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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Tag: Africa Publishing
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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In Nigeria, the inability to separate reading from ink on paper continues to hold back the publishing debate
We might want to show children how that tablet or smartphone in their hands can be their own...
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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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