Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa:
A Critical Bibliography
Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Bibliography
Edited by Hans M. Zell With an introductory essay by Henry Chakava
New fully revised and expanded 2nd edition* 762 pp. 234x156mm cased
ISBN-13: 978-0-9541029-5-1 Published 06 October 2008
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* previous edition published as Publishing and Book Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Annotated Bibliography (London: Hans Zell Publishers, An imprint of Bowker-Saur, 1996)
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This is a new, completely revised and fully updated edition of a much acclaimed bibliography published in 1996. Covering both print and online resources, it charts the growth of publishing and book development in the countries of Africa south of the Sahara, as well as including a very large number of entries on many other topics as they relate to books and reading in Africa. The print edition contains 2,500 critically annotated citations. In order to provide maximum currency the online version is regularly updated and includes annotated entries of select new articles, studies, reports, blog postings, and other Internet documents that have been published since the cut-off date of the print edition, thus offering a continuing resource in the field. The online database currently contains over 2,700 records, making it the most complete and up-to-date documentation resource on the book sector in Africa.
Essentially an entirely new reference work, the content and focus of this edition has been considerably recast in several ways. Annotations and abstracts, which are often quite extensive, are now more evaluative rather than descriptive. Much greater emphasis is placed on the relative significance of the material included, thus offering a more critical dimension in reviewing the available literature on the topic. The annotations aim to provide informed commentary and critical analysis, and draw attention to particularly important contributions of the literature on publishing and the book in Africa.
The bibliography is arranged under five major parts:
(1) Serials and reference
(2) General, comparative and regional studies
(3) Country studies
(4) Studies by topic, listing material by 30 topic headings
(5) Book industry training/Self-publishing
The new edition covers primarily material published over the last two and a half decades, from 1980 through to 2007, although some literature published earlier has been retained because of its historical importance. Most of the material is in English, but there are also a sizeable number of entries of relevant literature in French. The bibliography aims to cover all aspects of book publishing and the "book chain" in Africa, including book marketing and distribution and the retail book trade. Additionally, there are a numerous citations on more specialist areas of publishing, such as publishing for children, journals and magazine publishing, scholarly publishing, publishing in African languages, and digital media and electronic publishing; and there are many sections on related aspects of book development, for example authors and publishing, copyright, national book policies, reading culture and reading promotion, publishing by and for women, and much more.
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 in
this edition:
- Now published both in print format and as a searchable electronic version. Providing the online resource as an integral part of the print version will allow multiple users to access its contents concurrently, and from a place of their own choosing.
- A wide-ranging introductory essay by Henry Chakava, one of Africa's most innovative and most respected
publishers, who has written prolifically on many aspects of book development in Africa.
- In addition to including a large number of articles, books, and other new print material published since 1995, this edition now also contains almost 500 entries covering articles, reports, presentations, and other documents that are available online, most of them freely accessible.
- Listings for each country in Section 3 are part directory and part bibliography and now also include details of African national bibliographies.
- The directories of African book professional and allied associations that precede each country section have been fully updated, as have the listings of organizations and agencies elsewhere supporting the African book sector, providing full address and contact details.
- The new edition contains a greatly expanded subject and geographical index, together with an author index, and an index of organizations and associations.
- As a further new feature in this edition, references to reviews of some of the book titles and edited collections are now included, including some reviews which are accessible online.
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About
the authors
Hans Zell has been author, editor, and publisher on African topics for almost four decades. He has published several reference resources on Africa and African studies, the latest of which is the 4th revised and expanded edition of
The African Studies Companion: A Guide to Information
Sources. He was twice the winner of the Conover-Porter Award, presented biennially by the Africana Librarians Council of the (US) African Studies Association for "the most outstanding achievement and excellence in Africana bibliography or reference work". He is the founding editor of the quarterly
African Book Publishing Record, which he edited from 1975 to 2002.
Henry
Chakava, who contributes a substantial introductory essay, is Chairman of East African Educational Publishers in Nairobi. He is widely recognized as one of the continent's most innovative and enterprising
publishers, and has amassed a wealth of experience during a lifetime devoted to strengthening the indigenous book industries in Africa. He is one of the most prolific authors of articles and studies on many aspects of the state of the book in Africa, and has been the recipient of several awards and
honours.
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