African Books Collective (ABC) is a non-profit Oxford-based, worldwide marketing and distribution outlet for 2,500 titles from Africa. The participants in ABC are 150 autonomous an...view moreAfrican Books Collective (ABC) is a non-profit Oxford-based, worldwide marketing and distribution outlet for 2,500 titles from Africa. The participants in ABC are 150 autonomous and independent African publishers on the Continent. They share a common ethos of publishing from within African cultures, asserting Africa’s voice within Africa and internationally. The collective represents scholarly and literary, and some children’s book publishers: research institutes, university presses, commercial presses – large and small, NGOs, and writers’ organisations. Within the collection creating writing showcases fiction from writers who have since gone on to international acclaim, and some of the exciting emerging voices from Africa, many of them winning local and international prizes. The books encompass the great issues in fiction: love/loss, hope/despair, human dilemmas, beautiful things found in unexpected places. Scholarly titles cover the major academic disciplines from throughout Africa and include many of Africa’s notable world-leading scholar authors and Children’s books represent stories from Africa, contributing to the richness of international cultural diversity.view less