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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]
The award was loosely modelled on the United Kingdom's Booker Prize, and sponsored by Exclusive Books.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.
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 ...
By 1928 the company was publishing most of South Africa's newspapers. Shortly after World War II the company expanded by opening outlets in Rhodesia (present day Zimbabwe). [3] In 1983 CNA merged with Gallo Africa to form CNA Gallo. The company acquired South African cinema chain Nu Metro in 1990 and proceeded to fully buy it out in 1992. [3]
OkadaBooks was a self-publishing and bookselling platform based in Nigeria, [1] [2] founded by Okechukwu Ofili in 2013. [3] [4] [5] It was selected by Google's "Google for Start-up Accelerator" in 2017. [6] In 2018, it hosted a writing competition in partnership with Guaranty Trust Bank called "Dusty Manuscript". [7]
Njabulo Ndebele (born 1948), South Africa; Okey Ndibe (born 1960), Nigeria; Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo (born 1950), Equatorial Guinea; Patrice Nganang (born 1970), Cameroon;