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Books For Africa Shipment Lands in Nigeria, Distributed by Ovie of the Agbarha-Otor Kingdom

April 8th, 2024

Books For Africa was pleased to complete a shipment of books to Nigeria that was the result of a partnership stemming from 2022! Check out the presentation ceremony to the Ovie (King) of Agbarha-Otor Kingdom.

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Q&A: Books For Africa Founder Tom Warth Marks 60-million Milestone

Mary Divine

St. Paul Pioneer Press

April 4th, 2024

Tom Warth once visited a school library in Jinja, Uganda, that had nearly everything everything a library needs — except books.

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Books For Africa Supplies French Books to Togo with Child2Child

April 2nd, 2024

Books For Africa's most recent shipment with Child2Child included a special initiative to get French books to Togo. Read more about it in Child2Child's latest online booklet!

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15 Containers of Books For Africa Books Sponsored by U.S. Department of Defense Land in Africa

April 1st, 2024

Books For Africa is pleased to have received confirmation that over 390,000 books shipped to three different partners in Nigeria, South Sudan, and Kenya have landed and been distributed. These books, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense Funded Transportation Program, were shipped between June and November of last year. 

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Books Are Still Vital for Literacy and Learning

Lucia Ndabula

Mail & Guardian

March 14th, 2024

While the improved 2023 matric pass rate is cause for celebration, consider the almost 500,000 children who started grade one in the same year but dropped out of school along the way. What can be done to ensure that more learners stay in the system until grade 12?

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Atlanta woman sends 45,000 books to children in her native Congo

Laura Berrios

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

March 8th, 2024

Niclette Mundabi of Atlanta wanted to do something special for her 35th birthday. Instead of receiving presents, she decided to give books—thousands of books—to children in her native country, the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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