In addition to our annual bibliographies, SHARP News will now also publish bibliographies focused on specific regions or on specific areas of study. We welcome any suggestions for future topics! Our inaugural post offers a select bibliography on Africa and Africana Studies.
BOOKS, READING, AND PUBLISHING IN AFRICA—A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Compiled July 2021
Authors and Readers
African Literature Association, Richard Priebe, and Thomas A. Hale, eds. Artist and Audience: African Literature as a Shared Experience: Selected Proceedings from the 1977 African Literature Association Meeting. Washington, D.C. [Edmonton, Alta.]: Three Continents Press; The Association, 1979. ISBN: 0-89410-123-4.
Bouzar, Wadi. Lectures Maghrébines: essai. [Paris: O.P.U.], 1984. ISBN: 2-86600-214-8.
Book Industries and Trade
Adaba, Tom, Olalekan Ajia, and Ikechukwu Enoch Nwosu, eds. Communication Industry in Nigeria: The Crisis of Publications. 1st ed. Africa Media Monograph Series, no. 6. Nairobi, Kenya: African Council on Communication Education, 1988.
APNET (Organization), ed. African Publishing Review =: Revista das publicações Africana. Harare, Zimbabwe: APNET, 1992.
Book Markets in the Americas, Asia, Africa & Australasia. London: Euromonitor Publications, 1979.
Coleman, Sterling Joseph. How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire. Routledge Studies in Cultural History 86. New York: Routledge, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-00-008086-5.
Comité technique des libraires et éditeurs (Cameroon), and Regional Centre for Book Promotion in Africa, eds. Compte rendu des travaux du Comité technique des libraires et éditeurs du 30 au 31 janvier 1976. [Yaoundé, Cameroon: Centre régional de promotion du livre en Afrique, 1976.
Davis, Caroline, and David Johnson, eds. The Book in Africa: Critical Debates. New Directions in Book History. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-137-40161-8.
Dogbé, Yves Emmanuel. Réflexions sur la promotion du livre Africain. Ed. originale. Le Mée-sur-Seine, France: Editions Akpagnon, 1984. ISBN: 2-86427-024-2.
Fraser, Robert. Book History through Postcolonial Eyes: Rewriting the Script. London; New York: Routledge, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-415-40293-4.
Gwiji, Bafikile, South Africa, and National Library of South Africa, eds. Catalogue of South African Literature. 2008 ed. [Fourways, South Africa: Ignitehouse], 2008. ISBN: 978-0-9814136-1-7.
Harrell-Bond, Barbara E. Africa Asserts Its Identity. Reports /American Universities Field Staff 1981, nos. 9–10, Africa. Hanover, NH: American Universities Field Staff, 1981.
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, ed. Market Survey of Books and Publications in Kenya, Nigeria, and Tanzania. New Delhi: Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, 1980.
Kitinya, Ishmael O. The Book and Newspaper Trade for Africa, with Special Emphasis on Publishing, Book-Writing, Printing, Book-Selling, Librarianship, Journalism. Nairobi, Kenya: Africa Book Services, 1981.
Klitgaard, S. A. Educational Books in West, Central and East Africa. Copenhagen: Danish National Commission for UNESCO, 1966.
Kotei, S. I. A. The Book Today in Africa. Books about Books. Paris: Unesco, 1981. ISBN: 92-3-101876-0.
Krätli, Graziano, and Ghislaine Lydon, eds. The Trans-Saharan Book Trade: Manuscript Culture, Arabic Literacy, and Intellectual History in Muslim Africa. Library of the Written Word, v. 8 ; The Manuscript World, v. 3. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2011. ISBN: 978-90-04-18742-9.
La Gazette de La FILO: Bulletin d’information de la foire internationale du livre de Ouagadougou. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: FILO, [n.d.]
Lang, Anouk, ed. From Codex to Hypertext: Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-55849-952-2.
Laugesen, Amanda. Taking Books to the World: American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War. Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book. Amherst; Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-62534-308-6.
Library of Congress, and Helen F. Conover, eds. African Libraries, Book Production, and Archives: A List of References. Washington: General Reference and Bibliography Division, Reference Dept., Library of Congress, 1962.
Library of Congress, and Conrad C. Reining, eds. A Publication Survey Trip to Central and East Africa. Washington: Reference Dept., General Reference and Bibliography Division, Library of Congress, 1963.
Machmutow, Maja. Die Buchkrise im anglophonen Afrika seit Mitte der 1980er Jahre: ein Drei-Länder-Vergleich. University of Leipzig papers on Africa (ULPA). Leipziger Arbeiten zur Geschichte und Kultur in Afrika, no. 4. Leipzig: University of Leipzig, 2003. ISBN: 3-935999-23-2.
Maillard Alvarez, Natalia, ed. Books in the Catholic World during the Early Modern Period. Library of the Written Word, v. 33. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2014. ISBN: 978-90-04-26289-8.
McCartney, Murray, and Zimbabwe International Book Fair Trust, eds. National Book Policies for Africa: The Key to Long-Term Development: Proceedings of the Zimbabwe International Book Fair Indaba 96: Harare, Zimbabwe, 26-27 July 1996. Causeway, Harare, Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe International Book Fair Trust, 1996. ISBN: 0-7974-1669-2.
Moore, Sean D. Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731-1814. First edition. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN: 978-0-19-883637-7.
Muqaddimāt: nashrat al-kitāb ḥawla al-Maghrib al-ʻArabī. al-Dār al-Bayḍāʼ: Muqaddimāt, 1993.
Nigerian Book Fair Trust, ed. Capacity Building in the African Publishing Industry and Educational Development in Nigeria: Being Text of Papers Presented at the Nigeria International Book Fair and NBFT National Book Fairs, 2007. Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria: Nigerian Book Fair Trust, 2008. ISBN: 978-978-084-375-5.
Nyariki, Lily, R. A. Hadao, UNESCO, and Regional Centre for Book Promotion in Africa, eds. UNESCO/CREPLA Seminar on National Book Distribution Strategies in Rural Kenya: 22nd-26th September, 1986, Kisumu-Kenya, Final Report. Nairobi: UNESCO, 1986.
Ogborn, Miles, and Charles W. J. Withers, eds. Geographies of the Book. Farnham, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-7546-7850-2.
Oluwasanmi, Edwina, Eva McLean, and Hans M. Zell, eds. Publishing in Africa in the Seventies: Proceedings of an International Conference on Publishing and Book Development Held at the University of Ife, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 16-20 December 1973. Ile-Ife: University of Ife Press, 1975.
Orgeval, and Salles. Perspectives d’une politique du livre en Afrique francophone et dans l’océan Indien. S.l.: Ministère de la coopération, Direction culturelle et sociale, 1974.
Ovens, C. S. H., and National Library of South Africa, eds. Bibliophilia Africana 8: From Papyrus to Print-out: The Book in Africa. Cape Town: National Library of South Africa, 2005. ISBN: 0-7961-0059-4.
Pan African Book World. Enugu, Anambra State, Nigeria: Fourth Dimension Publishers, 1981.
Philip, Marie. Books That Matter: David Philip Publishers during the Apartheid Years: A Memoir. Equal Education. Cape Town, South Africa: David Philip Publishers, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-4856-2287-1.
Pichler, Michalis, ed. Publishing Manifestos: An International Anthology from Artists and Writers. Berlin: Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2019. ISBN: 978-0-262-53718-6.
Prakash, Om, and Clifford M. Fyle. Books for the Developing Countries: Asia, Africa. Reports and Papers on Mass Communication, no. 47. Paris: Unesco, 1965.
Priestley, Carol. Book and Publishing Assistance Programmes: A Review and Inventory. Rev. ed. Bellagio Studies in Publishing 11. Chestnut Hill, MA: Bellagio Pub. Network, Research and Information Center, in association with Boston College, Center for International Higher Education, 2000. ISBN: 0-9646078-6-7.
Prillaman, Jerry. The French Book Trade and Book Policies in Sub-Saharan Francophone Africa: Final Draft. Cambridge, MA: Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 1982.
Reddy, Bangar N., and Afro-Asian Book Council, eds. Publishing Co-Operation in Afro-Asian Region. New Delhi: Afro-Asian Book Council; Distributed by Wiley Eastern, 1994.
Regional Centre for Book Promotion in Africa, ed. Bulletin of Information – Regional Centre for Book Promotion in Africa: Bulletin d’information – Centre régional de promotion du livre en Afrique. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Regional Centre for Book Promotion in Africa, n.d.
———, ed. Consultation on Actions to Be Taken in Africa as a Follow-up to the World Book Congress: Yaounde, Cameroon, 6-9 June 1983. Yaounde, Cameroon: CREPLA, 1983.
Schloss, Sylvia. The Book Sector in the SADCC Region. Windhoek: Namibian Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Namibia, 1992.
South Africa, ed. Investigation into Monopolistic Conditions in the Supply and Distribution of Books in the Republic of South Africa. Report – Board of Trade and Industries ; No. 1794 (M). Pretoria: Govt. Printer, 1977. ISBN: 0-621-04378-8.
STM Study Group on Marketing, and Michael Foyle, eds. The African Market. STM Marketing Studies 26. Amsterdam: International Group of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers, 1981.
Stringer, Roger, ed. The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa: A Survey and Directory. Oxford, UK: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP), 2002. ISBN: 1-902928-11-3.
Suarez, Michael F., and H. R. Woudhuysen, eds. The Book: A Global History. First edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-0-19-967941-6.
Tambwe Kitenge Bin Kitoko, Eddie, Pénou-Achille Somé, and Marc Ngwanza Kasong’ Abor, eds. La chaîne du livre en Afrique noire francophone: qui est éditeur aujourd’hui? Recherches en bibliologie. Paris: Harmattan, 2006. ISBN: 2-296-01419-4.
Taubert, Sigfred, and Peter Weidhaas, eds. The Book Trade of the World. Hamburg: New York: Verlag für Buchmarkt-Forschung; Bowker, 1972. ISBN: 3-598-10185-6.
Unesco, ed. Towards a Reading Society in Africa: Measures for the 80s: Collective Consultation on Follow-up Action in Africa to the World Congress on Books, Yaounde, Cameroon, 6-9 June 1983: Working Document. Paris: [Unesco, 1983.
United Nations, ed. Book Development in Africa: Problems and Perspectives. Reports and Papers on Mass Communication, no. 56. Paris: Unesco, 1969.
Walton, G. Charles, and Robert Darnton, eds. Into Print: Limits and Legacies of the Enlightenment: Essays in Honor of Robert Darnton. The Penn State Series in the History of the Book. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-271-05012-6.
Zell, Hans M. Publishing & Book Development in Africa: A Bibliography. Studies on Books and Reading ; Etudes sur le livre et la lecture, no. 15. Paris, France: Unesco, 1984.
Zell, Hans M., Henry Chakava, and Hans M. Zell. Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Bibliography. 3rd ed. Lochcarron: H. Zell Pub, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-9541029-5-1.
Books and Reading
Benzing, Brigitta. Bombi Und Bimba: Zum Afrika-Bild in Deutschsprachigen Kinder- u. Jugendbüchern. Schule und Dritte Welt, Nr. 45. Bonn: Bundesmin. f. Wirtschaftl. Zusammenarb., Referat Öffentlichkeitsarb, 1974.
Bonde, K., and Lesotho Library Association, eds. Book Promotion and the Sharing of Resources in Africa: Proceedings of SCECSAL IV, Maseru, December 8-13, 1980. Maseru: The Association, 1980.
Bosman, Louisa. Bibliografie van Afrikaanse Kieuterboeke Ontvang in Die Suid-Afrikaanse Openbare Biblioteek, Kaapstad, Tot in Junie, 1945. Kaapstad, 1945.
Cilliers, J. I., ed. Towards More Understanding: The Making and Sharing of Children’s Literature in Southern Africa. 1st ed. Kenwyn: Juta & Co, 1993. ISBN: 0-7021-3168-7.
Coetzee, Petrus Carolus. Lees en lesers: lesings oor die leserkunde gelewer as deeltydse professor in die Departement Biblioteekkunde aan die Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit. Biblioteekkundige bydraes ; no. 21. Pretoria: Staatsbiblioteek, 1977. ISBN: 0-7989-0046-6.
———. Lektuur En Kultuur: Algemeen Leserkundige Aantekeninge Oor Lees in Suid-Afrika. Pretoria. Staatsbiblioteek. Biblioteekkundige Bydraes, No. 2. Pretoria: Staatsbiblioteek, 1961.
Council for the Promotion of Children’s Science Publications in Africa, ed. 4th Pan African Children’s Book Fair Magazine: Kenyatta International Conference Centre, Nairobi, Kenya, 28th-31st: Learning Science at an Early Age. [Nairobi: CHISCI Press, 1995.
Davis, Caroline, and David Johnson, eds. The Book in Africa: Critical Debates. New Directions in Book History. Houndmills, UK; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-137-40161-8.
De Villiers, G. M. The Short-Term Effect of Television on the Reading Patterns of English-Speaking Standard Five Day Scholars. Research Finding, no. COMM-N-22. Pretoria: South African Human Sciences Research Council, 1980. ISBN: 0-86965-683-X.
De Wet, R. A Readership Investigation into the Leisure Reading Pattern and Interests of Undergraduate Students at the University of South Africa. University of South Africa. Mousaion 97-98. Pretoria: University of South Africa, 1967.
Dent, Valeda Frances, Geoff Goodman, and Michael Kevane. Rural Community Libraries in Africa: Challenges and Impacts. Advances in Library and Information Science (ALIS) Book Series. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-4666-5043-5.
Dick, Archie L. The Hidden History of South Africa’s Book and Reading Cultures. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4289-8.
Dogbé, Yves Emmanuel. Réflexions sur la promotion du livre Africain. Ed. originale. Le Mée-sur-Seine, France: Editions Akpagnon, 1984. ISBN: 2-86427-024-2.
Drew, Lisa, Robert Wedgeworth, Association of American Publishers, and Fund for Free Expression (U.S.), eds. The Starvation of Young Black Minds: The Effect of Book Boycotts in South Africa: Report of a Fact-Finding Mission to South Africa, May 18-28, 1989. Washington, DC: New York: The Association; The Fund, 1989.
East African Library Association, and Johnston L. Abukutsa, eds. The Role of Books in Development: Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial Conference of the East African Library Association, Nairobi, September 25th-29th, 1972. EALA Bulletin ; No. 14. Nairobi: Kenya Library Association, 1974.
Elie, Zoue Ela. Le rôle de la mission dans la pénétration du livre en Afrique. [s.l: s.n], 1975.
Emenyo̲nu, Ernest, Charles E. Nnolim, and West African Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, eds. Current Trends in Literature and Language Studies in West Africa. Studies in West African Literatures and Languages. Ibadan: Kraft Books, 1994. ISBN: 978-2081-42-6.
Fouché, B. Reading and Libraries in the Socio-Cultural Life of an Urban Black Community. Miscellanea; Mousaion. Pretoria: University of South Africa, 1980. ISBN: 0-86981-221-1.
Germany (West), and Internationale Jugendbibliothek (Munich, Germany), eds. Afrikanische Jugendliteratur heute und Morgen: Bericht über ein internationales Symposium. Bonn; München: Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission; Internationale Jugendbibliothek, 1988.
Griffiths, Paul J. Religious Reading: The Place of Reading in the Practice of Religion. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0-19-512577-0.
Heale, Jay. From the Bushveld to Biko: The Growth of South African Children’s Literature in English from 1907 to 1992 Traced through over 110 Notable Books. Grabouw, South Africa: Bookchat, 1996. ISBN: 0-9583881-6-4.
———. South African Authors & Illustrators: Twenty-Three of Our Leading Authors and Illustrators of Children’s Books. Grabouw, S.A: Bookchat, 1994. ISBN: 0-9583881-3-X.
Hein, Charles T., Keith K. Kanyogonya, and Afrolit Society, eds. Rural Press for Village Post-Literacy Literature. Afrolit Paper, no. 5. Nairobi, Kenya: P.O. Box 72511, Nairobi) : Afrolit Society, 1979.
Helgesson, Stefan. Transnationalism in Southern African Literature: Modernists, Realists, and the Inequality of Print Culture. Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures 23. New York: Routledge, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-415-46239-6.
Hölscher, Marianne, and South African National Museum, eds. Doer-land-y: Suid-Afrikaanse geïllustreerde kinderboeke. Cape Town: Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Kunsmuseum, 1986.
Jenkins, Elwyn. Children of the Sun: Selected Writers and Themes in South African Children’s Literature. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1993. ISBN: 0-86975-438-6.
———. Seedlings: English Children’s Reading & Writers in South Africa. 1st ed. Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-86888-652-4.
———. South Africa in English-Language Children’s Literature, 1814-1912. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2002. ISBN: 0-7864-1105-8.
Khorana, Meena. Africa in Literature for Children and Young Adults: An Annotated Bibliography of English-Language Books. Bibliographies and Indexes in World Literature, no. 46. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1994. ISBN: 0-313-25488-5.
———, ed. Critical Perspectives on Postcolonial African Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies, no. 187. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. ISBN: 0-313-29864-5.
König, A. C., and J. G. Meijer. Leesgewoontes van Kaapse Kleurlinge. SENSAL-publikasies, nr. 17. Pretoria: Raad vir Geesteswetenskaplike Navorsing, 1984. ISBN: 0-7969-0178-3.
Kruger, Haidee. Postcolonial Polysystems: The Production and Reception of Translated Children’s Literature in South Africa. Benjamins Translation Library (BTL), EST Subseries, vol. 105. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2012. ISBN: 978-90-272-2455-2.
Kruger, J. A. Kinderkeur: ʾn Gids Tot Bekroonde Suid-Afrikaanse Kleuter-, Kinder- En Jeugboeke Tot 1989. 1. uitg. Manualia Composita 4. Pretoria: Universiteit van Suid-Afrika, 1991. ISBN: 0-86981-657-8.
Lehman, Barbara A., Jay Heale, Anne Hill, T. B. Van der Walt, and Magdel Vorster, eds. Creating Books for the Young in the New South Africa: Essays on Authors and Illustrators of Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-7864-7551-3.
Lindfors, Bernth. Loaded Vehicles: Studies in African Literary Media. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1996. ISBN: 0-86543-542-1.
Logan, Mawuena Kossi. Narrating Africa: George Henty and the Fiction of Empire. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, v. 2121; Children’s Literature and Culture, v. 9. New York: Garland Pub, 1999. ISBN: 0-8153-3275-0.
“M” E Lerato. Reading Roundabout: A Review of South African Children’s Literature. 1st ed. Pietermaritzburg : Johannesburg: Shuter & Shooter ; Thorold’s Africana Books, [distributor], 1992. ISBN: 0-7960-0386-6.
MacCann, Donnarae, and Yulisa Amadu Maddy. Apartheid and Racism in South African Children’s Literature, 1985-1995. Children’s Literature and Culture. New York: Routledge, 2001. ISBN: 0-415-93638-1.
Maillard Alvarez, Natalia, ed. Books in the Catholic World during the Early Modern Period. Library of the Written Word, v. 33. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2014. ISBN: 978-90-04-26289-8.
Naidoo, Beverley. Censoring Reality: An Examination of Books on South Africa. London: ILEA Centre for Anti-Racist Education: British Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa, 1984.
Newell, Stephanie. The Power to Name: A History of Anonymity in Colonial West Africa. New African Histories. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-0-8214-2032-4.
Odaga, Asenath. Literature for Children and Young People in Kenya. Nairobi: Kenya Literature Bureau, 1985.
Orisawayi, Dele, and Ernest Emenyo̲nu, eds. Literature and Black Aesthetics. Calabar Studies in African Literature 5. Ibadan: Heinemann Educational Books (Nigeria), 1990. ISBN: 978-129-357-8.
Osa, Osayimwense. African Children’s and Youth Literature. Twayne’s World Authors Series ; African Literature, TWAS 853. New York: London: Twayne Publishers; Prentice Hall International, 1995. ISBN: 0-8057-4524-6.
Ovens, C. S. H., and National Library of South Africa, eds. Bibliophilia Africana 8: From Papyrus to Print-out: The Book in Africa. Cape Town: National Library of South Africa, 2005. ISBN: 0-7961-0059-4.
Riesz, János, and Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa, eds. Lesekulturen =: Reading cultures. New York: Peter Lang, 2003. ISBN: 0-8204-6062-1.
Sandwith, Corinne. World of Letters: Reading Communities and Cultural Debates in Early Apartheid South Africa. Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-86914-262-9.
Scheffer, P. Stedelike blanke Suid-Afrikaners se koop, leen- en leesgewoontes met betrekking tot boeke. Verslag – Suid-Afrikaanse Raad vir Geeteswetenskaplike Navorsing, Instituut vir Taal, Lettere en Kuns ; nr. TLK/L-5. Pretoria: Suid-Afrikaanse Raad vir Geeteswetenskaplike Navorsing, Instituut vir Taal, Lettere en Kuns, 1977. ISBN: 0-86965-422-5.
Schloss, Sylvia. The Book Sector in the SADCC Region. Windhoek: Namibian Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Namibia, 1992.
South Africa, ed. Keurlys van Boeke Vir Tegniese Kolleges, Hoër Tegniese, Hoër Handel- En Hoër Huishoudskole Asook Spesiale Skole. Pretoria: the Department, 1966.
Unesco, ed. Towards a Reading Society in Africa: Measures for the 80s: Collective Consultation on Follow-up Action in Africa to the World Congress on Books, Yaounde, Cameroon, 6-9 June 1983: Working Document. Paris: [Unesco, 1983.
United States Information Agency, ed. African Book Reading Sources and Habits–a Research Review. Its R, 15-69. Washington, 1969.
———, ed. Book Reading and Buying Habits in Francophone Africa. Washington, 1968.
Van Bruggen, Jan Reinder Leonard. Lektuurvoorsiening vir Kinders en Jeugdige Persone. Contributions to Library Science, no. 26. Pretoria: State Library, 1981. ISBN: 0-7989-0109-8.
Van der Vlies, Andrew Edward, ed. Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa: Ill. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-86814-566-9.
Van Schalkwyk, P. B., and South African Institute for Librarianship and Information Science, eds. Papers Read at the Symposium for Promoting the Publication and Use of Literature in the African Languages, 28 and 29 October 1982, CSIR Conference Centre, Pretoria. Pretoria: South African Institute for Librarianship and Information Science, Northern Transvaal Branch, 1982. ISBN: 0-7970-0164-6.
Varley, Douglas Harold. South African Reading in Earlier Days. [Johannesburg: South African Broadcasting Corp, 1958.
Zell, Hans M. Publishing & Book Development in Africa: A Bibliography. Studies on Books and Reading ; Etudes Sur Le Livre et La Lecture, no. 15 = no. 15. Paris, France: Unesco, 1984.
Zell, Hans M., and Helene Silver. A Reader’s Guide to African Literature. Studies in African Literature. London: Heinemann Educational, 1972. ISBN: 0-435-18722-8.
Books—History
Anghelescu, Hermina G. B., Martine Poulain, IFLA Round Table on Library History, and Library of Congress, eds. Books, Libraries, Reading, and Publishing in the Cold War. Washington, D.C: Library of Congress, Center for the Book, 2001. ISBN: 0-8444-1056-X.
Axe, David, and Tim Hamilton. Army of God: Joseph Kony’s War in Central Africa. New York: Public Affairs, 2013. ISBN: 1-61039-299-X.
Ayaka, Carolene, and Ian Hague, eds. Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels. Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies 68. New York; London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-138-02515-8.
Ballantyne, Tony, Lachy Paterson, and Angela Wanhalla, eds. Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-4780-1234-4.
Bode, Katherine. A World of Fiction: Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2018. ISBN: 978-0-472-12392-6.
Brossard, Jean-Pierre, ed. Séminaire Africana 90 “L’imaginaire dans le théâtre et la B.D. africaine”: 13/15 septembre 1990: rapport final. Berne: Commission nationale suisse pour l’UNESCO, 1990.
Buchanan, Santa, Pitshou Mampa, and Pascal Nzoni, eds. The Madiba Legacy Series. South Africa: Umlando Wezithombe Publishing, 2005.
Castillejo Cuéllar, Alejandro. Los Archivos Del Dolor: Ensayos Sobre La Violencia y El Recuerdo En La Sudáfrica Contemporánea. Primera edición. Bogotá, D.C., Colombia: Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Departamento de Antropología, 2009. ISBN: 978-958-774-257-2.
Catalanotto, Baldassarre, and Hugo Pratt. In Un Cielo Lontano: 70 Anni Di Aeronautica Militare. Roma: Lizard, 1994. ISBN: 88-86456-01-8.
Cave, Roderick, and Sara Ayad. The History of the Book in 100 Books: The Complete Story, from Egypt to e-Book. Buffalo; Richmond Hill, Ontario: Firefly Books, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-77085-406-2.
Christensen, Thomas. River of Ink: Literature, History, Art. Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-61902-426-7.
Cilliers, J. I., ed. Towards More Understanding: The Making and Sharing of Children’s Literature in Southern Africa. 1st ed. Kenwyn: Juta & Co, 1993. ISBN: 0-7021-3168-7.
Cilliers, J. I., and University of the Western Cape, eds. Towards Understanding: Children’s Literature for Southern Africa. Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman, 1988. ISBN: 0-636-01091-0.
Coleman, Sterling Joseph. How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire. Routledge Studies in Cultural History 86. New York: Routledge, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-00-008086-5.
Davies, Dominic, Erica Louise Lombard, and Benjamin Mountford, eds. Fighting Words: Books That Shaped the Postcolonial World. Second edition. Race and Resistance across Borders in the Long the Twentieth Century 1. Oxford ; New York: Peter Lang, 2019. ISBN: 978-1-78997-422-5.
———, eds. Fighting Words: Fifteen Books That Shaped the Postcolonial World. Race and Resistance across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century 1. Oxford ; New York: Peter Lang, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-906165-55-0.
Davis, Caroline, and David Johnson, eds. The Book in Africa: Critical Debates. New Directions in Book History. Houndmills, Basingstoke, UK; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-137-40161-8.
Díaz Más, Paloma, and Elisa Martín Ortega, eds. Mujeres Sefardíes Lectoras y Escritoras, Siglos XIX-XXI. Tiempo Emulado : Historia de América y España 49. Madrid: Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana ; Vervuert, 2016. ISBN: 978-84-8489-933-4.
Dick, Archie L. The Hidden History of South Africa’s Book and Reading Cultures. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4289-8.
Dūhū, Muḥammad. Al-Kitābah Wa-Sulṭat al-Marjaʻ Fī al-Maghrib al-ʻArabī: Qirāʼāt. Salā: Kalimāt lil-Nashr wa-al-Ṭibāʻah wa-al-Tawzīʻ, 2011. ISBN: 978-9954-555-14-9.
Early Cape Printing, 1796-1802. South African Library. Reprint Series, no. 1. Cape Town: South African Library, 1971.
Emenyo̲nu, Ernest, Charles E. Nnolim, and West African Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, eds. Current Trends in Literature and Language Studies in West Africa. Studies in West African Literatures and Languages. Ibadan: Kraft Books, 1994. ISBN: 978-2081-42-6.
Federici, Sandra, and Francesco Piazzi, eds. Africa Comics: Diversità Dall’antichità a Oggi. Sasso Marconi (BO): Africa e Mediterraneo : Lai-momo, 2004. ISBN: 88-89581-01-8.
Finnegan, Ruth H. Oral Literature in Africa. World Oral Literature Series, v. 1. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-906924-72-0.
Fraser, Robert. Book History through Postcolonial Eyes: Rewriting the Script. London; New York: Routledge, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-415-40293-4.
Gatrell, Peter. The Making of the Modern Refugee. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-0-19-967416-9.
Gordon-Brown, Alfred. The Settlers’ Press: Seventy Years of Printing in Grahamstown Covering the Publication of Books, Pamphlets, Directories, Almanacs, Newspapers, with Historical Notes and Anecdotes and Contemporary Illustrations. Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, 1979. ISBN: 0-86961-117-8.
Hill, Alan. In Pursuit of Publishing. London: J. Murray in association with Heinemann Educational Books, 1988. ISBN: 0-7195-4434-3.
Ikonné, Chidi, E. Oko, and Peter Onwudinjo, eds. Children and Literature in Africa. Calabar Studies in African Literature 7. Ibadan: Heinemann Educational Books (Nigeria), 1992. ISBN: 978-129-181-8.
Jenkins, Earnestine. A Kingly Craft: Art and Leadership in Ethiopia: A Social History of Art and Visual Culture in Pre-Modern Africa. Lanham: University Press of America, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-7618-3889-0.
Jenkins, Elwyn. Children of the Sun: Selected Writers and Themes in South African Children’s Literature. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1993. ISBN: 0-86975-438-6.
———. Seedlings: English Children’s Reading & Writers in South Africa. 1st ed. Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-86888-652-4.
Khorana, Meena, ed. Critical Perspectives on Postcolonial African Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies, no. 187. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1998. ISBN: 0-313-29864-5.
Koivunen, Leila. Visualising the “Dark Continent”: The Process of Illustrating Nineteenth-Century British Travel Accounts of Africa. Turku, Finland: Department of General History, University of Turku, 2006. ISBN: 952-92-0001-3.
———. Visualizing Africa in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Accounts. Routledge Research in Travel Writing 2. New York: Routledge, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-415-99001-1.
Kruger, Haidee. Postcolonial Polysystems: The Production and Reception of Translated Children’s Literature in South Africa. Benjamins Translation Library (BTL), EST Subseries, vol. 105. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2012. ISBN: 978-90-272-2455-2.
Kuehn, Julia, and Paul Smethurst, eds. New Directions in Travel Writing Studies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-137-45757-8.
Lang, Anouk, ed. From Codex to Hypertext: Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-55849-952-2.
LaSalle, Peter. The World Is a Book, Indeed: Writing, Reading, and Traveling. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020. ISBN: 978-0-8071-7425-8.
Lindfors, Bernth. Loaded Vehicles: Studies in African Literary Media. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1996. ISBN: 0-86543-542-1.
MacCann, Donnarae, and Yulisa Amadu Maddy. Apartheid and Racism in South African Children’s Literature, 1985-1995. Children’s Literature and Culture. New York: Routledge, 2001. ISBN: 0-415-93638-1.
Machet, Myrna, Sandra Olën, and Thomas Van der Walt, eds. Other Worlds, Other Lives: Children’s Literature Experiences: Proceedings of the International Conference on Children’s Literature, 4-6 April 1995. 1st ed. Monograph Series / Children’s Literature Research Unit, Department of Information Science, Unisa 1–3. Pretoria : [Johannesburg: University of South Africa ; Distributed by Thorold’s Africana Books], 1996. ISBN: 0-86981-959-3.
Mauclair-Dacier, ed. Théatre Des Voyages et Des Actualités. Paris: Mauclair-Dacier, 1903.
Michel, Simone. Afrika in Bildern und das Bild von Afrika: Tiere, Menschen, Sitten und Kolonialmotive Im Münchener Bilderbogen Des 19. Jahrhunderts. Marktbreit: Museum Malerwinkelhaus, 2017.
Moruzi, Kristine, and Michelle J. Smith, eds. Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Houndmills, Basingstok, UK; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-137-35634-5.
Muʻizz ibn Bādīs, Martin Levey, and Abū al-Abbas ibn Muhammad al-Sufyānī. Mediaeval Arabic Bookmaking: And Its Relation to Early Chemistry and Pharmacology [by] Martin Levey. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new ser., v. 52, pt. 4. Philadelphia, 1962.
Nelson, Kalia Brooks, Ellyn Toscano, Deborah Willis, New York University, and Open Book Publishers, eds. Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2019. ISBN: 1-78374-567-3.
Ogborn, Miles, and Charles W. J. Withers, eds. Geographies of the Book. Farnham, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-7546-7850-2.
Orisawayi, Dele, and Ernest Emenyo̲nu, eds. Literature and Black Aesthetics. Calabar Studies in African Literature 5. Ibadan: Heinemann Educational Books (Nigeria), 1990. ISBN: 978-129-357-8.
Page, Hugh R., and Randall C. Bailey, eds. The Africana Bible: Reading Israel’s Scriptures from Africa and the African Diaspora. Minneapolis, Minn: Fortress Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-8006-2125-4.
Polsgrove, Carol. Ending British Rule in Africa: Writers in a Common Cause. Studies in Imperialism. Manchester: New York: Manchester University Press; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-7190-7767-8.
Prophet, J. Children’s SF: Its History, Literary Development, and Applications in Contemporary Society. Acta Academica. Reeks D, no. 5. Bloemfontein: Universiteit van die Oranje-Vrystaat, 1986. ISBN: 0-86886-277-0.
Richards, Jeffrey, ed. Imperialism and Juvenile Literature. Studies in Imperialism. Manchester [England] ; New York: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin’s Press, 1989. ISBN: 0-7190-2420-X.
Ringmar, Erik. History of International Relations: A Non-European Perspective. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2019. ISBN: 978-1-78374-024-6.
Sandwith, Corinne. World of Letters: Reading Communities and Cultural Debates in Early Apartheid South Africa. Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-86914-262-9.
Thompson, George, F. W. Chesson, Aborigines Protection Society (Great Britain), American Anti-Slavery Society, Edinburgh Emancipation Society, Evangelical Alliance, Glasgow Emancipation Society (Glasgow, Scotland), and Glasgow Ladies’ Auxiliary Emancipation Society, eds. Scrap Books Compiled by Thompson and Chesson, 1835.
Van der Vlies, Andrew Edward, ed. Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa: Ill. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-86814-566-9.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. Cosmopolitan Minds: Literature, Emotion, and the Transnational Imagination. Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture Series. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-292-73908-6.
Wÿbenga, Gretel, and Maritha Snyman, eds. Van Patrys-Hulle Tot Hanna Hoekom: ’n Gids Tot Die Afrikaanse Kinder- En Jeugboek. Pretoria: LAPA, 2005. ISBN: 0-7993-3249-6.
Zell, Hans M., and Helene Silver. A Reader’s Guide to African Literature. Studies in African Literature. London: Heinemann Educational, 1972. ISBN: 0-435-18722-8.
Censorship
American Center of P.E.N, ed. Censorship and Apartheid in South Africa: A Report. New York: The Center, 1981.
Anti-Censorship Action Group of South Africa, ed. ACAG Update: Monthly Bulletin of the Anti-Censorship Action Group of South Africa. Johannesburg: Anti-Censorship Action Group, n.d.
Bader, Laetitia. “Like Fish in Poisonous Waters”: Attacks on Media Freedom in Somalia. New York, N.Y.: Human Rights Watch, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-62313-347-4.
Burnheim, Sally. The Right to Communicate: The Internet in Africa. London: Article 19, 1999. ISBN: 1-902598-03-2.
Carver, Richard. Truth from below: The Emergent Press in Africa. Censorship Report. London: Article 19, 1991. ISBN: 1-870798-51-1.
Cowen, Denis V. Freedom of Thought and Its Expression in South Africa: An Address. Cape Town: National Union of South African Students, 1960.
Dick, Archie L. The Hidden History of South Africa’s Book and Reading Cultures. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4289-8.
Drewett, Michael, and Martin Cloonan, eds. Popular Music Censorship in Africa. Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. ISBN: 0-7546-5291-2.
Freedberg, David. Iconoclasm. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. ISBN: 978-0-226-44533-5.
Geldenhuÿs, Pieter B. Pornografie, Sensuur en Reg. Johannesburg: Lex Patria, 1977. ISBN: 0-628-01140-7.
Gordimer, Nadine. What Happened to Burger’s Daughter or How South African Censorship Works. Emmarentia, South Africa: Taurus, 1980. ISBN: 0-620-04482-9.
Greig, George. Facts Connected with the Stopping of the South African Commercial Advertiser: A Facsimile Reproduction of the Original Handbill and Its First Postscript, Together with a Transcription of the Subsequent Postscripts. Cape Town: Africana Connoisseurs Press, 1963.
Hepple, Alexander. Censorship and Press Control in South Africa. Johannesburg, 1960.
Huff, Mickey, and Project Censored (U.S.), eds. Censored 2012: Sourcebook for the Media Revolution: The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2010-2011. New York: Seven Stories, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-60980-347-6.
Human Rights Watch (Organization), ed. The Internet in the Mideast and North Africa: Free Expression and Censorship. New York: Human Rights Watch, 1999. ISBN: 1-56432-235-1.
International Organization of Journalists, ed. South Africa, Apartheid, Mass Media: A Report on the Present State of Official Restrictions and Persecution. Its IOJ Documents, Reports, Studies, Bibliography. Prague, 1973.
Lange, Margreet de. The Muzzled Muse: Literature and Censorship in South Africa. Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, v. 32. Amsterdam [The Netherlands] ; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co, 1997. ISBN: 1-55619-431-5.
Laros, Ted. Literature and the Law in South Africa, 1910-2010: The Long Walk to Artistic Freedom. Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities. Madison : Lanham, Maryland: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc, 2018. ISBN: 978-1-68393-016-7.
Maja-Pearce, Adewale. Whoʾs Afraid of Wole Soyinka? Essays on Censorship. Oxford : Portsmouth, N.H., USA: Heinemann International ; Heinemann Educational Books, 1991. ISBN: 0-435-90977-0.
Margolis, Joseph, Harvard University, and African-American Institute, eds. South Africa and News Censorship: Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 29-30, 1987. New York: The Institute, 1987.
Mazwai, Thami, and South African Institute of Race Relations, eds. Mau-Mauing the Media: New Censorship for the New South Africa. Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, 1991. ISBN: 0-86982-393-0.
McDonald, Peter D. The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-19-928334-7.
Merrett, Christopher. A Culture of Censorship: Secrecy and Intellectual Repression in South Africa. Cape Town: Pietermaritzburg : Macon, Georgia: David Philip ; University of Natal Press ; Mercer University Press, 1995. ISBN: 0-86554-453-0.
———. State Censorship and the Academic Process in South Africa. Occasional Papers / University of Illionis, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, no. 192. Champaign: University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 1991.
Namwaya, Otsieno. “Not Worth the Risk”: Threats to Free Expression Ahead of Kenya’s 2017 Elections. New York: Human Rights Watch, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-62313-476-1.
Öz, Yasemin, and Yasemin Öz. LGBTİ’lerin internet yoluyla ifade özgürlüğü. Ankara: Kaos GL, 2015.
Paquette, Catha, Karen L. Kleinfelder, and Christopher Miles, eds. In and out of View: Art and the Dynamics of Circulation, Suppression, and Censorship. New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021. ISBN: 978-1-5013-5869-2.
Paton, Jonathan Stewart, ed. The Grey Ones: Essays on Censorship. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1974. ISBN: 0-86975-034-8.
Rwafa, Urther. Un/Muffling Voices: Film Censorship in Post-Independent Zimbabwe. Whitecliff, Harare, Zimbabwe: Africa Institute for Culture, Peace, Dialogue & Tolerance Studies, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-7974-6121-5.
Silver, Louise. A Guide to Political Censorship in South Africa. Occasional Papers 6. Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand, 1984. ISBN: 0-85494-818-X.
———. Restrictions on Freedom of Publication in South Africa, 1948 to 1968: A Select and Annotated Bibliography. Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand, Dept. of Librarianship, Bibliography and Typography, 1972. ISBN: 0-85494-191-6.
Sperling, Gerald B., James E. McKenzie, and University of Regina, eds. Getting the Real Story: Censorship and Propaganda in South Africa. Calgary, Alta: Detselig Enterprises, 1990. ISBN: 1-55059-009-X.
Surveillance et défense de la liberté de presse en Afrique de l’Ouest, ed. Liberté de Presse et Situation d’urgence. Dakar, Sénégal: SDLP/UJAO, 1994.
University of South Africa, and W. S. Vorster, eds. The Morality of Censorship: Papers Presented at the Thirteenth Symposium of the Institute for Theological Research (Unisa) Held at the University of South Africa in Pretoria on 6 and 7 September 1989. Miscellanea Congregalia 37. Pretoria: University of South Africa, 1989. ISBN: 0-86981-611-X.
Van de Peer, Stefanie. Negotiating Dissidence: The Pioneering Women of Arab Documentary / Stefanie Van de Peer. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Ltd, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-7486-9606-2.
Van der Vyver, Johan David, and Theo Coggin, eds. Censorship: A Study of Censorship in South Africa. Johannesburg: SA Institute of Race Relations, 1983.
Van Rooyen, J. C. W. Censorship in South Africa: Being a Commentary on the Application of the Publications Act. Cape Town: Juta, 1987. ISBN: 0-7021-1905-9.
———. Publikasiebeheer in Suid-Afrika. Kaapstad: Juta, 1978. ISBN: 0-7021-0912-6.
Van Rooyen, Kobus. A South African Censor’s Tale. 1st ed. Pretoria: Protea Book House, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-86919-415-4.
Westra, Pieter E., ed. Freedom to Read: Papers Presented at a Seminar on the Future of Publication Control and the Free Flow of Information in South Africa on 11 June 1993. General Series, South African Library, no. 21. Cape Town: South African Library, 1994. ISBN: 0-86968-111-7.
Libraries—History
Alemna, Anaba A. Oral Literature in African Libraries: Implications for Ghana. Monographs on Africana Librarianship, no. 4. Bloomington, IN: African Studies Program, Indiana University, 1993.
Bothma, T. J. D., Peter G. Underwood, Patrick Ngulube, South Africa, LIASA (Association), and International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, eds. World Library and Information Congress: 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council: Libraries for the Future: Progress and Development of South African Libraries, 19-23 August 2007, Durban, South Africa. Pretoria: Library and Information Association of South Africa : International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-620-39076-7.
Coleman, Sterling Joseph. How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire. Routledge Studies in Cultural History 86. New York, NY: Routledge, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-00-008086-5.
Dent, Valeda Frances, Geoff Goodman, and Michael Kevane. Rural Community Libraries in Africa: Challenges and Impacts. Advances in Library and Information Science (ALIS) Book Series. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-4666-5043-5.
Jacobson, William R., Peter Rutledge Koch, and Peter Rutledge Koch. The Rediscovery of Africa 1400-1900: Antique Maps & Rare Images: A Narrative History and Catalogue for an Exhibition of Antique African Maps and Rare Books, Including the Oscar I. Norwich Collection, at the Stanford University Libraries Commencing April, 2004. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Libraries, 2004. ISBN: 0-911221-29-8.
Kalley, Jacqueline A. Apartheid in South African Libraries: The Transvaal Experience. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2000. ISBN: 0-8108-3605-X.
Olden, Anthony. Libraries in Africa: Pioneers, Policies, Problems. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1995. ISBN: 0-8108-3093-0.
Panofsky, Hans E., and Julian W. Witherell, eds. Africana Resources and Collections: Three Decades of Development and Achievement: A Festschrift in Honor of Hans Panofsky. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN: 0-8108-2239-3.
Peters, Marguerite Andree. The Contribution of the (Carnegie) Non-European Library Service, Transvaal, to the Development of Library Services for Africans in South Africa. Contributions to Library Science; No. 17. Pretoria: State Library, 1975. ISBN: 0-7989-0030-X.
Public Relations Office of the City Council of Johannesburg, ed. The Johannesburg Public Library: 100 Years of Bringing Books to the People = Die Johannesburgse Openbare Biblioteek: 100 Jaar Se Leesgenot. Johannesburg: Public Relations Office of the Johannesburg City Council, 1990. ISBN: 0-86998-163-3.
Sharma, Ravindra N., ed. Libraries in the Early 21st Century: An International Perspective. Berlin: De Gruyter Saur, 2012. ISBN: 978-3-11-027056-3.
State Library (South Africa), ed. A Brief History of the Non-European Library Service, Transvaal, 1931-1969. Pretoria: Published for the Non-European Library Service by the State Library, Pretoria, 1969.
Stirling, Matthew Miller, ed. Give the People Light: Essays in Honour of Matthew Miller Stirling. Pretoria. State Library. Contributions to Library Science, no. 13. Pretoria: The State Library, 1972. ISBN: 0-7989-0010-5.
Tambwe Kitenge Bin Kitoko, Eddie, ed. Déconstruction du processus bibliologique colonial: Installation d’un modèle endogène Africain. Recherches en ibliologie. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2015. ISBN: 978-2-343-05663-0.
Thomas, W. M. A History of the Germiston Public Library and Its Influence on Library Development in South Africa. Miscellanea, 15; Mousaion II, 6. Pretoria: University of South Africa, 1979. ISBN: 0-86981-134-7.
University of Cape Town, G. D. Quinn, Otto H. Spohr, and René Ferdinand Malan Immelman, eds. Handlist of Manuscripts in the University of Cape Town Libraries. Its Varia Series, no. 10. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Libraries, 1968.
Weinberg, Paul, and Fiona Adams, eds. View Points: The University of Cape Town and Its Treasures. Cape Town: UCT Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-1-77582-010-9.
Wise, Michael, ed. Aspects of African Librarianship: A Collection of Writings. London; New York: Mansell, 1985. ISBN: 0-7201-1780-1.
Manuscripts
Accademia ambrosiana, Mena Lafkioui, Vermondo Brugnatelli, Accademia ambrosiana, and Biblioteca ambrosiana, eds. Written Sources about Africa and Their Study. Africana Ambrosiana 3. Milano (Italy): Biblioteca ambrosiana : Centro ambrosiano, 2018. ISBN: 978-88-6894-245-8.
Accademia Ambrosiana, and Paolo Nicelli, eds. L’Africa, l’Oriente mediterraneo e l’Europa: tradizioni e culture a confronto. Africana ambrosiana 1. Roma : Milano (Italy): Bulzoni editore ; Biblioteca ambrosiana, 2015. ISBN: 978-88-6897-013-0.
Aissani, Djamil, Mohammed Djehiche, and Algeria, eds. Les manuscrits scientifiques du Maghreb. Algeria: Ministère de la culture, 2012. ISBN: 978-9931-361-06-0.
Alan Paton Centre (University of Natal), and National Archives of South Africa, eds. Guide to Manuscripts in the Alan Paton Centre and Archives, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg. 3rd ed. Pretoria, South Africa? National Archives of South Africa, 1997. ISBN: 0-7970-3513-3.
Alexander McGregor Memorial Museum, and South Africa, eds. Guide to the Manuscripts in the McGregor Museum, Kimberley. 1st ed. Pretoria: State Archives Service, 1995. ISBN: 0-7970-3178-2.
Amistad Research Center, ed. Manuscript and Other Holdings about Africa. Rev. Apr. 1984. New Orleans, La: The Center, 1984.
Baldock, Robert W., and K. Peter Johanson. A Survey of Southern African Manuscripts in the United Kingdom. Mitteilungen der Basler Afrika Bibliographien; v. 16. Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 1976.
Basler Afrika Bibliographien, and James H. Fraser Baltic Collection (Library of Congress), eds. Hans und Trudi Jenny: Journalismus und Studienreisen: die Teilsammlung des Schweizer Ehepaars Hans und Trudi Jenny zum südlichen Afrika (1957-1995) = journalism and study travels: the papers and manuscripts of the Swiss couple Hans and Trudi Jenny concerning Southern Africa (1957-1995). Registratur, PA.25. Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2016. ISBN: 978-3-905758-75-7.
Bausi, Alessandro, Alessandro Gori, Denis Nosnitsin, and Eugenia Sokolinski, eds. Essays in Ethiopian Manuscript Studies: Proceedings of the International Conference Manuscripts and Texts, Languages and Contexts: The Transmission of Knowledge in the Horn of Africa, Hamburg, 17-19 July 2014. Supplement to Aethiopica. International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies 4. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015. ISBN: 978-3-447-10430-2.
Botha, Carol. A Catalogue of Manuscripts and Papers in the Killie Campbell Africana Collection Relating to the African Peoples. Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand, Department of Bibliography, Librarianship and Typography, 1967.
Bouterfa, Saïd. Les Manuscrits du Touat: Le Sud Algérien. Kitāb Tabulae 1. Méolans-Revel : Alger: Atelier Perrousseaux; Barzakh, 2005. ISBN: 2-911220-14-5.
Brigaglia, Andrea, and Mauro Nobili, eds. The Arts and Crafts of Literacy: Islamic Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa. Studies in Manuscript Cultures, v. 12. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. ISBN: 978-3-11-054140-3.
Ciotti, Giovanni, and Hang Lin, eds. Tracing Manuscripts in Time and Space through Paratexts. Studies in Manuscript Cultures, v. 7. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2016. ISBN: 978-3-11-047753-5.
Clarke, Kenneth W. “A Motif-Index of the Folktales of Culture-Area V, West Africa,” 1958.
Dalajī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, and Maḥmūd al-Imām Manṣūrī. “Ghāyat Al-Irādāt Min Taḥqīq ʻIṣām al-Itsiʻārāt,” 1190.
David, Y., Jefim Schirmann, and Universidad Complutense de Madrid, eds. Osef Shire Ḳodesh: Ketav Yad Mi-Sefarad Ume-Artsot Ha-Magreb Meha-Meʼah Ha-14. Mahad. faḳsimilit metsumtsemet ʻal pi ketav yad 117-Z-20, Ha-Sifriyah ha-Ḳompluṭensit–Madrid. Tel Aviv: Y. Golan, 1997.
Djebbar, Ahmed, Marc Moyon, and Aḥmad Bābīr Arawānī. Les sciences Arabes en Afrique: mathématiques et astronomie, IXe-XIXe siècles. Manuscrits du désert. Brinon-sur-Sauldre: Grandvaux, 2011. ISBN: 978-2-909550-76-3.
Djian, Jean-Michel, Christopher Wise, J.-M. G. Le Clézio, and Souleymane Bachir Diagne. The Manuscripts of Timbuktu: Secrets, Myths, and Realities. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2019. ISBN: 978-1-56902-638-0.
Harold Strange Library of African Studies, and South Africa, eds. Guide to the Manuscripts in the Harold Strange Library of African Studies, Johannesburg Public Library. 2nd ed. Pretoria: The Service, 1994. ISBN: 0-7970-3118-9.
Hunwick, John O. West Africa, Islam, and the Arab World: Studies in Honor of Basil Davidson. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2006. ISBN: 1-55876-398-8.
Hunwick, John O., and Alida Jay Boye. The Hidden Treasures of Timbuktu: Historic City of Islamic Africa, with 193 Colour Illustrations. London: Thames & Hudson, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-500-51421-4.
Hunwick, John O., R. S. O’Fahey, and C. C. Stewart, eds. Arabic Literature of Africa. Handbuch Der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Der Nahe Und Mittlere Osten, Handbook of Oriental Studies. The Near and Middle East, 13. Bd. =. Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill, 1994. ISBN: 90-04-09450-4.
ʻAbbādī, Hossam Mujtār. Las Artes Del Libro En Al-Andalus y El Magreb (Siglos IV h/X DC – VIII h/XV DC). Madrid: Ediciones El Viso, 2005. ISBN: 84-95241-40-4.
Institut fondamental d’Afrique noire, and Thierno Diallo, eds. Catalogue Des Manuscrits de l’I.F.A.N: Fonds Vieillard, Gaden, Brevié, Figaret, Shaykh Mousa Kamara et Cremer En Langues Arabe, Peule et Voltaïques. Catalogues et Documents / Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire 20. Dakar: IFAN, 1966.
Iziko Museums of Cape Town, South Africa, and Centre de documentation et de recherches “Ahmed Baba,” eds. Timbuktu Script & Scholarship. Cape Town: Iziko Museums of Cape Town for the Department of Arts and Culture, 2008. ISBN: 1-874817-35-9.
Jenkins, Earnestine. A Kingly Craft: Art and Leadership in Ethiopia: A Social History of Art and Visual Culture in Pre-Modern Africa. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-7618-3889-0.
Karrū, Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad. Dirāsāt Fī Al-Tārīkh Wa-al-Turāth. Sūsah, Tūnis: Dār al-Maʻārif lil-Ṭibāʻah wa-al-Nashr, 1991. ISBN: 9973-16-049-5.
Krätli, Graziano, and Ghislaine Lydon, eds. The Trans-Saharan Book Trade: Manuscript Culture, Arabic Literacy, and Intellectual History in Muslim Africa. Library of the Written Word, The Manuscript World. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2011. ISBN: 978-90-04-18742-9.
Leo, and Gabriele Amadori. Cosmographia de l’Affrica: Ms. V.E. 953 – Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Di Roma – 1526. I edizione. Meridionalia 13. Roma: Aracne, 2014. ISBN: 978-88-548-7114-4.
Library of Congress, ed. The Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu. Electronic resource. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, n.d. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/mali.
Lindfors, Bernth. African Literary Manuscripts and African Archives. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-56902-667-0.
Luciani, Silvia, and Irma Taddia, eds. Fonti Comboniane per La Storia Dell’Africa Nord-Orientale. Fonti e Studi per La Storia Dell’Africa 1. Bologna: Università degli studi di Bologna, Dipartimento di politica, istituzioni, storia, 1986.
Niccum, Curt. The Bible in Ethiopia: The Book of Acts. Ethiopic Manuscripts, Texts, and Studies Series, v. 19. Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2014. ISBN: 1-61097-735-1.
Pearson, J. D., and Noel Matthews. A Guide to Manuscripts and Documents in the British Isles Relating to Africa. London, England ; New York: Mansell, 1993. ISBN: 0-7201-2167-1.
Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia, ed. Katalog Manuskrip Melayu Di Afrika Selatan. Cet. 1. Siri Bibliografi Manuskrip, no. 16. Kuala Lumpur: Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia, 1998. ISBN: 967-931-091-4.
Ritchie, J. M., and S. von Sicard, eds. An Azanian Trio: Three East African Arabic Historical Documents. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. ISBN: 978-90-04-39518-3.
Shaʻrāwī, Ḥilmī, ed. In Search of African Identity in the Manuscripts in Arabic Letter, Ajami: Extracts from Heritage of the African Languages Manuscripts, Ajami. Cairo: al-Majlis al-Aʻlá lil-Thaqāfah, 2015. ISBN: 978-977-92-0307-2.
Newspapers
African Print Cultures Network, Derek R. Peterson, Emma Hunter, and Stephanie Newell, eds. African Print Cultures: Newspapers and Their Publics in the Twentieth Century. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-472-05317-9.
Ajayi, Peter. Not His Master’s Voice: How to Kill a Newspaper. Ibadan, Nigeria: Bookcraft, 2005. ISBN: 978-2030-98-8.
Alhadeff, Vic, ed. A Newspaper History of South Africa. Cape Town: Nelson, 1976. ISBN: 0-909238-20-0.
Cutten, Theo E. G. A History of the Press in South Africa. Cape Town: National Union of South African Students, 1935.
Davidson, Yakov Azriel. Yakov Azriel Davidson: His Writings in the Yiddish Newspaper, Der Afrikaner, 1911-1913. Cape Town: Jewish Publications, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-620-40936-0.
Derrick, Jonathan. Africa, Empire and Fleet Street: Albert Cartwright and West Africa Magazine. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN: 0-19-084517-1.
Du Preez, Max. Oranje Blanje Blues: Vrye Weekblad, 88-94: ’n Nostalgiese Trip. 1ste. uitg. Kaapstad: Zebra Press, 2005. ISBN: 1-77007-119-9.
Jackson, Gordon. Breaking Story: The South African Press. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993. ISBN: 0-8133-8453-2.
Kindī, Muḥsin. Al-Ṣiḥāfah al-ʻUmānīyah al-Muhājirah: Ṣaḥīfat al-Falaq Wa-Shakhṣīyātuhā: Al-Shaykh Hāshil Ibn Rāshid al-Muskarī Namūdhajan. Al-Ṭabʻah 1. Beirut: Riyāḍ al-Rayyis lil-Kutub wa-al-Nashr, 2001. ISBN: 9953-21-020-9.
Limb, Peter, ed. The People’s Paper: A Centenary History & Anthology of Abantu-Batho. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-86814-571-3.
Maḥrūqī, Muḥammad ibn Nāṣir ibn Rāshid, and Sulṭān ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Sulṭān Shuhaymī, eds. Murāsalāt Zuʻamāʼ Al-Iṣlāḥ Ilá Sulṭānay Zinjabār Ḥammūd Ibn Muḥammad Wa-ʻAlī Ibn Ḥammūd al-Būsaʻīdīyīn 1896-1919 M. Al-Ṭabʻah al-Ūlá. Salṭanat ʻUmān: Jāmiʻat Nizwá, 2015. ISBN: 978-99969-57-15-4.
New Zionist Organisation of South Africa, ed. The Jewish Herald: Organ of the New Zionist Organisation of S.A. Johannesburg [South Africa]: Newzo Press and Pub. Co, 1937.
Oluwajuyitan, Jide. Nigeria, the Crisis of Nationhood and the Press, 1900-2000. Bodija, Ibadan, Nigeria: BookBuilders, Editions Africa, 2015. ISBN: 978-978-921-109-8.
Paging through History: 150 Years with the Cape Argus: 1857-2007. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2007. ISBN: 978-1-86842-277-7.
Pakendorf, Harald. Stroomop: Herinneringe van ’n Koerantman in Die Apartheidsera. Kaapstad, Suid-Afrika: Penguin Books, 2018. ISBN: 1-77609-117-5.
Pavana. Videśoṃ Meṃ Hindī Patrakāritā. 1. saṃskaraṇa. Naī Dillī: Rādhā Pablikeśansa, 1993. ISBN: 81-85484-62-7.
Rabe, Lizette, ed. ’N Konstante Revolusie: Naspers, Media24 En Oorgange. Kaapstad, Suid-Afrika: Tafelberg, 2015. ISBN: 978-0-624-06965-2.
Reader, Bill, and John A. Hatcher, eds. Foundations of Community Journalism. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-4129-7466-0.
Richard, Dirk. Moedswillig die Uwe: Perspersoonlikhede in die Noorde. 1ste uitgawe. Johannesburg: Perskor, 1985. ISBN: 0-628-02861-X.
Scheulen, Peter. Die “Eingeborenen” Deutsch-Südwestafrikas: Ihr Bild in Deutschen Kolonialzeitschriften von 1884 Bis 1918. History, Cultural Traditions, and Innovations in Southern Africa, v. 5. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 1998. ISBN: 3-89645-054-9.
Shaw, Gerald. The Cape Times: An Informal History. Cape Town: David Philip Publishers, 1999. ISBN: 0-86486-404-3.
South African Jewish Report: Independent News. Randburg, South Africa: SA Jewish Report (Pty), 1998.
Trabold, Bryan. Rhetorics of Resistance: Opposition Journalism in Apartheid South Africa. Composition, Literacy, and Culture. Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. ISBN: 978-0-8229-6544-2.
Printing—History
Bradlow, Frank Rosslyn. Printing for Africa: The Story of Robert Moffat and the Kurman Press. Kuruman [Botswana]: Kuruman Moffat Mission Trust, 1987. ISBN: 0-620-11489-4.
Cave, Roderick, and Sara Ayad. The History of the Book in 100 Books: The Complete Story, from Egypt to e-Book. Buffalo; Richmond Hill, ON: Firefly Books, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-77085-406-2.
Christensen, Thomas. River of Ink: Literature, History, Art. Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-61902-426-7.
Early Cape Printing, 1796-1802. South African Library. Reprint Series, no. 1. Cape Town: South African Library, 1971.
Emenyo̲nu, Ernest, ed. Politics & Social Justice. African Literature Today 32. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Ibadan, Nigeria: James Currey; HEBN, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-84701-097-1.
Finkelstein, David. Movable Types: Roving Creative Printers of the Victorian World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN: 978-0-19-882602-6.
Fraser, Robert. Book History through Postcolonial Eyes: Rewriting the Script. London; New York: Routledge, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-415-40293-4.
Garcia, José Luís, Chandrika Kaul, Alexandra Santos, and Filipa Subtil, eds. Media and the Portuguese Empire. Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Cham: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. ISBN: 978-3-319-61792-3.
Gordon-Brown, Alfred. The Settlers’ Press: Seventy Years of Printing in Grahamstown Covering the Publication of Books, Pamphlets, Directories, Almanacs, Newspapers, with Historical Notes and Anecdotes and Contemporary Illustrations. Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, 1979. ISBN: 0-86961-117-8.
Hofmeyr, Isabel. Gandhi’s Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-0-674-07279-4.
Johannesburg (South Africa), ed. South African Printing, 1800-1968: An Exhibition of a Publication of Each Year. Suid-Afrikaanse Drukwerk, 1800-1968; ’n Uitstalling van ’n Uitgawe van Elke Jaar. Johannesburg: The Library, 1968.
Laidler, Percy Ward. The Pre-Victorian Products of the Cape Press, 1796-1837, Being a Chronological Bibliography with Annotations of All Civil Products of the Cape Press. Tentative ed. Johannesburg: s.n., 1935.
McMurtie, Douglas C. The Introduction of Printing into South Africa. [Middelburg, Transvaal: O.H. Frewin, 1932.
———. The Pioneer Printing Press on the Island of Madagascar. Johannesburg, South Africa: Priv. print, 1933.
Morrison, W. R. A Brief History of South African Printing. [Johannesburg: Leader, 1935.
Ndegwa, John. Printing and Publishing in Kenya: An Outline of Development. London: Standing Conference on Library Materials on Africa, 1973. ISBN: 0-904090-00-0.
Roper, Geoffrey, ed. Historical Aspects of Printing and Publishing in Languages of the Middle East: Papers from the Third Symposium on the History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East, University of Leipzig, September 2008. Islamic Manuscripts and Books, v. 4. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2014. ISBN: 978-90-04-25505-0.
Rosenthal, Eric. 160 Years of Cape Town Printing. [Cape Town: Cape Town Association of Printing House Craftsmen, 1960.
Smith, Anna H. South Africa. The Spread of Printing. Eastern Hemisphere. Amsterdam, New York: Van Gendt; Abner Schram, 1971. ISBN: 90-6300-025-1.
South Africa, ed. The Printing Industry. [Cape Town?, 1955.
Walton, G. S. History of E.H. Walton Group, 1845 to 1995. Port Elizabeth, South Africa: E.H. Walton Packaging, 1995.
Publishers and Publishing
Aarts, C. J., and M. C. van Etten. 175 Jaar Nijgh & Van Ditmar: Nimmer Dralend, 1837-2012. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 2012. ISBN: 978-90-388-9480-5.
Academy of Science of South Africa, ed. Report on a Strategic Approach to Research Publishing in South Africa. [Pretoria: Academy of Science of South Africa, 2006. ISBN: 0-620-36105-0.
Adaba, Tom, Olalekan Ajia, and Ikechukwu Enoch Nwosu, eds. Communication Industry in Nigeria: The Crisis of Publications. 1st ed. Africa Media Monograph Series, no. 6. Nairobi, Kenya: African Council on Communication Education, 1988.
African Books Collective, ed. African Publishers Networking Directory and Names & Numbers. Oxford: African Books Collective Ltd, 1993.
Altbach, Philip G., ed. The Challenge of the Market: Privatization and Publishing in Africa. Bellagio Studies in Publishing 7. [Chestnut Hill, MA];: Oxford, UK Bellagio Pub. Network, Research and Information Center in association with the Boston College Center for International Higher Education ; African Books Collective [distributor], 1996. ISBN: 0-937033-58-8.
Altbach, Philip G., and State University of New York at Buffalo, eds. Readings on Publishing in Africa and the Third World. Bellagio Studies in Publishing, no. 1. Buffalo: Bellagio Pub. Network, Research and Information Center in association with the Comparative Education Center and the School of Information and Library Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1993. ISBN: 0-937033-55-3.
Altbach, Philip G., and Damtew Teferra, eds. Publishing in African Languages: Challenges and Prospects. Bellagio Studies in Publishing, no. 10. Chestnut Hill, MA: Bellagio Pub. Network Research and Information Center in association with the Boston College Center for International Higher Education, 1999. ISBN: 0-9646078-5-9.
APNET (Organization), ed. African Publishing Review =: Revista das publicações Africana. Harare, Zimbabwe: APNET, 1992.
———, ed. Register of African Publishing Consultants. Harare, Zimbabwe: African Publishers Network, 2001.
———, ed. Trade Directory. Harare, Zimbabwe: African Publishers Network, 2000.
Bailey, Barbara. An Eccentric Marriage: Living with Jim. 1st ed. Cape Town; Johannesburg: Tafelberg ; [Distributed by] Thorold’s Africana Books, 2005. ISBN: 0-624-04296-0.
Balkema, A. A., ed. Liber amicorum pro A.A. Balkema. Kaapstad: Vriende van die S.A. Biblioteek, 1984. ISBN: 0-86968-052-8.
Benchenna, Abdelfettah, and Luc Pinhas, eds. Industries culturelles et entrepreneuriat au Maghreb. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2016. ISBN: 978-2-343-08591-3.
Beukes, W. D., J. C. Steyn, and Nasionale Pers, eds. Boekewêreld: Die Nasionale Pers in die Uitgewersbedryf Tot 1990. 1. uitgawe. Kaapstad: Nasionale Boekhandel, 1992. ISBN: 0-620-16929-X.
British Council (South Africa), and Publishing Training Project (South Africa), eds. Directory of Book Publishing in South Africa. Braamfontein; Parktown: British Council; Pub. Training Project, 1995.
Bry, Theodor de, and Susanna Burghartz, eds. Inszenierte Welten: die west- und ostindischen Reisen der Verleger de Bry, 1590-1630 = Staging New Worlds: de Brys’ Illustrated Travel Reports, 1590-1630. Basel: Schwabe, 2004. ISBN: 3-7965-2091-X.
Bush, Ruth. Publishing Africa in French: Literary Institutions and Decolonization 1945-1967. Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures 37. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-78138-195-3.
Davis, Caroline. Creating Postcolonial Literature: African Writers and British Publishers. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. ISBN: 978-0-230-36936-8.
Davis, Caroline, and David Johnson, eds. The Book in Africa: Critical Debates. New Directions in Book History. Houndmills, Basingstoke, UK; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-137-40161-8.
Dogbé, Yves Emmanuel. Réflexions sur la promotion du livre Africain. Ed. originale. Le Mée-sur-Seine, France: Editions Akpagnon, 1984. ISBN: 2-86427-024-2.
Fisher, Maire, Colleen Higgs, Centre for the Book (Cape Town, South Africa), NB Publishers (South Africa), Nasou via Afrika, and Community Publishing Project (South Africa), eds. South African Small Publishers’ AZ Catalogue. Vlaeberg [South Africa]: Centre for the Book, 2006. ISBN: 0-7961-0100-0.
Garcia, José Luís, Chandrika Kaul, Alexandra Santos, and Filipa Subtil, eds. Media and the Portuguese Empire. 1st ed. 2017. Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Cham: Springer / Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. ISBN: 978-3-319-61792-3.
Gatwa, Tharcisse. Les Éditions CLÉ: Enjeux et Défis Du Futur. Yaoundé: Éditions CLÉ, 2007. ISBN: 9956-0-9076-X.
Gordon-Brown, Alfred. The Settlers’ Press: Seventy Years of Printing in Grahamstown Covering the Publication of Books, Pamphlets, Directories, Almanacs, Newspapers, with Historical Notes and Anecdotes and Contemporary Illustrations. Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, 1979. ISBN: 0-86961-117-8.
Groesen, Michiel van. Imagining the Americas in Print: Books, Maps and Encounters in the Atlantic World. Library of the Written Word, v. 74. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2019. ISBN: 978-90-04-34803-5.
Hill, Alan. In Pursuit of Publishing. London: J. Murray in association with Heinemann Educational Books, 1988. ISBN: 0-7195-4434-3.
Hilton-Barber, David. Howard Timmins and His Protégés: Lawrence Green, TV Bulpin, AP Cartwright and Other Popular Writers of South Africa Non-Fiction. South Africa: Footprint Press, 2018. ISBN: 978-0-639-93266-8.
Human, Koos. ’n Lewe Met Boeke. Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau, 2006. ISBN: 0-7981-4703-2.
Ikoja-Odongo, J. R. Publishing in Uganda with Notes from Africa: A Review. Kampala, Uganda: NABOTU, 2008.
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, ed. Market Survey of Books and Publications in Kenya, Nigeria, and Tanzania. New Delhi: Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, 1980.
Kamau, Kiarie, and Kirimi Mitambo, eds. Coming of Age: Strides in African Publishing: Essays in Honour of Dr Henry Chakava at 70. Nairobi, Kenya: East African Educational Pubilshers, Ltd, 2016. ISBN: 978-9966-56-184-8.
Kitinya, Ishmael O. The Book and Newspaper Trade for Africa, with Special Emphasis on Publishing, Book-Writing, Printing, Book-Selling, Librarianship, Journalism. Nairobi, Kenya: Africa Book Services, 1981.
Kotei, S. I. A. The Book Today in Africa. Books about Books. Paris: Unesco, 1981. ISBN: 92-3-101876-0.
Larson, Charles R. The Ordeal of the African Writer. London; New York: Zed Books; Distributed in the U.S.A. exclusively by Palgrave, 2001. ISBN: 1-85649-930-8.
Laugesen, Amanda. Taking Books to the World: American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War. Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book. Amherst; Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-62534-308-6.
Le livre africain: revue internationale des arts, de la culture et des sciences. Cotonou, Bénin: Intermonde SARL, 1995.
Leonov, V. P., G. Z. Pumpi︠a︡n, and Rossiĭskai︠a︡ akademii︠a︡ nauk, eds. Nat︠s︡ionalʹnai︠a︡ Bibliografii︠a︡, Izdatelʹskai︠a︡ Dei︠a︡telʹnostʹ i Bibliotechnoe Delo v Stranakh Azii i Afriki: Sbornik Nauchnykh Trudov. Sankt-Peterburg: BAN, 1992.
Levey, Lisbeth A., and Gene Rosenberg. Confronting the Demand for Scientific and Scholarly Literature in Portuguese: An Assessment of African Needs and How to Meet Them: A Report Prepared for the Ford Foundation. Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1992.
Magazine Publishers Association of South Africa, and Sappi (Firm), eds. Showcase. Randburg [South Africa]: Published on behalf of the Magazine Publishers Association of South Africa by DeskLink Media, n.d.
Maja-Pearce, Adewale, and Media for Democracy (Program), eds. Directory of African Media. Brussels, Belgium: International Federation of Journalists, 1996.
Narendra Kumar, S. K. Ghai, and O. P. Ghai, eds. Afro/Asian Publishing: Contemporary Trends. New Delhi: Institute of Book Publishing, 1992. ISBN: 81-207-1290-0.
National Book Trust, and Chemicals & Allied Products Export Promotion Council (India), eds. Afro-Asian Publishing Conference: A Report of the International Conference Held on 18-20 February 1990 during the 9th New Delhi World Book Fair. New Delhi: The Trust, 1991.
Ndegwa, John. Printing and Publishing in Kenya: An Outline of Development. London: Standing Conference on Library Materials on Africa, 1973. ISBN: 0-904090-00-0.
Network of Independent Publishers Pan-Africa, ed. Small Publishers’ Catalogue. Athlone, South Africa: Modjaji Books, n.d.
Nienaber, Petrus Johannes. Bibliografie van Afrikaanse Boeke. 2., Druk. Johannesburg, 1954.
———. Bibliografie van Afrikaanse Boeke (6 April 1861-6 April 1943). Johannesburg: Vootrekkerpers bpk, 1943.
Nigerian Book Fair Trust, ed. Capacity Building in the African Publishing Industry and Educational Development in Nigeria: Being Text of Papers Presented at the Nigeria International Book Fair and NBFT National Book Fairs, 2007. Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria: Nigerian Book Fair Trust, 2008. ISBN: 978-978-084-375-5.
Nyariki, Lily, R. A. Hadao, UNESCO, and Regional Centre for Book Promotion in Africa, eds. UNESCO/CREPLA Seminar on National Book Distribution Strategies in Rural Kenya: 22nd-26th September, 1986, Kisumu-Kenya, Final Report. Nairobi: UNESCO, 1986.
Ogborn, Miles, and Charles W. J. Withers, eds. Geographies of the Book. Farnham, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-7546-7850-2.
Oluwasanmi, Edwina, Eva McLean, and Hans M. Zell, eds. Publishing in Africa in the Seventies: Proceedings of an International Conference on Publishing and Book Development Held at the University of Ife, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 16-20 December 1973. Ile-Ife: University of Ife Press, 1975.
Pan African Book World. Enugu, Anambra State, Nigeria: Fourth Dimension Publishers, 1981.
Philip, Marie. Books That Matter: David Philip Publishers during the Apartheid Years: A Memoir. Equal Education. Cape Town, South Africa: David Philip Publishers, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-4856-2287-1.
Pichler, Michalis, ed. Publishing Manifestos: An International Anthology from Artists and Writers. Berlin; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019. ISBN: 978-0-262-53718-6.
Polsgrove, Carol. Ending British Rule in Africa: Writers in a Common Cause. Studies in Imperialism. Manchester: New York: Manchester University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-7190-7767-8.
Pretorius, J. D., and Danie Botha, eds. Hulde Aan J.D. 1ste uitgawe. Kaapstad: Tafelberg, 1987. ISBN: 0-624-02572-1.
Priestley, Carol. Book and Publishing Assistance Programs: A Review and Inventory. Bellagio Studies in Publishing, no. 2. Buffalo: Bellagio Pub. Network Research and Information Center, in association with the Comparative Education Center and the School of Information and Library Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1993. ISBN: 0-937033-53-7.
———. Book and Publishing Assistance Programmes: A Review and Inventory. Rev. ed. Bellagio Studies in Publishing 11. Chestnut Hill, Mass: Bellagio Pub. Network, Research and Information Center, in association with Boston College, Center for International Higher Education, 2000. ISBN: 0-9646078-6-7.
Priestley, Carol, and APNET (Organization), eds. Development Directory of Indigenous Publishing, 1995. APNET Reference Handbooks. Harare, Zimbabwe: APNET, 1995. ISBN: 0-7974-1419-3.
Publishers’ Association of South Africa, ed. Directory of Freelancers. Cape Town: Publishers’ Association of South Africa, 1999.
———, ed. Guide to Publishing in South Africa. Green Point, South Africa: Publishers’ Association of South Africa, n.d.
———, ed. PASA Directory. Cape Town, South Africa: PASA, 1997.
———, ed. Writings in Nine Tongues: A Catalogue of Literature and Readers in Nine African Languages for South Africa, 2007. 1st ed. Cape Town, South Africa: Publishers’ Association of South Africa, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-620-39033-0.
Publishing in Nigeria. Benin City: Ethiope Pub. Corp, 1972.
Rabe, Lizette, ed. ’N Konstante Revolusie: Naspers, Media24 En Oorgange. Kaapstad, Suid-Afrika: Tafelberg, 2015. ISBN: 978-0-624-06965-2.
Reddy, Bangar N., and Afro-Asian Book Council, eds. Publishing Co-Operation in Afro-Asian Region. New Delhi: Afro-Asian Book Council: Distributed by Wiley Eastern, 1994.
Regional Centre for Book Promotion in Africa, and Cameroon, eds. Documents Relating to the Centre Régional de Promotion Du Livre En Afrique: Cameroun. [Yaoundé? s.n, 1976.
Roper, Geoffrey, ed. Historical Aspects of Printing and Publishing in Languages of the Middle East: Papers from the Third Symposium on the History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East, University of Leipzig, September 2008. Islamic Manuscripts and Books, v. 4. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2014. ISBN: 978-90-04-25505-0.
Rossouw, Fransie, and Sidney Mendelssohn. South African Printers and Publishers, 1795-1925: From A South African Bibliography to the Year 1925. Repr. with corrections. General Series / South African Library 10. Cape Town: South African Library, 1988. ISBN: 0-86968-066-8.
Rusher, William A., and William A. Rusher. William A. Rusher Papers, n.d.
Schloss, Sylvia. The Book Sector in the SADCC Region. Windhoek: Namibian Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Namibia, 1992.
State Library (South Africa), ed. Directory of South African publishers =: Adresboek van Suid-Afrikaanse uitgewers. Contributions to library science. Pretoria: State Library, 1991.
Strauss, S. A., Matthys J. Strydom, and J. C. Van der Walt. Die Suid-Afrikaanse Persreg. 2e uitg. Pretoria: J. L. Van Schailk Beperk, 1968.
Stringer, Roger, ed. The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa: A Survey and Directory. Oxford, U.K: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP), 2002. ISBN: 1-902928-11-3.
Sutton, Elizabeth A. Early Modern Dutch Prints of Africa. Transculturalisms, 1400-1700. Farnham, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-4094-3970-7.
Tambwe Kitenge Bin Kitoko, Eddie, Pénou-Achille Somé, and Marc Ngwanza Kasong’ Abor, eds. La chaîne du livre en Afrique noire francophone: qui est éditeur aujourd’hui? Recherches en bibliologie. Paris: Harmattan, 2006. ISBN: 2-296-01419-4.
The East African Bookseller. Nairobi, Kenya: Bookman Consultants, 1994.
Traoré, Ismaïla-Samba. Étude sur le secteur du livre au Mali. Bamako, Mali: OMEL, 2018.
Tumusiime, James. What Makes Africans Laugh? Reflections of an Entrepreneur in Humour, Media and Culture. Kampala, Uganda: Fountain Publishers, 2013. ISBN: 9970-25-310-7.
Van der Vlies, Andrew Edward, ed. Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa: Ill. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-86814-566-9.
Van Schalkwyk, P. B., and South African Institute for Librarianship and Information Science, eds. Papers Read at the Symposium for Promoting the Publication and Use of Literature in the African Languages, 28 and 29 October 1982, CSIR Conference Centre, Pretoria. Pretoria: South African Institute for Librarianship and Information Science, Northern Transvaal Branch, 1982. ISBN: 0-7970-0164-6.
Veney, Cassandra Rachel, and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, eds. Women in African Studies Scholarly Publishing. Trenton, NJ; Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press, 2001. ISBN: 0-86543-922-2.
Westra, Pieter E., and Leonie Twentyman Jones, eds. 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. General Series / South African Library, no. 26. Cape Town: South African Library, 1997. ISBN: 0-86968-118-4.
Writers Advisory Services International, ed. WASI Writer. Domasi, Malawi: Writers Advisory Services International, 1989.
Zell, Hans M. Publishing & Book Development in Africa: A Bibliography. Studies on Books and Reading ; Etudes Sur Le Livre et La Lecture, no. 15 = no. 15. Paris, France: Unesco, 1984.
———. The African Publishing Companion: A Resource Guide. Lochcarron, Ross-shire, Scotland: H. Zell Pub. Consultants, 2002. ISBN: 0-9541029-0-8.
Zell, Hans M. and Henry Chakava. Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Bibliography. 3rd ed. Lochcarron: H. Zell Pub, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-9541029-5-1.
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