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SABDET PROGRAMMES
SABDET organises seminars, workshops and occasional events in the UK in particular, aimed at raising awareness of publishing and book development issues in Africa. The programme includes a semi-annual seminar series at the London International Book Fair which formerly reflected themes at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair.
African publishers and writers in British and International markets at the African Publishing and Writing Conference panel, British Library, 17 October 2005
The Role of Industry Organisations in African Publishing SABDET panel at the International Conference on the Book at Oxford Brookes, 12 September 2005
Getting
published, getting heard: debate and democracy in Africa SABDET
panel at the Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS)
conference at SOAS,
2 July 2005
Africa
at the Fair - How can Literary Festivals and Book Fairs promote African
Books and Reading ?
LBF2004, 14-16 March 2004, Olympia, London W14
LBF 2003 - no seminar programme
Changing Times, Changing
Africa, Monday 18 March
LBF2002, 17-19 March 2002, Olympia, London
W14
The Business of Reading
in Africa, Monday 26 March
LBF2001, 25-27 March 2001, Olympia, London
W14
Notes
from SABDET panel on African
Studies and British Africanists and
From
Onitsha market literature to general trade book publishing in Nigeria
by Innocent
O.Okoro — at the 2002 African Studies Association (ASAUK) conference,
Birmingham, 9-11September.
Reading Africa is a nationwide initiative by SABDET to raise awareness in the United Kingdom of African writing and publishing and to promote reading of African books. A promotional campaign aimed at librarians and reading groups and designed to encourage public library users to read African writers is a central part of the programme.
As part of the Reading Africa programme, SABDET together with the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies (OICPS) held a day conference Reading Africa: Readers, Libraries and African Publishing at Oxford Brookes University on the 30 October 2004.
Reading Africa is inspired by the Zimbabwe International Book Fair's Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century. It is supported by the Arts Council of England and SABDET's partners in developing the programme are the British Council and Book Aid International. Reading Africa was officially launched on 15 March 2004 at the 2004 London Book Fair.
For further information on Reading Africa, including how to bring the campaign to your library or reading group in the UK, contact Paul Westlake, Director, SABDET, 26b Bewdley Street, London N1 1HB sabdet@impz.demon.co.uk
The African Scholarship initiative was launched at the 1998 Zimbabwe International Book Fair when it was first called African scholarship at ZIBF. Initially it sought to engage the academic community in the ZIBF programme and now covers a wider range of events and also facilitates South-South and South-North interchange and debate, with the aim of supporting scholarship and scholarly publishing in Africa. SABDET's role is that of facilitator and animator for the initiative. Its support has included establishing an emailing discussion list, African Scholars, and organising training events for research graduates and young academics at ZIBF98 and ZIBF99.
Electronic Publishing for African Scholarly Journals
SABDET has worked in partnership with the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development (EPT), to support African scholarly journals in exploring the potential of on-line publishing. With SABDET's support, four journals have been put on line through this programme, two in Zimbabwe, one in Kenya and one in South Africa.
For more information on EPT, try their web site at: http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/bioline/page3.htm
The South-North Travel Fund (SNTF)
The South-North Travel Fund (SNTF) was set up in 1993 to support and extend the Zimbabwe International Book Fair's sponsored travel programme. The Fund offered incentive travel grants to African publishers to enable them to exhibit at the ZIBF, and to other selected initiatives that promote African publishing development, South-South and South-North. The Fund sought to encourage enterprise and focussed particularly on new publishers and under-represented sectors and countries.
African Journals Support & Development Centre
The African Journals Support & Development Centre (AJSDC) was established in 1997 and was based at the African Academy of Sciences in Nairobi. It offered marketing support to African scholarly journals tbrough the annual African Periodicals Exhibit (APEX) at the ZIBF and bibliographic APEX catalogue, and administered the African Journals Distribution Programme (AJDP) for the supply of African scholarly journals to African university libraries. SABDET's partner in supporting the AJSDC was the International African Institute (IAI).
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