De L’Edition Camerounaise Au Marche International Du Livre

This article considers the challenges and opportunities for African publishing in an age of ‘book globalisation’, dominated by large multinational firms based in Europe and North America since the 1980s. ‘Bibliodiversity’ is desirable. Different kinds of networks have been structured for the African book market to sustain diffusion and distribution. It is important to take account of the institutions, economic factors and authors’ strategies which lie behind a given book. The first part of this article considers the relations between African literary production and the global book market. The second considers the Cameroonian book market and globalisation.