The Internet is Africa’s “Gutenberg Moment”

Muhtar Bakare (founder of Kachifo) at a recent African Literature Week event in Oslo:

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, don’t have ISBN numbers, there’s no systemic way of tracking and engaging these enterprises. [...] Africans did write before the appearance of colonialists. This knowledge was kept by the priests and noblemen, as was the case before Gutenberg democratized knowledge. [...] The internet is our own Gutenberg moment. The internet is going to democratize knowledge in Africa.

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