With Christmas just around the corner, and some parents having already started the frantic shopping trip to bag the latest gadgets, the team at children’s... Read more
With a vast market for audio content in Africa, the founder of the only publisher and distributor of African audiobooks in West Africa is hoping... Read more
Joseph Conrad had “racist ideas” and National Geographic magazine is guilty of “generalisations” about Africa, said the United Arab Emirates’ Sheikha Bodour al Qasimi, at... Read more
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nelson Mandela and Ben Rhodes are among the authors featured on Barack Obama's summer reading list ahead of his trip to Africa.... Read more
Writers from South Africa, Zambia and Nigeria have made the shortlist for this year’s Caine Prize for African Writing. On the shortlist, announced today... Read more
Oxford University Press (OUP) is sponsoring an African literacy conference in South Africa this September. The conference is organised by the Reading Association of South... Read more
Digital serial publisher The Pigeonhole is launching its first real-time book featuring weekly dispatches from correspondents in Africa, titled Pigeon Post: Letters from Africa. ... Read more
Book Aid International sent more than a million books to African libraries in 2014, almost doubling its distribution figures for 2013. The charity, which... Read more
Four writers hailing from South Africa, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria and Barbados have won the 2014 Morland Writing Scholarships, each receiving a £18,000 grant to allow... Read more
The People’s Postcode Lottery will donate £175,000 towards Book Aid International’s work with libraries in Africa. The money will help support literacy and development in... Read more
