<div dir="ltr"><b><font color="#ff0000">What is the African open access agenda? Is there an African open access agenda? Perhaps principle is the question: do we need an open access agenda?</font></b><br><br>In the course of my work in Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme and the OpenUCT Initiative over the last few years I have engaged with many African academics and institutional managers around open scholarship.<br>
<br>There lately appears to be an increasing sentiment that we need to engage more actively in agenda-setting around open access from an African standpoint, focusing on the areas which are imperative in our context, developing our own folksonomies.<div>
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<b><font color="#0000ff">Check the #scholarAfrica hash tag on Twitter.</font></b></div><br></div></div>