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Books For Africa Executive Director Patrick Plonski, PhD, was interviewed by the “Giving Connected” podcast to speak about Books For Africa’s model, history, and recent strategy weathering the pandemic.

Books For Africa maintains a strategic partnership with Merck & Co, which enabled us to ship out a container of Elsevier medical books and Merck Medical Manuals to partners in Ethiopia this past week.

Books For Africa has a special initiative for providing French-language materials to Francophone Africa. Check out a story and video from a primary school in Dakar that received copies of a book by Senegalese author Sokhna Benga.

MPR recently covered a book review from a bookseller in Michigan with BFA connections.

Books For Africa mourns the passing of its Law & Democracy Co-Chair Walter Mondale. Read more about Mondale’s background and work with BFA over the years.

Agoura High School students Brittney Nial and Helena DeLoof organized a recent collection drive for Books For Africa. They collected 9,000 textbooks, medical books, children's literature, fiction and nonfiction books to be distributed to small library building projects in Africa through BFA.