Ghana reviewed plans for a book industry's recovery

Bodour Al Qasimi: The publishers have an opportunity for a fresh start

Role Al Qasimi during the meeting with Ghanaian publishers.

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Sheikha Bodour bint Sultan Al Qasimi, President of the International Publishers Association, invited African publishers to participate in the third round of the African Fund for Innovation in Publishing, which includes grants totaling 800 thousand dollars, provided by Dubai Cares over a period of four years in cooperation with the International Publishers Association. Despite the challenges that the Corona pandemic has imposed on the book industry, publishers have an opportunity for a fresh start.

This came during the meeting of Sheikha Bodour bint Sultan Al Qasimi, with a number of members of the Ghana Publishers Association and a group of local publishers, as she discussed with them, during her recent visit to Ghana, opportunities to enhance the future growth of the African publishing sector by taking advantage of the changes imposed by the Corona pandemic at the global level. .

Ghana's visit came within a series of visits by the President of the International Publishers Association to a number of African countries, in which the major institutions and companies of the publishing industry in Africa meet to promote dialogue and exchange knowledge and experiences, to discuss the challenges facing publishers, as she believes that achieving these endeavors will pave the way. Towards developing global partnerships and diversifying business models in the publishing industry.

During the meeting, Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi discussed the diversity of educational solutions in Africa, the opportunities provided by virtual education, the transfer of millions of students from the continent to online education, in addition to the great opportunity for African publishers to make a new beginning.

During the visit, the President of the International Publishers Association met members of the African Publishers Network, and invited the most prominent stakeholders in the publishing industry to cooperate with the International Publishers Association, and to explore the existing opportunities.

Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi stressed that the African Fund for Innovation in Publishing is one of the most important catalysts for positive change in the publishing sector, raising education rates and promoting the culture of reading in Africa, noting the need to search for local solutions to the challenges facing the publishing sector.

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