Bookbot improves literacy in Indonesia while western publishing sits on the AI fence
The time needed to train the bot for Kiswahili will be down to 3-6 months instead of two years....
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Category: Tanzania
Big Bad Wolf debuts in Africa. Tanzania the first step. Kenya next?
This venture is being supported by the Sharjah Book Authority in keeping with the 2019 agreement...
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African Publishing – The $5 Billion Digital Opportunity as Nigeria becomes 7th largest country by online population
At the IPA Africa Seminar in Lagos in 2018 it was reported that the African book market was worth...
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StreetLib completes Pan-African digital footprint. Launches a publisher portal for every nation in Africa. 800m Africans online by 2025
Italy-based digital books distributor and publishing facilitator StreetLib has completed the third...
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Tanzania's 2018 Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature sets the scene for the Kenya Swahili Literary Festival
Weeks before the first ever Swahili Literary Festival kicks off in Kenya in the first days of...
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Kenya’s Swahili Literary Festival 2019 set for Mombasa in March, but don’t get your hopes up to be selling Swahili ebooks on Amazon
A Swahili Literary Festival? Those who follow the African literary scene (or indeed follow TNPS)...
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