africa Spectrum: (2014), vol. 49, no. 1, p. 3-25.
ASC Subject Headings: Burundi ; civil and political rights ; minority groups ; peace treaties ; political participation ; Pygmies ; Rwanda
Pro-democratic intervention in Africa and the "Arab Spring" / Hannah Woolaver
In: African Journal of International and Comparative Law: (2014), vol. 22, pt. 2, p. 161-183.
ASC Subject Headings: democratization ; Egypt ; international law ; Libya ; rebellions ; right of intervention ; Tunisia
Qualitative evaluation of smallholder farmer decisions, support systems, knowledge and disease management tools / Thato Molefe, Joyce Thamaga-Chitja & Kwasi S. Yobo
In: Indilinga: (2012), vol. 11, no. 2, p. 160-178 : fig. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural extension ; evaluation ; plant diseases ; small farms ; South Africa
http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC132018
Rural nonfarm sector and poverty : evidence from some villages of Amhara region, Ethiopia / Getachew Yirga
In: Ethiopian Journal of Economics: (2012), vol. 21, no. 2, p. 63-87 : graf. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: economic models ; Ethiopia ; household income ; rural poverty
Securing reform? : power-sharing and civil-security relations in Kenya and Zimbabwe / Alexander Noyes
In: African Studies Quarterly: (2012), vol. 13, no. 4, p. 27-52 : fig.
ASC Subject Headings: civil-military relations ; Kenya ; national security ; political violence ; power-sharing ; reform ; Zimbabwe
http://asq.africa.ufl.edu/files/Noyes-V13Is4.pdf
Self-defence, intervention by invitation, or proxy war? : the legality of the 2006 Ethiopian invasion of Somalia / Ahmed Ali Khayre
In: African Journal of International and Comparative Law: (2014), vol. 22, pt. 2, p. 208-233.
ASC Subject Headings: 2006 ; Ethiopia ; military intervention ; right of intervention ; Somalia
The Africanisation of academic development programs: a case study / Phillip Higgs & R. M. H. Moeketsi
In: Indilinga: (2012), vol. 11, no. 2, p. 146-159.
ASC Subject Headings: academics ; on-the-job training ; South Africa ; universities
http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC132019
The Cameroon "Anglophone question" in international law / E. H. Nfobin & Nchotu Veraline Nchang Epse Minang
In: African Journal of International and Comparative Law: (2014), vol. 22, pt. 2, p. 234-257.
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; federalism ; international law ; self-determination ; Southern Cameroons
The crisis in CAR : navigating myths and interests / Ilmari Käihkö & Mats Utas
In: Africa Spectrum: (2014), vol. 49, no. 1, p. 69-77.
ASC Subject Headings: Central African Republic ; civil wars ; international politics ; international relations ; political conflicts
The efficacy of water treaties in the Eastern Nile Basin / Wuhibegezer Ferede & Sheferawu Abebe
In: Africa Spectrum: (2014), vol. 49, no. 1, p. 55-67.
ASC Subject Headings: conflict ; Egypt ; Ethiopia ; international agreements ; international law ; Nile River ; river basins ; Sudan
The importance of indigenous games: the selected cases of indigenous games in South Africa / David L. Bogopa
In: Indilinga: (2012), vol. 11, no. 2, p. 245-256.
ASC Subject Headings: conservation of cultural heritage ; games ; South Africa ; traditions
http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC132012
The land question, land grabbing and agriculture in Africa / Peter Anyang' Nyong'o
In: CODESRIA Bulletin: (2013), no. 3/4, p. 26-29.
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; agricultural policy ; land acquisition ; small farms
To copyright 'dikosa tsa setso' or not: pondering the challenges / Matome M. Ratiba
In: Indilinga: (2012), vol. 11, no. 2, p. 233-244.
ASC Subject Headings: copyright ; international law ; lawsuits ; music ; South Africa
http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC132013
Traditional, democratic, accountable? : navigating citizen-subjection in rural South Africa / Robin L. Turner
In: Africa Spectrum: (2014), vol. 49, no. 1, p. 27-54 : krt. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: governance ; local government ; popular participation ; rural areas ; South Africa ; traditional rulers
Umpiring federalism in Africa: institutional mosaic and innovations / Adem Kassie Abebe
In: African Studies Quarterly: (2012), vol. 13, no. 4, p. 53-79.
ASC Subject Headings: conflict resolution ; constitutional law ; Ethiopia ; federalism ; Nigeria ; South Africa
http://asq.africa.ufl.edu/files/Abebe-V13Is4.pdf
Unemployment in urban Ethiopia : determinants and impact on household welfare / Abebe Fikre Kassa
In: Ethiopian Journal of Economics: (2012), vol. 21, no. 2, p. 127-157 : graf. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: economic models ; Ethiopia ; household expenditure ; unemployment ; urban households
Use of indigenous knowledge to determine weather patterns: a case study of women mussel harvesters at KwaNgwanase in KwaZulu-Natal / Glenrose V. Jiyane & Patrick Ngulube
In: Indilinga: (2012), vol. 11, no. 2, p. 206-220 : foto, graf. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: climate change ; fishermen ; indigenous knowledge ; shellfish ; South Africa ; women
http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC132015
Electronic documents
The invention of Amhara nationalism : ethnicity and national identity in Ethiopia / Admassu Kebede. - [S.l. s.n.], 2010
ASC Subject Headings: Amhara ; dissertations (form) ; Ethiopia ; ethnic identity ; nationalism ; Oromo ; Tigre
http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/381042073.pdf
Books
A civil society deferred : the tertiary grip of violence in the Sudan / Abdullahi A. Gallab. - Gainesville, FL [etc.] : University Press of Florida, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: political history ; Sudan ; violence
Abundance mentality : my autobiography / Pius Bigirimana. - Brighton : Pen Press, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: autobiographies (form) ; civil servants ; Uganda
Africa's finances : the contribution of remittances / Raj Bardouille, Muna Ndulo & Margaret Grieco. - Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2008
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; conference papers (form) ; Côte d'Ivoire ; diasporas ; economic development ; finance ; Ghana ; international migration ; Netherlands ; Nigeria ; remittances ; Somalia ; South Africa ; Tanzania
Africa : struggle for the second liberation : the challenge of the 21st century : those who think, resist those who do not surrender : which way Africa? / Boloki Chango Machyo W'Obanda & Ikebesi Omoding. - Kampala : Lusamia Association, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; economic development ; globalization ; neocolonialism ; North Korea ; political ideologies ; Uganda
Africa called : science and development in Nigeria / Alan Hayward. - London [etc.] : Radcliffe, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: 1950-1959 ; agricultural research ; British ; colonial period ; Nigeria ; personal narratives (form)
And the Lord took him / Peace Nyiramahoro Mugobera & Aryantungyisa A. Kaakaabaale. - Kampala : International Fellowship of Evangelical Students [etc.], 1998. - (Christian perspective series)
ASC Subject Headings: aid workers ; marriage ; missions ; personal narratives (form) ; Uganda
Disabusing sexuality / Nathan Karema. - Mbarara : Bishop Stuart University, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: AIDS ; domestic violence ; gender relations ; prostitution ; sexual offences ; sexuality ; Uganda
Ethnomusicology in East Africa : perspectives from Uganda and beyond / Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza & Thomas Solomon. - Kampala : Fountain Publishers, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: 2009 ; conference papers (form) ; East Africa ; music ; musicology ; religion ; Uganda
Extraordinary : significant women of Uganda / Daudi Karungi. - Kampala : Afriart Gallery Books, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: pictorial works (form) ; portraits ; Uganda ; women
Faith received, lived, and given : history of Consolata Missionary Sisters in Kenya (1913-2013) / Kathy Marie Meyer. - Nairobi : Pauline Publications Africa, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Christian orders ; Kenya ; missionary history ; missions
Global ethics : cases from Africa / Ernest Beyaraza. - Kampala : Makerere University Printery, 2006
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; ethics ; globalization
God's invisible hand / Francis Arinze & Gerard O'Connell. - Nairobi : Paulines Publications Africa, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: bishops ; Catholic Church ; interviews (form) ; Nigeria
Hybridity and Christopher Okigbo's poetry / Christopher W. N. Kirunda. - Kampala : Fountain Publishers, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: literary criticism ; Nigeria ; poetry
Kigezi and its people / Paul Ngologoza. - Kampala : Fountain Publishers, 1998
ASC Subject Headings: ethnic groups ; history ; Uganda
Le Maghreb de 1990 à nos jours : émergence d'un nouvel imaginaire et de nouvelles écritures / Faouzia Bendjelid & Mohamed Daoud. - Oran : Centre national de recherche en anthropologie sociale et culturelle, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: 2007 ; Algeria ; conference papers (form) ; literary criticism ; Maghreb ; Morocco ; novels ; Tunisia ; writers
Les indépendances au Maghreb / Amar Mohand-Amer & Belkacem Benzenine. - Oran : Centre de recherche en athropologie sociale et culturelle [etc.], 2012
ASC Subject Headings: Algeria ; independence ; Maghreb ; political change ; social conditions
Light car patrols, 1916-19 : war and exploration in Egypt and Libya with the model T Ford : a memoir / Claud H. Williams & Russell McGuirk. - London : Silphium Press,
ASC Subject Headings: armed forces ; automobiles ; British ; Egypt ; Libya ; World War I
Media globalization and localization : an analysis of the international flow of programs on Ghana television (GTV) / Kekeli K. Nuviadenu. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2005
ASC Subject Headings: cultural change ; dissertations (form) ; Ghana ; globalization ; media policy ; television
Mission Namibia : challenges and opportunities for the Church in the 21st century / Thorsten Prill. - München : Grin Verlag, 2012. - (GRIN Verlagsprogramm Dokument ; Nr. V203535)
ASC Subject Headings: Church ; missions ; Namibia
Modeling and characterizing agricultural expansion : a case study in Senegal, West Africa / Eric Channing Wood. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural development ; dissertations (form) ; economic models ; land use ; Senegal ; shifting cultivation
No justice without forgiveness / Sam Tindiwensi. - Mbarara : Bishop Stuart University, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: Christianity ; conflict resolution ; Uganda
Pour l'honneur de la gendarmerie sénégalaise / Abdoulaye Aziz Ndaw. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: defence ; national security ; personal narratives (form) ; police ; Senegal
Pour l'honneur de la gendarmerie sénégalaise / Abdoulaye Aziz Ndaw 1: Le sens d'un engagement / Abdoulaye Aziz Ndaw. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: defence ; national security ; personal narratives (form) ; police ; Senegal
Pour l'honneur de la gendarmerie sénégalaise / Abdoulaye Aziz Ndaw 2: La mise à mort d'un officier / Abdoulaye Aziz Ndaw. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: defence ; national security ; personal narratives (form) ; police ; Senegal
Religion and AIDS in Africa / Jenny Ann Trinitapoli & Alexander Weinreb. - Oxford [etc.] : Oxford University Press, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: AIDS ; Malawi ; religion ; Subsaharan Africa
Social foundations of law : a philosophical analysis / Ernest K. Beyaraza. - Kampala : LDC Publishers, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: philosophy of law ; Uganda
Social learning for women's empowerment in rural Tanzania / Christine Hellen Mhina. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: dissertations (form) ; empowerment ; land tenure ; rural women ; Tanzania
Struggle to success / Ephraim Kanya Manzi Tumubweinee. - Kampala : Baroque Publishers, 2008
ASC Subject Headings: autobiographies (form) ; politicians ; Uganda
Tears of a war survivor / Odonga Otto. - Kampala : Ikorom (U) Ltd, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Lord's Resistance Army ; personal narratives (form) ; Uganda
The history of education in Cameroon, 1844-2004 / George Fonkeng Epah. - Lewiston NY : Edwin Mellen Press, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: 1850-1899 ; 1900-1999 ; Cameroon ; colonialism ; education ; educational history ; educational systems
The informal economy : estimation, economic and policy implications, the case of selected sub-Saharan African countries / Elamin Ahmed Osman. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2002
ASC Subject Headings: Benin ; budget deficits ; Côte d'Ivoire ; dissertations (form) ; economic conditions ; economic models ; gross national product ; informal sector ; Nigeria
The location of Christian missions in Africa / Hildegard Binder Johnson. - New York : American Geographical Society, 1967
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; location factors ; missions ; topography
The political economy of informal markets : restructuring economies, gender and women's lives in Maputo, Mozambique / Natalina Teixeira Monteiro. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: dissertations (form) ; economic policy ; gender relations ; informal sector ; marketplaces ; Mozambique ; traders ; urban areas ; women
The Ugandan paradox / Joachim Buwembo. - Uganda : [Author], 2012
ASC Subject Headings: personal narratives (form) ; social conditions ; Uganda
The Universal Primary Education (UPE) in Uganda / Augustine N. Ezenne. - Kampala : Makerere University School of Higher Education, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: educational policy ; primary education ; Uganda
Through intricate corridors to power / Gilbert Balibaseka Bukenya. - Kampala : Fountain Publishers, 2008
ASC Subject Headings: autobiographies (form) ; politicians ; Uganda
Tourism in a rural Ugandan village : impacts, local meaning and implications for development / Andrew Paul Lepp. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2005
ASC Subject Headings: attitudes ; dissertations (form) ; national parks and reserves ; rural population ; tourism ; Uganda
Uganda : reflections of a passing generation / Mwita Rukandama. - Kampala : Fountain Publishers, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: 1950-1999 ; political history ; Uganda
Uganda : the bloodstained pearl of Africa and its struggle for peace : from the pages of Drum / Adam Seftel & Charles Binayisa. - Kampala : Fountain Publishers, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: articles (form) ; periodicals ; political violence ; press ; Uganda
Uganda : the duty and democratic responsibility of leaders and citizens to eradicate corruption in obedience to God : God's law forbids stealing and corruption / Narcisio Bagumisiriza. - Kampala : Annesha Enterprises, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: corruption ; leadership ; religion ; Uganda
Urban agriculture in South Africa : a study of the Eastern Cape Province / Alexander Counihan Thornton. - Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: South Africa ; urban agriculture
Weeding the millet field : women's law and grassroots justice in Uganda / Jennifer Okumu Wengi. - Kampala : Uganda Law Watch Center, 1997. - (Essays in women's law)
ASC Subject Headings: family law ; legal status ; property rights ; Uganda ; women ; women's rights
Women and change in the Cameroon grassfields : a social and economic history of Moghamoland, c. 1889-1960 / Bridget Angum Teboh. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; colonial period ; cultural change ; dissertations (form) ; gender relations ; rites of passage ; rural society ; social history ; women