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Check out this great podcast where Books For Africa was interviewed on Manufacturer’s Library, a production of the Book Manufacturers’ Institute.

If this past year has taught us anything, it is that the safety and well-being of people halfway across the world can have a dramatic impact on Minnesotans here at home. From hunger, to civil conflict, to global pandemics, Minnesotans know that we are not truly safe until all of us around the world are safe as well.

Books For Africa’s year was filled with milestones, from adapting to COVID-19 to marking the 50 millionth book sent since it began improving literacy and striving to end the continent’s “book famine” 32 years ago.

You know you have read a great book when it leaves you feeling empowered, edified and uplifted. Books For Africa is the world’s largest shipper of books to the African continent. It believes in the transformative potential of reading and aims to inspire hope and create a culture of literacy. Find out how books you no longer need could nourish a new generation of thought leaders thousands of miles away.

Books For Africa once again made the list of Minnesota's top 100 nonprofits! Check out this year's list published by the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

When Books For Africa (BFA) began after a visit to a library with empty shelves in Uganda in 1988, we had no idea that 32 years later BFA would be shipping its 50 millionth book to the African continent.