Tag: Africa Publishing
Egypt – Abu Dhabi at the Cairo International Book Fair
Increasingly at these book fairs, the line is being blurred between “public facing” and “professional”, and in increasing numbers the industry names and faces we are all used to seeing at the big western publishing events are lining up to be at these emerging market events, at the same time as regional players are upping their game.
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UAE – Sharjah African Literature Festival: Promoting Reading Culture
As a writer and teacher in Africa, I can only applaud what is being achieved elsewhere on this beautiful continent, and dream that it might one day happen here.
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Cote d’Ivoire – 15th Abidjan International Book Fair set for May 6-10
15th Abidjan International Book Fair May 6-10 2025
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South Africa outshines strong Nigerian presence to take the 25th Caine Prize for African Writing
A record-breaking 320 submissions from 28 African countries.
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Ethiopia so needs an annual book fair
In March of this year Ethiopia surpassed 40 million people online (41million to be precise), making it the fourth largest country in Africa by internet users, after Nigeria, Egypt and Kenya, meaning Ethiopia is ripe for digital publishing disruption.
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Cote d’Ivoire: Abidjan IBF Professional Programme pre-event
Abidjan International Book Fair professional Programme
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Libya – 2nd Benghazi International Book Fair just finished
The launch event last year attracted 7,000 visitors, and the organisers were hoping to beat that...
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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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Algeria – Algiers International Book Fair the world’s fourth largest book fair in 2023
The global book market is way bigger than we think. And we only have to look at the 2.7 million...
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Kenya – Nyrobi Book Fest fuels Africa’s self-publishing boom as regular publishers look the other way
African books should be gathering readers, not gathering dust in dark corners of unvisited shelves...
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Kenya – Nairobi International Book Fair adopts the hybrid public-trade model
With 46.8 million internet users, Kenya is behind only Egypt and Nigeria in the African internet...
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Nigeria’s digital books distributor Publiseer adds India’s Repro Books to its portfolio
A bootstrap start-up trying to give Nigerian authors and musicians a place to upload content,...
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