To mark the tenth anniversary of Port Harcourt World Ebook Capital, the Rainbow Ebook Membership, the mission managers of the programme, have launched two new initiatives.
These initiatives, Speaking Books Africa and the ROAR Africa sequence, will revolutionize the literary panorama. Speaking Books Africa, a month-to-month, digital, reside dialog with authors, kicked off with novelist Chibundu Onuzo, writer of 'Sankofa' as a visitor. The ROAR Africa sequence, however, will deliver to life the biographies of notable Africans for younger readers.
ROAR, in collaboration with UNESCO, begins with Nobel Prize winner Professor Wole Soyinka, who turns 90 in July.
Port Harcourt made historical past a decade in the past when it took on its tenure because the UNESCO World Ebook Capital, beating eight different contenders, together with Oxford.
In his keynote tackle on the opening ceremony of World Ebook Capital's one-year time period, Professor Soyinka emphasised the significance of the guide to nationwide improvement and the risk to schooling.
Musicians Burna Boy, Timi Dakolo, MI, Waje, Yemi Alade and Nosa carried out the theme tune of PH World Ebook Capital on the identical occasion.
Quite a few impactful packages have been launched in the course of the World Ebook Capital 12 months. These embrace the institution of 200 guide golf equipment in faculties, Shell's sponsorship of a 350-seat library and the publication of tales written by kids from the 23 native councils of Rivers State and the 36 Nigerian states about their communities.
Hay Pageant and Rainbow Ebook Membership collaborated on the 'Africa 39' mission, which chosen and celebrated 39 of Africa's most promising writers below the age of 40.
That 12 months, Port Harcourt World Ebook Capital exhibited on the Cape City Ebook Truthful, the London Ebook Truthful and the Frankfurt Ebook Truthful.
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