Here at ElleAfrique we believe in an African voice, telling our own stories and empowering our own people, especially our women. Oftentimes, literary voices from the continent go largely unnoticed – lack of publishing infrastructure, funding and interest contribute to the shortage of African-centered stories. Despite the existence of talented writers from all over the continent, creating stories as unique and diversified as the continent itself, “African Literature” is still seen as a narrow sub-genre of literary art; encompassing only the iconic colonial writers and African nationalists of the past and the contemporary writings of the Chimamanda Adichie’s of the world. Barbara Njau and Kudakwashe Kamupira saw this trend and set out to redirect it. Hence, Bahati Books was born. Bahati Books, an e-book publishing company, aims at providing a platform and e-book publishing service to talented African authors in the diaspora and on the continent. This dynamic duo started Bahati Books after realizing their frustration with major publishing houses and their lack of contemporary African content. Since then, they’ve been on a mission to find and publish amazing and talented undiscovered authors. To date they have signed 6 authors, debuting one author a week. Since September of this year they have published 9 short [...]
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