The African Writers Trust has launched its online bookstore, Tubaze African Books to cater to a growing need to improve accessibility to African literature.
Founded in 2009, the African Writers Trust serves as a platform to connect African writers with publishing professionals residing both within the diaspora and on the continent. Its objective is to facilitate collaboration and knowledge exchange between these two groups.
Goretti Kyomuhendo, a Ugandan novelist and the founding director of the African Writers Trust, is an author of several novels, including The First Daughter (1996), Secrets No More (1999), which received the Uganda National Literary Award for Best Novel in the same year, and Waiting (2007), later translated into Spanish in 2022. Additionally, her novella, Whispers from Vera, was published in 2012, and in 2014, she released the Essential Handbook for African Creative Writers.
Tubaze African Books aims to make books by African writers published outside the continent readily accessible and affordable to African audiences. It encourages readers to explore the diverse works of African authors from various regions and the diaspora.
Indeed, the establishment of this bookshop has been long-awaited and its realisation is a significant milestone.
