Building capacity for sustainable academic and non-fiction authorship in Africa
By: Prof. Elisam Magara (chief editor) ; associate editors: Prof. Sihawukele Ngubane, Prof. Monica Mweseli, and Godwin Anywar
Contributors: Association pan-africaine des écrivains
Publisher: Uganda Textbook-Academic and Non-Fiction Authors Association
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Kampala
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9789970428052
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Academic writing; African Authors; Scholarly publishing; Authorship
Notes: "This book is a result of an anthology of 19 chapters which are based on the 4th Pan African Writers Symposium (PAWS) held in Uganda from 3rd-5th October 2016 on the theme Building Capacity for Academic and Non-Fiction Authorship in Africa"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The African challenge of academic and non fiction authorship  -- Prof. Elisam Magara; title: Book hunger or famine: the authorship question?  -- Prof. J. R. Ikoja Odongo Phd; title: Uganda's volatile book industry and implications on non-fiction authorship  -- George Muganga; title: The school book provision support in Uganda: a required intervention  -- Prof. Elisam Magara; title: Writing textbooks for a school curriculum  -- Dr. Samuel Makore; title: Open licensing models for strengthening access to information: opportunities for authors  -- Eric Nelson Haumba; title: Restoration of cultural heritage for sustainable authorship in Nigeria  -- Adetoun A. Oyelude; title: Authorship and the advancement of indigenous traditional knowledge on medicinal plants  -- Anywar Godwin; title: Implications of contrast between orality and writing in Africa  -- Prof. Shihawukele Ngubane; title: The impact of reading on effective writing and literary outputs  -- Adetoun A. Oyelude and Fadekemi O. Oyewusi; title: Managing collaboration between the authro and publisher for career growth in Africa  -- Robert Agwot Komakech & Elisam Magara; title: Strategic alliance through writers' union: challenges and lessons for MUANA  -- Ndongolera C. Mwangupili; title: Publisher-author contracts and agreements: principles, roles and expectations  -- Dr. Anthony C.K. Kakooza; title: The writer as a published author: challenges and reflections  -- Monica Mweseli; title: Prommotion of indigenous knowledge through writing: the case of Amahiri Field Traditional Sport  -- Ignatius Kagongi; title: Authorship through evidence: a case of Iteso god in Uganda  -- Source Opak; title: Synthesis of the Proceedings of the 4th Pan African Writers Symposium (PAWS) 2016  -- Prof. Elisam Magara; title: The Global trends in public lending rights  -- Trond Andreassen; title: Meeting the changing needs in the book industry: expectations of publishers -- Tom Tibaijuka.