1VCMJTIJOHJO 6HBOEB XJUIOPUFTGSPN"GSJDB "3FWJFX *LPKB0EPOHP +3 1I% 5IF1VCMJTIJOH*OEVTUSZ-JUFSBUVSF4VSWFZXBTQBSUPGUIF1"-."GSJDB1SPKFDUGVOEFECZ*%3$ Publishing in Uganda with notes from Africa: Publishing in Uganda with notes from Africa: A Review Ikoja-Odongo, J.R, PhD. 1 Publishing in Uganda with notes from Africa: About the Author 2 Publishing in Uganda with notes from Africa: NABOTU P O Box 25412 KAMPALA, Uganda Copyright @information You are free: To share — copy, distribute and transmit the work Under the following conditions: Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). to attribute this work: What does “Attribute this work” mean? You can use the HTML to cite the work. Doing so will also include metadata on your page so that others can find the original work as well. Noncommercial — You may not use this work for commercial purposes. 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Other Rights — In no way are any of the following rights affected by the license: Your fair dealing or fair use rights; 3 Publishing in Uganda with notes from Africa: Table of contents Table of contents ............................................................................................................. 4 2.1 Uganda: Country profile ....................................................................................7 2.2 Education policies and their relationship to publishing ............................ 9 3.0 Language Policy ...................................................................................................... 15 4.0 The Concept of Publishing ................................................................................... 16 4.1 History of Books and Book Publishing in Uganda .................................... 16 4.2 The East African Literature Bureau ............................................................... 22 4.3 Local Churches .................................................................................................. 23 4.4 Uganda’s newspaper history ...........................................................................24 4.5 Post independence Book Publishing in Uganda ........................................ 25 4.6 The Structure of the Industry ......................................................................... 26 4.6.1 Public Sector Publishing ..........................................................................26 Government Printer ..........................................................................................26 Uganda Literature Bureau ............................................................................... 27 Lands and Survey Department .............................................................................27 4.7 The Private Sector ............................................................................................. 27 4.8 Foreign Companies ...........................................................................................28 4.9 Publishing trends in Uganda since 1989 ...................................................... 30 4.10 Co-publishing ..................................................................................................32 4.11 Rise of Informal Publishing ......................................................................... 32 4.12 Scholarly Publishing ...................................................................................... 33 4.13 Electronic Publishing ..................................................................................... 36 4.14 Role of Government in publishing ............................................................. 37 5.0 Representations ....................................................................................................... 40 5.1 National Book Trust of Uganda ..................................................................... 40 5.2 Book Development Council ............................................................................40 6.0 Publishing Opportunities ..................................................................................... 41 6.1 Economic Opportunities ..................................................................................41 6.3 Cultural Opportunities .................................................................................... 42 6.4 Challenges to publishing in Uganda ............................................................ 42 7.1 Printing as a process and as an industry ............................................................ 45 7.2 Nature and size of printing industry in Uganda ........................................ 45 7.3 Binding ................................................................................................................48 7.4 Production Capacity ......................................................................................... 48 7.5 Printing and Ancillary Industry .....................................................................49 7.6 Printers and Publishers ....................................................................................49 8.0 Book Procurement and Distribution in Uganda ...............................................51 8.1 Centralised Procurement and Distribution ................................................. 55 8.2 Decentralised Procurement and Distribution ............................................. 56 4 Publishing in Uganda with notes from Africa: 8.2.1 Decentralised Instructional Materials Procurement Pilot Project (DIMPPP) 57 8.2.2 Players in the decentralised procurement system ................................... 57 8.2.3 Challenges to the Decentralised Procurement System ...........................58 8.2.4 Role of Districts in Procurement .................................................................59 9.0 Copyright Law in Uganda ..................................................................................... 61 9.1 Introduction .........................................................................................................61 9.2 Purpose of Copyright ........................................................................................ 62 9.3 Uganda Copyright Law ..................................................................................... 63 9.4 Copyright law and publishers ......................................................................... 66 9.5 Publishing, Copyright and Licensing in the Internet Era. ......................... 66 9.6 Copyright law and information users ............................................................ 69 10. Publishing in Africa: Past and Present ............................................................... 70 10.1 An Historical Perspective ................................................................................70 10.2 Secondary Textbook Authorship and Publishing ......................................73 10.3 Text Book policies in Africa ........................................................................... 74 10.4 Languages and publishing in Africa ............................................................ 75 10.5 Copyright Environment in Africa ................................................................. 75 10.6 Scholarly publishing in Africa .......................................................................77 10.61 Situation Analysis ...................................................................................... 79 10.6.1 Case for e-scholarly publishing ..............................................................82 10.7 Training in Publishing in Africa ................................................................... 84 10.8 Where to go from here? ................................................................................... 85 References .......................................................................................................................88 5 Publishing in Uganda with notes from Africa: 1.0 Introduction This review is about publishing in Uganda and more especially about publishing of educational materials. It is meant to highlight the history, nature, scope, challenges and opportunities of publishing in the country. It is more inclined to identifying the gaps in the provision of educational materials. This arises from the fact that publishing in Uganda like in many other African countries has been bedevilled with many problems and up to the present times, Uganda cannot claim of having a robust publishing sector capable of satisfying all the book and other reading materials requirements. But it is noted that the country’s publishing industry is growing rapidly especially in the primary school textbook sub sector. To understand, the nature of publishing in Uganda, information of the education policy, language, the printing industry, marketing and distribution of educational materials and Uganda copyright law are reviewed. All these are necessary to arrive at some idea about the direction of the future of the country’s publishing industry. It is the picture that is needed to allow thinking about alternative models of publishing. The picture that comes out can assist the PALM AFRICA project, a project that is searching for alternative publishing models or methodologies in publishing justify and look for newer