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Dennis Walder Editor & Author

Caroline Davis is Associate Professor in Publishing at University College London. She is the author of African Literature and the CIA: Networks of Authorship and Publishing (2020), Creating Postcolonial Literature: African Writers and British Publishers (2013) and the co-editor of The Book in Africa: Critical Debates (2015).

Archie L. Dick is Professor in the Department of Information Science at the University of Pretoria. He previously taught at the University of the Western Cape and the University of South Africa. He is the author of several books, including Reading Spaces in South Africa, 1850–1920s (2020) and The Hidden History of South Africa’s Book and Reading Cultures (2013).

Elizabeth le Roux is Associate Professor and the coordinator of Publishing Studies in the Department of Information Science at the University of Pretoria. She is co-editor of the journal Book History and is the author of Publishing Against Apartheid South Africa: A Case Study of Ravan Press (2020) and A Social History of the University Presses in Apartheid South Africa (2016).

Dennis Walder is Emeritus Professor of Literature at the Open University. He is a co-editor of the Journal of Southern African Studies, and the author of numerous publications on modern and postcolonial literatures, including Postcolonial Nostalgias: Writing, Representation and Memory (2013).