TY - BOOK AU - Brouillette, Sarah TI - Underdevelopment and African Literature SN - 9781108713788 U1 - 820.998 PY - 2020/// CY - United Kingdom PB - Cambrdige KW - African literature N2 - People looking for works in cities are immersed in English as the lingua franca of the mobile phone and the urban hustle – more effective instigations to reading than decades of work by traditional publishers and development agencies. The legal publishing industry campaigns to convince people to scorn pirates and plagiarists as a criminal underclass, and to instead purchase copyrighted, barcoded works that have the look of legitimacy about them ER -