Through the ages, man has sought to encode and communicate knowledge as a tool for socio-econo-political development. The birth of the printing press in 1450 broadened the capacity of many nations around the world to exploit the printing press in encoding knowledge in the form of written books. This was late coming to Africa, in general, and to Rwanda, in particular.
Research efforts to determine how many books have been written on Rwanda by local and foreign authors reveal there might be just around 10,000 titles since publishing started in the 1920s. Over 850 of these titles are contained in the Genesis Africa Books archive hereunder entitled: Books on Rwanda. When you hear that in 2015 alone, China produced 470.000 new titles
followed by USA at 386.986 new titles in one year, then you understand how much more ground we still have to cover to give our culture as well as our economic, political and intellectual aspirations a voice or as President Paul Kagame persistently reminds us, just how much we must do to own our narrative. Genesis Africa Books hopes to contribute to this journey – of
Africans owning and telling their stories. Learn more