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United Nations SDG Book Club African Chapter
A coalition of African book club industry actors with guidance from the International Publishers Association (IPA) and the United Nations Namibia have come together to establish this book club. The African Club promotes the UN Sustainable Development Goals using children's books of all kinds as a tool.
The target age of the child learners: 6 - 12years+
The 4 main languages of the Club are: English, Arabic, Kiswahili, and French. Website: https://namibia.un.org/en/125415-sdg-book-club-african-chapter
Saraba Magazine & Saraba Manuscript Prize
Founded by Damilola Ajayi and Emmanuel Iduma, Saraba magazine provides a platform for emerging writers to showcase their talent. The magazine accepts submissions from new writers in Nigeria and from other parts of Africa. The Saraba Manuscript Prize, a recent initiative of the magazine,is a powerful response to the growing interest in literature published and discussed within African countries. The prize accepts manuscript submissions in fiction and non-fiction categories from Nigerian writers at home and abroad. The aim is to bring the works of new writers to the attention of established and reputable new generation publishers. In 2015, Rotimi Babatunde, Caine Prize Winner, chaired the jury of the Saraba Manuscript Prize Website: http://wwww.sarabamag.com & http://manuscript.sarabamag.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sarabamag
Bahati Books
Founded by King's College London alumna, Barbara Njau and by business partner Kudakwashe Kamupira, Bahati Books is currently based at Bush House, London. The digital publishing house, supported by King's London 20 Accelerator Programme, is dedicated to publishing and promoting African literature. King's College London has profiled Bahati Books as among 'game-changers' in education. Website: http://www.bahatibooks.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bahatibooks
Lagos Book and Art Festival, LABAF
Africa's biggest cultural picnic', an international event LABAF is an art festival with a 'heavy book content'. The host of LABAF, Committee for Relevant Art (CORA) periodically also hosts the Book Editor's Clinic at the festival. The Clinic seeks to cultivate standards in the quality of books and literary materials produced in Nigeria. CORA also hosts the Publishers Forum as a pre-LABAF event. This forum is a business meeting of stakeholders in the publishing value-chain. Website: http://www.lagosbookartfestival.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LagosBookAndArtFestivalLABAF
Jalada Africa
The pan-African writers collective, Jalada Africa, shot to international fame in 2016 subsequent to its feat of translating 'The Upright Revolution: Or Why Humans Walk Upright', into 30 languages spoken in Africa. The short story by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, originally written in Kikuyu, became overnight, the 'single most translated short story in the history of African writing' Website: http://jaladaafrica.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JaladaAfrica
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