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'Obaakofo Mmu Man' Kente cloth above courtesy of
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About Hans M. Zell Born and educated in Switzerland, Hans Zell held senior management positions with Almqvist & Wiksell in Stockholm and Pergamon Press in Oxford before his career turned to Africa. Following three years in Sierra Leone, he joined Africana Publishing Corporation in New York as its first Editor-in-chief. Later he was Director of the University of Ife Press in Nigeria for several years. In 1975 he set up his own publishing company in Oxford, subsequently acquired by K.G. Saur Verlag in Munich, and which thereafter became part of Bowker-Saur, a division of Reed-Elsevier (UK) Ltd., on whose behalf he developed the Hans Zell Publishers imprint in a freelance capacity between 1987-1998. Hans Zell was the founder of the quarterly bibliographic and book trade journal The African Book Publishing Record, which started in 1975 and which he edited until 2002. On a part-time basis, he
was the Senior Consultant to African Books Collective Ltd. – the Oxford-based
but African-owned marketing and distribution organization – from 1986 to June
1995. Between 1979 and 1995 he also acted as the Secretary to the Managing
Committee of the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa, now well-established as
Africa’s premier book prize. Hans Zell has twice been the winner of the Conover-Porter Award, sponsored by the Africana Librarians Council of the [US] African Studies Association, and awarded for “the most outstanding achievement and excellence in Africana bibliography and reference work”. Other reference resources by Hans Zell Publishers authors have been the winners (or joint winners) of this prestigious biennial award on five occasions. After
living in Oxford for some 25 years, Hans Zell relocated to Scotland in October
2000. He now lives and works in the remote village of Lochcarron, in the Wester
Ross area of the Scottish Highlands, where he is continuing the Hans Zell
imprint (terminated by Bowker-Saur in 1998) through the publication of a
further small range of information resources on Africa, African publishing, and
African studies, and which in due course will also include new editions of a
number of classic Africana reference works.
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