Print Textbooks in Vernacular - Parly
The Herald
Textbooks used in schools and colleges need to be translated into vernacular as part of measures to preserve cultural identity, Parliamentarians said this week. Read more »
Pandemic Effects Linger, and Art Invites Us to Pause and Behold Distance, Time and Trauma [analysis]
The Conversation Africa
When I finished the manuscript for my book The Pause, which looked at the COVID-19 pandemic through the idea of "pausing," a notion frequently invoked in pandemic discussions of… Read more »
The Reflection of Women Sympathy in Zimbabwean Novel 'Nervous Conditions' (Part One)
Ethiopian Herald
Nervous Condition is a novel written by Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Dangarembga in 1988, and it is situated in imagined Rhodesia. Nervous Conditions derives its title from Jean-Paul… Read more »
The Long Shadow of German Colonialism [analysis]
African Arguments
Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from… Read more »
Africa's Best Selling Books of All Time
Independent (Kampala)
Over the past century, African writers have written about their lives, experiences, culture, history, and myths in a variety of forms, styles, and languages. They have been widely… Read more »
Minister Ganoo Launches Road Safety Books and Digital Materials for Primary School Students
Government of Mauritius
The Minister of Land Transport and Light Rail, Mr Alan Ganoo, launched, this morning at the New Bambous Geoffroy Government School in Bambous, the Road Safety books and digital… Read more »
Peter Randall - - the Pioneering, Down-to-Earth Activist Behind Ravan Press [analysis]
Daily Maverick
Peter Randall was an innovative publisher who promoted revolutionary authors and academics. Read more »
Book On 2004/2005 Banking Consolidation to Be Unveiled in Lagos
Premium Times
The Power of One Man: How the Soludo-Engineered Consolidation Transformed Nigerian Banks to Global Players will be reviewed by Azu Ishiekwene. Read more »
Brandon Sanderson's Wind and Truth, At Last
Observer
Wind And Truth, the fifth novel in Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive, is complete. Read more »
Over 170 Books Raised for Camulemba Community in Huila Province
ANGOP
At least 172 books were collected in the pilot phase of the "Doe Livro Transforme Mentes" (Donate Book Transform Minds) project, to create a reading space called "Camulemba… Read more »
Ordinary White South Africans and Apartheid - Bound to a Racist System They Helped Prop Up [analysis]
The Conversation Africa
In South Africa, apartheid was a divisive political system entrenched by a white minority who regarded other ethnic groups as inferior, creating townships on the outskirts of… Read more »
Peter Randall - a Pioneering Publisher Who Established the Radical Ravan Press in South Africa [analysis]
The Conversation Africa
Peter Randall, a pioneering South African activist publisher and educator, passed away on 5 June 2024 in Johannesburg. He was the co-founder of Ravan Press, which published books… Read more »
Niran Adedokun Releases New Book
Daily Trust
Nrrative Landscape Press has announced the release of Ethnicity Eats, Corruption Feasts: A Columnist's Insights on Nigeria by Niran Adedokun. Read more »