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David Mann, author of Once Removed, interviews award-winning Scottish-South African poet, Basil du Toit about his latest collection of poetry Studies in Khoisan Verbs.
#Catalogues
Take a look at the African Books Collective Fall Catalogue 2024
#Interviews
Salimah Valiani interviews Anton Krueger about his poetry collection, Everybody is a Bridge: Poems, Prose-Poems, Notes & Fragments (Botsotso Publishing).
Karen Chalamilla, African Arguments, interviews Mkuki Bgoya, publisher at Mkuki na Nyota.
Interview with debut novelist Samuel Ajibiye on his book The Master of Fate (Malthouse Press).
#Reviews
John Graversgaard reviews Guerrilla Incursions into the Capitalist Mindset by Shiraz Durrani for Countercurrents.
Interview with multi-award-winning poet and academic Tanure Ojaide on his new collection History and its True Colors (Spears Media Press).
Franziska Kramer and Jürgen Kramer share part of their Introduction to the Weaver Press short story collection, Windows into Zimbabwe.
#Opinion
Stephanie Kitchen presented on ‘Book Publishing and Publishing Collectives in Africa’ at a British Academy Writing Workshop on ‘Defiant Scholarship in Africa’.
An opinion piece by Jude Fokwang, presented at the Workshop on Defiant Scholarship in Africa, Yaoundé, Cameroon, 18 – 20 June 2024.
Sarah Lubala interviews Salimah Valiani on her new book, IGoli EGoli (Botsotso Publishing).
#Resources
New report on the publishing and book sector in Morocco, which focuses on literature, the humanities, and social sciences (2022–2023).
Interview with award-winning editor and arts writer, David Mann, on his new short story collection, Once Removed (Botsotso Publishing).
Take a look at the African Books Collective Books in African Languages Catalogue
#Publisher Profiles
Wilfred Kanu Jr., CEO of Badson Publishing, talks about the roots of his publishing venture and how he is working with African Books Collective.
Read African Books interviews short story writer, Zaheera Jina Asvat, about her new collection, The Tears of the Weaver (Modjaji Books).
Read African Books interviews South African author Ashti Juggath about her new book, the award winning Peaches and Smeets (Modjaji Books).
In February 2024, Hans Zell published a new third updated and expanded edition of Publishing & Book Culture in Africa: A Repository of Selected Resources. The repository aims to provide quick access to key literature about the many aspects of book culture, and publishing and book development in sub-Saharan Africa. Zell presents the repository here along with some of the needs of African publishing in the future.
ABC was delighted to learn that the Publisher of Mkuki na Nyota Publishers and founding Chair of the Council of Management of ABC, Walter Bgoya, and Mary Jay, earlier consultant, CEO and director of ABC, have been awarded the Outstanding African Studies Award by the African Studies Association of the UK. We congratulate both on this achievement and note their groundbreaking and longstanding contributions to ABC's collective efforts to publish and disseminate African books, literature and research globally.
African Books Collective's Statement on Gaza
Press release: Grant fund from the Hawthornden Foundation
Take a look at the African Books Collective Spring 2024 Catalogue!
Stephanie Kitchen, African Books Collective Director, speaks to the Independent Publishers Guild podcast about all things ABC.
Interview with David Mills, University of Oxford academic and now African Books Collective Director!
Take a look at the African Books Collective Children and Teens 2023-24 Catalogue!
Take a look at the African Books Collective's Fall 2023 Catalogue!
Take a look at the African Books Collective's 2023 Literature Catalogue!
Welcome to the African Books Collective Catalogue 2022-2023! Explore books from 30 independent publishers from across 12 African countries.
Interview with Nii Ayikwei Parkes, British-Ghanaian writer, editor, publisher, and now African Books Collective Director.
#Conferences & Workshops
For Africa, knowledge is a contested site that acquires affirmations, claims, and delineations. İt has to operate through many layers. In fact, is Africa a discourse, or an idea or concept? These are the questions begging to be asked. Ahmet Sait Akcay reflects on the recent ASAA conference.
African scholarship, like all scholarship, must be conducted rigorously, follow scientific methods, account for context, and stand up to critical appraisal. Why, however, refer specifically to “African scholarly writing?”
Tendai Mwanaka is a Zimbabwean writer, editor and publisher who has published 21 books and 23 curated anthologies. Perhaps his best-known anthologies are the Best New African Poets anthologies that have provided a forum for poets across the African continent.
At the last count there were 48,400,000 fictional accounts on the theme of Colonialism globally.
It is amazing that in a year when an African novelist, Abdulrasaq Gurhni won the Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Norwegian Academy referred to as "his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents," a phenomenal new book on ‘the cause of women, love and immigration’ would be published.
I made a deal with my eight-year-old son that for every book above 110 pages that he reads, I’ll pay him 15 rands, an equivalent of one United States Dollar (US$1).
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