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Africa and is the executive arm of the council; the
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provided support for the KAWI project (also SAP KAWI project) to produce and illustrate popular science books for children in national and minority languages in Africa. African authors and illustrators were used to create the content which was translated into various languages.
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had difficulty sharing information and learning from one another’s experiences. There was no publicly-accessible database containing the addresses of libraries, bookshops or fellow publishers, and there was no networking structure connecting the agencies.
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is the only pan-African publishing journal published in Africa with news, analysis, and in-depth perspectives of
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