Manufacturing and consuming knowledge: African libraries and publishing

Development in Practice

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 293-303

  Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIAL LEGACY; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE; PUBLISHING;

AFRICA;

EID: 0030403125     PISSN: 09614524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0961452961000157904     Document Type: Article

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