Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd, a niche publisher of non-fiction books and academic journals was incorporated in the United Kingdom in March 2003 and has published well over 160 books since then. In 2004, the company also began publishing peer-reviewed academic journals. There were two main motivating objectives for this – to address the problem of the high mortality rate of academic journals published by Africans and to let African scholars set and own their research agenda rather than constantly anticipating the needs of the foreign donor agencies that normally fund the publication of their journals.