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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Tag: Kenya publishing
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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