Link collection - A Guide to Africa on the Internet

Books and Publishing

• APNET - the African Publishers Network

  APNET - the African Publishers Network promotes indigenous publishing in Africa.
  
  http://www.freewebs.com/

• INASP Database

  Lists of organisations working to improve and support networking, accessing, sharing, and publishing of information in developing and transitional countries.

  
  http://www.inasp.info/

• Cape Town Book Fair

  An annual event and will generate unprecedented interest in African writing, reading, and publishing. 

  
  http://www.capetownbookfair.com/

• Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB)

  Located at Basel, Switzerland. Comprises a specialist library and archives on southern Africa, incl. a publishing house and an Africa antiquarian bookshop.

  
  http://www.baslerafrika.ch/

• African Books Collective (ABC)

  A non-profit Oxford-based, worldwide marketing and distribution outlet for titles from Africa - scholarly, literature and children's books. It is founded, owned and governed by a group of African publishers, and with participants of independent and autonomous African publishers.

  
  http://www.africanbookscollective.com/

• Fahuma Books & Pambazuka Press

  Publisher of books on human rights, social justice, politics and advocacy in Africa. 

  
  http://fahamubooks.org/

• Hans Zell Publishing

  Information resources on Africa, African studies and African publishing.

  
  http://www.hanszell.co.uk/

• FEMRITE - Uganda Women Writers' Association

  FEMRITE is an indigenous Non-Governmental Organisation that promotes women writing in Uganda.

  
  http://femriteug.org/

• National Libraries of Africa

  A database of national libraries in Africa, with links and contact information and some basic facts on the collections. Maintained by the National Library of South Africa.

  
  http://nlsahopta.nlsa.ac.za/