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The Electronic African Bookworm: A Web Navigator
Oxford: African Books Collective, 2nd revised ed. (2000), xii, 238 pp.
This extensive links section offers over 1,500 links, most with short descriptions, highlighting those Web sites and resources that are recommended as good starting points for African writers, scholars and the book professions in Africa. In addition it offers a substantial number of not Africa-speci
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The African Writers’ Handbook
Key Guides
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
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Indaba 99: Women's Voices. Gender, Books and Development
Harare: Zimbabwe International Book Fair Trust (1999), 296 pp.
"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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The African Publishers’ Networking Directory 1999/2000
Oxford: African Books Collective, 3rd ed. (1999), 72 pp.
"A reference guide and networking tool for all those interested in the book industries and book development in Africa. The directory provides detailed information on some 300 major and/or most active publishers operating in Africa [at 1999], giving very full information for each entry, including nam
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The South African Publishing Industry Report: Report to the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology. Final Report, November 1998
Pretoria: Department of the Arts, Culture, Science and Technology (DACST) (1998), 77 pp.
"A report commissioned by the South African government's Department (now Ministry) of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology to research South Africa's cultural industries and propose strategies for their growth and development. The term "cultural industries" is used here to describe a wide variety o
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The Development and Future of Publishing in Africa: 12 Years After Arusha I
Development Dialogue (Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation), issue 1-2 (1997), pp. 15-38
"In this overview of indigenous publishing in Africa today and the industry’s requirements for the future, Walter Bgoya writes: ‘Three scenarios for the future of publishing in Africa are easily discernible: one, African publishing playing an insignificant role, the source of books and reading m
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A Guide to Sustainable Book Provision
Key Guides
Paris: UNESCO (1997), 116 pp.
"While many other publication address the problems of developing local private publishing from a commercial and professional point of view, this guide is specifically designed for the purpose of creating a sustainable and affordable system for the provision of good quality learning materials for sch
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Publishing and Book Trade in Kenya
Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers; Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (1997), xvi, 172 pp.
"Financed by the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, this is a major and in-depth study of the problems and obstacles encountered by the Kenyan publishing industry in the manufacture, distribution, and marketing of their books. The first four of seven chapters provide the historical background and present
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Ikhtarna Laka (We Have Selected for You): A Critique of Egypt's Revolutionary Culture
Orient (Opladen), volume 38, issue 4 (1997), pp. 677-691
"Ikhtarna Laka's transformation from an indoctrination/propagandist organ to the nation's most important social science medium was a significant cultural event. In its heyday, the ideological direction of Ikhtarna Laka was distinctive, and the series expressed the schism between abstract knowledge a
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Dictionary of Printing and Publishing
Teddington: Peter Collin, 2nd ed. (1997), 348 pp.
"Includes clear definitions of over 9,000 words and expressions covering a wide range of topics relating to the printing and publishing industries: including papermaking, ink, printing and binding machines, typesetting, desktop publishing, editing, commissioning, contracts and rights." (Back cover)
Publishing and Book Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Annotated Bibliography
London: Hans Zell Publishers (1996), x, 409 pp.
"Contains over 2,200 entries covering books, serials, reference sources, reports, papers in edited collections, book-sector studies and similar documents, and periodical articles drawn from literature published in over 360 journals and magazines. Most entries have a short annotation. Supplementary v
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The African Publisher: The Cultural Politics of Indigenous Publishing in Benin and Côte D’Ivoire
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University, Doctoral Thesis (1996), 260 pp.
"This PhD thesis, “theoretically informed by Giroux's concepts of border and critical pedagogy”, examines how indigenous publishers manage to give a voice to cultures in an environment characterized by conflicting interests mediated by the State. It aims to provide an understanding of “the int
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Publishing at the Service of Evangelization: Proceedings of the Seminar of the Catholic Publishers in Africa, Nairobi, 12-24 February 1996
Nairobi: Paulines Publications Africa (1996), 192 pp.
"The report and papers of a two-week seminar organized by the Daughters of St. Paul which brought together representatives of 17 Catholic publishing houses from 13 African countries. The proceedings of the meeting focused on the role of the Catholic Church in publishing in Africa, but there are also
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Encyclopedia of the Book
New Castle, Del.; London: Oak Knoll Press; British Library, 2nd ed. (1996), xxiii, 551 pp.
"Containing nearly 4,000 entries of defined terms, Glaister's encyclopedia remains the definitive source on the book as an object and on bookmaking as a trade. There are entries for people (bookseller Thomas Gosden); businesses (Pelican Press); places (Little Britain); slang terms (the French livres
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Creating a Conducive Environment for Book Publishing: Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference on Book Development, 27 April 1995, and the Third National Conference on Book Development, 14 May 1996, Held at the Conference Centre, University of Lagos, Nigeria
Awka: Nigerian Book Foundation (1996), 249 pp.
"Brings together the various presentations made at these two Nigerian Book Foundation conferences, as well as including the recommendations put forward at the meetings, and the text of the addresses presented during the formal opening ceremonies. The NBF's second conference concentrated on the need
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Publishing in Africa: One Man's Perspective
Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers; Bellagio Publishing Network (1996), 182 pp.
"A collection of articles by one of Africa's most prolific commentators on the African publishing scene, bringing together his writings on diverse topics, such as autonomous publishing, book marketing and distribution, author-publisher relations, regional cooperation, the World Bank and African publ
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Manufacturing and Consuming Knowledge: African Libraries and Publishing
Development in Practice, volume 6, issue 4 (1996), pp. 293-303
"The article examines the problems facing African scholars and publishers, in the context of rapid developments in information technology and a deepening economic gulf between industrialised and Third World countries. Many of these problems, and conventional responses to them from libraries, publish
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