Gbadega Adedapo is an APIF Committee Member, the Chairman of Nigeria Book Fair Trust, and CEO Rasmed Publications Limited.

This is his story.

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About APIF

In May 2019, the International Publishers Association and Dubai Cares had a vision to support publishers across the African continent.

The result was a courageous initiative called the Africa Publishing Innovation Fund- An $800,000 fund to support literacy, book access, indigenous publishing, and library restoration.

This podcast series features the dreamers and free-thinkers who have stepped up in the face of adversity. We'll learn about their ambitious projects and a shared belief— that access to knowledge is an undeniable human right.

Learn more about the APIF by visiting https://www.apinnovation.fund

About Dubai Cares

We’d like to give special thanks to our project partner, Dubai Cares, who has been working towards providing children and youth in developing countries with access to quality education. To date, the UAE-based global philanthropic organization has successfully launched education programs reaching over 20 million beneficiaries in 60 developing countries.

To learn more, please visit www.dubaicares.ae

About IPA

This podcast series is brought to you by the International Publishers Association. The IPA is the world's largest federation of national, regional, and specialist publishers' associations. Our membership comprises 89 organizations from 73 countries in Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and the Americas. Through its members, IPA represents thousands of individual publishers worldwide who service markets containing more than 5.6 billion people. Learn more about the IPA by visiting www.internationalpublishers.org

Akoss Ofori-Mensah is an Africa Publishing Innovation Fund Committee Member. She is a Ghanian publisher and the founder of Sub Saharan Publishers, Accra. Akoss has served on the Ghana Book Publishers Association as the Honorary Secretary and Vice President. She was elected President of the Association from 2003-2005. She has been a member of the African Publishers Network (APNET), the IBBY Executive Committee, and sits on African Books Collective's Council of Management.

This is her story.

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About APIF

In May 2019, the International Publishers Association and Dubai Cares had a vision to support publishers across the African continent.

The result was a courageous initiative called the Africa Publishing Innovation Fund- An $800,000 fund to support literacy, book access, indigenous publishing, and library restoration.

This podcast series features the dreamers and free-thinkers who have stepped up in the face of adversity. We'll learn about their ambitious projects and a shared belief— that access to knowledge is an undeniable human right.

Learn more about the APIF by visiting https://www.apinnovation.fund

About Dubai Cares

We’d like to give special thanks to our project partner, Dubai Cares, who has been working towards providing children and youth in developing countries with access to quality education. To date, the UAE-based global philanthropic organization has successfully launched education programs reaching over 20 million beneficiaries in 60 developing countries.

To learn more, please visit www.dubaicares.ae

About IPA

This podcast series is brought to you by the International Publishers Association. The IPA is the world's largest federation of national, regional, and specialist publishers' associations. Our membership comprises 89 organizations from 73 countries in Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and the Americas. Through its members, IPA represents thousands of individual publishers worldwide who service markets containing more than 5.6 billion people. Learn more about the IPA by visiting www.internationalpublishers.org

Online learning reaches just 70% of school-age children in Ghana, so the Learners Girls Foundation will support 400 at-risk girls in Paga, a rural community of 100,000 in the country's north, to continue their education and access educational resources despite technology and internet connectivity challenges.

This is their story.

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About APIF

In May 2019, the International Publishers Association and Dubai Cares had a vision to support publishers across the African continent.

The result was a courageous initiative called the Africa Publishing Innovation Fund- An $800,000 fund to support literacy, book access, indigenous publishing, and library restoration.

This podcast series features the dreamers and free-thinkers who have stepped up in the face of adversity. We'll learn about their ambitious projects and a shared belief— that access to knowledge is an undeniable human right.

Learn more about the APIF by visiting https://www.apinnovation.fund

About Dubai Cares

We’d like to give special thanks to our project partner, Dubai Cares, who has been working towards providing children and youth in developing countries with access to quality education. To date, the UAE-based global philanthropic organization has successfully launched education programs reaching over 20 million beneficiaries in 60 developing countries.

To learn more, please visit www.dubaicares.ae

About IPA

This podcast series is brought to you by the International Publishers Association. The IPA is the world's largest federation of national, regional, and specialist publishers' associations. Our membership comprises 89 organizations from 73 countries in Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and the Americas. Through its members, IPA represents thousands of individual publishers worldwide who service markets containing more than 5.6 billion people. Learn more about the IPA by visiting www.internationalpublishers.org

Save the Children Rwanda will train 270 librarians in eight community libraries on the use of technology to strengthen a culture of reading in remote and rural communities while providing digitally accessible reading materials in Kinyarwanda that will keep 1.6 million children reading while unable to attend school. With the closure of schools, community libraries have taken on an even more important role in building critical literacy skills and fostering a reading culture.

This is their story.

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About APIF

In May 2019, the International Publishers Association and Dubai Cares had a vision to support publishers across the African continent.

The result was a courageous initiative called the Africa Publishing Innovation Fund- An $800,000 fund to support literacy, book access, indigenous publishing, and library restoration.

This podcast series features the dreamers and free-thinkers who have stepped up in the face of adversity. We'll learn about their ambitious projects and a shared belief— that access to knowledge is an undeniable human right.

Learn more about the APIF by visiting https://www.apinnovation.fund

About Dubai Cares

We’d like to give special thanks to our project partner, Dubai Cares, who has been working towards providing children and youth in developing countries with access to quality education. To date, the UAE-based global philanthropic organization has successfully launched education programs reaching over 20 million beneficiaries in 60 developing countries.

To learn more, please visit www.dubaicares.ae

About IPA

This podcast series is brought to you by the International Publishers Association. The IPA is the world's largest federation of national, regional, and specialist publishers' associations. Our membership comprises 89 organizations from 73 countries in Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and the Americas. Through its members, IPA represents thousands of individual publishers worldwide who service markets containing more than 5.6 billion people. Learn more about the IPA by visiting www.internationalpublishers.org

Lawrence Njagi is an IPA Africa Publishing Innovation Committee member. He is also Chairman of, Kenya Publishers Association; Founder and Managing Director, Mountain Top Publishers (Kenya); Treasurer and board member, African Publishers Network (APNET).

This is his story.

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About APIF

In May 2019, the International Publishers Association and Dubai Cares had a vision to support publishers across the African continent.

The result was a courageous initiative called the Africa Publishing Innovation Fund- An $800,000 fund to support literacy, book access, indigenous publishing, and library restoration.

This podcast series features the dreamers and free-thinkers who have stepped up in the face of adversity. We'll learn about their ambitious projects and a shared belief— that access to knowledge is an undeniable human right.

Learn more about the APIF by visiting https://www.apinnovation.fund

About Dubai Cares

We’d like to give special thanks to our project partner, Dubai Cares, who has been working towards providing children and youth in developing countries with access to quality education. To date, the UAE-based global philanthropic organization has successfully launched education programs reaching over 20 million beneficiaries in 60 developing countries.

To learn more, please visit www.dubaicares.ae

About IPA

This podcast series is brought to you by the International Publishers Association. The IPA is the world's largest federation of national, regional, and specialist publishers' associations. Our membership comprises 89 organizations from 73 countries in Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and the Americas. Through its members, IPA represents thousands of individual publishers worldwide who service markets containing more than 5.6 billion people. Learn more about the IPA by visiting www.internationalpublishers.org

As African publishers embrace digital content due to schools shifting online, many lack expertise in inclusive publishing practices to meet global accessibility standards. Starting in East Africa’s regional publishing hub of Kenya, with plans to scale to 12 African countries, eKitabu will work with publishers to enrich the remote learning of more than nine million students and teachers with accessible digital learning materials.

This is their story.

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About APIF

In May 2019, the International Publishers Association and Dubai Cares had a vision to support publishers across the African continent.

The result was a courageous initiative called the Africa Publishing Innovation Fund- An $800,000 fund to support literacy, book access, indigenous publishing, and library restoration.

This podcast series features the dreamers and free-thinkers who have stepped up in the face of adversity. We'll learn about their ambitious projects and a shared belief— that access to knowledge is an undeniable human right.

Learn more about the APIF by visiting https://www.apinnovation.fund

About Dubai Cares

We’d like to give special thanks to our project partner, Dubai Cares, who has been working towards providing children and youth in developing countries with access to quality education. To date, the UAE-based global philanthropic organization has successfully launched education programs reaching over 20 million beneficiaries in 60 developing countries.

To learn more, please visit www.dubaicares.ae

About IPA

This podcast series is brought to you by the International Publishers Association. The IPA is the world's largest federation of national, regional, and specialist publishers' associations. Our membership comprises 89 organizations from 73 countries in Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and the Americas. Through its members, IPA represents thousands of individual publishers worldwide who service markets containing more than 5.6 billion people. Learn more about the IPA by visiting www.internationalpublishers.org

As Chief Executive of Book Aid International, Alison Tweed is responsible for the organisation’s strategy and development. She worked for 25 years in publishing materials for developing world markets and has extensive knowledge of the African education sector. Book Aid International will transform three shipping containers into fully-equipped libraries in Dunga, a rural community of 76,000 in the Zanzibar region of Tanzania, where children can enjoy reading, young learners can study for exams, and adults can read and learn new skills. It will be filled with 5,000 new books for children and adults in English and local languages.

This is their story.

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About APIF

In May 2019, the International Publishers Association and Dubai Cares had a vision to support publishers across the African continent.

The result was a courageous initiative called the Africa Publishing Innovation Fund- An $800,000 fund to support literacy, book access, indigenous publishing, and library restoration.

This podcast series features the dreamers and free-thinkers who have stepped up in the face of adversity. We'll learn about their ambitious projects and a shared belief— that access to knowledge is an undeniable human right.

Learn more about the APIF by visiting https://www.apinnovation.fund

About Dubai Cares

We’d like to give special thanks to our project partner, Dubai Cares, who has been working towards providing children and youth in developing countries with access to quality education. To date, the UAE-based global philanthropic organization has successfully launched education programs reaching over 20 million beneficiaries in 60 developing countries.

To learn more, please visit www.dubaicares.ae

About IPA

This podcast series is brought to you by the International Publishers Association. The IPA is the world's largest federation of national, regional, and specialist publishers' associations. Our membership comprises 89 organizations from 73 countries in Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and the Americas. Through its members, IPA represents thousands of individual publishers worldwide who service markets containing more than 5.6 billion people. Learn more about the IPA by visiting www.internationalpublishers.org

Alissa Everett co-founded Exposing Hope in 2007 to bring awareness to human rights abuses neglected by the mainstream media through photography and to raise funds to support the subjects of her photography. Today, Exposing Hope is building a facility at the sprawling Kakuma refugee settlement in northern Kenya. Kakuma was created in 1992 to take in the so-called Lost Boys of South Sudan and refugees from Ethiopia and Somalia fleeing conflict at home. It is now one of the largest refugee camps in the world, with a population of over 191,000 from 19 different countries, including thousands of school-age children.

This is their story.

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About APIF

In May 2019, the International Publishers Association and Dubai Cares had a vision to support publishers across the African continent.

The result was a courageous initiative called the Africa Publishing Innovation Fund- An $800,000 fund to support literacy, book access, indigenous publishing, and library restoration.

This podcast series features the dreamers and free-thinkers who have stepped up in the face of adversity. We'll learn about their ambitious projects and a shared belief— that access to knowledge is an undeniable human right.

Learn more about the APIF by visiting https://www.apinnovation.fund

About Dubai Cares

We’d like to give special thanks to our project partner, Dubai Cares, who has been working towards providing children and youth in developing countries with access to quality education. To date, the UAE-based global philanthropic organization has successfully launched education programs reaching over 20 million beneficiaries in 60 developing countries.

To learn more, please visit www.dubaicares.ae

About IPA

This podcast series is brought to you by the International Publishers Association. The IPA is the world's largest federation of national, regional, and specialist publishers' associations. Our membership comprises 89 organizations from 73 countries in Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and the Americas. Through its members, IPA represents thousands of individual publishers worldwide who service markets containing more than 5.6 billion people. Learn more about the IPA by visiting www.internationalpublishers.org

Celebrated Zimbabwean poet Chirikure Chirikure has built a modern community library in Zimbabwe's Nemashakwe area, Gutu district, to offer 800 students and young people access to books, a place to study, and programs to attain livelihood skills.

Chirikure's family is converting some of their buildings for the project. They are investing the APIF grant in computers, connectivity, solar installation, and a water borehole for the users of the resource center.

This is his story.

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About APIF

In May 2019, the International Publishers Association and Dubai Cares had a vision to support publishers across the African continent.

The result was a courageous initiative called the Africa Publishing Innovation Fund- An $800,000 fund to support literacy, book access, indigenous publishing, and library restoration.

This podcast series features the dreamers and free-thinkers who have stepped up in the face of adversity. We'll learn about their ambitious projects and a shared belief— that access to knowledge is an undeniable human right.

Learn more about the APIF by visiting https://www.apinnovation.fund

About Dubai Cares

We’d like to give special thanks to our project partner, Dubai Cares, who has been working towards providing children and youth in developing countries with access to quality education. To date, the UAE-based global philanthropic organization has successfully launched education programs reaching over 20 million beneficiaries in 60 developing countries.

To learn more, please visit www.dubaicares.ae

About IPA

This podcast series is brought to you by the International Publishers Association. The IPA is the world's largest federation of national, regional, and specialist publishers' associations. Our membership comprises 89 organizations from 73 countries in Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and the Americas. Through its members, IPA represents thousands of individual publishers worldwide who service markets containing more than 5.6 billion people. Learn more about the IPA by visiting www.internationalpublishers.org

Book Bunk is a social impact firm founded in October 2017 by Wanjiru Koinange and Angela Wachuka. Their library restoration project in Kenya was assigned $50,000, and Dubai Cares gave a further $10,000 one-off donation for children’s books to stock the library. Book Bunk’s mission is to restore the historical McMillan Memorial Library, in Nairobi, working with city authorities to encourage community engagement in libraries.

After several years of researching, planning, lobbying, and implementing, the team has transformed the dilapidated buildings and their obsolete, colonial-era book collections into fresh, user-friendly incubators of knowledge, community cohesion, and cultural autonomy.

This is their story.

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About APIF

In May 2019, the International Publishers Association and Dubai Cares had a vision to support publishers across the African continent.

The result was a courageous initiative called the Africa Publishing Innovation Fund- An $800,000 fund to support literacy, book access, indigenous publishing, and library restoration.

This podcast series features the dreamers and free-thinkers who have stepped up in the face of adversity. We'll learn about their ambitious projects and a shared belief— that access to knowledge is an undeniable human right.

Learn more about the APIF by visiting https://www.apinnovation.fund

About Dubai Cares

We’d like to give special thanks to our project partner, Dubai Cares, who has been working towards providing children and youth in developing countries with access to quality education. To date, the UAE-based global philanthropic organization has successfully launched education programs reaching over 20 million beneficiaries in 60 developing countries.

To learn more, please visit www.dubaicares.ae

About IPA

This podcast series is brought to you by the International Publishers Association. The IPA is the world's largest federation of national, regional, and specialist publishers' associations. Our membership comprises 89 organizations from 73 countries in Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and the Americas. Through its members, IPA represents thousands of individual publishers worldwide who service markets containing more than 5.6 billion people. Learn more about the IPA by visiting www.internationalpublishers.org