#ReadingAfrica Week 2019

It’s that time of year again. That time when our thoughts turn from promoting the great work  by African authors and books about Africa to, well, promoting the great work by African authors and books about Africa. But this time there’s a hashtag and a chance for you to join in the fun! That’s right, it’s almost time for Reading Africa Week!

If you’re unfamiliar with the campaign, here’s the scoop: for one week in December, we, along with a host of other indie publishers, readers, libraries, and literacy organizations celebrate the amazing literary work coming from Africa. That’s fiction, non-fiction, sci-fi, comics, poetry— you name it, we’re celebrating it. We launched Reading Africa Week in 2017 to celebrate that diversity, and to spotlight some of the publishers who are doing such fantastic work getting these works to more readers.

During the week of December 1-7, let us know how you’re reading Africa. Is there a new book your falling in love with? An old favorite you know cover-to-cover? A remarkable journalist or essayist whose work you just can’t stop reading? Have a list of your favorite African comic artists? Let us know by using the hashtags #ReadingAfrica or #ReadingAfricaWeek on posts across social media. Last year, in addition to social media, we also saw a few blog posts and one video celebrating African literature. The sky is the limit, and we can’t wait to see what this year brings. This Book Riot article about last year’s event has lots of suggestions for ways you can participate.

Like last year, we have a logo that you are free to download. Many thanks to Karen Vermeulen for the design.

 

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