African Studies in Schools - The Role of the Publisher

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Within British educational publishers the provision of textbooks for schools, colleges and universities in Africa is an important area of publishing activity. The Africa and Caribbean Division of Longman, for example, publishes about 100 new books each year, and educational publishing houses such as Heinemann, Macmillan, Oxford University Press, Nelson and Evans, also produce significant numbers of new titles annually. Most of the books produced by these publishers are school books, designed to suit local syllabuses and educational requirements and written mainly by local specialists. African publishing is nowadays undertaken in close partnership with subsidiary and associated publishing houses in the. Anglophone countries of Africa. Currently Nigeria represents the largest single market for British educational publishers in Africa, followed by countries such as Kenya and Zimbabwe.