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Programs & Events

APNET builds capacity of African publishers through training, advocacy, networking and trade by exhibiting members' books at international book fairs which include:

Publications

We create an information gathering system on the major processes and developments in African publishing through our publications....

What is APNET?

African Publishers Network (APNET) was founded by think-tank African publishers from 9 countries at a conference in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1992. Before that, no publishers knew exactly what their counterparts were really doing elsewhere in Africa, including neighboring countries...

APNET elects a new leadership

APNET held elections on Thursday 28th November, 2024 to elect new Board members to drive APNET forward for the next two years (January 2025 – December 2026). Visit our Board for the list of the new Board Members.

African Publishers Conference Organized

APNET in partnership with AFREXIMBANK, IFRRO, English Press, WIPO and UNESCO organised the 3rd African Publishers Conference in Casablanca, Morocco from 23rd to 25th June, 2025. The event was hosted by Professional Union of Moroccan Publishers (UPEM).

CANEX AND AFREXIM BANK TO ORGANISE PUBLISHERS ROUNDTABLE IN ASSOCIATION WITH APNET

As part of the 2025 Intra-African Trade Fair in Algiers, Algeria, CANEX and Afreximbank is organising Publishers Roundtable on Friday, 5 September, 2025, 14:00 – 17:00.

Objectives

The Objectives of APNET include but are not limited to:

To investigate training needs for publishing in Africa, organize training for African publishers and National Publishers’ Associations.

To accelerate the process of intra-African trading in books, in printing and in licensing and of direct trading co-operation and collaboration between publishers in different African countries.

To initiate and develop policy studies on the expansion and economic development of the publishing industries in Africa and to formulate strategies that can be employed by governments, donors, banks and lenders, overseas partners and African publishers and their associations.

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