June 16, 2025EHF speaks to Stephanie Kitchen of the African Books Collective – who sells, promotes and distributes our titles. Stephanie talks…
February 16, 2025A new special issue of the journal Logos on African publishing is being launched and discussed at the London Book…
June 9, 2024New report on the publishing and book sector in Morocco, which focuses on literature, the humanities, and social sciences (2022–2023).
April 24, 2024Chakava is best remembered for publishing some of the giants of East African literature – Okot p’Bitek, Mazrui, Meja Mwangi,…
August 9, 2021I came across a discussion on Twitter a while back about how notable women, especially those in academia, were either…
May 6, 2021In Mozambique, women are underrepresented in print and male publishers tend to be biased toward publishing men, claiming that female…- March 6, 2021African Books Collective is 30 years old! It’s been an eventful few decades, and so we felt it was time…
December 17, 2020Books and publishing in Africa are often described in terms of ‘scarcity’ and ‘famine’, evoking the need for a crisis…
November 23, 2020It may come as a surprise to some, but Africa has been producing the written word for thousands of years…
November 3, 2020The decolonization of African studies extends beyond content to ethical partnerships between the North and the African continent. One key…
