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Joyce Ashuntantang

Dr. Joyce Ashuntantang, actress, screen writer, film producer and poet, is a major force in contemporary Anglophone Cameroonian culture. As a founding member of Cameroon Flame Players and member of Yaoundé University Theater, she starred in numerous stage and TV plays. Her full length film, Potent Secrets (2001), is an undisputable milestone in Cameroon’s film industry. Her awards include, The Spirit of Detroit Award from the Mayor of Detroit, 1987, Cameroon Cultural Festival Awards 1989 and 1994, Outstanding Women in Action Award, Cameroon, 2002, and MOHWA ‘‘women making a difference’’ Award, 2010. Dr. Ashuntantang earned a BA in Modern English Studies from the University of Yaoundé, A Masters in Library and information Science from the University College of Wales, U.K., an M.A. and a Ph.D. in English from the City University of New York. She is the author of Landscaping Postcoloniality: the Dissemination of Cameroon Anglophone Literature, and the CEO/founder of EduART INC, a non-profit organization created to promote art as a medium for social change. She is currently a professor of English and African Literature at the University of Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Visit Joyce's blog here.

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ABC will be at the ASA UK meeting 16-19 September. The meeting is being held at St Antony's College in Oxford.

Africa is the focus at the Goteborg Book Fair, September 23-26. ABC along with participating publishers will be exhibiting.

ABC is an official sponsor of the Information for Change workshop in Nairobi September 21. Information for Change 2010 will examine emerging digital publishing models in East Africa.

amabooks Publishers, Zimbabwe

amaBooks Publishers started in 2000, with the objective of promoting good writing in English in Zimbabwe through publication, particularly in Matabeleland. To date, twenty-one books have been published.

Books published by amabooks Publishers

Dancing with Life

Tales from the Township

Christopher Mlalazi

ISBN 9780797435902 | 88 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2008 | amabooks Publishers, Zimbabwe | Paperback

ISBN 9780797430396 | 136 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2006 | amabooks Publishers, Zimbabwe | Paperback

Intwasa Poetry

Edited by Jane Morris

ISBN 9780797436459 | 72 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2008 | amabooks Publishers, Zimbabwe | Paperback

Long Time Coming

Short Writings from Zimbabwe

Edited by Jane Morris

ISBN 9780797436442 | 160 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2008 | amabooks Publishers, Zimbabwe | Paperback

Mambo Hills

Historical and Religious Significance

ISBN 9780797435896 | 36 pages | 208 x 145mm | B/W Illustrations | 2008 | amabooks Publishers, Zimbabwe | Paperback

Short Writings from Bulawayo

Edited by Jane Morris

ISBN 9780797425408 | 144 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2003 | amabooks Publishers, Zimbabwe | Paperback

Short Writings from Bulawayo II

Edited by Jane Morris

ISBN 9780797428966 | 124 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2005 | amabooks Publishers, Zimbabwe | Paperback

Short Writings from Bulawayo III

Edited by Jane Morris

ISBN 9780797431317 | 156 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2006 | amabooks Publishers, Zimbabwe | Paperback

Echoes of Young Zimbabwe Voices

Edited by amaBooks

ISBN 9780797438217 | 120 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2009 | amabooks Publishers, Zimbabwe | Paperback

White Man Crawling

ISBN 9780797433908 | 96 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2007 | amabooks Publishers, Zimbabwe | Paperback

Zimbabwe's Cultural Heritage

ISBN 9780797428973 | 148 pages | 216 x 140 mm | B/W Illustrations | 2005 | amabooks Publishers, Zimbabwe | Paperback

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