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 African Library and a link to the ASCL journal articles alert.
N.B. The next issue will be published on 5 January 2026.
New acquisitions - week 20 2019
Archive
Articles | Electronic documents | Books | Journals | Films | African Literature | Sound
See also the ASCL overview of recently published journal articles
Electronic documents
Developing sustainable higher education leadership models in Tanzania / J.F. Kessy. Dakar : CODESRIA, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Tanzania ; higher education ; educational financing
https://www.codesria.org/spip.php?article2898&lang=en
Books
Africa
Digitalization and the field of African studies / Mirjam de Bruijn. - Basel, Switzerland: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; information technology ; mobile telephone ; Internet ; speeches (form)
Africa
Writing Grandmothers = Escribiendo sobre nuestras raíces : Africa vs Latin America = África contra América Latína : edited by Ricardo Félix Rodriguez , Tendai Rinos Mwanaka. - Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe ©2018: Mwanka Media and Publishing, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; Latin America ; colonialism ; postcolonialism ; folk tales (form) ; oral literature (form) ; prose (form) ; anthologies (form)
Africa
Le NEPAD et les institutions financières internationales en Afrique au 21e siècle : émergence, évolution et bilan / Landry Signé. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; Nepad ; economic policy ; Imf ; World Bank
Africa
Cent ans d'histoire des outre-mers : SFHOM, 1912-2012 / Hubert Bonin, Bernard Droz et Josette Rivallain (dir.). - Paris: Société française d'histoire des outre-mers, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Africa ; French-speaking Africa ; France ; Asia ; Caribbean ; colonial territories ; periodicals ; professional associations ; colonial history ; memorial volumes (form)
Botswana
Fishes of the Okavango Delta & Chobe River, Botswana / Mike Bruton, Glenn Merron & Paul Skelton. - Cape Town, South Africa: Struik Nature, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Botswana ; fish ; deltas ; rivers ; nature conservation ; guidebooks (form)
Botswana
Taste of Botswana / Ednah Rosen. - Gaborone: Rosens Media Publishing, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Botswana ; food preparation ; social life ; cookery books (form) ; pictorial works (form)
Botswana
Botswana company law service / compiled and edited by John Kiggundu. - Claremont: Juta, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Botswana ; company law ; income tax ; bankruptcy ; investment banks ; financial market ; securities ; laws (form)
Botswana
Seasons of thunder : a thee-part novel - volume I / Teedzani Thapelo. - United states: dpInk: DonnaInk Publications, L.L.C., 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Botswana ; novels
Burundi
Nshimirimana Njelika Kizera : umugabo yarandiye haba abagabo = Angélique Gisèle Nshimirimana : mon homme m'aurait mangée toute crue / Salvator Nahimana, Angélique Gisèle Nshimirimana. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Burundi ; married women ; gender-based violence ; women's rights ; polygamy ; trials ; biographies (form)
Cameroon
Société civile et transformation sociale au Cameroun : questions d'éthique sociétale / Anselme Nzoko ; préface d'André Julien Mbem. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Cameroon ; civil society ; associations ; development projects ; universities
Comoros
Anthologie des lettres francophones à Mayotte : Christophe Cosker. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mayotte ; literature ; French language ; literary history ; anthologies (form)
Democratic Republic of Congo
Relations internationales : une science appliquée au service du pouvoir : mélanges en hommage au professeur Philippe Biyoya / Mwayila Tshiyembe. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; Africa ; international relations ; foreign policy ; geopolitics ; academics
Democratic Republic of Congo
Verrous et contrôles constitutionnels en Afrique : pour des mécanismes efficients / Claude Kayembe-Mbayi ; préface d'Étienne Tshisekedi Wa Mulumb. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Democratic Republic of Congo ; constitutionalism ; constitutional reform ; constitutions ; 2006
Gabon
Utopies et aliénation dans le Gabon post-colonial / Bastaine Yannick Moubamba. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Gabon ; postcolonialism ; identity ; self-concept ; literature
Ivory Coast
Quel FPI et sa diaspora pour la reconquête du pouvoir d'État? : actes des journées de réflexions organisées à Vérone (Italie) le 7 octobre 2018 / sous la coordination de Pascal Dago Kokora, Raymond Koudou Kessié et Claude Koudou. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Côte d'Ivoire ; Front Populaire Ivoirien ; diasporas ; political conditions ; conference papers (form)
Kenya
Ngũgĩ : reflections on his life of writing / edited by Simon Gikandi & Ndirangu Wachanga. - Woodbridge, Suffolk: James Currey, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; writers ; literary criticism
Kenya
Just a band makes a book / text Mbũgua wa Mũngai, Naomi L. Shitemi, Eunice K. Kamara, Nicola Lauré al-Samarai, Joyce Nyairo. - Nairobi: Goethe-Institut Kenya : Native Intelligence, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; musical groups ; popular music ; pictorial works (form)
Kenya
Maasai Mbili / text, Mbũgua wa Mũngai, Naomi L. Shitemi, Eunice K. Kamaara, Nicola Lauré al-Samarai, Joyce Nyairo. - Nairobi: Goethe-Institut Kenya : Native Intelligence, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; artists ; visual arts ; pictorial works (form)
Morocco
Les bienfaits de l'entraide / Mokhtar Debbarh, Driss Maouane. - Casablanca: Addar al Alamia Lil Kitab,
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; youth literature
Morocco
Un affreux cauchemar / Mokhtar Debbarh, Driss Maouane. - Casablanca: Addar al Alamia Lil Kitab,
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; youth literature
Nigeria
The force of freedom / David O. Oyedepo. - Lagos, Nigeria: Dominion Publishing House, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; bishops ; Pentecostalism ; motivational literature
Nigeria
Dealing with local satanic technology / D.K. Olukoya. - Lagos, Nigeria: The Battle Cry Christian Ministries, 2001.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; spirits ; witchcraft ; motivational literature
Nigeria
Land use policy and land ownership in Nigeria / Reuben K. Udo. - Lagos: Ebieakwa Ventures, 1990.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; land law ; land tenure ; landownership ; land use
Nigeria
Nigerian economy : a textbook of applied economics / by ʼTayo Lambo. - Ibadan, Nigeria: Evans Brothers (Nigeria), 1987.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; economic history ; textbooks (form)
Senegal
Travail forcé et mobilisation de la main-d'oeuvre au Sénégal : années 1920-1960 / Romain Tiquet ; préface d'Alexander Keese. - Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; French West Africa ; forced labour ; colonialism ; social history ; dissertations (form)
South Africa
Books & bones & other things / Jan K. Coetzee ; contributors, Asta Rau, Willem Boshoff, Jonah Sack, Kim Berman, Keith Dietrich, Eliza Kentridge. - Bloemfontein [South Africa]: Sun Press, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; social history ; exhibition catalogues (form)
South Africa
Born to kwaito : reflections on the kwaito generation / Esinako Ndabeni & Sihle Mthembu. - Auckland Park, South Africa: BlackBird Books, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; popular music ; musicians ; social conditions
South Africa
Reading writing right : essays presented in honour of Prof Elna Mouton / editors, Jeremy Punt, Marius J. Nel. - Stellenbosch: Sun Press, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; Christian theology ; Bible ; academics ; festschrifts (form)
South Africa
We are no longer at ease : the struggle for #FeesMustFall / edited by Wandile Ngcaweni and Busani Ngcaweni. - Auckland Park, South Africa: Jacana Media, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; student strikes ; protest ; students ; education fees ; racism
South Sudan
South Sudan : the state we aspire to / Peter Adwok Nyaba. - Juba, South Sudan: Rafiki for Trading & Investment Co.LTD, 2016.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Sudan ; peace treaties ; political parties ; nation building ; independence
Southern Africa
The ways we stretch toward one another : thoughts on anthropology through the work of Pamela Reynolds / edited by Todd Meyers. - Mankon: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Southern Africa ; United States ; academics ; anthropology ; festschrifts (form)
Subsaharan Africa
Stratégies rebelles et aide internationale dans l'Afrique des Grands Lacs : 1981-2013 / Agathe Plauchut ; préface de Scott Straus ; avant-propos de Jean-Charles Jauffret. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Great Lakes region ; Burundi ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; Rwanda ; Uganda ; rebellions ; guerrilla warfare ; refugees ; humanitarian assistance ; foreign intervention ; dissertations (form)
Subsaharan Africa
Agriculture et petit élevage en zone tropicale / J. Ernoult. - Issy les Moulineaux [Paris, France]: Éditions Saint-Paul, 1966.
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa ; agriculture ; textbooks (form)
Sudan
[Artworks of Mohammed A. Alla Otaybi / [introduction by Ahmed Amir Jabir]. - [Sudan] Dabanga: 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Sudan ; painting ; pictorial works (form)
Sudan
Arab pastoralists, african peasant farmers and passage corridors : resource sharing and peaceful coexistence in Darfur prior to the 1990s / Khalid Ali El Amin. - Khartoum: Development Studies and Research Institute (DSRI), University of Khartoum, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Sudan ; pastoralists ; farmers ; land rights
Sudan
Les voix du Soudan : figures de la chanson soudanaise / textes: Tilal Afif, illustrations: Otaybi, traduction française: Iman Sati et Delphine Gayrard. - [Sudan]: Tibar - Livres pour enfants, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Sudan ; musicians ; singing ; songs ; biographical dictionaries (form)
Sudan
Sudan : the encounter of the Sahel and the Sahara : the 3rd CEN-SAD Summit, Khartoum, February 2001 : proceedings, analysis & documentation / Mustafa Osman Ismail. - Khartoum: Dar-Alassalah, 2002.
ASC Subject·Headings: Sudan ; Sahel ; Sahara ; Cen-sad ; conferences ; heads of State ; speeches ; international cooperation ; 2001
Tanzania
Humboldt Lab Tanzania : Objekte aus kolonialen Kriegen im Ethnologischen Museum, Berlin, ein tansanisch-deutscher Dialog = Objects from the colonial wars in the Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin, a Tanzanian-German dialogue = Mikusanyo ya vita vya ukoloni katika Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin, majadiliano ya Tanzania-Ujerumani / für die Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin herausgegeben von Lili Reyels, Paola Ivanov und Kristin Weber-Sinn. - Berlin: Reimer, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Tanzania ; Germany ; African studies collections ; colonial wars ; decolonization ; exhibition catalogues (form)
Tunisia
Paroles de Tunisiennes : le mur de la peur est tombé! / Marie-Pascale Vincent. - Paris: Harmattan, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Tunisia ; women ; Arab Spring ; women's rights ; social conditions ; interviews (form)
West Africa
Religion and gender-based violence : West African experience / edited by Rose Mary Amenga-Etego, Mercy Amba Oduyoye. - Legon: Legon Theological Studies Series in collaboration with Asempa Publishers, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: West Africa ; Ghana ; Nigeria ; gender-based violence ; domestic violence ; masculinity ; girls ; Christianity ; Islam ; African religions ; Pentecostalism ; sexual offences ; human trafficking ; women's organizations
Films
Namibia
Move / Joel Haikali, filmdirector. Windhoek, Namibia: Joe Vision Production, 2016.
Subject·Headings: Namibia ; migrants ; migration ; personal narratives (form) ; short films (form) ; videos (form)
Namibia
The world of today / Joel Haikali. Windhoek, Namibia: Joe Vision Production,
Subject·Headings: Namibia ; race relations ; social inequality ; feature films (form) ; short films (form) ; videos (form)
African literature
Botswana
Botlhodi : the abomination : a postcolonial Setswana novel / by T.J. Pheto. - Mankon, Bamenda: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Botswana ; Great Britain ; colonialism ; Christianity ; traditions ; novels (form)
Botswana
Uncensored truths : "penned stories of the voices silenced by the world" / Ontlametse Jessica Motlamma. - Letlhakane, Botswana: Ontlametse Jessica Motlamma, 2017.
ASC Subject·Headings: Botswana ; social problems ; empowerment ; short stories (form)
Botswana
Ceremony of the word : the poetry of Barolong Seboni and Benjamin Janie / edited by Barolong Seboni. - Gaborone: Petlo Literary Arts Trust, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Botswana ; urban life ; rural society ; poetry (form)
Botswana
Little Yungo, the village saviour / written by Hani Thusi ; illustrated by Thero Makepe. - Gaborone, Botswana: Bayton Branston, 2015.
ASC Subject·Headings: Botswana ; youth literature (form)
Botswana
The missing corpse / Nsununguli Mbo. - [Gaborone]: Nsununguli Mbo, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Botswana ; novels (form)
Botswana
The village doctor / Nsununguli Mbo. - [Gaborone?]: Nsununguli Mbo, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: Botswana ; doctors ; novels (form)
Botswana
The five litre container / Nsununguli Mbo. - [Gaborone?]: Nsununguli Mbo, 2013.
ASC Subject·Headings: Botswana ; novels (form)
Central African Republic
La centrafricanité, antidote de la crise / Clotaire Saulet Surungba ; préface d'Adolphe Pakoua. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Central Africa ; poetry (form) ; drama (form)
Ghana
The black heel : a terrifying betrayal / Peggy Oppong. - Accra, Ghana: Peggy Oppong Books, 2012.
ASC Subject·Headings: Ghana ; novels (form)
Kenya
Minutes of glory : and other stories / Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo. - New York: The New Press, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Kenya ; short stories (form)
Mauritania
Le sentier sinueux : roman / Ndiawar Kane. - Dakar: Harmattan Sénégal, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Mauritania ; novels (form)
Morocco
Animaux en solidarité / Majdouline Enahibi. - Casablanca: Dar Al Alamia Lil Ketab,
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; environment ; pollution ; youth literature (form)
Morocco
Bravo, les enfants ! / Mokhtar Debbarh, Driss Maouane. - Casablanca: Addar al Alamia Lil Kitab,
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; youth literature (form)
Morocco
Calbar, chiot ou lionceau ? / Mokhtar Debbarh, Driss Maouane. - Casablanca: Addar al Alamia Lil Kitab,
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; youth literature (form)
Morocco
Coinces à l'Oukaimeden / Mokhtar Debbarh, Driss Maouane. - Casablanca: Addar al Alamia Lil Kitab,
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; youth literature (form)
Morocco
Des enfants aux couleurs de la terre / Majdouline Enahibi. - Casablanca: Dar Al Alamia Lil Ketab,
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; youth literature (form)
Morocco
Drôle d'amitié / Mokhtar Debbarh, Driss Maoune. - Casablanca: Addar al Alamia Lil Kitab,
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; youth literature (form)
Morocco
L'eau, le vent et le feu / Majdouline Enahibi. - Casablanca: Dar Al Alamia Lil Ketab,
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; youth literature (form)
Morocco
Les aventures d'une goutte d'eau / Majdouline Enahibi. - Casablanca: Dar Al Alamia Lil Ketab,
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; youth literature (form)
Morocco
Les inondations du Gharb / Mokhtar Debbarh, Driss Maouane. - Casablanca: Addar al Alamia Lil Kitab,
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; youth literature (form)
Morocco
Luttons contre la pollution / Mokthar Debbarh Driss Maouane. - Casablanca: Addar al Alamia Lil Kitab,
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; pollution ; youth literature (form)
Morocco
Mansour, l'insouciant / Mokhtar Debbarh, Driss Maouane. - Casablanca: Addar al Alamia Lil Kitab,
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; youth literature (form)
Morocco
Tarik se rend en ville / Majdouline Enahibi. - Casablanca: Dar Al Alamia Lil Ketab,
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; rural population ; youth literature (form)
Morocco
Touria, la soeur ainée / Mokhtar Debbarh, Driss Maouane. - Casablanca: Addar al Alamia Lil Kitab,
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; youth literature (form)
Morocco
Une amitié exemplaire / Mokhtar Debbarh, Driss Maouane. - Casablanca: Addar al Alamia Lil Kitab,
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; youth literature (form)
Morocco
Zohra retourne à l'école / Majdouline Enahibi. - Casablanca: Dar Al Alamia Lil Ketab,
ASC Subject·Headings: Morocco ; youth literature (form)
Nigeria
The fat woman / Remi Adedeji. - Ibadan: Onobonoje Press, 1973.
ASC Subject·Headings: Nigeria ; youth literature (form)
Senegal
Mission à Libreville : polar / Iba Dia. - Dakar: Harmattan Sénégal, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; Gabon ; Communauté Économique de l'Afrique de l'Ouest ; novels (form)
Senegal
Mortelles solitudes : roman / Samba Oumar Fall. - Dakar: L'Harmattan Sénégal, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Senegal ; novels (form)
Somalia
North of dawn / Nuruddin Farah. - New York: Riverhead Books, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: Somalia ; Norway ; terrorism ; widows ; novels (form)
South Africa
The last sentence / Tumelo Buthelezi. - Auckland Park, South Africa: Blackbird Books, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; novels (form)
South Africa
Ulwembu / Empatheatre and The Big Brotherhood ; with the Urban Futures Centre. - Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2018.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; drug use ; drama (form)
South Africa
A book of rooms / Kobus Moolman. - Grahamstown, South Africa: Deep South, 2014.
ASC Subject·Headings: South Africa ; poetry (form)
Subsaharan Africa
Don't whisper too much : and Portrait of a young artiste from Bona Mbella / by Frieda Ekotto ; translated by Corine Tachtiris. - Lewisburg, PA ©2019: Bucknell University Press, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Subsaharan Africa ; Cameroon ; Lgbt ; short stories (form)
Tunisia
Rêve au gré des voyages / Cherifa Arbaoui ; traduit de l'arabe par Jalila Hamchi. - Paris: Le Scribe L'Harmattan, 2019.
ASC Subject·Headings: Tunisia ; autobiographies (form) ; novels (form)

