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Journal articles

A critical appraisal of the Nigerian law and practice on choice of jurisdiction / H. A. Olaniyan
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights: (2012), vol. 18, no. 2, p. 415-436.
ASC Subject Headings: common law systems ; courts ; jurisdiction ; lawsuits ; Nigeria
 

African women in a changing economic system: an examination of the oil palm industry among Uzairhue women of Benin Province, 1900-1960 / Fred Ekpe Ayokhai
In: Afrika Zamani: (2010/11), no. 18/19, p. 25-39
http://www.codesria.org/IMG/pdf/3-Ayokhai_AZ_18_19_2010-2011.pdf
ASC Subject Headings: colonial economy/Etsako/gender roles/Nigeria/palm oil/women

Alexandre et Soundjata : deux itinéraires mystiques en miroir / Sidy Diop
In: Annales de la Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines / Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar: (2011), no. 41A, p. 61-72.
ASC Subject Headings: heroes ; Mali ; Mali polity ; myths

Black consciousness in South Africa and the question of white oppression under apartheid / Edward Powell
In: African Studies Bulletin / Leeds University Centre for African Studies: (2013/14), no. 75, p. 80-93.
ASC Subject Headings: anti-apartheid resistance ; black consciousness ; South Africa ; student movements ; Whites

Challenges in prosecuting former child soldiers in Uganda's international crimes division / Hope Among
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights: (2012), vol. 18, no. 2, p. 336-356.
ASC Subject Headings: child soldiers ; courts of appeal ; jurisdiction ; Uganda ; war crimes

Congolese elections 2011 : mostly a problem of global governance and negative 'soft power', not resources / Timothy B. Reid
In: Journal of African Elections: (2013), vol. 12, no. 1, p. 34-64.
ASC Subject Headings: 2011 ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; governance ; leadership ; political stability ; presidential elections

Democracy and States' compliance with regional and sub-regional election benchmarks in Africa / André Mbata Mangu
In: Journal of African Elections: (2013), vol. 12, no. 1, p. 1-33 : tab.
ASC Subject Headings: 2011 ; democracy ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; election law ; elections

Elderly women and witchcraft killings among the Sukuma of northern Tanzania: from 1880s to present / Hamisi Mathias Machangu
In: Afrika Zamani: (2010/11), no. 18/19, p. 181-198
http://www.codesria.org/IMG/pdf/11-Machangu_AZ_18_19_2010-2011.pdf
ASC Subject Headings: elderly women/Sukuma/Tanzania/witch-hunting/witchcraft

Facilitating disability inclusion in the national development agenda in Uganda : what role can the human rights-based approach play? / Moses Mulumba
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights: (2012), vol. 18, no. 2, p. 482-498.
ASC Subject Headings: disabled ; government policy ; human rights ; poverty reduction ; Uganda

Fractured sisterhood: the historical evolution of the women's movement in Mauritius / Ramola Ramtohul
In: Afrika Zamani: (2010/11), no. 18/19, p. 71-101
http://www.codesria.org/IMG/pdf/5-Ramtohul_AZ_18_19_2010-2011.pdf
ASC Subject Headings: Mauritius/plural society/women's organizations/women's rights

Guaranteeing the right to a fair trial in Uganda's military justice system : proposals for reform / Ronald Naluwairo
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights: (2012), vol. 18, no. 2, p. 316-335.
ASC Subject Headings: human rights ; legal procedure ; military courts ; Uganda

Human rights enforcement and the question of standing before the High Court of Botswana : a comparative analysis / Jonas Obonye
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights: (2012), vol. 18, no. 2, p. 387-414.
ASC Subject Headings: access to justice ; Botswana ; courts of appeal ; lawsuits ; legal procedure ; offences against human rights

International justice vs public opinion? : the ICC and ethnic polarisation in the 2013 Kenyan election / Thomas P. Wolf
In: Journal of African Elections: (2013), vol. 12, no. 1, p. 143-177 : graf. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: 2013 ; elections ; ethnic identity ; group identity ; International Criminal Court ; Kenya ; voting

Kenyan courts and the politics of the rule of law in the post-authoritarian State / Migai Akech & Patricia Kameri-Mbote
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights: (2012), vol. 18, no. 2, p. 357-386.
ASC Subject Headings: constitutional reform ; corruption ; courts ; Kenya ; rule of law

Kwame Nkrumah, African studies, and the politics of knowledge production in the Black Star of Africa / Jean Allman
In: International Journal of African Historical Studies: (2013), vol. 46, no. 2, p. 181-203 : foto.
ASC Subject Headings: African studies ; Africanization ; decolonization ; Ghana ; historiography ; research centres

L'absence de femmes dramaturges au Sénégal / Alioune Mbaye
In: Annales de la Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines / Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar: (2011), no. 41A, p. 201-219.
ASC Subject Headings: Senegal ; theatre ; women writers

Migrations féminines et histoire africiane: pratiques d'hier, réalité d'aujourd'hui / Honoré Mimche, Didier Nganawara & Habibou Ouédraogo
In: Afrika Zamani: (2010/11), no. 18/19, p. 161-179 : tab
http://www.codesria.org/IMG/pdf/10-Mimche_Nganawara_Ouedraogo_AZ_18_19_2010-2011.pdf
ASC Subject Headings: demographic history/French-speaking Africa/Subsaharan Africa/women migrants

Muslim women reformers in Africa: the Nigeria case / Omobolaji Ololade Olarinmoye
In: Afrika Zamani: (2010/11), no. 18/19, p. 133-150
http://www.codesria.org/IMG/pdf/8-Olarinmoye_AZ_18_19_2010-2011.pdf
ASC Subject Headings: empowerment/Islam/Nigeria/women/women's organizations

Nationalisme, démocratie et action politique féminine en Afrique précoloniale: vers la reconnaissance d'une histoire politique des femmes / Jacques Tshibwabwa Kuditshini
In: Afrika Zamani: (2010/11), no. 18/19, p. 113-132
http://www.codesria.org/IMG/pdf/7-Kuditchini_AZ_18_19_2010-2011.pdf
ASC Subject Headings: democracy/Democratic Republic of Congo/gender roles/nationalism/women

Oil spillage in the Niger Delta Region : a complex instance of gross environmental injustice / Gaius E. Okwezuzu
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights: (2012), vol. 18, no. 2, p. 437-453.
ASC Subject Headings: courts ; environmental degradation ; Great Britain ; legal procedure ; Niger Delta conflict ; Nigeria ; petroleum ; pollution ; United States

Party-voter linkage in Senegal : the rise and fall of Abdoulaye Wade and the Parti Démocratique Sénégalais / Anja Osei
In: Journal of African Elections: (2013), vol. 12, no. 1, p. 84-108 : fig. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: 2012 ; charisma ; leadership ; Parti Démocratique Sénégalais ; political participation ; presidential elections ; Senegal

Party institutionalisation in Mozambique : 'the party of the State' vs the opposition / Adriano Nuvunga & Eduardo Sitoe
In: Journal of African Elections: (2013), vol. 12, no. 1, p. 109-142 : graf. , tab.
ASC Subject Headings: Frelimo ; institutional change ; Mozambique ; opposition parties ; political parties ; social relations

Portraits in the hands of strangers: colonial and postcolonial postcards as vignettes to African women's history / Agbenyega Adedze
In: Afrika Zamani: (2010/11), no. 18/19, p. 1-16 : ill
http://www.codesria.org/IMG/pdf/1-Adedze_AZ_18_19_2010-2011.pdf
ASC Subject Headings: Africa/historical sources/portraits/postcards/stereotypes/Togo/women

Positioning Kiswahili video-films as a pedagogical institution / Vicensia Shule
In: African Studies Bulletin / Leeds University Centre for African Studies: (2013/14), no. 75, p. 65-79.
ASC Subject Headings: films ; pedagogy ; Swahili language ; Tanzania

Pouvoir colonial et syndicalisme au Sénégal, de 1885 à 1960 / Daha Chérif Ba
In: Annales de la Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines / Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar: (2011), no. 41A, p. 11-44.
ASC Subject Headings: colonial administration ; France ; labour history ; Senegal ; strikes ; trade unions

Revisiting impediments to women's land decision-making processes in Uganda / Godard Busingye
In: East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights: (2012), vol. 18, no. 2, p. 454-481.
ASC Subject Headings: colonialism ; customary law ; land use ; patriarchy ; Uganda ; women's rights

The 2012 general elections in Lesotho : a step towards the consolidation of democracy / Tlohang W. Letsie
In: Journal of African Elections: (2013), vol. 12, no. 1, p. 65-83 : tab.
ASC Subject Headings: 2012 ; coalitions ; democracy ; election law ; election management bodies ; elections ; Lesotho

The Cold War and Africa : a critical evaluation of the "failure" of African independence / Gorgui Dieng
In: Annales de la Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines / Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar: (2011), no. 41A, p. 167-183.
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; cold war ; independence ; neocolonialism ; political history

Women and migration in African historiography: notes for a debate / Adérito Machava
In: Afrika Zamani: (2010/11), no. 18/19, p. 17-24
http://www.codesria.org/IMG/pdf/2-AderitoMachava_AZ_18_19_2010-2011.pdf
ASC Subject Headings: Africa/historiography/migration/Mozambique/women migrants

Women and the economy in selected countries in southern Africa: a reflection / Theresa Moyo
In: Afrika Zamani: (2010/11), no. 18/19, p. 41-70 : tab
http://www.codesria.org/IMG/pdf/4-Moyo_AZ_18_19_2010-2011.pdf
ASC Subject Headings: economic history/gender division of labour/gender inequality/Southern Africa

Women as ministers and the issue of gender equality in the Republic of Cape Verde / Ângela Sofia Benoliel Coutinho
In: Afrika Zamani: (2010/11), no. 18/19, p. 151-160
http://www.codesria.org/IMG/pdf/9-Coutinho_AZ_18_19_2010-2011.pdf
ASC Subject Headings: Cape Verde/gender inequality/government/women

Writing and teaching African women's history: problems and prospects / Eno Blankson Ikpe
In: Afrika Zamani: (2010/11), no. 18/19, p. 103-112
http://www.codesria.org/IMG/pdf/6-Ikpe_AZ_18_19_2010-2011.pdf
ASC Subject Headings: Africa/gender studies/historiography/history/Nigeria/women

Electronic documents

Conjoncture sécuritaire en zone frontalière : Cameroun - Tchad - République centrafricaine : eléments d'analyse anthropo-politiste du phénomène des coupeurs de route / Pascal Touoyem. - Stockholm [etc.] : SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) [etc.], 2011
ASC Subject Headings: banditry ; border control ; boundaries ; Cameroon ; Central African Republic ; Chad ; regional security ; violence
http://www.sipri.org/research/security/africa/uploaded/cameroon_study_2011

Books

"A log in water never becomes a crocodile" : practices of return migration and intergenerational gifting in West Africa / Erin Kenny. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2005
ASC Subject Headings: dissertations (form) ; family ; gifts ; Guinea ; kinship ; Manding ; return migration ; West Africa

A Ugandan affair / M. Sylvia Morris. - London : Excalibur Press of London, 1995
ASC Subject Headings: personal narratives (form) ; secondary education ; teachers ; Uganda

Banc diakhlé / Ibou Fall. - [Dakar] : Forte Impression, 2010. - (Sénégalaiseries)
ASC Subject Headings: essays (form) ; humour ; Senegal ; social life ; society

Cadre légal et institutionnel de la gouvernance des ressources naturelles en R.D. Congo : synthèse et analyse des lois, règles et institutions / Paulin Polepole Buhendwa. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013. - (Etudes africaines)
ASC Subject Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; legislation ; natural resource management

Conjoncture sécuritaire en zone frontalière : Cameroun - Tchad - République centrafricaine : éléments d'analyse anthropo-politiste du phénomène des coupeurs de route Conjoncture sécuritaire en zone frontalière : Cameroun - Tchad - République centrafricaine : eléments d'analyse anthropo-politiste du phénomène des coupeurs de route / Pascal Touoyem. - Stockholm [etc.] : SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) [etc.], 2011
ASC Subject Headings: banditry ; border control ; boundaries ; Cameroon ; Central African Republic ; Chad ; regional security ; violence

Contribution à l'évaluation environnementale : prise en compte des effets liés au développement du réseau routier sur les ressources forestières au Niger / Djibo Boubacar. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: dissertations (form) ; environmental policy ; forest resources ; Niger ; road construction ; road transport

Customary law ascertained / Manfred O. Hinz & Ndateelela Emilia Namwoonde. - Windhoek : Namibia Scientific Society, 2010
ASC Subject Headings:

Death and the king's grey hair & other plays : drama / Denja Abdullahi. - Ibadan : Kraft Books, 2014. - (Kraftgriots)
ASC Subject Headings: drama (form) ; Nigeria

Eugène : le silence de l'enfant / Dorothée Robin. - Abidjan : NEI-CEDA, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: child abuse ; crime novels (form) ; Côte d'Ivoire ; spirits

Farewell Africa : the tramp comes home / David Lessels. - Brighton : Indepenpress, 2012
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; personal narratives (form) ; Scots ; travel books (form)

Global governance and the Kimberley process : the case of conflict diamonds and Sierra Leone / J. Andrew Grant. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2007
ASC Subject Headings: civil wars ; diamond mining ; diamonds ; dissertations (form) ; governance ; illicit trade ; international agreements ; international relations ; Sierra Leone

Kasai-Oriental : un nud gordien dans l'espace congolais / Jean Omasombo. - Tervuren [etc.] : Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika [etc.], 2014. - (Monographies des provinces de la République démocratique du Congo ; 5)
ASC Subject Headings: administrative divisions ; country studies (form) ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; ethnographic surveys (form) ; local history ; local politics

L'Afrique des Grands Lacs : annuaire 2012-2013 / F. Reyntjens, S. Vandeginste & M. Verpoorten. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2013. - (L'Afrique des grands lacs, ISSN 1636-208X ; 17)
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural development ; Burundi ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; economic conditions ; Great Lakes region ; land conflicts ; political conditions ; Rwanda

Land tenure and access to and use of feed resources in the mixed farming system of the Ethiopian highlands / Getachew Gebru. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2002
ASC Subject Headings: agropastoralism ; dissertations (form) ; Ethiopia ; farmers' associations ; feed ; grasslands ; land tenure

Les égocrates : nous sommes gouvernés par leurs vanités / Ibou Fall. - Dakar : Forte Impression, 2011. - (Sénégalaiseries et autres complications pour se simplifier la vie ; 4)
ASC Subject Headings: essays (form) ; humour ; political elite ; politicians ; Senegal

Marriage and morality : negotiating gender and respect in Zanzibar town / Gabrielle E. O'Malley. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2002
ASC Subject Headings: cultural and social anthropology ; Islamic law ; marriage ; married women ; muslim women ; polygamy ; socialism ; Tanzania ; Zanzibar

Méditations africaines / Felwine Sarr. - Montréal : Mémoire d'encrier, 2012. - (Collection Chronique)
ASC Subject Headings: diaries (form) ; philosophy ; prose (form) ; Senegal

Nous sommes notre remède Livre 2 / Mamadou Cissokho. - Bonneville [ec.] : Grad [etc.], 2008
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural policy ; farmers' associations ; food security ; popular participation ; Sahel ; Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest-Africaine ; West Africa

Nouvelles de Madagascar / Raharimanana. - Paris : Magellan & CIE, 2010. - (Miniatures)
ASC Subject Headings: Madagascar ; short stories (form)

Peut-être, inch Allah Livre 1 / Mamadou Cissokho. - Bonneville [ec.] : Grad [etc.], 2008
ASC Subject Headings: agricultural policy ; farmers' associations ; popular participation ; Senegal

Queer Maroc : sexualités, genres et (trans)identités dans la littérature marocaine : essai / Jean Zaganiaris. - [Paris] : Des ailes sur un tracteur, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: French language ; gender ; homosexuality ; literature ; Morocco ; sexuality

Rebel without borders : frontline mission in Africa and the Gulf / Marc Vachon, François Bugingo* & Charles Phillips. - Toronto : ECW Press, 2008
ASC Subject Headings: emergency medical services ; humanitarian assistance ; Iraq ; Mozambique ; personal observations ; Rwanda ; Sudan

Stealing the neighbor's chicken : social control in northern Mozambique / Nicholas Charles Kottak. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Dissertation Services, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: community leadership ; cultural and social anthropology ; ethnic and racial groups ; kinship ; Mozambique ; rural areas ; social control ; witchcraft

Sugar and coffee : a history of settler agriculture in nineteenth-century Liberia / William Ezra Allen. - Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Dissertation Services, 2003
ASC Subject Headings: agriculture ; cash crops ; coffee ; history ; immigrants ; Liberia ; nineteenth century ; sugar ; United States

The Tima of the Nuba Mountains (Sudan) : a social anthropological study / Meike Meerpohl. - Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2012. - (Topics in interdisciplinary African studies ; 28)
ASC Subject Headings: ethnographies (form) ; Sudan ; Tima

The trouble with lions : a Glasgow vet in Africa / Jerry C. Haigh. - Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, 2008
ASC Subject Headings: Kenya ; personal narratives (form) ; Subsaharan Africa ; Uganda ; veterinary medicine ; wild animals ; wildlife protection

The wonder safaris : African journeys of miracles and surprises / Adam Levin. - Cape Town : Struik Publishers, 2004
ASC Subject Headings: Africa ; personal observations ; travel

Two kingdoms of Uganda : snakes and ladders in the scramble for Africa / Cedric Pulford. - Daventry : Ituri, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: Buganda polity ; Bunyoro-Kitara polity ; colonial conquest ; Great Britain ; Uganda

Une fleur dans la mer ou le naufrage du bateau "le Joola" : poèmes suivi de souffle de vie / Ibrahima Ndaw. - Gaithersburg, MD : Phoenix Press International, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: poetry (form) ; Senegal ; shipwrecks

WaWa-West Africa : a coming of age memoir / William Coughlan. - Bloomington, IN : Balboa Press, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: 1950-1959 ; 1960-1969 ; Americans ; Ghana ; Liberia ; Nigeria ; personal narratives (form) ; Sierra Leone ; West Africa ; youth

African Literature

Eugène : le silence de l'enfant / Dorothée Robin. - Abidjan : NEI-CEDA, 2013
ASC Subject Headings: child abuse ; crime novels (form) ; Côte d'Ivoire ; spirits

Méditations africaines / Felwine Sarr. - Montréal : Mémoire d'encrier, 2012. - (Collection Chronique)
ASC Subject Headings: diaries (form) ; philosophy ; prose (form) ; Senegal

Nouvelles de Madagascar / Raharimanana. - Paris : Magellan & CIE, 2010. - (Miniatures)
ASC Subject Headings: Madagascar ; short stories (form)

Une fleur dans la mer ou le naufrage du bateau "le Joola" : poèmes suivi de souffle de vie / Ibrahima Ndaw. - Gaithersburg, MD : Phoenix Press International, 2011
ASC Subject Headings: poetry (form) ; Senegal ; shipwrecks

Extras