Abdullah Saiwaad, 2017
Interventions in Book Provision: Suffocating Education and the Local Book Industry the Case of Tanzania.
”In Tanzania it is evident that the book sector has not been developing at a pace commensurate with the growth of the population and the other economic sector in the country. Indeed there are indications that the sector as a whole has been in steady decline since the early seventies, began picking up in the years from 1993 to 2013 and is now quickly declining into the pre 1993 era. The reasons for this are many and cut across socio-political and economic factors. The collapse of the economy since the late 1970s is one such factor. The lack of a developed publishing, printing and book distribution infrastructure at the time of independence is another. The low level of educational and linguistic attainment among Tanzanians is yet another contributory factor.”