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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Celebrating English and Portuguese literature, the first Macondo Literary Festival is set for September in Kenya
Named after the fictional town in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, “a...
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StreetLib-TNPS launch "Publish Africa – the digital advantage". Bi-weekly B2B insights into Africa's publishing transition
StreetLib is the publisher behind The New Publishing Standard, and while TNPS is not a...
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In advance of the IPA Africa Regional Seminar StreetLib announces plans for a Pan-African Digital Library Hub
StreetLib is the publisher behind The New Publishing Standard, and while TNPS is not a...
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“Reaching the World Book Market through Effective Book Distribution Networks” is the Ghana International Book Fair’s 2019 theme as Google opens an AI facility in Accra
Global publishing is a holistic affair and increasingly tech-driven at every level. The news that...
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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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International Publishers Association announces line-up for 2nd IPA Africa Seminar in Nairobi
If last year’s inaugural IPA Africa Seminar in Lagos was a much needed wake-up call to a global...
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Tanzania's 2018 Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature sets the scene for the Kenya Swahili Literary Festival
Weeks before the first ever Swahili Literary Festival kicks off in Kenya in the first days of...
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StreetLib completes January tranche of global expansion. 21 countries on 6 continents
When StreetLib launched The New Publishing Standard in September 2017 we made clear the function...
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"A sweeping fantasy epic steeped in Pan-African history and folklore—one of the most anticipated books of the year." Widely unavailable in Africa
That was the Wall Street Journal this week. Well, maybe not that last bit. What the Wall Street...
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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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