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A child who reads and writes regularly will most likely be more confident, think faster and express themselves better.
Mr. Simpson Muhwezi is the Founder and Creative Director of Wandiika Literacy Initiative, a social enterprise whose mission is to use...
PUBLISHERS OF AFRICAN AND AFRO-AMERICAN CHILDREN BOOKS IN THE DIASPORA
It’s often difficult for African parents to find books for their kids online. Below is a list of diasporic publishers specialized in African and Afro-american children books. You can find much more interesting content on their respective website which have directly been added to ease things.
Conversation with Dr. Martin Egblewogbe founder of Pa Gya! Literary Festival
In collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Ghana, Writers Project of Ghana organised the fifth edition of "Pa Gya! A Literary Festival in...
How can children books help in raising confident kids? - Lessons from Festival Saint-Petersburg Book Lighthouse
Christian Elongué gave a public talk on the topic “Who is the true alpha of the family?", during the festival "Saint-Petersburg Book Lighthouse" moderated by Nadezhda Filimonova and Evgeniia Trofimova from the Kronshtadt children’s library in Russia. Elongué thus explained that parenting styles must be adapted and personnalised to the kids and teens personality. There is no one right way to raise a child. It’s important to focus on balancing priorities, juggling responsibilities and quickly ...
How did Muna Kalati start ? - Conversation with the founder
It was at university with the pan-African associative movements and my Master's degree in "Africa and Globalization" that I discovered the rich African past and became aware of my cultural alienation. I knew more about the history of France, Great Britain and Belgium than that of Cameroon and I realized that the books of my childhood had largely contributed to it. I realized that children's and youth literature was a powerful tool for building the imagination and identity of young Africans, f...
Muna Kalati advocated for more diversity in global children literature at IBBY Russia 2021
From the 9th to 12 September 2021, Muna Kalati was represented through its Director Christian Elongué at the 37th Ibby Children’s Book International Congress In Moscow, under the theme «Great Big World Through Children’s Books: National and Foreign Literature — Role, Value, Impact on Young Readers in Different Countries». It was an opportunity to explore diversity of themes, characters, issues in children’s literature of the world, to discuss cultural variety which doesn’t prevent them from i...
Overcoming the translation challenges in African language publishing for children
Translation is a way of increasing the amount of reading material for African children. ‘If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart’. - Nelson Mandela Translation is an act of re-creation, sharing and reciprocal development between readers and writers of different languages. The potential of translation to greatly increase output with minimal effort is clear. Not all, however, feel comfortable with t...
The need of writing and publishing children books in indigenous African languages
The growing interest in bilingual education in sub-Saharan Africa has highlighted an urgent need for reading material in African languages. Increasingly, parents and educators, conscious of the strategic value of indigenous language on identity construction, encourage or educate children to know and speak at least one local languages. However, parents are usually faced with many challenges whenever they attempt to find bilingual books in their local languages.
37 best mobile apps and websites to access free children books & Stories for African
We hope that one of these 37 apps and websites would satisfy your needs to access African books or original stories for your kids or teenagers. If you know any other platform with African content or stories for kids or young adults, please do let us know in comment.
25 Questions to stimulate critical thinking skills of a kid
Does your kid ask “Why” all the time? Do you want to help them search for answers to the big questions but don't know how? Here are a few questions to encourage your little philosopher.
11 Simple ideas to introduce kids to philosophy
Kids may not be familiar with the practice of philosophy, so we’ve created some ground rules that will promote better discussion
Meet Kotigo: a pioneer audiobook app to listen to Afrocentric Audiobooks & Podcasts
Kotigo is an audiobook platform with primary focus on African authors and publishers. The audiobooks comprise rich audio formats of printed books written by great authors and others. The Kotigo catalogue consists of wide collection of book genre ranging from business, personal development, finance, religious, biographies, children, marriage, relationships and many others.