New titles

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.

N.B. The next issue will be published on Monday, 6 January 2025.

New acquisitions - week 34 2014

Week 34 2014 - Beta version

Journal articles

'n Evaluasie van die Afrika-Unie as internasionale organisasie = An evaluation of the African Union as an international organisation / Henri Bezuidenhout & Ewert Kleynhans
In: Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe: (2014), jg. 54, nr. 2, p. 267-282.
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African Union ; evaluation

"Mag ons vergeet?" 'n Geskiedenis-serie en Afrikanernasionalisme, 1937-1948 = "Should we forget?" : a history series and Afrikaner nationalism, 1937-1948 / Fransjohan Pretorius
In: Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe: (2014), jg. 54, nr. 2, p. 178-204 : ill.
ASC Subject Headings: Afrikaners ; historiography ; nationalism ; South Africa

A refitting study of Late Early to Middle Stone Age lithic assemblages from the site of Kudu Koppie, Limpopo Province, South Africa / T. Alexandra Sumner
In: Journal of African Archaeology: (2013), vol. 11, no. 2, p. 133-153 : ill. , krt.
ASC Subject Headings: archaeological artefacts ; South Africa ; Stone Age

A situational analysis of information management in selected government ministries in the context of "Kenya Vision 2013" / Evans Munge, Daniel C. Rotich & Justus Wamukoya
In: African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science: (2014), vol. 24, no. 1, p. 15-26 : fig. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: government departments ; information management ; information technology ; Kenya

Alimentation, rituel des repas et art de la table dans les pays du Sud-Ouest de l'océan Indien depuis le XVIIIe siècle / Prosper Eve
In: Revue historique de l'océan Indien: (2013), no. 10, p. 3-366 : ill. , foto's, tab.
ASC Subject Headings: eating customs ; food consumption ; food preparation ; Indian Ocean islands ; Madagascar ; Mauritius ; nutrition ; Réunion

An assessment of the changing needs of information professionals in Zimbabwe / Agnes Chikonzo
In: African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science: (2014), vol. 24, no. 1, p. 107-118 : fig.
ASC Subject Headings: information professionals ; vocational education ; Zimbabwe

Building the South African nation through legal deposit : the impact of legislation on preservation of digital materials / Zawedde Nsibirwa, Ruth Hoskins & Christine Stilwell
In: African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science: (2014), vol. 24, no. 1, p. 53-65 : tab.
ASC Subject Headings: electronic resources ; legal deposit ; legislation ; South Africa

Children's cultures: some conceptual issues and research potentials in highland Eritrea / Abbebe Kifleyesus
In: Journal of Eritrean Studies: (2012), vol. 6, no. 1, p. 97-126.
ASC Subject Headings: anthropological research ; children ; Eritrea

Competitive Intelligence (CI) in Morocco / A. S. A. Du Toit & N. Sewdass
In: African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science: (2014), vol. 24, no. 1, p. 3-13 : graf.
ASC Subject Headings: business ; competition ; information ; Morocco

Court records management and efficient administration of justice in Nigeria / Abiola Abioye
In: African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science: (2014), vol. 24, no. 1, p. 27-39 : fig. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: administration of justice ; courts ; information management ; Nigeria

Dahalik: an endangered language or a Tigre variety? / Saleh Mahmud Idris
In: Journal of Eritrean Studies: (2012), vol. 6, no. 1, p. 51-74 : fig. , krt. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: dialects ; Eritrea ; sociolinguistics ; Tigré language

Die doeltreffendheid van die skoolondersteuningspan binne die Suid-Afrikaanse inklusiewe onderwysstelsel = Effectiveness of the school-based support team within an inclusive South African educational system / Nina du Toit, Irma Eloff & Melanie Moen
In: Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe: (2014), jg. 54, nr. 2, p. 341-364 : tab.
ASC Subject Headings: primary education ; pupils ; South Africa ; teachers

Ekonomie en meertaligheid : 'n herbesinning oor die Suid-Afrikaanse taalbeleid = Economics and multilingualism : reconsidering language policies for South Africa / Theo Van der Merwe
In: Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe: (2014), jg. 54, nr. 2, p. 217-234 : tab.
ASC Subject Headings: language policy ; South Africa

Information literacy competence of librarians in South West Nigerian university libraries / Ayoku A. Ojedokun
In: African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science: (2014), vol. 24, no. 1, p. 67-90 : tab.
ASC Subject Headings: information literacy ; information professionals ; Nigeria ; university libraries

L'esclavage à Bourbon : nouvelles approches / Prosper Eve
In: Revue historique de l'océan Indien: (2013), no. 10, p. 367-421 : foto's, ill.
ASC Subject Headings: Mascarene Islands ; Réunion ; slavery ; slaves

Les échanges entre le Cameroun et l'Afrique du Sud pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale / Emmanuel Tchumtchaoua
In: Outre-mers: (2014), t. 102, no. 382/383, p. 215-236 : tab.
ASC Subject Headings: Cameroon ; colonists ; French ; international trade ; South Africa ; World War II

Les revers du commerce négrier entre l'océan Indien et le Rio de la Plata (fin du XVIIIe-début du XIXe siècle) / Jean Pierre Tardieu
In: Outre-mers: (2014), t. 102, no. 382/383, p. 149-181 : krt. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: Argentina ; Indian Ocean ; Mozambique ; slave trade ; Uruguay

Ores sources, smelters and archaeometallurgy : exploring iron age metal production in the Southern Waterberg, South Africa / Foreman Bandama, Shadreck Chirikure & Simon Hall
In: Journal of African Archaeology: (2013), vol. 11, no. 2, p. 243-267 : ill. , krt.
ASC Subject Headings: archaeology ; Iron Age ; metalworking industry ; South Africa

Protection under the scanty law of author's rights (copyright) in Eritrea / Senai Wolde-Ab
In: Journal of Eritrean Studies: (2012), vol. 6, no. 1, p. 1-50.
ASC Subject Headings: civil codes ; copyright ; Eritrea

The acquisition of ceramics by hunter-gatherers on the Middle Zambezi in the first and second millennium AD / John Kinahan
In: Journal of African Archaeology: (2013), vol. 11, no. 2, p. 197-209 : ill. , krt.
ASC Subject Headings: archaeology ; hunter-gatherers ; Namibia ; pottery

The early Neolithic pottery of Ifri Oudadane, NE Morocco : qualitative and quantitative evidence / Jörg Linstädter & Gregor Wagner
In: Journal of African Archaeology: (2013), vol. 11, no. 2, p. 155-196 : ill. , krt.
ASC Subject Headings: archaeology ; Morocco ; pottery ; Stone Age

The fauna from the UNO/BU excavations at Bieta Giyorgis (Aksum) in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia : campaigns 1995-2003 : Pre-Aksumite, 700-400 BC to Late Aksumite, AD 800-1200 / Louis Chaix
In: Journal of African Archaeology: (2013), vol. 11, no. 2, p. 211-241 : ill. , krt.
ASC Subject Headings: animals ; archaeology ; Ethiopia ; fauna

The management of digital records in the Office of the Premier of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa / Ndakasharwa Muchaonyerwa & Festus Khayundi
In: African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science: (2014), vol. 24, no. 1, p. 41-52 : graf. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: electronic resources ; information management ; regional government ; South Africa

Uitkoms van 'n intervensie ten opsigte van Engelse geletterdheid op die niemoedertaal-onderrigpraktyke van onderwysers in plattelandse skole = Outcomes of an English literacy intervention on non-mother tongue teaching practices of teachers in rural schools / Liesel Ebersöhn
In: Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe: (2014), jg. 54, nr. 2, p. 283-303 : fig. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: English language ; languages of instruction ; rural areas ; secondary education ; South Africa ; teacher education

Electronic documents

African governance report III 2013. - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; democracy ; elections ; governance ; plural society
http://www.africa.undp.org/content/dam/rba/docs/Reports/Africa%20Governa...

Books

"U Shuma Bulasi" : agrarian transformation in the Zoutpansberg district of South Africa, up to 1946 / Maanda Mulaudzi. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2002
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural development ; agricultural history ; dissertations (form) ; expropriation ; land conflicts ; land rights ; South Africa

(In)visibility in African culture / Zoe Norridge, Charlotte Baker & Elleke Boehmer
In: Research in African literatures, ISSN 0034-5210 ; vol. 44, no. 2
ASC Subject Headings: 2010 ; Africa ; conference papers (form) ; films ; images ; literature ; publishing

Africa and the new world era : from humanitarianism to a strategic view / Jack Mangala. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; African Union ; development ; European Union ; globalization ; international economic relations ; international relations ; UN ; World Bank

Agents publics, pouvoirs et terroirs en Afrique / Henri Brice Afane. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014. - (Problématiques africaines)
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; Cameroon ; civil servants ; culture ; public administration

Angels never die / Laban Erapu. - Mbarara : Bishop Stuart University, 2012. - (Shared lives ; book 1)
ASC Subject Headings: adolescents ; AIDS ; novels (form) ; Uganda

Assessing the livelihood system of smallholder farm households : potential for adoption of improved fallows and green manure in Zimbabwe / Maxwell Mudhara. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural economy ; agricultural innovations ; dissertations (form) ; livelihoods ; rural households ; small farms ; Zimbabwe

By violent means only? : a comparative analysis of South African agrarian labour relations, c. 1900-2003 / Luke Michael Radoux. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: 1900-1999 ; agricultural workers ; farms ; labour relations ; South Africa ; theses (form) ; violence ; viticulture

De l'utopie du développement à l'analyse des pratiques communicationnelles : les usages de la téléphonie mobile en Côte d'Ivoire dans une perspective de praxis africaine / Osée Sylvain Nana Kamga. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: Côte d'Ivoire ; development ; dissertations (form) ; information technology ; mobile telephone

Environmental imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa / Diana K. Davis & Edmund Burke. - Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2011. - (Ohio University Press series in ecology and history)
ASC Subject Headings: Algeria ; colonialism ; ecology ; Egypt ; environmental history ; Middle East ; Nile River ; Northern Africa ; water resources

Générations engagées & mouvements nationaux : le XXème siècle au Maghreb : hommage à Mahfoud Kaddache / Ouanassa Siari-Tengour & Aissa Kadri. - Oran : Crasc, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: 2009 ; Algeria ; conference papers (form) ; generations ; Maghreb ; memorial volumes (form) ; nationalism ; political history

Het beest van Kruger / Conny Braam. - Amsterdam : Bertram+de Leeuw Uitgevers, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: crime novels (form) ; South Africa

Land use effects on soil quality and productivity in the Lake Victoria basin of Uganda / Lukman Nagaya Mulumba. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2005
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural productivity ; dissertations (form) ; erosion ; soil management ; soils ; Uganda

Le Nord-Congo : histoire et civilisations / Jérôme Ollandet. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: Bangala (Congo Brazzaville,Democratic Republic of Congo) ; Congo (Brazzaville) ; culture ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; Fang ; history ; Mbosi ; Teke ; traditional society

Les désillusions d'un jeune étudiant / Cheikh Ibrahima Daffé. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: personal narratives (form) ; Senegal ; students ; universities

Mahmoud Harbi (1921-1960) : un nationaliste djiboutien / Ali Coubba. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: biographies (form) ; Djibouti ; politicians

My mother's husband / K. Eldard. - Kampala : Deluxe Publishers, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; Uganda

Negotiating national identity : the case of the Arab states of North Africa / Karim K. Mezran. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: Algeria ; dissertations (form) ; elite ; Libya ; Morocco ; national identity ; nationalism ; Northern Africa ; political stability ; Tunisia

Never a dull moment : 1950s village schooling in Uganda / Katherine Namuddu. - [S.l.] : Xlibris Corporation, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: 1950-1959 ; children ; personal narratives (form) ; rural areas ; schools ; Uganda

NGO roles in disaster preparedness and mitigation (DPM) : a case study of Save the children UK in drought-prone Fik, Ethiopia / Hibak A. F. Hersi. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: disasters ; droughts ; Ethiopia ; humanitarian assistance ; NGO ; theses (form) ; water supply

Primitive / Ignatius Kagongi. - [S.l.] : Teachers Consultants Readers' Group, 200
ASC Subject Headings:

Rivalités et conflits religieux au Cameroun / Roger Bernard Onomo Etaba. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014. - (Problématiques africaines)
ASC Subject Headings: African religions ; Cameroon ; Christianity ; conflict ; Islam ; religion

Sociographie de la télévision congolaise : voyage au coeur du système télévisuel du Congo-Kinshasa / Godefroid-Guillaume Elite Ipondo Elika. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; television

State withdrawal and political change : corporatism, capacity, and coalition politics in Egypt and Mexico / Hisham Aidi. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: dissertations (form) ; economic policy ; Egypt ; labour ; Mexico ; privatization ; State-society relationship ; structural adjustment

Sustainable livelihood as an important factor in food security and community development in Bogos region, Eritrea / Thomas Ghebreyesus Cheway. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: community development ; dissertations (form) ; Eritrea ; food security ; livelihoods ; natural resources ; sustainable development

The rat trap and other plays : five crisp, integrated plays that shall entertain and excite your mind positively / Mercy Mirembe Ntangaare. - Kampala : MPK Graphics Ltd., 2007
ASC Subject Headings: drama (form) ; Uganda

The status of rural women farm-household systems : a case study in Ngie clan in the Northwest province of Cameroon / Zipporah Engow Agheneza. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: basic needs ; Cameroon ; dissertations (form) ; environmental degradation ; farming systems ; rural households ; women farmers

Widening political space in Ankole, Uganda : the role of Christianity, ethnicity and gender / A. M. Kagume. - Kampala : Fountain Publishers, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: Christianity ; ethnicity ; gender ; missionary history ; Nyankole ; politics ; Uganda

African Literature

Angels never die / Laban Erapu. - Mbarara : Bishop Stuart University, 2012. - (Shared lives ; book 1)
ASC Subject Headings: adolescents ; AIDS ; novels (form) ; Uganda

Het beest van Kruger / Conny Braam. - Amsterdam : Bertram+de Leeuw Uitgevers, 2014
ASC Subject Headings: crime novels (form) ; South Africa

My mother's husband / K. Eldard. - Kampala : Deluxe Publishers, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: novels (form) ; Uganda