Morocco’s Casablanca Int. Book Fair postponed as Covid-19 tears up the 2021 publishing calendar
Last year the Casablanca International Book Fair attracted over a half million visitors. This year...
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Category: Africa
Kubini – Swahili for “imaginary creations” – will be a 9-month-long African comics exhibition in d’Angoulême, France, in 2021
The French connection here should surprise no-one familiar with the book market in France, where...
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Ayobami Adebayo’s “Reste Avec Moi” is Prix Les Afriques 2020 winner
The winning novel, Reste Avec Moi, was first published in English under the title Stay with me...
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Egypt’s Opera Book Fair brings books back to the original venue of the Cairo Int. Book Fair, after 30 years
Today the Cairo event holds the record as the world’s largest book fair, typically attracting...
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The world’s biggest book fair postponed until June-July 2021. Egypt’s Cairo Int. Book Fair, that is
Whether things will be better by summer 2021 remains to be seen, but we can safely say the 2021...
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Shortlist announced for the 2020 African Writers Awards and the Wakini Kuria Award for Children’s Literature
The African Writers Development Trust is an NGO that provides publishing grants, educational...
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NABU digital reading app launches in Kenya with free content in English and Kiswahili
“Building a bridge to equality, one mother tongue at a time.” Based in New York and with offices...
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Netflix targets 500 million subscribers by 2030. Rolls out mobile-only subscription option for Nigeria’s 126 million internet users. Publishers look the other way
“We want to tell amazing stories tailored to different languages, different tastes, and different...
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An interview with Nigeria’s Performance Poet Otor Matthew (via Zoe Writes)
Spoken Word Poetry, also known as Performance Poetry, is a recent, developing and fast-paced area...
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Odilo launches in Zimbabwe with Ministry of Education app. Zimbabwean content to follow?
Odilo joins OverDrive in the African digital library arena as digitisation of Africa’s publishing...
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Algeria’s Algiers International Book Fair (SILA) to be held online this year. Catastrophe or opportunity?
The loss of the in-person event has been described as “a catastrophe” for Algerian publishers who...
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Afropolitan Comics: the Online Exhibition. “From South Africa to the Continent”
Comics are at the crossroads of literature and visual arts – with strong connections to animation...
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