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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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.
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!
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.
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?
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.