"A collection of thirty-six papers, report-backs and discussions from the Zimbabwe International Book Fair Indaba 1999. The papers are grouped in four parts: those from the plenary sessions; Publishing; Writing; Research; and Access." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa,
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3d ed. 2008, nr. 2416)
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"This is something of a benchmark volume on the subject of publishing and book development in Africa (and in some other developing countries). It contains the proceedings, and reflects the thinking and the deliberations that emerged from a seminar on“Understanding the Educational Book Industry”,
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which was organized by the World Bank in Washington, DC in September 1997. Participants included representatives of publishing houses and book trade associations from both industrial and developing countries, as well as donor representatives with a strong interest in strengthening publishing capacity in Africa and in other parts of the world. The objective of the seminar was to offer World Bank Group staff from education, finance, and private sector development networks with a better understanding of the nature of educational publishing, including the linkages between government textbook policies, the publishing industry, and Bank-financed textbook operations. It also provided an opportunity for some participants to voice their current grievances about the World Bank’s textbook procurement procedures and bidding systems. The book contains over 30 papers which are grouped under four major themes: “Policies for the Long-Term Provision of Educational Materials’” “Finance and Book Trade Issues”, “Procurement, Protection, and Copyright”, and “The Role of Publishing Partnerships”, together with a section on “The Publishing Industry in the Twenty-First Century”. Contributions include papers reporting about the publishing industries in various countries of Africa, in Central and South America, the Caribbean, as well as in Eastern Europe. A record of the discussions that took place follows each section." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1885)
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"The five case studies on the cost-effectiveness of publishing educational materials in national and local African languages, published in this volume, were commissioned in 1996 on behalf of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) by its Working Group on Books and Learning
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Materials. The UK’s Overseas Development Agency (ODA), which is the lead agency of the ADEA Working Group on Books and Learning Materials, organized two workshops on the topic of publishing books and other educational materials in African national languages, and commissioned these five case studies of the costs and benefits of educational materials in African languages." (Introduction, page 1)
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"It has become increasingly clear to those involved in textbook projects that textbook publishing should not be isolated from book publishing in general, but should be an integral part of it. A major Conference on Textbook Provision and Library Development in Africa, which took place in Manchester i
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n October 1991 made an attempt to contribute to that end. As a follow-up to the Manchester conference, UNESCO (118), with UNDP funding, undertook a study on Textbook Provision and the Feasibility of Cooperation among SADC countries, where national specialists and task forces conducted a systematic analysis of the strengths and difficulties within their country’s textbook provision system. The process of carrying out national case studies for five SADC countries contributed to the development and institutionalization of comprehensive and integrated policies for textbook provision, and helped in particular to identify constraints which have prevented effective textbook provision. The exercise itself was intended as a capacity building strategy. Each case study examined the mode of book provision and identified strengths and weaknesses, and brought together basic information and statistics. The exercise clearly indicated that the interaction between book industries and textbook publishing still are still inadequate in many countries." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 349)
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"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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"Contains essays on aspects of indigenous publishing in various African countries, overviews on the state of publishing in specific regions, a directory of book trade publications and reference sources published in five African countries, plus two inventories of (i) African book development organiza
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tions, and (ii) international organizations promoting indigenous publishing." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 200)
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"A detailed study and analysis of textbook provision in Namibia investigated by a private sector consultant and a public sector consultant, who conclude that the general state of the industry is healthy with scope for development, and propose the initiation of inter-country discussions on curriculum
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content." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 729)
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"An informative history of books and publishing in Namibia; also examines the present situation [mid-1990s] and assesses the future prospects for the book industries." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 726)
"Annotated listings of over 4,600 libraries, publishers, booksellers, magazines and periodicals, and major newspapers throughout Africa." (commbox)