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Books For Africa recently helped ship books from former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan’s personal library from his residence in Geneva to his boyhood school in Ghana. Read more about the details of this unique project here!

Books For Africa Executive Director Patrick Plonski was in Washington, DC, last week visiting with ambassadors and diplomatic staff from several African nations and the African Union. Check out the pictures and summary!

Books For Africa Board President-Elect Mike Essien was recently in Nigeria visiting several sites of BFA past and potential future book recipients. Check out the videos!

Books For Africa Executive Director Patrick Plonski, PhD, was interviewed by the “Giving Connected” podcast to speak about Books For Africa’s model, history, and recent strategy weathering the pandemic.

Books For Africa maintains a strategic partnership with Merck & Co, which enabled us to ship out a container of Elsevier medical books and Merck Medical Manuals to partners in Ethiopia this past week.

Books For Africa has a special initiative for providing French-language materials to Francophone Africa. Check out a story and video from a primary school in Dakar that received copies of a book by Senegalese author Sokhna Benga.