ASL Resources of the Week 2-24-2022

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.
  • Research Guides for your course: customized to your specific course or subject; see our current list of Research Guides here
  • Additional Services: click the following links for services for Faculty and Graduate Students.

Suggest a Purchase: Are there books or other resources that the library ought to acquire? Please fill out our Suggest a Resource form: https://www.bu.edu/library/research/collections/suggest-a-resource/
(In particular, faculty, we ask that you PLEASE submit resources for consideration. Do not assume resources have been purchased without a faculty request.)

Questions? You can contact us for assistance in the following ways:

CinemAfriq Film Series Spring Line-up

Directed by Uduak-Obong Patrick and produced byJudith Audu. 90 minutes. (2016)

March 2 @ 5:30pm on Zoom

Duke, a promising undergraduate student, is broke and must provide for his critically ill mother. He hatches a genius plan with his friends and his crush Kej. But the success of their scheme sends Duke into a spiral of guilt.

RSVP to asl@bu.edu for the link to the Zoom session.  If you are BU student, faculty, or staff, the film you can watch the film by clicking on the above title. If you are not affiliated with Boston University, you can view the film through local public libraries or on YouTube.

March 2, 5:30pm:  Just Not Married*
March 24:  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!

FEATURED RESOURCES 

National Library of South Africa: Digital Collections: The National Library of South Africa has a rich collection of openly accessible digital archives. They include: a portion of W.H.I. Bleek’s papers, a key historical resource for the study of African languages, posters (including political, WWII, and shipping lines posters), postcards, and just over 40 South African newspapers spanning mid-1800’s to the 1900’s, ranging from known titles such as the Cape Argus, to very small, localized papers, including several in isiXhosa, isiZulu and seSotho. 

RECENT LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS

Here is a sampling of our newer acquisitions.

Ọkọwaokwu Igbo Ụmụaka : Igbo dictionary for children

Mbanefo, Chiọma Yvonne ; 2021

Available in Mugar Library   PL8261.4 .M22 2021 

 

Jẹ́ Ká bára wa sọ̀rọ̀ ní Yorùbá = Let’s communicate in Yorùbá

Owólabí, Kọ́lá ; Adéjùmọ̀, Àrìnpé Gbẹ́kẹ̀lólú ; Adékọla, Báyọ ; Táíwò, Oyè ; Ọlátẹjú, Adéṣọlá ; Adéníyì, Harrison ; 2015

Available in Mugar Library PL8822 .O93 2015 

 

Afterlives

Gurnah, Abdulrazak ; 2021

Historical fiction by Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of the 2021 Novel Prize for Literature.

Available in Mugar Library PR9399.9.G87 A68 2021 

 

Les impatientes : roman

Amadou Amal, Djaïli ; 2020

Winner of the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens

“Trois femmes, trois histoires, trois destins liés.”

Available in Mugar Library PQ3989.3.A754 I67 2020