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Now and in the Next Millenium, 1990s-3000 CE: Assessing Africa’s Scholarly Publishing Needs and Industry

Senyo John Afele et al.

Kampala: RA-Global Communications;JARP, 2nd and expanded ed. (2001), 250 pp.

"A collection of papers on various aspects of scholarly writing and publishing in Africa, mostly by African academics based in the diaspora." (Hans M. ... more

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Register of African Publishing Consultants = Registre des consultants de l'edition Africaine = Registro dos consultants de editores africanos

Harare: African Publishers Network (APNET), 2nd ed. (2001), 117 pp.

"This register is arranged alphabetically by country, including complete contact details of the consultants, their educational background and qualifications, professional experience, and specialist areas of expertise." (Hans ... more

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Livres d'images d'Afrique noire: Auteurs-Illustrateurs Africains: Catalogue des collections des bibliothèques pour enfants de la Ville de Paris

Audrey Bessière (ed.)

Paris: Paris-Bibliothèques Éditions (2001), 116 pp.

"Un catalogue et une bibliographie attrayants des livres pour enfants d'auteurs africains et des travaux d'illustrateurs africains de livres pour enfants, conservés dans les collections des bibliothèques de la ville de Paris. Inclut des titres en français et en anglais, avec un index des auteurs ... more

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A Guidebook on Journal Publishing for Agriculture and Rural Development
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Anthony Youdeowei

Maritza Hee Huong; Paul Neate; Paul Stapleton (contrib.)

Oxford; Wageningen: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP);Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2001), xiv, 99 pp.

"One in a series of guidebooks and training manuals for journal editors in developing countries that are active in the field of agriculture and rural development. They aim to assist editors to improve their publishing operations, and provide more effective communication of the scholarship and the re ... more

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Indaba 2000: Millennium Marketplace

Harare: Zimbabwe International Book Fair Trust (2001), 272 pp.

"The Zimbabwe International Book Fair annual ‘Indaba’ in 2000 focused on a major weakness in the African book scene, that of marketing. Forty-three papers reflect the wide mixture of professionals involved from all parts of the book chain and the diverse nature of the theme. Papers from plenary ... more

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Handbook for Writers of Children’s Books

Mem Fox

Paris: UNESCO;DANIDA (2001), 51 pp.

"The idea for this helpful handbook was inspired by two workshops for writers of children’s books held in Tanzania and Uganda in January-February 2000. The workshops were organized by the National Book Development Council of Tanzania and the Book Development Council of Uganda, under the UNESCO/DAN ... more

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Women in African Studies Scholarly Publishing

Cassandra Rachel Veney, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza (eds.)

Trenton, New Jers.: Africa World Press (2001), 171 pp.

"Five essays that seek to examine the challenges that women face in African studies scholarly publishing, and which aims to offer insights “into the shifting, intellectual, institutional, and ideological contexts and contests in African studies, as practiced in Africa and the North, by men and wom ... more

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Young People’s Reading in South Africa: A Pilot Project

Myrna Machet, Sll Olën, A. Chamberlain (eds.)

Pretoria: University of South Africa, Faculty of Arts, Department of Information Science (2001), 165 pp.

"This survey and report is the result of a pilot project and survey of the reading interests and information use of South African children and young adults. It was carried out in primary and secondary schools in Pretoria, and provides insight into children and young adult's reading interests and inf ... more

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The Ordeal of the African Writer

Charles R. Larson

London: Zed Books (2001), 192 pp.

"This book is about the problems and obstacles that African writers still encounter in their attempt to get published. It is an interesting, informed, and well-documented study that combines writers’ own testimony (based on responses to questionnaires) and factual investigation in order to explore ... more

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Upgrading Book Distribution in Africa

Tony Read, Carmelle Denning, Vincent Bontoux

London: Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), Working Group on Books and Learning Materials (2001), xx, 252 pp.

"This study is currently the most comprehensive survey of textbook distribution in sub-Saharan Africa. If offers a detailed survey and analysis of the key policy issues affecting book distribution in Africa today. The study was organized and co-ordinated by International Book Development Ltd. in Lon ... don, and Danaé-Sciences, a Paris-based consultancy company specialising in editorial support, training and written communication. It draws on a series of major case studies carried out in Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria and Uganda, together with mini case studies from Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania and Togo, undertaken by book practitioners in these countries, most from the private sector. All of the case studies cover some common elements, including, for example, information on the national education system (including basic education statistics), and a discussion of the main players and mechanisms in the book distribution chain; they also review regional trade in books, and most case studies comment upon the impact of funding, agency investment, and government policies affecting national book development. In addition to the case studies, a useful feature is the inclusion of a fold-out chart “Critical issues on upgrading book distribution in Africa – A decision tree for policy-makers”, which shows the key options that policy makers need to consider in developing a national framework for textbook delivery. An extensive glossary of common terms and acronyms used in education, development and the book trade, completes the volume. The survey concludes “there is already a policy change underway among a number of governments and funding agencies in their approaches toward national textbook distribution. This change is more apparent in Anglophone than in Francophone countries and is by no means universal even in Anglophone countries. But the reaction against the inefficiencies, the lack of a service culture and the typically high cost operations of state centralist policies is now almost ten years old.” It also notes that times are changing, and that senior government officials in many countries now openly acknowledge and welcome the increasing involvement of the private sector in educational book provision activity." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1515) more

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The Electronic African Bookworm: A Web Navigator

Hans M. Zell (comp.)

Oxford: African Books Collective, 2nd revised ed. (2000), xii, 238 pp.

This extensive links section offers over 1,500 links, most with short descriptions, highlighting those Web sites and resources that are recommended as good starting points for African writers, scholars and the book professions in Africa. In addition it offers a substantial number of not Africa-speci ... more

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Stratégies pour le dévelopment d’un secteur editorial en langues nationales dans les Pays du Sahel—Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, et Sénégal

Hassana Alidou-Ngame

London: Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), Working Group on Books and Learning Materials (2000), 116 pp.

"Une synthèse des politiques de plusieurs pays africains francophones en matière de développement et d'utilisation des langues africaines en tant que stratégie essentielle pour l'amélioration et l'expansion des programmes d'éducation, et la fourniture de matériel didactique pertinent." ( ... more

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Women and Activism: ZIBF Women Writers. Conference 1999

Harare: Zimbabwe Women Writers (2000), 160 pp.

"A collection of twenty-four papers and discussions from a conference on women writers that took place during the Zimbabwe International Book Fair in 1999. It includes papers by a variety of voices of women from around the world, including major African women writers. A series of country reports inc ... more

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Financing Textbooks and Teacher Training Materials

Adelino Jaime da Cruz, Theophilus Ayodele George, Firmin Zaddy Gnahore et al.

Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), Working Group on Books and Learning Materials (2000), viii, 120 pp.

"Through four case studies, this book examines some of the key issues in funding provision of textbooks and training materials in Africa. The case studies, contributed by experts in textbook production and distribution, offer individual country perspectives from The Gambia, Lesotho, Mozambique and C ... more

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Book and Publishing Assistance Programs: A Review and Inventory
Quick Overview

Carol Priestley

Chestnut Hill, Mass.: Bellagio Publishing Network, 2nd revised ed. (2000), v, 168 pp.

"First published in 1993, and with a new introductory essay providing an overview of significant developments since publication of the first edition, this is a survey of the various agencies and assistance programmes that are involved with publishing and book development in Africa and in other parts ... more

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De l’idée au texte: Guide des auteurs

Thomas Büttner, Anja Frings

Niamey; Bonn: Editions Alpha;Deutsche Stiftung für Internationale Entwicklung (DSE), Zentralstelle für Erziehung, Wissenschaft und Dokumentation (2000), 215 pp.

"De l'Idée au texte est une coédition produite par les Editions Alpha à Niamey et la Deutsche Stiftung für Internationale Entwicklung/DSE (qui fait maintenant partie de la GIZ). Elle est la première d'une série prévue dans le cadre d'un programme de formation du personnel des maisons d'éditi ... more

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Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria

Wendy Griswold

Princeton, New Jers.: Princeton University Press (2000), 340 pp.

"This is an impressive and innovative study, and perhaps one of the most comprehensive sociological analyses of a literary system ever written. While the book is primarily devoted to an analysis and understanding of the novel in Nigeria, chapter 2:“The Nigerian Fiction Complex” (pp. 26-119), off ... more

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Gender-Sensitive Editing

Monde Sifuniso et al. (eds.)

London: Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), Working Group on Books and Learning Materials (2000), 108 pp.

"This excellent manual is intended as a guide for running training courses or workshops for groups of writers, illustrators, editors and others involved in producing popular reading material. Divided into six chapters, the manual takes the reader through various stages: how to develop a gender persp ... more

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Expanding the Book Trade Across Africa: A Study of Current Barriers and Future Potential

Ruth Makotsi, Flora Musonda

London: Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), Working Group on Books and Learning Materials (2000), 116 pp.

"A ground-breaking study commissioned by the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), Working Group on Books and Learning Materials on the fiscal, legal, communication, and other constraints of intra-African book trade. The study was designed to present information on the poten ... more

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Books for Schools: Improving Access to Supplementary Reading Materials in Africa

Diana Rosenberg (ed.)

London: Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), Working Group on Books and Learning Materials (2000), xii, 200 pp.

"The aim of this study was to examine some of the models through which the school population in Africa gain access to supplementary reading material, and to reach some conclusions which methods work best, and in which circumstances, and to recommend strategies that are affordable and sustainable. Gi ... more

A Guidebook on Journal Publishing for Agriculture and Rural Development Key Guidance

Book and Publishing Assistance Programs: A Review and Inventory Quick Overview

A Guidebook on Journal Publishing for Agriculture and Rural Development
Key Guidance

Book and Publishing Assistance Programs: A Review and Inventory
Quick Overview