The Internet is Africa’s “Gutenberg Moment”

In publishing perspectives Muhtar Bakare, founder of Kachifo on publishing at a recent African Literature Week event in Oslo, Norway:

There are lively publishing enterprises in different areas of Africa that are not formalized in the European sense. But they exist, they are not cataloged, [they] don’t have ISBN numbers… there’s no systemic way of tracking and engaging these enterprises…”...“The internet is our own Gutenberg moment,” he told the Oslo audience. “The internet is going to democratize knowledge in Africa.”

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