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The celebration for the 2020 BOP – Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year are a key part of the BCBF Online Special Edition. The BOP Prize is awarded each year to showcase editorial projects, professional skills and intellectual qualities of work from publishing houses all over the world. Let’s meet African Bureau Stories, winner for AFRICA!
African Bureau Stories is a new children's publishing house that produces delightful children's books by African writers and illustrators for children. African Bureau Stories publishes books that are fun, relatable and entertaining. The Company makes all its books with a team of talented African writers and illustrators who pour heart into each of their titles. From Ghana to Tanzania and to South Africa African Bureau Stories brings contemporary stories from across the African continent and characters to love. African Bureau Stories’ goal is to delight its readers and take them on a journey into a world of stories too good to forget.
The Company’s physical location is in Accra, Ghana, and from here it spreads its tentacles across the entire African continent and the world to find and publish the very best African stories for children everywhere. African Bureau Stories has a big sister organization, Golden Baobab, which is a literary non-profit organization that discovers, nurtures and celebrates talented African writers and illustrators of children’s stories.
Bontle Senne and Segun Samson, A Monster at Midnight, African Bureau Stories
Nahida Esmail and Randa Abubakr, Bahiya. The Little Zebra, African Bureau Stories
Portia Dery and Toby Newsome, Grandma’s List, African Bureau Stories