AGP Executive Report
Last update: 4 hours agoNew African Fiction: South African storyteller Puseletso Tsotetsi has turned her six-minute TikTok love story into the novel Good Things Keep Happening to Me, showing how online audiences can carry stories into print. Book Trade: The Algiers International Book Fair brings together 1,567 publishers from 51 countries, with Saudi Arabia as guest of honour. Literacy and Access: DP World and the Motus Community Trust opened their 100th school library in Gauteng; the programme reaches 125,000 learners daily. Blind SA is also pressing the government to join the Marrakesh Treaty, which would improve access to books for people with print disabilities. Publishing and Technology: South African author Coral Hart is defending her use of AI after publishing more than 370 books in 20 months, fuelling debate over AI-assisted writing. Bookshops and Reading Rooms: New reports spotlight an independent bookseller drawing interest in Angola and a Liberia reading room stocked with more than 2,000 books.
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