By C. Davis, D. Johnson
This quantity provides new study and important debates in African publication heritage, and brings jointly a number of disciplinary views by way of major students within the topic. It comprises case reports from throughout Africa, starting from third-century manuscript traditions to twenty-first century net communications.
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Anna Böeseken and Margaret Cairns, The Secluded Valley: Tulbagh:‘t Land van Waveren, 1700–1804 (Cape Town: Perskor, 1989), pp. 115–16. 36 South Africa’s Reading Cultures, 1780–1840 9. William A. Johnson, ‘Reading Cultures and Education’, in Reading between the Lines: Perspectives on Foreign Language Literacy, ed. Peter C. Patrikis (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003), pp. 9–23; Johnson, Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire: A Study of Elite Communities (Oxford University Press, 2010).
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83. R. F. M. Immelman, ‘Along Unfrequented Trails in the Africana Field’, in Bibliophilia Africana: Being the Proceedings of the First Conference of South African Bibliophiles Held at the South African Library, Cape Town, November 28–December 1, 1966 (Cape Town: Friends of the S. A. Library, 1967), p. 53. Davids, The Afrikaans of the Cape Muslims, p. 84. Rhoda, ‘The Islamic da’wah’, p. 45. Saarah Jappie, ‘From Madrasah to Museum: A Biography of the Islamic Manuscripts of Cape Town’ (MA dissertation, University of Cape Town, 2011), pp.