Current Publishing in East Africa and the British Library's Collections

Centre of African Studies - University of London

Africa Seminar

Thursday, 13th May, 2010
Room B102, SOAS, at 5pm-6.30pm

Current Publishing in East Africa and the British Library's Collections


Dr Marion Wallace - Africa Curator, British Library

Although publishing in East Africa (as in the rest of the continent) is fraught with difficulties, there is, nevertheless, a steady stream of books and periodicals from presses in the region. These include works of research, scholarship and journalism across the humanities and social sciences, and imaginative literature - much in English, but some in African languages. This paper will discuss some of the main features of publishing in this area and explain what, and how, the British Library collects, and how scholars could benefit from using our holdings. The paper will concentrate on contemporary publishing in East Africa, but there will also be a chance to discuss the British Library's historic collections, and works about Africa published elsewhere, if participants are interested in these areas.

All welcome