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Seventeen years ago, at the 20th Anniversary celebration of Books For Africa, we launched a law book program. Since the beginning of last year we have sent 20 law libraries to legal recipients in 12 African countries. We've sent a record number of our reference law libraries this year.

Books For Africa was delighted to receive photos of the installed reference law library sent last year to Malawi’s Supreme Court, along with a letter from Chief Justice Rizine Robert Mzikamanda.

Books For Africa's 150th reference law library recently arrived at the Judicial Institute for Africa (JIFA) in Cape Town, South Africa. Read more about this milestone and why our Law and Democracy Initiative is so important in our latest success story!

“The Books for Africa Jack Mason Law & Democracy Initiative is a truly remarkable and visionary endeavor,” said Donna Gollmer, director of ABA Publishing. “The opportunity to join Thomson Reuters in supporting Books for Africa by providing court systems, bar associations, women’s legal organizations and law schools across Africa with essential law books is a powerful way to support both the Rule of Law and access to justice.”

Leighton traveled to Ghana recently for the Commonwealth Magistrates and Judges Conference. During his trip, he was able to visit three organizations that received law libraries through the program: the Ghana Supreme Court, the Ghana Book Trust, and the Ghana Federation of Women Lawyers.

A law book can change a life. Donations from 117 law libraries to 24 African countries have changed millions of lives and helped to establish the rule of law across the continent, says Lane Ayres, director of the Jack Mason Law & Democracy Initiative of Books for Africa.