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Knowledge production and publishing in Africa

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  • Abebe Zegeye
  • Maurice Vambe

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This article explores the practice of 'knowledge production' and 'publishing' in Africa. Knowledge production and publishing in Africa has been and still is dominated by Western experts, most of whose interests do not serve Africa. Powerful social groups in post-colonial Africa construct knowledge about Africa from the sites of universities. Ordinary people also produce knowledge, most of which is elaborated through unwritten forms, and actually contest dominant modes of knowing. Publishing in Africa ought to be controlled by Africans if African states are to realise the dream of an African renaissance. African governments ought to invest in knowledge production and publishing. African intellectuals with university education should work with ordinary African intellectuals to create new sites of knowledge. Knowledge production and publishing is not an ideologically neutral phenomenon. Therefore, African governments should create, and not thwart, conditions conducive to knowledge production and publishing that is self-interrogating.

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  • Abebe Zegeye & Maurice Vambe, 2006. "Knowledge production and publishing in Africa," Development Southern Africa, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(3), pages 333-349.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:deveza:v:23:y:2006:i:3:p:333-349
    DOI: 10.1080/03768350600843010
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    1. Aurelian Plopeanu, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” & Peter Foldvari & Bas van Leeuwen & Jan Luiten van Zanden, 2012. "Where do ideas come from? Book production and patents in global and temporal perspective," Working Papers 0033, Utrecht University, Centre for Global Economic History.
    2. Hugo Confraria & Manuel Mira Godinho, 2015. "The impact of African science: a bibliometric analysis," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 102(2), pages 1241-1268, February.
    3. Feyisa Mulisa, 2021. "Challenges for African Scholars in the Globalization Era: Contexts Speak," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 12(2), pages 923-942, June.

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