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World Service,20 Aug 1993,29 mins

Africa's Book Famine

African Perspective

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The new initiatives to ease Africa's book shortage and the demand for books on the continent. Joan Brickhill reports from Harare, Zimbabwe, one of the main centres of Africa's publishing industry.

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