[Lists] Publishing Africa

Below (in alphabetical order) is a list of some of the publishing houses that have an online presence that specialise on African literature:

• Academic Publishers Swaziland, Matsapha
• Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd, London
• African Heritage Press, New York
• African Minds Publishers, ____
• African Perspectives,  South Africa
• 'amaBooks, Bulawayo
• Association of African Universities, Accra
• Cotton Tree Press, Monrovia
• Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Dakar
• Development Policy Management Forum (DPMF), Nairobi
• East African Educational Publishers, Nairobi
• Editions Bakame, Kigali
• FEMRITE, Uganda Women Writers’ Association, Kampala
• Fountain Publishers, Kampala
• Idasa, Pretoria
• Johnson & King James, Cape Town
• Juta & Company Limited, Claremont
• Kwani Trust, Nairobi
• Langaa Research and Publishing Common Initiative Group, Bamenda
• LAPA Publishers, Pretoria
• LawAfrica, Dar es Salaam
• Longman Nigeria Plc, Lagos
• Maskew Miller Longman, Cape Town
• Modjaji Books, Tokai
• NB Publishers,  Cape Town
• New Africa Books, Glosderry
• NPC KIUTA, Dar es Salaam
• Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA), Addis Ababa
• Oxford University Press Southern Africa, Cape Town
• Random House Struik, Cape Town
• Southern African Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC), Harare
• Storymoja, Nairobi
• StoryTime, ____
• The Early Learning Resource Unit, Cape Town
• The Lion Press Ltd, Coventry
• The umSinsi Press, Malvern
• UNISA Press, Pretoria
• University of Nairobi Press, Nairobi
• Weaver Press, Harare

Possibly related articles:

• Jane Morris [Interview], Conversations with Writers, August 10, 2010
• Digital publishing and local content in Africa,  crisscrossed, March 12, 2010
• The Internet is Africa’s “Gutenberg Moment”, By Tolu Ogunlesi, Publishing Perspectives, December 22, 2009

Lists _ Blog Novels

Updated March 24, 2010

A growing number of writers are using blogs as a way of making their literary efforts accessible to others. Below are links to some blog novels that we've been able to find. If you know of others, please do send us links and we'll include them here as well.

1. About Ben Adams by Nora
2. A Change in the Weather by Robert Gould [Interview]
3. a fucking awful weekend by Albert
4. a million penguins, a collaborative novel by various authors
5. All Saints’ Day Novel (Super-Natural Heroes) by Patricia Herlevi
6. Anonymous Lawyer by Jeremy Blachman
7. Bartlett House by Patricia J McLean & Duane Poncy
8. Beasts of New York by Jon Evans
9. Blog Love Omega Glee by Wred Fright
10. Brutus Weaver by A. Chatfield
11. Bull City-in-Wonderland by Mel & Al
12. Chaos Fighters by William
13. Chaos Fighters: Cyber Assault by William
14. Colony: Alchibah, a group sci-fi blog novel
15. Corvus, by L. Lee Lowe [Interview]
16. County Road by Parker Pruett
17. Dark Inspectre by Jason Kahn
18. Diamond Walker's Blog by Thomas D'Arcy O'Donnell
19. Diary of a First Year Grad Student by Jonathan Vining [Interview]
20. Diary of an Asylum Seeker by Ambrose Musiyiwa
21. El Adán de metal [Mechanical Adam] by Edward Lancaster
22. Escape the Beast by Colin Cohen
23. Five Idiots You Meet in Heaven by Chris McElwain
24. Flight Paths: a networked novel, with encouragement from Kate Pullinger and Chris Joseph
25. Frauds, Thieves and other Podvodniks by Colin Cohen
26. Frostbite by David Wellington
27. Gold Medal Murder by Cheryl Hagedorn
28. Good People in Bad Times by Alex Sarmiento
29. High Frequency by Nicole/Bill(?)
30. House of Kidz by Colin Cohen
31. imperfect seven: a romance of sins by 13
32. In the Absence of White Rabbits by Alma Kroeker
33. John John by Sam Smith [Interview]
34. Letters To My Mother by Rebecca Heath
35. Le Spirale Fantastique by Rohit Gupta
36. Love After Marx by Stephen Gow
37. Marionette by Timothy Sparklin
38. Monster Island by David Wellington [Interview]
39. Monster Nation by David Wellington
40. Monster Planet by David Wellington
41. Mortal Ghost by L. Lee Lowe [Interview]
42. Mortal Happiness by H Z Hanssen
43. My Walk by Rob Carr
44. NotsoRealLifeStory by Danie Nel
45. Only Begotten by Gary Glass
46. PeaceMaker: a Thriller by Dan Ronco
47. Plague Zone by David Wellington
48. plan b by Diego Doval
49. Privateers by Frank Martin
50. Promises Divined by Dora McAlpin [Interview]
51. Rebirth by Scott McKenzie
52. Redeemer's Law by Dan Jolley
53. Simon of Space by Cheeseburger Brown
54. Single Mother on the Verge by anon
55. So It Was Cancer by Frank Indiana
56. Staying Single by Alison Norrington
57. Sunset by Timothy Sparklin
58. The Adventures of Rocket Boy and Lotus by Sally Warren
59. The Book of the Enemy by David Wildman
60. The Circle of Light by Jack Dillon
61. The Fat White Woman by Clive Collins [Interview]
62. The Ghost Danced by Emma Lee [Interview]
63. The Grimmery by Tamyrlin Ink
64. The Human Hoax by Mark Alexander
65. The Meening of Life by G. R. Klein
66. The Rising by Scott McKenzie
67. The Tapestries of Oquis Book One: Tangled Threads by Big Mama
68. The Satan Maneuver by Mark Alexander
69. Thirteen Bullets by David Wellington
70. Times Square by Colin Cohen
71. Tread by Clayton Lindemuth
72. Worlds Undone by llhaesa [Interview]
73. You Might As Well Live by Carmen