Shortlist announced for the 2020 African Writers Awards and the Wakini Kuria Award for Children’s Literature
The African Writers Development Trust is an NGO that provides publishing grants, educational...
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Category: Africa
NABU digital reading app launches in Kenya with free content in English and Kiswahili
“Building a bridge to equality, one mother tongue at a time.” Based in New York and with offices...
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Netflix targets 500 million subscribers by 2030. Rolls out mobile-only subscription option for Nigeria’s 126 million internet users. Publishers look the other way
“We want to tell amazing stories tailored to different languages, different tastes, and different...
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An interview with Nigeria’s Performance Poet Otor Matthew (via Zoe Writes)
Spoken Word Poetry, also known as Performance Poetry, is a recent, developing and fast-paced area...
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Odilo launches in Zimbabwe with Ministry of Education app. Zimbabwean content to follow?
Odilo joins OverDrive in the African digital library arena as digitisation of Africa’s publishing...
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Algeria’s Algiers International Book Fair (SILA) to be held online this year. Catastrophe or opportunity?
The loss of the in-person event has been described as “a catastrophe” for Algerian publishers who...
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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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Showmax Pro rolled out video streaming across more than 40 African countries last month as digital publishing remained a novelty
A big part of the problem lies in content rights. How is it, for example, that Amazon can provide...
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StreetLib expands its distribution with 4 new partners and adds audiobook distribution to Scribd
StreetLib is the publisher behind The New Publishing Standard. While TNPS is not a StreetLib...
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Italy: Giunti’s Int. Sales Officer talks Arab book markets. “Intimacy and direct interaction connect the audience with the publishing house”
While not free of the Covid-19 virus, Italy has gone from one of the hardest hit countries to one...
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Egypt’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina holds virtual literature seminar while other MENA publishing stakeholders dither over digital
Egypt’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina held a virtual seminar at end June, titled “Fantasy...
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The StreetLib-TNPS global-perspectives newsletter Publish Africa #9 is now available
The free StreetLib-TNPS B2B global-perspectives newsletter for Africa’s authors and...
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