Nina Thompson
Pioneer Press
July 15th, 2022
At the Books For Africa warehouse off of Prior Avenue in St. Paul, students and administrators of the Mandela Washington fellowship program sorted thousands of books Thursday into cardboard boxes, which were bursting at the seams with children’s books and novels. Next to those boxes, shrink-wrapped pallets of stacked textbooks in biology and physics are ready to be sent across the Atlantic to the continent of Africa.
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Kare 11
Twenty-four African leaders from 15 different countries sorted and packed books at the Books for Africa warehouse as part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship.
LaCrosse Tribune
June 30th, 2022
When University of Wisconsin-Stout’s Instructional Resources Service began its partnership with Books for Africa, the university donated small quantities of titles, and BFA Founder Tom Warth collected the boxes of withdrawn textbooks in his SUV. But now, over these many years, they are needing semitrucks to collect the books
AlloAfricaNews
June 27th, 2022
On Wednesday, June 15, Togolese Ambassador to the United States Frédéric Hegbe hosted the annual Books For Africa Summit Society Reception, the first in nearly three years.
Abbey Goers
UW Stout News
June 24th, 2022
Books for Africa recognizes staff for the half-million books donated over 25-year partnership
Panashe Matemba-Mutasa
Mshale
June 15th, 2022
The world’s largest shipper of donated books to Africa held a fundraiser on June 8, where the goal was to break its own record and send 3.2 million books to the continent by the end of the year.