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"Death and Digital Media provides a critical overview of how people mourn, commemorate and interact with the dead through digital media. It maps the historical and shifting landscape of digital death, considering a wide range of social, commercial and institutional responses to technological innovat ... more

Memory in a Mediated World: Remembrance and Reconstruction

Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 307 pp.
"Considering both retrospective memories and the prospective employment of memories, Memory in a Mediated World examines troubled times that demand resolution, recovery and restoration. Its contributions provide empirically grounded analyses of how media are employed by individuals and social groups ... more
"The theme of the 2001 Indaba at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair was devoted to “Changing People’s Lives: Promoting a Reading Culture in Africa”, and this volume brings together 34 of the papers that were presented, together with a record of some of the discussions that took place followi ... more

The African Writers’ Handbook

Oxford: African Books Collective (1999), xxiv, 432 pp.
"This handbook is not only a very useful reference tool for writers, but also presents something of a benchmark volume on the sensitive and sometimes hotly debated issue of author-publisher relations. The book aims to provide all the answers African writers will want to know about publishing, how to ... more

African Theatre in Development

Bloomington; Oxford: Indiana University Press;James Currey Publishers (1999), x, 182 pp.

A Handbook for African Writers

London: Hans Zell Publishers (1986), 218 pp.
"A pioneering volume containing a wealth of practical information and advice for African authors. Describes how to present a manuscript, how to find a publisher, dealing with literary agents, and offering advice about contracts, remuneration, copyright, and writing for the media. Illustrated with so ... more