Kenya’s Publishers Face Parliamentary Deposit Mandate
Kenya’s 2025 Bill adds Parliament to legal deposit requirements. The UK, US, Canada and many countries have similar mandatory submission rules for national libraries.
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Kenya Publishers Association Urges Action Against Counterfeit Textbooks
The proliferation of counterfeit items, including kamusi, dictionaries, readers, textbooks, and set books, significantly harms the publishing industry and the broader economy. This illegal activity leads to financial losses for publishers, tax evasion, and economic sabotage.
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Kenya – Soma Nami Books’ African Book Fair kicks off August 6.
Soma Nami, derived from a Swahili phrase meaning “Read with Me,” is a women-owned and operated Pan-African bookstore based in Nairobi. It was founded by Muthoni Muiruri and Wendy Njoroge.
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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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African Publishing – The $5 Billion Digital Opportunity as Nigeria becomes 7th largest country by online population
At the IPA Africa Seminar in Lagos in 2018 it was reported that the African book market was worth...
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"Realising Africa’s Potential as a Global Publishing Leader in the 21st century" will require abandoning 20th century attitudes towards publishing
The International Publishers Association Seminar on Sustainable Development for African Publishers...
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RadioBook Rwanda launches in Kenya with podcasts and print
RadioBook Rwanda is a collaboration between Rwanda’s Huza Press, Kenya’s Kwani Trust and the UK’s...
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Kenya’s Swahili Literary Festival 2019 set for Mombasa in March, but don’t get your hopes up to be selling Swahili ebooks on Amazon
A Swahili Literary Festival? Those who follow the African literary scene (or indeed follow TNPS)...
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Kenya's remarkable internet story is publishing's opportunity
In the year 2000 there were just 200,000 people online in Kenya. By 2010 it had risen to almost 4...
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