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Textbooks and School Library Provision in Secondary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

Washington, DC: World Bank, Secondary Education in Africa (SEIA), Africa Region Human Development Department (2008), xxxii, 98 pp.
"This World Bank study discusses secondary textbook and school library availability in Africa, its cost and financing, and its distribution and publishing. The study’s objective was to analyze the issues and provide some options and strategies for improvement. Reforms are urgently required in the ... more
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Publishing in Africa: Where Are We Now? Part One: Some Spurious Claims Debunked

Hans M. Zell
Logos: The Journal of the World Book Community, volume 19, issue 4 (2008), pp. 187-195
"An attempt to analyze the state of the book industries in sub-Saharan Africa thirty-five years after the major conference on publishing and book development in Africa that was held at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Nigeria, in 1973. Part one of this two-part article starts ... more
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Book and Journals Assistance and Donation Programmes

Hans M. Zell
In: Publishing, Books and Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Bibliography
Hans M. Zell
Glais Bheinn, Lochcarron: Hans Zell Publishing (2008), pp. 376-389
"This section of a major bibliography consists of 55 selected and critically annotated entries on book publishing assistance programmes in Africa published mainly between 1990-2006." (commbox)
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Periodismo y nación: Paraguay a inicios del siglo XX

Aníbal Orué Pozzo
Asunción: Arandurã Editorial (2008), 375 pp.
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Improving Democracy Assisstance: Building Knowledge Through Evaluations and Research

Committee on Evaluation of USAID Democracy Assisstance Programs, National Research Council
Washington, DC: National Academies Press (2008), xiii, 277 pp.
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Semiótica e mídia: Textos, práticas, estratégias

Maria Lúcia Vissotto Paiva Diniz, Jean Cristtus Portela
Bauru: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Faculdade de Arquitetura, Artes e Comunicação (2008), 269 pp.
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Namibia: Zwischen Filmmotiv und Filmwirtschaft. Entwicklung und Zukunftschancen der namibischen Filmindustrie seit der Unabhängigkeit 1990

Susan Karolewski
Babelsberg: Hochschule für Film- und Fernsehen „Konrad Wolf“. Fachbereich I, Studiengang Film- und Fernsehproduktion, Diplomarbeit (2008), 105 pp.
"Welche Faktoren für die Produktion eines afrikanischen Films in Namibia nötig sind, wird in der vorliegenden Diplomarbeit analysiert. Gegenstand ist die Darstellung der Filmwirtschaft Namibias mit all ihren Aspekten, Vor- und Nachteilen. Sehr konkret wird die Entwicklung der letzten Jahre und des ... more