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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 African Library and a link to the ASCL journal articles alert.

N.B.  The next issue will be published on Monday, 12 May 2025.


New acquisitions - week 23 2019

Archivebook cover "African markets and the Utu-Buntu business model"

Articles | Electronic documentsBooks | Journals | Films | African Literature | Sound

See also the ASCL overview of recently published journal articles

Electronic documents

Movimentos sociais, estado e sociedade civil em África / sob a direcção de Luca Bussotti e Remo Mutzenberg. - Lisboa : Centro de Estudos Africanos, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa ; Angola ; Cabo Verde ; Mauritania ; Uganda ; civil society ; hip hop ; LGBT
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Books

Algeria
Maïssa Bey : deux décennies de créativité / sous la direction de Houda Hamdi ; avant-propos de Charles Bonn. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Algeria ; writers ; literature ; French language

Benin
"Manger les terres sacrées" : les espaces du culte Vodoun : nouveaux fronts d'urbanisation au Bénin / Adéothy Adegbinni. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Benin ; voodoo ; shrines ; land tenure ; urban planning ; suburban areas

Botswana
New Pathways : A junior secondary guidance and counselling course. Book 3, learner's book / Joyce Sengate, Richard Ojang, Veronica Makwinja-Morara, Merapelo Mosenki. - [Gaborone]: [Macmillan Botswana Publishing Co], 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Botswana ; secondary education ; textbooks (form)

Cameroon
Diminishing corruptive practices in the public hospital system of Cameroon : a qualitative multiple case study / Foleng M. Ndofor. - Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; hospitals ; public health

Cameroon
Système fiscal et performance financière des Établissements de microfinance (EMF) au Cameroun / Dr Claude Kombou. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; microfinance ; banking ; credit cooperatives ; fiscal law

Ethiopia
Migration, remittances and household socio-economic wellbeing : the case of Ethiopian labour migrants to the Republic of South Africa and the Middle East / Asnake Kefale, Zerihun Mobhammed. - Addis Ababa: Forum for Social Studies, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ethiopia ; South Africa ; Middle East ; remittances ; labour migration

Gabon
Poétique de la médecine interculturelle : la sagesse / Simon-Pierre Ezéchie Mvone Ndong ; préface du docteur Gontran Maka. - Paris: Les impliqués éditeur, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Gabon ; folk medicine

Ghana
Selected writings of a pioneer West African feminist / Mabel Dove ; edited by Stephanie Newell and Audrey Gadzekpo. - Nottingham: Trent Editions, 2004.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ghana ; women writers ; feminism ; collected works (form)

Guinea
Timbo est morte! : vie, mort et mémoire (Fouta-Dialo, Guinée) / Philippe David. - Saint-Maur: Sépia, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Guinea ; France ; Fulani ; traditional polities ; colonial conquest ; local history

Kenya
African markets and the Utu-Buntu business model : a perspective on economic informality in Nairobi / Mary Njeri Kinyanjui. - Cape Town: African Minds, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; informal sector ; traders ; urban economy ; values

Kenya
The uniqueness of Jesus Christ / Yusufu Turaki. - Nairobi, Kenya: WorldAlive Publishers, [2009],
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; Jesus Christ ; Bible ; Christianity

Mali
Yombé, un ouvrier du Mali postcolonial / Richard Toé, Christiane Ray. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mali ; industrial workers ; cotton industry ; managers ; interviews (form)

Namibia
"Little research value" : African estate records and colonial gaps in a post-colonial National Archive / Ellen Ndeshi Namhila ; [introduction by Dag Henrichsen]. - Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Namibia ; archives ; decolonization ; Blacks

Nigeria
The miracle meal / David O. Oyedepo. - Ikeja, Nigeria: Dominion Publishing House, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; bishops ; Pentecostalism ; motivational literature

Nigeria
Signs & wonders today : a catalogue of the amazing acts of God among men / David O. Oyedepo. - Lagos, Nigeria: Dominion Publishing House, 2007.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; bishops ; Pentecostalism ; miracles

Rwanda
For those who do not believe in miracles : the resilience of a Rwandan woman who survived the genocide / Mama Lambert and Hans Dekkers. - Oisterwijk, Netherlands: Wolf Legal Publishers, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Rwanda ; Tutsi ; women ; genocide ; victims ; personal narratives (form) ; autobiographies (form)

South Africa
From A to B : invest in your sparkle / Bonang Matheba. - Auckland Park, South Africa: Blackbird Books, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; television ; autobiographies (form)

South Africa
Public art in South Africa : bronze warriors and plastic presidents / edited by Kim Miller and Brenda Schmahmann. - Bloomington, Indiana, USA: Indiana University Press, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; visual arts ; monuments ; urban areas

Subsaharan Africa
L'évolution des transports maritimes en Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre (1968-2018) / Serigne Thiam Diop ; préface de l'Amiral Lamine Fadika ; postface de M. Mamadou Ndione. - Dakar: Harmattan Sénégal, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: West Africa ; Central Africa ; Europe ; maritime transport ; trade agreements ; commercial law ; international law ; maritime law

Sudan
The Spine series : Sudan practical integrated national English series. - Sudan: Ministry of Education Sudan Publications Bureau, 1997.
ASC Subject·Headings: Sudan ; English language ; language instruction ; textbooks (form)

Togo
L'envol de l'épervier : le défi de l'émergence togolaise / sous la direction de Kako Nubukpo et Comlan Prosper Deh. - Lomé: Les Éditions Graines de pensées, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Togo ; economic conditions ; economic development ; economic policy ; governance ; institutions ; financial policy ; economic history

Uganda
Bridge builder : uniting faith and science towards an AIDS-free generation in Africa / Peter Okaalet with Agatha Verdadero. - Nairobi, Kenya: WordAlive Publishers, 2009.
ASC Subject·Headings: Uganda ; doctors ; Aids ; Christian theology ; autobiographies (form)

Zimbabwe
The Mashonaland Irish association : a miscellany 1891-2019 / edited by Joseph Woods. - Avondale, Harare, Zimbabwe: Weaver Press, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Zimbabwe ; Ireland ; associations ; ethnic groups

African Literature

Sudan
The voice from havean [sic] : Boraie's poetry / the four sermons by Abd Elrahim Al-Boraie ; translated by Idris A. Elbanna. - Khartoum: Alasbat Center for Media & Publishing Product, 2007.
ASC Subject·Headings: Sudan ; ulema ; sermons ; poetry (form)

Sound

[Portrait de] Hamani Diori / par Alain Foka. - [Paris] : Radio France Internationale, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Niger ; politicians ; heads of State ; biographies (form) ; radio broadcasts (form)

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