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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Tag: Kenya publishing
eKitabu Launches Children’s Imprint: Redefining African Publishing from Kenya to the World
Kenya’s eKitabu launches Maua Books, a new children’s imprint. After award-winning Mvua Press & inclusive KSL audio/theatre innovations, they redefine African publishing.
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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 – Nairobi IBF rights fair redux
All told, there are over 600 million Africans online in 2023, and around the world a total of 5...
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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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Kenya Publishing Association launches quarterly e-journal. IPA holds regional seminar in Nigeria. Audiobooks in Ghana. The African Renaissance steps up a gear
2018 is proving to be a notable year for African publishing. NB: for the purposes of this essay I...
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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