INVITATION: Launch of new journal, Africa Bibliography, Research and Documentation, Thurs 1 Dec

Launch of Africa Bibliography, Research and Documentation

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/africa-bibliography-research-and-documentation

With Munyao Kilolo (Ituĩka, Kiswahili Prize) in conversation with Ida Hadjivayanis (SOAS), discussing African language publishing, translation and literature. 

Chair: Lucy McCann (SCOLMA)

Africa Bibliography, Research and Documentation is the new journal from the International African Institute and SCOLMA (the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa), published by Cambridge University Press. Please join us for the launch on

Thursday 1 December 2022, 17:30-19:00 GMT

Room RB01, at SOAS, London WC1H 0XG

Register in person here: forms.office.com/r/fJDQi2tsff 

Or join online by registering here: tinyurl.com/ABRDlaunch 

Africa Bibliography, Research and Documentation

Table of Contents

Vol. 1, 2022

Editorial

Terry A. Barringer

Empowering African languages through publishing: whose responsibility?

Munyao Kilolo

Nigerian university presses: a bleak picture

Hans M. Zell 12

The British Library’s collections of African-language publishing

Marion Wallace 31

An overview of the British Library Yorùbá language collections

K´o.lá Túb´o.sún 47

International library standards for low-resource countries: the example of Rwanda

Erica von Flüe 63

Misanthropology: the makers of Siliva the Zulu

Peter Davis 70

A note on the making of Siliva the Zulu

Heather Hughes