In January, Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina came out as gay, following the passage of a wave of anti-gay laws in Africa. Having grown up in a country where homosexuality is… Read more »

For their study, “Reading in the Mobile Era,” UNESCO conducted surveys in seven developing countries and found that mobile devices can be an important factor in fostering literacy around the… Read more »

Kenyan news site Standard Digital reported this week that Kenya has gotten its first e-bookstore. The social enterprise outsourcer Digital Divide Data (DDD) is offering the service, eKitabu, that will… Read more »

Melville International Crime author Mukoma Wa Ngugi was recently interviewed by Kali TV, an independent news program that focuses on the stories of Africans living in the diaspora. Wa Ngugi’s… Read more »