Africa – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 13, 2012|Africa|0 comments

African literature : gender discourse, religious values, and the African worldview / Safoura Salami-Boukari. AMAL : shelter for the poor in Khartoum, Sudan / [research, Ding Wowo ; editors, Ding Wowo, Carol McEowen, Zhao Chen.] Anglo-Zulu War, 1879 : a selected bibliography / Harold E. Raugh, Jr. Architecture and tourism in Italian colonial Libya : an ambivalent modernism / by Brian L. McLaren.  Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980 / Guy

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Films and Sound Recordings – June 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 9, 2012|Films and Sound Recordings|0 comments

Films Great African films. Vol. 1 – Faraw!: In Songhai with English subtitles. Haramuya: In Bambara with English subtitles. District 9 / Peter Jackson presents in association with TriStar Pictures and Block/Hanson a Wingnut Films production a film by Neill Blomkamp produced by Peter Jackson, Carolynne Cunningham written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell directed by Neill Blomkamp. Et maintenant, on va où? / Anne-Dominique Toussaint présente ; une co-production Les Films

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Africa – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 30, 2012|Africa|0 comments

The cash dividend : the rise of cash transfer programs in Sub-Saharan Africa / Marito Garcia and Charity M. T. Moore. Prisoners of Prester John : the Portuguese mission to Ethiopia in search of the mythical king, 1520-1526 / Cates Baldridge. Gender and power in Sierra Leone : women chiefs of the last two centuries / by Lynda Day. The state and the social : state formation in Botswana and

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