Three_Crowns_Books

Three Crowns Books

Three Crowns Books

Publishing imprint for Africa and South Asia

Three Crowns Books was an imprint of Oxford University Press devoted to writing from the British colonies in Africa and South Asia. The series was active publishing for both the UK and international market from 1962 until 1976.[1][2][3][4]

Notable authors whose works were published by this imprint include Wole Soyinka, Obi Egbuna, J. P. Clark, Ola Rotimi, and Barbara Kimenye.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    MacPhee, Josh (1 December 2014), "Three Crowns Africa", Just Seeds
  2. [2]
    Davis, Caroline (2005), "The Politics of Postcolonial Publishing: Oxford University Press's Three Crowns Series 1962–1976", Book History, 8: 227–244, JSTOR 30227377
  3. [3]
    Davis, Caroline (2013), "Editing Three Crowns", Creating Postcolonial Literature: African Writers and British Publishers, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 123–141, doi:10.1057/9781137328380_9
  4. [4]
    Zell, Hans (2013), "Oxford University Press in Postcolonial Africa: a review essay", African Research & Documentation, 121


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