What type of books are being published in Africa?

UNESCO published figures on book publications by country and theme, with the most recent data from the late 1990s. The data is over at the UN data site here.

A dozen African countries are included. For those countries, I rearranged the data a bit to list what types of books were published most in the countries. It is a crude indicator of national interest in books; many books may be imported, but publishers have spotted a strong interest in a particular type. The results are shown below. A few small-publishing countries emphasised literature, while the other nine led on scientific publications.