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Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa – Online database

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A unique online database and ongoing analysis of   publishing and the book sector in Sub-Saharan Africa

Hans Zell Publishing continues to update the online database of their much acclaimed reference resource Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Bibliography

http://www.hanszell.co.uk/pbrssa/index.shtml

first published in print format in 2008, and constantly updated thereafter. It offers access to a database that has now grown to almost 2,700 records at this time, making it the most comprehensive documentation, and ongoing analysis, of the state of the book sector and the “book chain” in Africa.

The database is updated and expanded with many new entries three or four times a year, all with abstracts or critical annotations, and covering books, articles, studies, reports, theses, and Internet documents that have been published since the cut-off date of the (761 pp.) 2008 print edition. Select blog postings, as well as video recordings and radio/TV broadcasts are now also included on a regular basis. Additionally, frequent updates are made to listings of organizations and African book professional associations, and agencies, networks, book charities, etc. supporting the book and information sector in Africa.

The searchable database covers all aspects of book publishing and the book sector in Africa, including book marketing and distribution and the retail book trade. Additionally, there are a numerous citations on more specialist areas, such as publishing for children, journals and magazine publishing, scholarly publishing, publishing in African languages, publishing of African writers and African literature, and a rapidly growing section on digital media and electronic publishing in Africa. There are also many sections on related aspects of book development, for example copyright, reading culture and reading promotion, and more.

Access to the database is available at a subscription charge of £65.00/€97.50/$130.00, providing subscribers with online access for a period of two years from date of registration, renewable for further two-year periods thereafter. Access can be via ID and password, or via IP address recognition for customers requiring this.

For more details: Hans Zell Publishing, Glais Bheinn, Lochcarron, Ross-shire, IV54 8YB, Scotland, UK

Tel: +44-(0)152O 722951 Email: hanszell@hanszell.co.uk Web: www.hanszell.co.uk

Ngugi wa Thiong’o “Africa in the Language of Scholarship”

5th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 5) – call for Panels

 African Dynamics in a Multipolar World June 26 to 28, 2013 The fifth European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 5) will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, on June 26 to 28, 2013. It will be organized by the Centro de Estudos Africanos – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (African Studies Centre of the Lisbon University Institute) on behalf of AEGIS, the Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies..

Call for panels closes 19th October 2012

All proposals must be made via the online form. Proposals should consist of a panel title, a (very) short abstract of <300 characters, and an abstract of 250 words. The proposal may also include the names of any chairs or discussants, although these can be added subsequently using the login environment, Cocoa. Please use the convention of Firstname Lastname (Institution). If these roles are to be taken by convenors, then please do not enter your own names there – as it’s implicit that this will be the case where other names are not listed.

On submission of the proposal, the proposing convenor (but not the co-convenors) will receive an automated email confirming receipt. If you do not receive this email, please first check the login environment (click login on the left) to see if your proposal is there. If it is, it simply means your confirmation email got spammed/lost; and if it is not, it means you need to re-submit, as the process went wrong somewhere!

Proposals will be marked as pending until the Scientific Committee decisions are publicised on 31st October 2012. They will then be marked as accepted or rejected; and the conference organiser will inform you of the decisions. Rules ECAS requires all accepted panels to be open to paper proposals through the website: panels should not be organised as ‘closed’ sessions. Delegates may only make one presentation, although they may also convene one plenary session, panel, or roundtable; or be discussant in one plenary session, panel, or roundtable.

For further information see
http://cea.iscte.pt/ecas2013/panels.shtml