In the 1970s and early 1980s, parastatal and independent indigenous publishing houses were established in capital cities across Africa, but these emerging operations and institutions were quickly undercut by structural adjustment programmes; African scholars had little alternative but to turn to organizations and publishing systems in Europe and North America. Unfortunately, contemporary scholarly publishing on the African continent remains largely dominated by Western corporate academic publishers. Even as the notion of open access has gained popularity, a growing body of scholarship indicates that the concept is in fact re‐entrenching the power of traditional academic publishers under a revised business model. This piece offers perspectives from African scholars and activists on the politics of open access, revealing different experiences of and imaginaries for open access in Africa. The piece is supplemented by data from the in‐depth discussion that informed it, which is published on an open‐source platform in an effort to invite readers to also lend their analytic perspectives and contribute towards iterative analysis and ongoing dialogue.

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概念化，融资和基础设施建设：非洲内部和外部的开放获取的观点

在1970年代和1980年代初期，在非洲的首都建立了半国营和独立的土著出版社，但是这些新兴的业务和机构很快被结构调整方案所削弱。非洲学者别无选择，只能求助于欧洲和北美的组织和出版系统。不幸的是，非洲大陆的当代学术出版仍主要由西方企业学术出版商主导。即使开放获取的概念越来越流行，但越来越多的学者表示，该概念实际上在重新定义的商业模式下重新巩固了传统学术出版商的力量。本文提供了非洲学者和激进主义者对开放获取政治的观点，揭示了非洲开放获取的不同经历和想象。文章的补充内容来自于深入讨论的数据，该讨论提供了资料，该数据已发布在开源平台上，以期吸引读者也提出自己的分析观点，并为迭代分析和正在进行的对话做出贡献。