Mzuni Press: The Idea

2.10.2014

At the core of any university is knowledge. Research is there to generate knowledge, the lecturers are there to teach it, and the students, hopefully, will learn it all.

Here Mzuni Press comes in, because publishing binds them all together.
Students need textbooks, students need many other books, lecturers should not only do research but also publish it, and when books are easily available, a university will profit.
The opinion is common that academic books must be produced in England, America, or, occasionally, in India or Germany. That is fine, but what about Africa?
There is, of course, academic publishing in South Africa, but Malawi? Yes, Malawi must make its own contribution. And I don’t mind if people say: “Malawi has no reading culture.” Have they ever tried?
Mzuni Press has no commercial aims, and it is sustained by the love and the efforts of authors and researchers, lecturers and students, both postgraduate and undergraduate. And so we invite you to participate.
We believe that we have something to contribute to the world of knowledge, and maybe you are interested. In the next post I will portray the books we have published so far.

Enough for today,
Klaus Fiedler