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Exclusive Books is one of South Africa's largest bookselling chains with stores throughout South Africa, and one store in Gaborone, Botswana and one in Windhoek, Namibia. As of 1 December 2013, the chain is owned and operated by a private group of investors. It was previously owned by the Times Media Group (TMG), after TMG took control of Avusa.
The 9mobile Prize for Literature (formerly the Etisalat Prize for Literature 2013–16) was created by Etisalat Nigeria in 2013, [1] [2] and is the first ever pan-African prize celebrating first-time African writers of published fiction books. [3]
Although boeke is an Afrikaans word, the plural form of the word for "book", the Boeke Prize has only been awarded to novels written in English. Launched in 1995, the award was made mostly to first novels or works: 12 of the first 19 winners were debut works. The books were judged by a panel of book critics (40 in 2008). [1]
The Johannesburg Review of Books (or JRB) is a South African online magazine based on other literary magazines such as The New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. Its bi-monthly issues include reviews, essays, poetry, photographs, and short fiction focused predominantly but not exclusively on South Africa and other African ...
The Nigeria International Book Fair festival majorly involves the display of several books for exhibition, providing a platform for the sale of these books to interested customers. The festival also features other programmes which includes; teachers training workshop, publishers workshop, a two-day programme for children, principal officers ...
Nigerian Books of Record (NBR) is a reference / Official Book of Record of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for documenting good records held by Nigerians. It is a collection of human achievements categorized into education, literature, agriculture, medical science, business, sports, nature, adventure, radio and cinema etc. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The National Library of Nigeria came into operation in the mid-1960s with the enactment of the National Library Act of 1964 which was later replaced by Act No. 29 of 1970. [1] [2] [3] Before the passage of the National Library Act, a series of educational conferences conducted in Ibadan served as the intellectual basis for the creation of a network of libraries funded by the federal government ...
Currently, we have ASb Champions in Benin, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe and the Diaspora. We are always looking to identify more Champions in countries where we don't have, particularly, those with links to government education departments.