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The Presbyterian Mission Press in Central Africa, 1890-1922

Robert Benedetto

American Presbyterians, volume 68, issue 1 (1990), pp. 55-69

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Christian Literature for Africa

Rita Swanepoel, B. J. van der Walt (ed.)

Potchefstroom: Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education Institute for Reformational Studies (1989), iii, 249 pp.

"Discusses the project ‘Christian Literature for Africa’ launched by the International Association of Reformed Faith and Action in conjunction with the Institute for Reformational Studies in 1987. Includes various contributions discussing the readership, publishing, and distribution of Christian ... more

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The Advocacy Publisher and Costing Strategy

Modupe Oduyoye

In: Communication Industry in Nigeria: The Crisis of Publications

A. Tom Adaba, Ololeka Ajia, Ikechukwu Nwosu (eds.)

Nairobi: African Council for Communication Education (ACCE) (1988), pp. 258-262

"A Nigerian Christian publisher explains what advocacy publishing is, how the price of a book is crucial in this kind of publishing, and how to get the costings right." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1719)

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Printing for Africa: The Story of Robert Moffat and the Kuruman Press

Kuruman Mission Trust

Kuruman: Kuruman Moffat Mission Trust (1987), 36 pp.

"Provides a history of the Kuruman Press in South Africa, founded by Lutheran Methodist Society missionary Robert Moffat, together with a list of publications produced there between 1831 and 1870." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1715)

Religious Publishing

P. S. Usman

Publisher, volume 1, issue 1 (1985), pp. 20-23

"A short overview of religious publishing houses in Nigeria." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1726)

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Christian Publishing: The Indian Experience

Jane R. Caleb (ed.)

Delhi: Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (ISPCK) (1984), 130 pp.

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Christian Communication Directory Asia

Franz-Josef Eilers (ed.)

Aachen: Catholic Media Council (CAMECO); World Association for Christian Communication (WACC); Lutheran World Federation (LWF) (1982), 1036 pp.

"Represents a systematic effort to collect all relevant information on Christian media institutions for Asia except the Near East, with emphasis on institutions related to the three organizations compiling the data. Classification is in nine categories: Church Communication Centres, News and Informa ... more

Lovedale Press: Literature for the Bantu Revisited

Jeffrey Peires

English in Africa, volume 7, issue 2 (1980), pp. 71-85

"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 ... more

The Lively Word: Christian Publishing and Broadcasting in East Africa

Norman Hart (ed.)

Limbe (MW): Popular Publications (1975), 68 pp.

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The Role of Christian Publishing Houses in Africa Today

Modupe Oduyoye

In: Publishing in Africa in the Seventies

Edwina Oluwasanmi, Eva McLean, Hans M. Zell (eds.)

Ile-Ife: University of Ife Press (1975), pp. 209-231

"The manager of Daystar Press in Nigeria discusses the activities of Christian publishing houses in Africa: their substantive publishing output, their significance in the development and the encouragement of authorship with commitment, their capacity in the organization of large-scale distribution o ... more

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Winning West Africa with Books

Ghana: Evangelical Literature Fellowship of West Africa (ELFWA) (1972), 96 pp.

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Christ + Buch: Ökumenische Erfahrungen der Kirche mit dem Buch in aller Welt

Oskar Schnetter (ed.)

Wuppertal; Stuttgart: Brockhaus; Evangelisches Verlagswerk (1972), 320 pp.

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Christian Literature in Ethiopia: General Survey

J. R. H. Conacher

Addis Ababa: Bible Churchmen's Missionary Society (1970), 384 pp.

"This study aims 'to assess the needs of Ethiopia which can be met by Christian literature in Ethiopian and English languages, to evaluate the extent to which the present programs minister to these needs, and to make rcommendations for the future dealing with all relevant aspects and in particular w ... more

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