Mayor Eric Adams’ nearly $112 billion executive budget, released Wednesday, includes more than $5 billion for health care initiatives, a figure that has grown by $172 million since his January preliminary budget.The revised plan avoids new spending cuts for city agencies and paints a rosier... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2024-04-25 09:33:07 UTC ]
The “Aya” series explores the pains and pleasures of everyday life in a working-class neighborhood in West Africa. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-02-10 10:02:39 UTC ]
Opening these libraries up promises to re-balance the continent’s place in world history when it comes to its intellectual life. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2022-03-29 16:12:23 UTC ]
With a vast market for audio content in Africa, the founder of the only publisher and distributor of African audiobooks in West Africa is hoping to capitalise. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-17 02:22:20 UTC ]
In an interview in 2000, Zadie Smith told the Guardian about the pressure she felt after the astonishing success of her debut novel, White Teeth. “I was expected to be some expert on multicultural affairs, as if multiculturalism is a genre of fiction or something,” she said. “Whereas it’s just a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2016-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
When it comes to African cookbooks, Morocco typically dominates. But this season, West Africa comes into focus. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Fri, 29/07/2011 - 09:20 Macmillan has walked away from its education business in east and west Africa, and is understood to have put all its education publishing companies and interests across the continent (other than in Botswana) on the block.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Fri, 22/07/2011 - 14:54 Macmillan Publishers has been fined more than £11m for "unlawful conduct" related to its education wing in east and west Africa. The publisher was under investigation following a report from the World Bank. A subsidiary of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]