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As the British government promises to drop the debt owed to it by the world’s poorest countries, I consider the carefully avoided, unasked question Every week, Africa pays $200 million in its servicing of national debts. It is no wonder that the global movement, Jubilee 2000, is calling for the cancellation of the unpayable debts [...]

Textbooks make up ninety percent of Africa’s total book production. Whilst the continent’s population makes up twelve percent of the global figure, it produces only one percent of the world’s books. As a result, the remaining ten percent of Africa’s book production, which includes liturgical materials, academic books and gray literature, makes up a tiny [...]