Books For Africa

Yesterday Books For Africa’s top donors and supporters were hosted for a special reception at the Kenyan Embassy in Washington, D.C. Ambassadors and diplomatic representatives were on hand from Kenya, The African Union, Ethiopia, Angola, Malawi, Uganda, Tanzania, The Ivory Coast, and Zimbabwe. Thank you everyone for your support!

This week Books For Africa leadership was in Washington DC for US Global Leadership Coalition meetings, African Union events, and visits to the embassies of Angola, Tunisia, and South Africa.

Books For Africa hosted in Minnesota this week H.E. Constancia Gaspar, Ambassador from African Union to the U.S., and H.E. Agostinho Van-Dunem, Ambassador from Angola to the U.S. Both spoke at our annual fundraiser. We were pleased to have them update our Books For Africa community about issues and trends in Angola, and across the African continent. We look forward to continued collaboration in the future with these ambassadors to ship more books to Angola, and across Africa. We raised over $191,000 to ship more books to Africa. Thank you to all of our donors who helped to make this happen!

Great story here about our recent collaboration with San Jose State University to ship books to the Kenya National Library!

Soma Safari iSchool - Spring 2026 - SJSU Magazine SJSU iSchool, Kenya National Library Service, Knowledge Empowering Youth (KEY) Libraries, Little Free Library, Books For Africa, Anthony Chow, Jackie Leonard, Book Ecosystem Project, Soma Safari, Sara Russell, Patrick Plonski, Charles Ngui Nzivo, Daniel Gumnit, Nyakundi James Nyambane, Gina Mik, Tif...

Giving a giant Friday shout out to Mount Paran Christian School high schoolers who brought their A-game!

The Books For Africa Law and Democracy Initiative was pleased to host a reception yesterday at the University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Policy featuring as keynote speaker Chief Justice Rizine Mzikamanda from Malawi. Chief Justice Mzikamanda is a former Humphrey Fellow. His talk focused on the rule of law in Malawi, and around the world. Other speakers included Minnesota Chief Justice Hudson, District Judge Blackwell, The American Bar Association, Thomson Reuters, and many others.

The Books For Africa Law and Democracy Initiative is pleased to host in Minnesota this week Chief Justice Rizine Mzikamanda from Malawi. Chief Justice Mzikamanda has a number of meetings scheduled this week in Minnesota with legal professionals. He will be speaking Friday at the University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Policy. Chief Justice Mzikamanda is a former Humphrey Fellow. Yesterday he met with Humphrey School Dean and Books For Africa board member Nisha Botchwey in her office. We welcome Chief Justice Mzikamanda to Minnesota!

We appreciated the great work from Bank of America employees who volunteered in our warehouse last week. Thanks for your help!

We were pleased to work with our friends at US Africa’s Children’s Fund in New York to ship a container of 90,000 books to Namibia this past weekend! A great team effort!