Mr Gary Rosenberg is an Independent Consultant, contracted as Research Leader for the Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). From 2002 to 2009 he served as Director of the HSRC Press, the publishing arm of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) of South Africa. Under his leadership the HSRC Press has come to be regarded as a highly reputable publisher, distinguished itself globally as a pioneer of scholarly Open Access publishing and has won international publishing awards. He has contributed to debates on scholarly publishing in forums such as the World Social Science Forum, local and international conferences, regional workshops and has run local capacity-building initiatives. He has worked in the publishing industry for over 15 years.
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Francis B. Nyamnjoh joined the University of Cape Town in August 2009 from the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), where he served as Head of Publications from July 2003 to July 2009.
He has taught sociology, anthropology and communication studies at universities in Cameroon and Botswana, and has researched and written extensively on Cameroon and Botswana, where he was awarded the “Senior Arts Researcher of the Year” prize for 2003.
His most recent books include Negotiating an Anglophone Identity (Brill, 2003), Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Africa (Zed Books, 2004), Africa’s Media, Democracy and the Politics of Belonging (Zed Books, 2005), Insiders and Outsiders: Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa (CODESRIA/ZED Books, 2006), Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa (Langaa/African Studies Centre Leiden, 2009).
Dr Nyamnjoh has published widely on globalisation, citizenship, media and the politics of identity in Africa. He has also published seven ethnographic novels, Mind Searching (1991), The Disillusioned African (1995), A Nose for Money (2006), Souls Forgotten (2008), The Travail of Dieudonné (2008), Married but Available (2009), and Intimate Strangers (2010), a play, The Convert (2003), and a collection of short stories, Stories from Abakwa (2007).
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Brian Wafawarowa is the founder and managing director of New Africa Books, a general and educational publishing house in Cape Town, South Africa. He is also the chairman of the African Publishers’ Network (APNET), based in Accra.
APNET represents 46 African countries with an observer status on the African Union. He is the national chair of the transformation committee established by the ministry of Arts and Culture to develop a national book policy in South Africa. He also works closely with the International Publishers Association, where he has served on the Copyright Committee for a number of years.
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