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Emma Shercliff is a doctoral candidate at the UCL Institute of Education, University of London. Her research explores and documents the role of female publishers in shaping the literary landscape in Africa. Emma has worked in the publishing field for over fifteen years and was formerly Managing Director of Macmillan English Campus, a digital publishing division of Macmillan Publishers. She is currently based in Abuja, where she is working for the British Council on a research project looking at approaches to gender within teacher training in Nigeria, and with Cassava Republic Press as part of her doctoral fieldwork.

• Q&A with author and Africa Writes guest Abubakar Adam Ibrahim

  By Emma Shercliff on 18 June , 2015 • ( 9 )

  

  In advance of Africa Writes 2015, festival guest Abubakar Adam Ibrahim talks to AiW author Emma Shercliff about love, romance and the gendered nature of reading and writing in Northern Nigeria. Abubakar Adam Ibrahim will appear in two events during… Read More ›

• The Valentine’s Day Anthology: a snapshot of the possibilities and challenges of African publishing

  By Emma Shercliff on 5 March , 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  February 14th 2015 marked the publication of the Valentine’s Day Anthology, a collection of short romance stories by seven leading African authors, translated and recorded in different African languages and published by Ankara Press. AiW author Emma Shercliff reflects here… Read More ›

• Ankara Press: Q&A with Publisher Bibi Bakare-Yusuf

  By Emma Shercliff on 16 January , 2015 • ( 12 )

  

  Ankara Press is a new romance imprint published by Nigerian publishing house Cassava Republic Press. The imprint launched on 15th December 2014 with six new titles, set in locations in Nigeria, South Africa and the UK. AiW author Emma Shercliff… Read More ›