African writing

As the Caine Prize contenders visit the UK in advance of the announcement of the winner next week, chair of the judges Dr Peter Kimani discusses what the prize has meant to African writing  Read more

Special issue Africa Rising

Interviews and market information highlight just a few of the opportunities for African and international publishers to work together. This magazine was produced in cooperation with the International Publishers Association and its 'Africa Rising' seminar in Nairobi last week.

Bringing African Authors to a Worldwide Audience

As conversations about children's and young adult books are underway at the Bologna Children's Book FairThe Bologna Children's Book Fair or La fiera del libro per ragazzi is the leading professional fair for children's books in the world. this week, a cross-continental publishing duo has launched a cooperation to mentor African children's book authors and publish their books in the US, UK and across the African continent.

Most people would spike an idea if the business plan revealed negative numbers year after year. But Bibi Bakare-Yusuf is not most people. With precisely no entrepreneurial experience, she ignored the numbers, she says, "because I'm not a business woman" and, in 2006, launched Cassava Republic, a boutique publishing firm headquartered in Nigeria's capital city of Abuja.

In 2016, an old scam began circulating on Facebook about a man who needed to collect money to rescue his cousin, a Nigerian astronaut, from space. One Dr. Bakare Tunde explained that he needed to raise $3 million to save the astronaut from a secret Soviet-era space station where he was trapped.  Read more