There are fashion coffee table books, and then there are books that may land on coffee tables, but certainly serve up much more than compelling imagery from a designer’s collections. With “Africa ...

Share this list of children’s books set in Africa with your children ages 2 to 12. Discover picture books, chapter books, and middle grade books with stories spotlight the rich diversity of the ...

Scholarship on Christian engagement of Islam in Africa is expanding, and many Africans, especially Christian theologians, are taking interest. The growth in scholarship on Islam and its varied ...

The acclaimed French publishing imprint Assouline, famous for it’s collectible, image rich coffee table books, is taking on safaris for the first time with “African Adventures: The Greatest Safari on ...

Jeffery Gettleman, the Pulitzer-Prize winning New York Times East Africa Bureau Chief, delivers a powerful and revealing memoir about his love for Africa. You might expect to read swashbuckling tales ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mike Essien knows the power of literature, especially during the formative years — how it broadens a person’s worldview, fosters ...

Books for Africa — a St. Paul nonprofit founded in 1988 that is the largest shipper of donated library and textbooks to the African continent — this month will mark its 50 millionth book sent. The ...

Who counts as an intellectual? In many traditions, the figure of the intellectual is tied to the search for truth, social critique and public engagement. From the Dreyfus Affair (a political scandal ...

Thirty-six years after former Motorbooks publisher Tom Warth founded Books for Africa, to ship donated textbooks and library books to school children in Africa, the organization, headquartered in St.

Sitting on the shelves of one of Kenya’s oldest libraries is a treasure trove of untapped financial opportunity — books. The McMillan Memorial Library has served as a literary hub in Nairobi’s central ...

Two teenage sister duos are making a difference in Africa by distributing 60,000 books to Ghana and Nigeria. Now, the four girls have their sights set on the French-speaking nation of Togo. According ...

Andrée Blouin was a political activist and writer from the Central African Republic. Until recently, her name hardly ever appeared in the grand narratives of Africa’s liberation. When she died in 1986 ...