"This is a summary version of an important study commissioned by the IFLA Section on Library Services to Multicultural Populations and supervised by the African Publishers Network, which reviews the status of indigenous language publishing in seven African countries. Identifies African language mate
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rial available from each country and its publishers; examines the development of the orthographies of each language and its implications for language utilization and publishing; and also looks at support structures in various countries, i.e. indigenous language literature bureaux, book development councils, book trade and library associations, authors' groups etc. The full report was never published, but extracts from it, covering the situation in four African countries (Ghana, Kenya, Togo, Zimbabwe), have been published in APNET's African Publishing Review, authored by Martins O. Fajemisin." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2099)
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"Assesses the “entertainment” programme of this Christian publisher’s books in Kiswahili, and its contribution in promoting writing in African languages. Includes a bibliography of the Press's Kiswahili publications." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 200
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8, nr. 1721)
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"Sam Kotei’s book was one of the first major in-depth studies on the state of the book and publishing in Africa, in which the author looked back on a decade of special efforts to alleviate the “acute shortage of books” identified at the UNESCO meeting on books in Accra in 1968. The author note
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s that progress was uneven and that many of the problems identified in 1968 still remained, although African publishing had generally made “impressive strides”. The author surveyed the available literature, questioned writers, publishers, printers, libraries, bookshops, national book development councils, and interviewed book industry professional in several African countries in order to produce this overview of the situation in the 1970s and 1980s. Concludes with an examination of the future prospects of the book industry in Africa. Kotei’s book remains a seminal study, not least for purposes of comparison as it relates to the growth of the African book industries since the 1980s." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 290)
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"Provides an insight into the early work of Lovedale Press in South Africa from 1823 onwards, when Lovedale was the focal point of the literate Christian culture that emerged among the Xhosa in the Eastern Cape region, and which up until the turn of the century concentrated on evangelical and educat
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ional texts. Describes the change in the press and its publication policies after R.H.W. Shepherd took charge of its operations in 1929, until his departure in 1950. Contains five case studies of editorial interference culled from the detailed records of the Lovedale Press. Peires contends that while the Lovedale Press undoubtedly published manuscripts in Xhosa which would otherwise never have been published, “the effective monopoly of the Lovedale Press [...] stifled the development of a meaningful vernacular historiography." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2132)
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"Discussion of the creation, manufacture, distribution and promotion of books in indigenous languages in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Arab countries and Latin America. Appendixes include "Guidelines for the Promotion of Books in the Various Languages of Multilingual Countries" and a bibliogranhy." (Ele
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anor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1063)
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