Let the lion not sleep tonight. Africa’s publishing opportunity redux
This is a vast continent of 54 countries and more languages than you can begin to count. And a...
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Tag: Africa book market
Ghana announces 15% increase in the prices of books
So far book prices in the mature western markets have not been consumer-impacted by the global...
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Bodour Al Qasimi and the Challenge of African Publishing – a TNPS Personal Perspective Revisited
This is one of those awkward reports where the opener plays to western stereotypes of...
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Can Africans Write Millennial Fiction?
What will it take to make publishers join the dots and take this incredible market of 590 million...
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Registration opens for hybrid Nigeria International Book Fair
Nigeria and other national publishing events organisers across sub-Saharan Africa would do well to...
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Botswana – Gaborone Book Festival dates announced
One of southern Africa’s biggest publishing events will be hybrid this year. The Gaborone...
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Algiers Int. Book Fair clocks 1.3 million in-person visitors and a digital success too
Running March 24 through 31 the eight day event averaged over 160,000 in-person visitors per day....
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Egypt’s hybrid Cairo Int. Book Fair clocks 1.7 million real visitors, 1.6 million online visitors, 225 million online hits, 270,000 virtual tours and 1.5 million online book views
With internet penetration at only 52% it’s easy for publishers to dismiss Egypt as an online...
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Africa has 590 million people online. Here’s the Top 21 Countries for all those publishers looking the other way
What will it take to make publishers join the dots and take this incredible market of 590 million...
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Showmax Pro rolled out video streaming across more than 40 African countries last month as digital publishing remained a novelty
A big part of the problem lies in content rights. How is it, for example, that Amazon can provide...
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Comic Con Africa 2020 will be online. Aims to “break the internet”. Telkom VS Gaming to brings eSports League to the event
Africa’s biggest comics and gaming convention will be held online this year, running September...
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South Sudanese novel wins PEN Translates Award. Almost two thirds of awarded books by women writers, over half translated by women
When we think MENA literature we often don’t get past a handful of key North African and Middle...
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