"This new electronic edition reproduces the thoroughly revised second edition which contained much new material including two completely new chapters – on information needs and existing responses in African communities, and on ideas and experiments for new information services to the whole communi
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ty. This substantially altered the emphasis of the book, so that it dealt more directly with information and libraries for the people of Africa. The Quiet Struggle contains not only a programme for a more relevant approach to conventional library service in Africa, but also a more thoroughly worked-out rationale for informal information services to the local community. This is based on new research on communication at village level in Malawi, and investigations into initiatives in information work in Senegal and Zimbabwe." (Back cover)
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