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Mission Presses in Natal

B. M. Spencer
In: The Love of Books. Proceedings of the Seventh South African Conference of Bibliophiles Held at the South African Library, Cape Town, 8-10 May 1996
Pieter E. Westra, Leonie Twentyman Jones (eds.)
Cape Town: South African Library (1997), pp. 77-84
"A historical account of the development of mission presses in Natal and their prodigious output. Discusses the activities of the American Board of Mission presses, and those of the Anglican, Catholic and Lutheran presses." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 200 ... more
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Identity & Popular Culture

Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 11, issue 1-2 (1997), 182 pp.
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Cost-Effectiveness of Publishing Educational Materials in African Languages
Deep Insights

Maureen Woodhall (ed.)
London: Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), Working Group on Books and Learning Materials (1997), x, 131 pp.
"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 ... more
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South Africa Books Aid Projects

Jeff Samuelson
Focus on International & Comparative Librarianship, volume 28, issue 2 (1997), pp. 92-95
"Outlines the objectives of the South Africa Books Aid Project (SABAP), a three year project funded by the Department for International Development and managed, at the UK end, by Book Aid International. The goal of SABAP is to support local initiatives to improve the quality of basic and adult educa ... more
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Report on the National Consultation Forum on the Development of Botswana's National Book Policy: Boipuso Conference and Exhibition Centre, Gaborone, Botswana, 6th-8th October, 1997

Gaborone; London: Ministry of Education; Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), Working Group on Books and Learning Materials (1997), 81 pp.
"The report of a consultation forum which brought together 58 participants from book-related organizations and institutions in Botswana, and which was convened to identify the key issues in book development, the problems facing the book industries in Botswana, and the way forward to lead to the esta ... more
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Public Service Broadcasting: The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century

Dave Atkinson, Marc Raboy (eds.)
Pierre Juneau (introd.)
Paris: UNESCO (1997), 155 pp.
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Media en democratisering in Zuidelijk Afrika

Berendien Bos, Ineke van Kessel, Petra Willemsteijn
Amsterdam: Nederlands Instituut voor Zuidelijk Afrika (NiZa) (1997), 64 pp.
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South Africa's Alternative Press: Voices of Protest and Resistance, 1880-1960

Les Switzer (ed.)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1997), xv, 400 pp.
"This is the first full-length study of the protest-cum-resistance press and its role in the struggle for a democratic South Africa between the 1880s and 1960s. South Africa's alternative press played a crucial, but still largely undocumented, role in the making of modern South Africa. Projecting th ... more
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Press Freedom and Communication in Africa

Festus Eribo, William Jong-Ebot (eds.)
Trenton, New Jers.; Asmara (ER): Africa World Press (1997), xx, 362 pp.
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Länderheft Mosambik

Brunhild von Local (ed.)
Hamburg: Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland (EMW) (1997), 188 pp.
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Voices and Visions: Audio-Visual Media in the New South Africa

Signe Byrge Sørensen, Karen Thorne (eds.)
Copenhagen: Zebra (1996), 61 pp.
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Public Broadcasting for the 21st Century

Marc Raboy (ed.)
Luton: John Libbey; University of Luton (1996), xiv, 302 pp.
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Telematics for Health and Disabled and Elderly People: Joint Conference and Exhibition of the European Union and South Africa

Midrand: Club de Bruxelles (1996), 140 pp.
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Textbook Provision and the Feasibility of Cooperation Among SADCC Countries: Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Patricia Bolton (ed.)
Paris: UNESCO (1996), 85, 15 pp.
"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 ... more
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Du modèle canadien à l'appel sud-africain

Jean Cluzel
Paris: Librairie générale de droit et de jurisprudence (LGDJ) (1996), 167 pp.
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Textbooks as an Agent of Change: Gender Aspects of Primary School Textbooks in Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe

Paul Brickhill, Catherine Odora Hoppers, Kajsa Pehrsson
Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), Department for Democracy and Social Development (DESO) Education Division (1996), 30 pp. + 30 pp. annexes
"This report is the result of a joint study of gender aspects in textbooks used in primary schools in Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe, which was commissioned by the Swedish International Development Co-Operation Agency (Sida) to be used as an input to the development of programmes which address the ... more
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The Challenge of the Market: Privatization and Publishing in Africa

Philip G. Altbach (ed.)
Bellagio Publishing Network (1996), 114 pp.
"This collection of papers focuses on the transition from state to private sector publishing in Africa. Two overview evaluations draw attention to the fact that the road to privatization is not necessarily an easy one, and that there are costs as well as benefits involved. Four cases studies, from G ... more
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Poverty: A Global Review. Handbook on International Poverty Research

Else Øyen, S. M. Miller, Syed Abdus Samad (eds.)
Oslo: Scandinavian University Press; UNESCO (1996), x, 620 pp.
"Prepared by a group of experts within the CROP network, this book was a state-of-the-art report on poverty and poverty research in different regions in 1996. As such, it was unique and the first volume ever to cover poverty studies worldwide, and to present the rich variety of concepts, hypotheses ... more
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Internationales Handbuch für Hörfunk und Fernsehen 1996/1997

Hamburg: Hans-Bredow-Institut (1996), 229, 383, 355, 173, 90, 171 pp.
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How to Get Published in South Africa: A Guide for Authors

Basil van Rooyen
Halfway House: Southern Book Publishers, 2nd ed. (1996), 254 pp.
"A very useful hands-on type of guide for authors, containing many helpful tips and a great deal of practical advice, and also examining the business of publishing from the publisher’s point of view. Part 1 of the book consists of a range of overview articles on the book publishing industry in Sou ... more