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Africa’s bibliophiles take on challenges of publishing
Publisher Tainie Mundondo talks about some challenges facing African publishing ahead of an Arts Alive panel discussion in Newtown on Saturday.
Publisher Tainie Mundondo talks about some challenges facing African publishing ahead of an Arts Alive panel discussion in Newtown on Saturday.
Unlike in the West, where many works of fiction first see the light of day in literary journals, most of our local works appear in book form first.
Poverty and political instability on the African continent have resulted in a limited culture of reading in most African countries.
Leon de Kock looks back on a recent colloquium held at Wits University which focused on the role of publishers in non-fiction.