![]() ![]() “African books are still not well known beyond our borders. Kiarie Kamau, the chairman of Kenya Publishers Association and CEO of East African Educational Publishers explained that the business of buying and selling rights has been largely unexplored in the African market. In coming years, NIBF will build on this concept that includes showcasing the best literature from the continent as well as developing rights exchanges, enabling publishers to grow their relationships in the continent’s dynamic literary scene. The Fair will feature activities that spotlight reading, writing, and the love of language and culture in African communities. NIBF brings together publishing professionals, authors, and readers from the continent and around the world. The Rights Café will also feature innovative speed-dating sessions with buyers and sellers. Featured activities will include panel discussions on trends in African literature, how to strengthen rights trading for African writers, as well as fireside chats with authors. NIBF Ambassadors are rights buyers drawn from publishing houses in Africa and the rest of the world. The Rights Café will be a new, dedicated space for business-to-business rights discussions with NIBF Ambassadors. With increasing global focus on African writing, this new initiative aims to open networks on the continent and to get African writing into more readers' hands across African countries and globally. ![]() African publishing rights professionals from Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda will be there to meet with each other and their counterparts from Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, India, Italy, Netherlands, the UK, and USA. Taking place from September 27 to October 1 at the Sarit Expo Centre in Nairobi, the Rights Café 2023 will focus on publishing, trading, and translation rights. For Immediate Release: Moving African Content: Rights trading in African content at the Nairobi International Book Fair for the first time eKitabu, in partnership with the Kenya Publishers Association (KPA) and the African Publishers Network (APNET), will for the first time bring together rights professionals and editors from across the African continent and around the world to build a content market at the Nairobi International Book Fair (NIBF). Please do join us 2023 if you are here in Kenya-karibuni sana sana! And feel free to spread the news in your networks. We welcome your feedback, questions, and ideas. Dear Friends,We are pleased to share with you the press release that we are shipping today to friends and colleagues on the continent and the wider publishing community with the Kenya Publishers Association and the African Publishers Network.
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