ASL Resources of the Week 11-4-2021

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Featured Resource

Library Guide: Create Bibliographies

Need help keeping your citations organized? Curious about Refworks or Zotero? This guide by our colleague JD Kotula will help you to compare citation managers choose the most appropriate tool most appropriate for your project.

New Library Acquisitions!

Here is a sampling of our newer acquisitions. If you know of a title or database that the African Studies Library ought to have, we encourage you to fill out the Resource Suggestion Form. Please do not assume resources have been purchased or will be purchased without a request.

Meanwhile : graphic short stories about everyday queer life in Southern and East Africa; The Qintu Collab; 2019.

The Qintu Collab (made up of eighteen queer youth from Botswana, Kenya and Zimbabwe, two academics, three artists and a journalist) was formed to allow young queer people from a few African countries to come together, share experiences and create context-specific, queer-positive media that documents relatable stories about and for queer African youth.

Mugar Library PN6790.A342 M4 2019  

Sikhahlel’ u-OR : a praise poem for Oliver Tambo ;

Serote, Mongane Wally ; 2019

Poet laureate and anti-apartheid struggle veteran Mongane Wally Serote presents an epic poem in praise of the life of the late Oliver Reginald Tambo, who served as president of the ANC from 1967 to 1991.

Mugar Library PR9369.3.S45 S55 2019 .

Ndezu ụtọasụsụ Igbo nke ndị siniọ sekọndịrị

Ofomata, Chinedum E ; 2018

Igbo grammar.

Mugar Library PL8261.1 .O37 2018 

 Regime threats and state solutions : bureaucratic loyalty and embeddedness in Kenya

Hassan, Mai ; 2020

Contents: Bringing bureaucrats in — Managing the State — The origins of the Kenyan state — Elite incorporation and the diversity of the State — The provincial administration under president Kenyatta — The provincial administration during president Moi’s autocratic years — Moi, the provincial administration, and multi-party elections — Kibaki and the provincial administration.

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