Two years ago, when AfricaFocus first profiled the African Storybook project, it had available, for free reading and download, 903 storybooks in 136 different languages, including English, French, Portuguese, Arabic, Hausa, Swahili, and a host of other languages spoken on the continent.
We have an amazing reader app The African Storybook Reader App which is free to download from Google Play or Apple's App Store and provides access to the same resources as our website.
African Storybook Champion Mimi Werna shares how stories have coloured her world during the Covid-19 pandemic
Towards the end of 2019, my children and I decided that we wanted other children to learn to enjoy reading and stories like they did.
I had already downloaded over 500 African Storybook stories on my laptop and read some to my children and the 12 children who participated in my reading sessions; the participants however borrowed storybooks to take home from my children's library.
This week for Activity 6, a young South African illustrator, Tebogo Boikanyo Matshana participated in an African Storybook challenge to create illustrations for three stories in two weeks.
