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1. Arua E. Arua, Joanne Umolu, Timothy Oyetunde, and Chukwuemeka Onukaogu (eds.) 2003. Reading for All in Africa: Building communities where literacy thrives.

2. Letta Mashishi (2002). "Using a community-based curriculum to promote literacy in Soweto." In Elsa Auerbach (ed.). Community Partnerships. Arlington, VA: TESOL.

3. K. J. Mchombu (2003) Sharing knowledge for community development and transformation. Ottawa: Oxfam.

4. Kate Parry (2000). Language and literacy in Uganda: Towards a sustainable reading culture. Kampala:
Fountain Publishers.

5. A. Schofield (2002). "Wild power: School-community partnerships in a South African school district." In Elsa Auerbach (ed.). Community Partnerships. Arlington, VA: TESOL.

6. Brian Street (ed.) (2001). Literacy and development: Ethnographic perspectives. London and New York: Routledge.

7. Ephraim Tadesse and Raymond Genesse (2002). Civil society in the Horn of Africa: Two stories.
Addis Ababa: Oxfam.

8. Andree-Jeanne Totemeyer (2001). "The National Readathon of Namibia 1988-2001." School Libraries
Worldwide, 7, 2: 57-64.

9. Kate Parry (2004). Opportunities for girls. In Gender and English language learners, ed. Bonny Norton and Aneta Pavlenko. Arlington, VA: TESOL. pp. 81-93.

10. Lauren Yannotta and Valeda Dent (2005). "A Rural Community Library in Uganda: A Study of its Use and Users." Libri, 55, 1:39-55. Click link to access article

11. Valeda Dent (2006). “Modelling the Rural Community Library: Characteristics of the Kitengesa Library in Uganda”, New Library World, 107 (1/2): 16-30. Click link to access article

12. Valeda Dent (2006). “Observations of School Library Impact at Two Rural Ugandan Schools”, New Library World, 107 (9/10), 403-421. Click link to access article

13. Valeda Dent (2007), "Local Economic Development in Uganda and the Connection to Rural Community Libraries and Literacy.” New Library World 108 (5/6): 203-217. Click link to access article

14. Parry, Kate, with Sam Andema and Loy Tumusiims, Teaching Reading in African Schools. Kampala: Fountain Publishers, 2005.