BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/Paris X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Paris BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3@apsi.oapeafrica.org DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Libreville:20240816T160000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Libreville:20240816T173000 DTSTAMP:20240809T103730Z URL:https://apsi.oapeafrica.org/events/apsi-2024-in-conversation-with-alex ander-nderitu-kenya/ SUMMARY:APSI 2024 – IN CONVERSATION WITH… Alexander NDERITU (Kenya) DESCRIPTION:THEME:\n\nJoining the digital publishing trend: a practical gui de to producing and selling e-books from Africa and the Caribbean countrie s.\n\n \;\nThe new date is 16 August 2024. We apologise for the delay. It is due to reasons beyond our guest's control. Thank you for your patie nce.\n \;\n\n\n\n \;\n\nAbout OUR GUEST:\n\nAlexander Nderitu is a poet\, novelist\, playwright and critic. He is the founder and editor-in- chief of TheAfricanGriot.com and the regional editor of TheTheatreTimes.co m. His first book\, When the Whirlwind Passes\, was Africa's first digital novel. He has since published fourteen other books\, including The Moon I s Made of Green Cheese\, Kiss\, Commander\, Promise\, Disco Matanga and Ki ng Bure Is Dead! Some of his books have been translated into Arabic\, Japa nese\, Chinese\, Kiswahili\, French\, Swedish\,Dholuo\, Gikuyu and Czech. In 2017\, Business Daily named him one of Kenya's "Top 40 Men Under 40". I n 2023\, he won a Jury Prize in the Sahitto International Literature Award s and a SEVHAGE-Agema Founders' Prize for African Criticism.\n\nAbout OAPE AFRICA:\n\nThe African Observatory of Publishing Professionals (OAPE AFRI CA) is a pan-African non-profit organisation that brings together many pla yers in the book value chain and carries out activities in several African and Caribbean countries. Founded in 2018\, OAPE works to promote publishi ng\, its players\, professions and products. It also conducts studies\, re flections and consultations on publishing in Africa. It supports book dist ribution initiatives and organises events in this field. The organisation publishes specialist publishing journals and encourages good publishing pr actice. OAPE also supports the training of book and publishing professiona ls. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://apsi.oapeafrica.org/wp-content/uploads/2 024/08/APSI-OAPE-In-conversation-with-new-date.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Africa/Libreville X-LIC-LOCATION:Africa/Libreville BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20230817T160000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:WAT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR