ASL Resources of the Week 2-17-2022

LIBRARY NEWS

Your librarians are ready and available to provide:

  • Library Instruction: Your African Studies Library Staff are available to offer customized instruction sessions for your course.
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(In particular, faculty, we ask that you PLEASE submit resources for consideration. Do not assume resources have been purchased without a faculty request.)

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FEATURED RESOURCES 

Need to catch-up with latest news from the Continent? Wanted to learn directly from authentic voices, not filtered by non-African entities? This guide has the links to major newspapers in various countries across the Continent.

African Newspapers

Know of a paper that is not on this list? Please let us know and we can add it.  Also, we try to actively maintain these links, but they do break. Feel free to report them to us.

CineMAfriq@BU Film Series Line-up for Spring 2022

March 2, 5:30pm:  Just Not Married*
March 24, 4pm:  Cartas Para Angola / Letters to Angola      *                  
April 13, 5:30pm:  Afrique: je te plumerai / Africa: I will fleece you*
* Participants watch the film at their convenience and join us for an informal and fun film discussion.  Stay tuned for more information!

RECENT LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS

Here is a sampling of our newer acquisitions.

Crime, mental health and the criminal justice system in Africa : a psycho-criminological perspective

Chan, Heng Choon ; Adjorlolo, Samuel (editors) ; 2021

This book aims to serve as a comprehensive resource for a myriad of crime and mental health topics and issues in the African criminal justice system from a psycho-criminological perspective. Crime, Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System in Africa: A Psycho-Criminological Perspective is an ideal primary text for courses in criminology, criminal justice, and forensic psychology, as well as a source of reference for practitioners who deal with offenders or victims.

Available online

 

Africa South of the Sahara. 2021

Europa Publications. Series: Regional surveys of the world.

The definitive one-volume guide to all sub-Saharan African countries, providing invaluable economic, political, statistical and directory data. Thoroughly revised and updated analytical articles written by experts on the region and covering both continent-wide and sub-regional issues. Individual chapters on every country incorporating: essays on the physical and social geography, recent history and economies; an extensive statistical survey of economic indicators; a full directory …and useful bibliography, providing sources for further research. [Also contain] detailed information on regional organizations; commodities; research institutes.

Available in African Studies Library Reference   DT351 .F71   

Culturas de frontera : Andalucía y Marruecos en el debate de la modernidad

González Alcantud, José Antonio ; Aziza, Mimoun ; 2019

Esta obra relaciona el problema de la modernidad en Andalucía y en Marruecos en función del acceso a la modernización… La ciencia social, tanto la sociología como la antropología, se mostrarían en esos procesos instrumentos útiles, en el caso marroquí de dominación, y en el andaluz de liberación. Todo ello se observa a través de la memoria social, las instituciones culturales, el urbanismo y la arquitectura, la música y los espectáculos, el arte, e incluso las transformaciones demográficas. Con esta operación analógica se pretende «desorientalizar» unas problemáticas muy cercanas.

Available online via Digitalia Hispánica

 

Mozambique’s Samora Machel : a life cut short

Isaacman, Allen F ; Isaacman, Barbara S. ; 2020.

Series: Ohio short histories of Africa

“Samora Machel (1933–1986), the son of small-town farmers, led his people through a war against their Portuguese colonists and became the first president of the People’s Republic of Mozambique. Machel’s military successes against a colonial regime backed by South Africa, Rhodesia, the United States, and its NATO allies enhanced his reputation as a revolutionary hero. In 1986, during the country’s civil war, Machel died in a plane crash under circumstances that remain uncertain”.

 Available in Mugar Library stacks   DT3393.M33 I73 2020