The Role of African Publishing in the Knowledge Production Ecosystem

Join our next event on Thursday, 2 December at 5pm UK time. Find your local time via this link.

The event will be live-streamed on YouTube and we encourage you send in your questions via the YouTube chat box.

Speakers at the event: 

Chair: Professor Issa G. Shivji (University of Dar es Salaam). 

Walter Bgoya (Mkuki na Nyota) Reflecting on 40 years of publishing 

Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o (University of California) The importance of publishing in African languages to decolonising the mind and communicating with the African public 

Assistant Professor Chambi Chachage (Carleton University) The role African publishing plays in knowledge production, developing and sustaining intellectual agendas 

Mary Jay (African Books Collective) The contribution of the digital revolution to African publishing: Mkuki na Nyota and African Books Collective

Mkuki Bgoya (Mkuki na Nyota) Looking forward to the next 40 years of Mkuki na Nyota 

This event is hosted in partnership with TORCH (University of Oxford), African Studies Centre (University of Oxford), African Books Collective, INASP, Carleton University Institute of African Studies and the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria.