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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Tag: Africa Publishing
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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Bodour Al Qasimi and the Challenge of African Publishing – a TNPS Personal Perspective
Just maybe the IPA could bring the digital distributors to their senses, and maybe too knock sense...
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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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Start the Day Global – 30 September 2018
South Africa, Canada , the USA, the UK and Nigeria are on the travel map today as we start the day...
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"The future of global publishing lies in the emerging markets" – Sheikha Bodour al Qasimi
In an article in VenturesAfrica today Bodour al Qasimi takes a look at the potential of the...
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Micro-aggregators in Africa rise to meet growing demand from authors
Authors in the “First World” tend nowadays to take for granted that, even if they...
Read More"Nobody is rewarding writers so nobody wants to write" – the state of Nigerian literature
“Nobody is rewarding writers so nobody wants to write,” laments Morenike Taire over at Nigeria’s Vanguard, in a discussion about the latest Nobel Prize for literature. Taire continues, “The level of...
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Kenya – book sales fall as VAT and piracy bite. Does salvation lie with digital?
The 20th Nairobi International Book Fair wrapped up yesterday after a five-day event themed...
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The Mogadishu and Nairobi Book Fairs – Publishing Challenges In Africa
The Nairobi Book Fair is underway in Kenya this week. It comes hard on the heels of another East...
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