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The Book in Africa: Critical debates Edited by Caroline Davis and David Johnson London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 ISBN 978 1137401618 292 pp. Price £58 (hb), £53 (pb), £43 (ebook)

The Book in Africa: Critical debates Edited by Caroline Davis and David Johnson London: Palgrave... RE V I E W The Book in Africa: Critical debates studies that, as Shamil Jeppie points out citing Edited by Caroline Davis as an example The Oxford Companion to the and David Johnson Book (Suarez and Woudhuysen, 2010), ‘make London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 no mention of the long history of book cul- ISBN 978 1137401618 ture’ relating to Africa (p. 89); whilst studies 292 pp. of the Muslim world tend also to ‘ignore the Price £ 58 (hb) , £ 53 (pb) , £4 3 (ebook) Africa of the Sahara and the regions south of it’ (p. 99, note 13). David Johnson and Caroline This volume brings valuable perspectives to Davis write in their introduction that ‘Africa understandings of ‘the book’ across Africa, has been either omitted entirely, or assigned presenting a diversity of linguistic and only the briefest mention in the major book publishing contexts and genuinely innovative history companions, dictionaries and readers’ research. It is the first title in Palgrave’s New (p. 4). Directions in Book History series which is directly about Africa. Three chapters—on The wider scope of the volume further under- Morocco, Ethiopia, and Mali—discuss Islamic lines that there can be no monolithic http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Logos Brill

The Book in Africa: Critical debates Edited by Caroline Davis and David Johnson London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 ISBN 978 1137401618 292 pp. Price £58 (hb), £53 (pb), £43 (ebook)

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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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RE V I E W The Book in Africa: Critical debates studies that, as Shamil Jeppie points out citing Edited by Caroline Davis as an example The Oxford Companion to the and David Johnson Book (Suarez and Woudhuysen, 2010), ‘make London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 no mention of the long history of book cul- ISBN 978 1137401618 ture’ relating to Africa (p. 89); whilst studies 292 pp. of the Muslim world tend also to ‘ignore the Price £ 58 (hb) , £ 53 (pb) , £4 3 (ebook) Africa of the Sahara and the regions south of it’ (p. 99, note 13). David Johnson and Caroline This volume brings valuable perspectives to Davis write in their introduction that ‘Africa understandings of ‘the book’ across Africa, has been either omitted entirely, or assigned presenting a diversity of linguistic and only the briefest mention in the major book publishing contexts and genuinely innovative history companions, dictionaries and readers’ research. It is the first title in Palgrave’s New (p. 4). Directions in Book History series which is directly about Africa. Three chapters—on The wider scope of the volume further under- Morocco, Ethiopia, and Mali—discuss Islamic lines that there can be no monolithic

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