7 African Publishers That Give New Authors Platform To Showcase Their Talents

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Traditional publishers are notorious for rejecting works by relatively unknown writers. This is because publishing is a costly business and publishers tend to gravitate towards writers who will give them returns on their investments. Established writers with a big following and fan base guarantee publishers such returns on their investments.
However, there are African publishers who venture to give new, unknown but talented writers a chance to showcase their works not just within the African continent, but internationally as well. Below are seven publishers with offices in South Africa, Nigeria and the United Kingdom.

Cassava Republic Publishers
This is a top African publisher with offices in Abuja, Nigeria, and in the United Kingdom. This publisher has published books by many of Africa’s top scribes. Visit their website for submission guidelines, titles and genres that they publish.

Kwela Books
This is a South African publisher based in Cape Town. They recently celebrated a quarter of a century of publishing books from Africa for Africa. Visit their website for submission guidelines and submit accordingly.

Black Letter Media
Black Letter Media is another South African based publisher that was founded in 2011 by Duduzile Zamantungwa. Their focus is on unearthing new African authors.

Mwanaka Media and Publishing
This publisher gives African writers a chance to get published and have their work distributed all over the continent and internationally. Founded by author Tendai Mwanaka, they publish fiction, scholarly books, poetry, art books, plays, cook books and other media in various languages. They are looking for work that is innovative, original, inspired and brilliant.

Love Africa Press
This is one publisher that has given new African authors a platform to showcase their works to a global audience. Visit their website for their submission guidelines and titles they have produced thus far.

Farafina Books
This is the publisher that publishes and distributes Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche’s books. They are based in Nigeria.

Africa Read
This is the largest online bookstore in Africa with an audience spread in many African countries, amongst them Zimbabwe, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Malawi and Botswana. Go to africaread.org for all their submission guidelines.

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I began my writing career in Newcastle, Kwazulu-Natal in 1999 as a freelance reporter for the Newcastle Advertiser. In 2001 I moved to Middelburg, Mpumalanga and joined the Middelburg News Edition. In 2003 I moved on to the Middelburg Observer, which gave me an opportunity to also contribute to other Caxton-owned titles, the Citizen, Daller and Mpumalanga Mirror. In 2006 I joined Media 24 daily tabloid, the Daily Sun and the following year as I was hired on permanent basis as their Mpumalanga correspondent. In the same year I was promoted to chief bureau, in charge of a team of seven reporters. I held the position for 10 years until my resignation in June 2017, to pursue writing full-time.

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