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Jay, Mary. "Co-publishing with Africa North–South–North." Logos 31, no. 2 (2020): 19–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18784712-03102003.
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The decolonization of African studies extends beyond content to ethical partnerships between the North and the African continent. One key component of realizing partnership is through publishing. African studies research published by Northern publishers is not often even minimally available in Africa; and this is despite scholars on the continent often being partners or facilitators in research undertaken by Northern scholars. Northern publishers have perceived no commercial gain, given small African markets, lack of purchasing power, and lack of distribution systems. Conversely, African publishers have efficient distribution into the North through African Books Collective, owned and governed by them. But in suitable rare cases the African publisher can broker co-publications with Northern publishers who want the originating rights. In the light of these issues, African Books Collective launched an initiative to seek to break the deadlock. In partnership with the International African Institute, and with the active support of the African Studies Associations of the UK and the US, work is proceeding with publishers in the North and the South to broker co-publishing or co-editions to address this historic marginalization of Africa.
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Zell, Hans M. "Publishing in Africa." Logos 30, no. 3 (2020): 7–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18784712-03003004.
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This two-part article is a sequel to a two-part paper published in Logos in 2008–2009. It provides a round-up of the current situation of the book industry in Africa today (primarily that in English-speaking sub-Saharan Africa), together with a brief review of the activities of the various organizations that have supported African publishing over the years. Part 1 examines the persistent failure of African governments to support their book industries and public libraries in a tangible and positive fashion. It reviews the current status of book development councils in Africa, the unsatisfactory progress in establishing national book policies, the challenges of generating book industry data, and the opportunities presented to African publishers by the new digital environment. An Appendix provides a list of conferences, meetings, and seminars on publishing and book development held in Africa between 1968 and 2019. Part 2 of this article will appear in Logos, 30 (4).
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Teixeira da Silva, Jaime A., Kwabena Osei Kuffour Adjei, Christopher M. Owusu-Ansah, Radhamany Sooryamoorthy, and Mulubrhan Balehegn. "Africa’s challenges in the OA movement: risks and possibilities." Online Information Review 43, no. 4 (2019): 496–512. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/oir-04-2018-0152.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the status of the open access (OA) movement on the African continent, and if there is any financial or moral exploitation by dominant “foreign” world powers. OA provided the African intellectual community with a tool to prove its academic prowess and an opportunity to display cultural and intellectual independence. OA publishing is prone to abuse, and some in Africa have sought to exploit the OA boom to profit from non-academic activity rather than use this tool to glorify Africa’s image and diversity on the global intellectual stage. These issues are explored in detail in the paper. Design/methodology/approach The authors broadly assessed literature that is related to the growth and challenges associated with OA, including the rise of OA mega journals, in Africa. Findings African OA journals and publishers have to compete with established non-African OA entities. Some are considered “predatory”, but this Jeffrey Beall-based classification may be erroneous. Publishing values that African OA publishers and journals aspire to should not equal those published by non-African publishing entities. Africa should seek solutions to the challenges on that continent via Africa-based OA platforms. The budding African OA movement is applauded, but it must be held as accountable as any other OA journal or publisher. Originality/value African scholars need to reassess the “published in Africa” OA image.
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Bgoya, Walter, and Mary Jay. "Publishing in Africa from Independence to the Present Day." LOGOS 26, no. 3 (2015): 9–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1878-4712-11112079.
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Indigenous publishing is integral to national identity and development: cultural, social, and economic. Such publishing reflects a people’s history and experience, belief systems, and their concomitant expressions through language, writing, and art. In turn, a people’s interaction with other cultures is informed by their published work. Publishing preserves, enhances, and develops a society’s culture and its interaction with others. In Africa, indigenous publishers continue to seek autonomy to pursue these aims: free from the constraints of the colonial past, the strictures of economic structural adjustment policies, the continuing dominance of multinational publishers (particularly in textbooks), regressive language policies, and lack of recognition by African governments of the economic and cultural importance of publishing. African publishers seek to work collectively, to harness the digital age, and to take their place in the international marketplace on equal terms, Africa’s own voice.
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Zell, Hans M. "Publishing in Africa." Logos 30, no. 4 (2020): 16–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18784712-03004002.
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This is the second instalment of a two-part article. Part 1 of this article appeared in Logos, 30 (3). Part 2 sets out a number of suggestions to strengthen the book industries in Africa, and the way forward, especially on capacity- and skills-building; training for book industry personnel; strengthening book professional associations, South–South linkages, and knowledge-sharing; encouraging international collaboration; the need for ongoing research and documentation; African books in the global marketplace; and the important but still neglected area of publishing in African indigenous languages. An Appendix provides a summary of the International Publishers Association (IPA) and Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) meetings on the African book industry, held in Nairobi in June 2019, together with links to a number of articles, reports, and press statements about the meetings.
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Foligno, Silvia. "Publishing in South Africa." LOGOS 26, no. 3 (2015): 31–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1878-4712-11112081.
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South Africa is an emerging market for publishing; it has a number of small and medium-sized local publishers but is dominated by publishing groups and multinationals that import international trends. Along with textbooks, imported trade books are the heart of South African publishing. The major obstacles the industry faces are linked to the poor distribution network as well as the lack of access to financial resources for local publishers, and a readership characterized by the plurality of official languages and an educational gap left over from the social inequalities of the apartheid era. Digital publishing, although not yet thriving, appears to be a promising opportunity to deal with both production costs and distribution and may provide a pathway towards the democratization of reading. A number of commercial platforms and non-profit initiatives are already in place in South Africa to support the development of the publishing market.
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Ofori-Mensah, Akoss. "The State of Publishing in West Africa." LOGOS 26, no. 3 (2015): 40–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1878-4712-11112082.
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The conditions of publishing in Nigeria and Ghana are examined in the general context of African publishing in recent decades. In both countries, school textbooks dominate the economics of publishing, attracting profit-hungry multinationals and marginalising home-grown trade publishing. Problems such as the lack of bookselling infrastructure, the underdevelopment of reading habits, and the economic necessity for African authors to secure a readership outside Africa have prompted a number of initiatives to advance the fortunes of African publishers seeking to publish African authored-books serving the needs of African readers. An effective pan-African book fair remains an important need if African publishing is to prosper.
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Kamau, Kiarie. "The State of Publishing in East Africa." LOGOS 26, no. 3 (2015): 23–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1878-4712-11112080.
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The main aim of this paper is to examine the state of publishing in East Africa. It also attempts to review the situation in Malawi and Zambia, where the author has had practical experience in publishing and marketing. The paper focuses on the growth of the publishing industry in the East African region and how this growth has impacted on access to textbooks and trade publications. It demonstrates that there has been significant growth in the industry, especially in Kenya and Uganda. However, this growth has largely been in the area of publishing of textbooks. Funding for the rollout of curricula in the East African countries has been a blessing to publishers because the funding includes allocations for textbook purchases for both primary and secondary schools. However, this kind of publishing has sounded something of a death knell for the publication of general books such as novels and biographies. The paper also demonstrates that indigenous book-publishing firms have gained a stronger foothold in East Africa in the last ten years and edged out the multinationals. It concludes by indicating that unless the publishing model changes, general publishing will continue to be relegated to the back-burner. At the same time, publishers are challenged to embrace digital publishing, since that is where the future of publishing lies.
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Richardson, Paul. "The Special Collection on Publishing in Africa at Oxford Brookes University." African Research & Documentation 76 (1998): 31–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00013017.
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In retrospect there was a certain inevitability that the Oxford Centre for Publishing Studies and Oxford Brookes University Library should establish a special collection on publishing in Africa, the first of its kind in Britain and perhaps anywhere in the northern hemisphere. There was the pre-existence in Oxford of powerful African publishing connections, represented on the one hand by two of the great houses which had helped to shape and develop and profit from publishing for and in Africa: Oxford University Press and Heinemann, and on the other by the parallel and equally important presence of specialist publishing operations and individuals with a focussed interest in publishing in the region: Bellagio and ABC, Hans Zell and Code Europe, James Currey Publishers and INASET.
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Cox, Justin, and Stephanie Kitchen. "African Books Collective: African Published Books in the North." African Research & Documentation 136 (2019): 4–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00022056.
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This is a presentation about the African Books Collective that for some 30 years has distributed African published academic, literary and children's books around the world. The aim of the paper is to provide some insights into how books published in Africa are making their way to libraries with collections on Africa, and to discuss current and future trends; it being understood that ‘decolonising library collections’, the theme of this conference, would by rights involve acquiring and maintaining materials from outside the global North.Upon its creation in 1990, ABC represented a large number of university presses on the continent and independent publishers, some of which are large firms still trading today. Today few university presses are trading or publishing new books. This work was largely picked-up by private independent publishers and research institutes such as CODESRIA, OSSREA, the Institute of Southern African Studies and others.