The 13th Publishers Conference to kickstart the 42nd edition of the Sharjah International Book Fair was a stimulating and enriching gathering of publishers and book lovers the world over from 29 to 31 October 2023, in Sharjah, UAE.

Amalion’s Director, Sulaiman Adebowale, was a panellist at the round table workshop…

Date posted: November 12, 2023

Amalion was at the Frankfurt Book fair between 11 and 22 October 2023, an auspicious event this year to celebrate the publishing Mecca’s 75th anniversary as a unique forum for book actors the world over.

Our participation this year was made possible by the Frankfurt Invitation programme, which gathers around…

Date posted: October 27, 2023

Le Sénégalais Alla Seck a joué un rôle unique dans l’histoire du mbalax, à la fois au micro et dans son expression dansée. 35 ans après sa disparition survenue le 14 juin 1987, RFI Musique revient sur son parcours et son impact.

Pendant près de quinze heures, du samedi après-midi…

Date posted: June 16, 2022

Notes d’Afrique: un voyage musical avec Youssou N’Dour

In conversation with Jenny Cathcart & Massamba Mbaye

Monday 16 May 2022 16.00–18.00 British Council Senegal Rue AAB-68 Amitié Zone B, Dakar,…

Date posted: April 25, 2022

The International Alliance of Independent Publishers held its third Congress from 23–26 November 2021 in Pamplona-Iruñea, Spain.

The event, coorganised by the Paris-based Alliance internationale des éditeurs indépéndants…

Date posted: December 29, 2021

L’auteure d’Amalion Ken Bugul a fait une belle surprise aux amoureux du livre et du bio de Dakar Farmers Market qui se tint à SeaPlaza, Dakar…

Date posted: December 12, 2021

Amalion a participé aux événements tant attendus de l’année “Les États généraux du livre en langue française” à Tunis, Tunisie les 23 et 24 septembre 2021 sous la direction de Sylvie Marcé, éditrice renommée et Commissaire générale de la rencontre. Nous avons contribué aux réflexions à la table ronde sur…

Date posted: September 27, 2021

Stephen Adebanji Akintoye’s critically acclaimed work A History of the Yoruba People is now out in paperback for the first time since release.

A History of the Yoruba People is…

Date posted: September 20, 2021

Akwasi Aidoo was a guest of John Paul Lederach on “The Weekly Pause, a time to connect, reflect and create” at Humanity United, where he read two poems from the collection Rhythms of Dignity (Amalion 2020).

Listen to Akwasi’s…

Date posted: September 1, 2021

Wordspinner and storyteller Audrey Chin interviews Antoinette Tidjani Alou on her web site recently

Africa, the cradle of human civilization, calls to us from deep within our bloodlines.

In East Asia, our response often manifests as a yearning for the continent’s wide-open spaces, it’s hosts of animals, it’s exotic…

Date posted: August 23, 2021

11e Colloque International des Études Mandé,

16-19 juin 2021

Autour du livre: Rencontres religieuses et dynamiques sociales au Burkina Faso

Vendredi 18 juin 2021 • 16:00–17:30 GMT+2 •…

Date posted: June 1, 2021

Sea Plaza, Dakar

Join us at Dakar Farmers Market on Saturday 12 June 2021 Sea Plaza from 10.00 am to 18.00 pm for new books, new stories and new knowledge! Special discounts not to be missedalion at…

Date posted: May 30, 2021

Dr Mamadou Bodian, chercheur et co-auteur du livre Entre le Savoir et le Culte: Activisme et mouvements religieux dans les universités du Sahel, a été sur le plateau du journaliste Alassane Samba Diop Questions Directes iTV Sénégal pour partager quelques analyses pertinentes du livre.

Date posted: January 4, 2021

We are proud to announce that The Rainmakers by Paul Kisakye is the winner of the inaugural edition of the Sarraounia Prize for Young Adult Fiction 2020. The mystery story of five teenagers and a long-lost uncle in the middle of holiday boredom set in a hi-tech farm in Uganda stood out from hundreds of…

Date posted: October 1, 2020

Nous sommes heureux de présenter le lauréat de la première édition du Prix Sarraounia de la Fiction Jeune Adulte 2020, Paul Kisakye pour The Rainmakers [Les faiseurs de pluie]. L’aventure-mystère de cinq adolescents et d’un oncle retrouvé pendant la monotonie des vacances dans une ferme hi-tech d’Ouganda, s’est démarquée des centaines de manuscrits en…

Date posted: September 30, 2020

Rencontre-Débat

Amalion, Alliance internationale des éditeurs indépendants et Lycée de Nguékokh ont le plaisir de vous inviter au rencontre avec Daniel Nsegbe, lauréat du Prix Ahmadou Kourouma 2014 et auteur du livre “Ceux qui sortent dans la nuit” par Mutt-Lon.

Date: Samedi…

Date posted: October 8, 2019

“Vignettes on our lives and dreams” by Theresa Mallinson

Mail & Guardian, 02 Aug 2019

You know what they say about judging a book by its cover. But no one ever said anything about judging a book by its name. When a friend presented me with a copy…

Date posted: August 2, 2019

Heulard Mégane - ActuaLitté 22.07.2019

La filière Arts et Culture de l’Université Abdou Moumouni au Niger et la maison d’édition Amalion au Sénégal annoncent l’ouverture des inscriptions pour le Prix Sarraounia de la Fiction Jeune Adulte. Le dépôt de candidatures de l’édition 2020 a lieu du 30 juin 2019 au 30 septembre 2019. Le…

Date posted: July 31, 2019

Created by a publisher in Senegal and an author based in Niger, the Sarraounia Prize is accepting manuscripts for young adult readers.

A new biennial YA award, the Sarraounia Prize, has been announced for published and unpublished authors and illustrators based in Africa.

Organizers are calling for entries, with applications…

Date posted: July 26, 2019

The Arts & Culture programme at Abdou Moumouni University in Niger and the publishing house Amalion in Senegal are pleased to announce the call for entries for the Sarraounia Prize for Young Adult Fiction to contribute to the availability of reading material for African…

Date posted: April 1, 2019

Amalion participated at the Talentueux Indés forum organised by the Paris-based literary agency Pierre Astier during the Foire du Livre du Bruxelles, 14-17 February 2019. Ed Nawotka did a piece on this exciting fair in Publishers Weekly.

Brussels Book Fair Plays Matchmaker

By Ed Nawotka, Feb 22, 2019, Publishers Weekly

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Date posted: March 3, 2019

Halle des Blancs Manteaux, Paris, France

L’autre Livre

International. Multiculturel. Unique!

Lieu: Halle des Blancs Manteaux, 48 rue Vieille-du-Temple, 7500 Paris, France.

Stand D24

Pour plus d’info [https://www.lautrelivre.fr]

Date posted: June 13, 2018

Frankfurt Book Fair 2018

Antoinette Tidjani Alou talks to Olatoun Gabi Williams

Literature Across Borders

Place: Hall 5.1/ Stand B125, Frankfurt, Germany

For more info Tina Shot Me Between the Eyes and <a…

Date posted: June 6, 2018

Louis Camara (Le Choix de l’Ori and Iyéwa) and Ayesha Harruna Attah will participate at a literary conversation and performance forum at the #AICY18 forum organised by the L’Afrique c’est Chic World and Welcoming Diasporas from 05 to 11…

Date posted: February 26, 2018

Centre Culturel Boubacar Joseph Ndiaye, Gorée, Sénégal

Présentation, dédicace

Amalion et Mairie de l’ile de Gorée ont le plaisir de vous inviter à la présentation du livre : “L’arbre à musique” par Fabrizio Terenzio.

En présence de Maitre Augustin Senghor, Maire de l’Ile de Gorée et Monsieur Pape…

Date posted: January 4, 2018

Sète, cette commune du département de l’Hérault en Occitanie dans le Sud de la France, accueille chaque année l’un des plus grands festivals de poésie…

Date posted: August 30, 2017

Prairie Lights, Iowa City, USA

Tuesday 7 PM CST (Wed 1 AM GMT)

Antoinette Tidjani Alou will talk about the theme of writing life: memoir, fiction, memo-fiction in her books Tina Shot…

Date posted: August 4, 2017

We are deeply saddened that Abubakar Momoh, a friend, mentor and staunch Amalion supporter, has died. Momoh passed away suddenly on May 29, 2017.

Born on August 28, 1964, Momoh studied Political Science at the University of Lagos, Nigeria where he…

Date posted: June 7, 2017

It is with deep sadness to announce the passing of a friend, mentor and author, Tope ‘Sky’ Omoniyi, who died on May 27, 2017 after a brief battle with cancer. He is survived by his wife Karen, children Tife Nisha, Onaayo…

Date posted: May 30, 2017

Antoinette Tidjani Alou

The Near East Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress presents Professor Antoinette Tidjani Alou reading and discussing her recent work “Tina shot me between the eyes and other stories” (Amalion: Dakar, 2017).

…

Date posted: January 7, 2017

On December 8, 2016, Amalion attended the launch of the special issue of Wasafiri, the International Journal of Contemporary Writing on “Print Activism in Twenty-First Century Africa” guest-edited by Ruth Bush and Madhu Krishnan organized at the George Padmore Institute, London, UK, as part of events celebrating the 50th anniversary of New Beacon…

Date posted: December 8, 2016

Can we cross African boundaries through books? Head of Amalion Publishing, Sulaiman Adebowale’s interview with Laura Angela Bagnetto on RFI’s “Africa: Stories in the 55” program believes in the role of languages in making it happen.

Adebowale explains Amalion’s multilingual path and the decision to work across languages as a condition…

Date posted: June 22, 2016

Le 13 mai 2016, le Lycée Thierno Saïdou Nourou Tall de Dakar a accueilli l’écrivain Louis Camara, lauréat du Grand Prix du président de la république pour les lettres. Il était accompagné de…

Date posted: June 9, 2016

La deuxième édition des Assises de l’édition francophone tenue le 27 avril 2016 lors du Salon international du livre et de la presse de Genève avait pour thème « Numérique et édition : panacée ou enfer ? Le livre face aux défis de la technologie ». Plusieurs questions liées au numérique et à son impact…

Date posted: June 2, 2016

La trentième édition du Salon international du livre et de la presse de Genève qui s’est tenue à Palexpo du 27 avril au 1…

Date posted: June 1, 2016

Amalion is pleased to announce its involvement in the new Gerald Kraak Award and Anthology established by Jacana Literary Foundation and The Other Foundation. Created in honor of the anti-apartheid activist, Gerald Kraak (1956–2014), the new…

Date posted: March 12, 2016

Le poids des traditions, une culture patriarcale ancrée telle une matrice de vie, un public majoritairement composé d’hommes, des artistes masculins jaloux de leur succès. Autant dire que la représentation féminine dans le rap sénégalais a du mal à se tailler une place pérenne. Certes, des groupes naissent. Certes, des…

Date posted: January 26, 2016

Author of the Amalion publication Le Choix de l’Ori, Louis Camara, was interviewed by Mbagnick K. Diagne, journalist at Senegalese newspaper Le Soleil, to talk about his book. Topics ranged from Camara’s choice of publishers, the Yoruba culture and his wishes for artistic creativity in the future.

When asked about why he…

Date posted: December 12, 2015

Three Amalion titles featured at this year’s edition of Paroles Indigo, a literary and artistic festival of voices from around the world. Fatou Kandé Senghor (Wala Bok: Une Histoire orale du hip hop au Sénégal), Kevin Eze (The Peacekeeper’s Wife), and the late Kofi Awoonor (The Promise of Hope) represented by…

Date posted: November 9, 2015

On the 30th September 2015, the book Wala Bok: Une histoire orale du hip hop au Sénégal by Fatou Kandé Senghor was presented to the public at the Goethe-Institute in Dakar, Senegal. In it, Senghor talks about her love of hip-hop and its influence on Senegalese, music, and culture.

 Senghor touched on such subjects…

Date posted: October 5, 2015

Fatou Kandé Senghor a été interviewée par Théodora Sy Sambou dans Sud Quotidien. Fatou Kandé Senghor discute son livre Wala Bok: Une histoire orale du hip hop au Sénégal (2015) 

Ce n’est pas toujours très évident, pour ne pas dire que c’est absolument casse-cou, que de vouloir introduire quelqu’un d’aussi inclassable…

Date posted: October 2, 2015

An article on Fatou Kandé Senghor’s new book Wala Bok: Une histoire orale du hip hop au Sénégal (2015) was published by RFI Musique. RFI Musique is a TV programme and website that delivers the latest news about French and African music.

In this review by Ariane Poissonier (writer at RFI Musique),…

Date posted: September 15, 2015

Fatou Kandé Senghor propose Wala Bok, un livre de témoignages pour (re)découvrir de l’intérieur, à travers ses acteurs, le mouvement hip hop au Sénégal. Revue de détail avec RFI Musique.

Daara J, Positive Black Soul, Matador… le rap sénégalais a ses figures emblématiques, dont les noms sont connus…

Date posted: September 15, 2015

Fatou Kandé Senghor, the author of Wala Bok: Une histoire orale du hip hop au Sénégal (2015), has always had strong African role models in her life. One of the most prominent figures was the late Senegalese writer and cinematographer Ousmane Sembène, strongly considered as the ‘father of African cinema’ and one…

Date posted: September 11, 2015

Blogger Aboubacar Demba Cissokho gives us his review of Fatou Kandé Senghor’s Wala Bok: Une histoire orale du hip hop au Sénégal (2015).

The full article can be found here

Date posted: September 9, 2015

Amalion Publishing featured amongst other scholarly publishers at the Sixth European Conference on African Studies (ECAS). The event, which took place in Paris between 8 and 10 July 2015, serves as a platform for conversation on sciences and humanities in Africa as well as in the Diaspora. The theme…

Date posted: July 20, 2015

Après un mois de vacances, ‘Au cœur de la littérature’ n’a pas redémarré timidement. «Seul celui qui a des idées personnelles est capable de rendre hommage aux idées d’autrui», si cette citation est pleine de sens, c’est que Fatou Kandé Senghor mérite des honneurs pour le travail accompli avec son…

Date posted: July 13, 2015

Germany-based Diaspora news outlet togonews.info interviewed Sulaiman Adebowale, Director of Amalion Publishing, about his involvement in the 2014 Frankfurt Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany. The interview was conducted jointly by Chariffou Ouro-Sama and Clemens Benkel from the Africa Development Group. The Frankfurt Book Fair attracts thousands of professional publishers from…

Date posted: March 5, 2015

Ladan Osman’s collection, The Kitchen Dweller’s Testimony, is the winner of the 2014 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. Osman will receive a $1,000 cash award and…

Date posted: March 22, 2014

Author of the poetry collection Les Raisins du baobab, Ibrahim Niang, had five of his poems featured in the Prague-based literary website The Prague Review. The Prague Revue specializes in publishing up-to-date modern literature, be it essays, short fiction, or poetry. The poems featured were: ‘A nos regards’, ‘Comme un lac’,…

Date posted: November 25, 2013

Lors d’une conférence organisée à Dakar, en avril 2013, devant des étudiants d’une école de commerce, Léonce Ndikumana martèle : « Ce n’est pas l’Afrique qui est endettée vis-à-vis du monde, c’est plutôt le monde qui est endetté vis-à-vis de l’Afrique ; le mythe selon lequel l’Afrique ne peut pas réduire la pauvreté…

Date posted: October 29, 2013

We are saddened to announce the passing of distinguished poet and novelist Kofi Awoonor. He died in the terrorist attack by al-Shabaab militants at the Westgate shopping mall on 21 September 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya.

Born George Awoonor Williams…

Date posted: October 9, 2013

Book Launch

Amalion Publishing and TrustAfrica cordially invite you to the launch of “Giving to Help, Helping to Give: The Context and Politics of African Philanthropy” Edited by Tade…

Date posted: August 15, 2013

By Chip Rossetti, Publishing Perspectives, April 2013

Founded in 2009, Amalion books is an up-and-coming house that only publishes books by African authors. Based in Dakar, Senegal, Amalion distributes its books across the African continent, requires different strategies or Africa’s various regional and national markets. (They also have distributors in…

Date posted: April 29, 2013

Pierre Birame Dioh of the Senegalese news outlet EnQuête+ presents a review of the book launch and conference for La dette odieuse de l’Afrique at the Bordeaux Management School (BEM) in Dakar, Senegal. The book was presented by co-authors Léonce Ndikumana & James K. Boyce on the 19th April 2013.

To read the full…

Date posted: April 21, 2013

Conférence

BEM Dakar et Éditions Amalion ont le plaisir de vous inviter à la conférence-débat sur le livre : “La dette odieuse de l’Afrique: Comment…

Date posted: April 11, 2013

Clifton Gachagua’s manuscript Madman at Kilifi has been selected by the African Poetry Book Fund & Series for the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. As…

Date posted: January 28, 2013

Fahmida Khan, the writer for Pambazuka News, reviews Tina Okpara’s eye-opening memoir ‘My Life has a Price’. Pambazuka News is a pan-African community dedicated to the promotion of social justice in Africa. Here is an excerpt of the review:

“In the grim world of human trafficking, Nigeria is just one…

Date posted: December 13, 2012

Book Launch: My Life Has a Price by Tina Okpara

Lagos Book and Art Festival

A panel discussion around the newly released memoir of Tina Okpara and the theme of abuse,…

Date posted: November 11, 2012

Dr. Akinwumi Ogundiran, professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology & History at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte (USA), presents a review of professor Adebanji Akintoye’s A History of the Yoruba People. Here is an excerpt:

“In 1897, the patriarch of modern Yoruba historiography, Reverend Samuel Johnson wrote the following words in the preface…

Date posted: October 25, 2012

Book Launch: My Life Has a Price by Tina Okpara

African Futures Carousel

African Book Festival

Date: Saturday 27 October 2012

Time: 14.15–15.15 prompt

Venue: Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon…

Date posted: October 16, 2012

The submission period for the Book Prize kicked off on September 15 and will run until November 15, 2012. It costs nothing to enter! To read how to submit to the prize, click here (http://africanpoetrybf.unl.edu/?page_id=21)…

Date posted: September 20, 2012

Kwame Dawes, Guggenheim Fellow, and winner of the 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Awardis pleased toannounce the establishment of the African Poetry Book Fund. Starting…

Date posted: July 16, 2012

Chair: Deputy Speaker of the House of Representative, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha

Book Reviewer: Prof. Asisi Asobie, Former Chairman of NEITI

Date: 28 June 2012

Time: 9.00 am prompt

Venue: Merit House, Maitama, Abuja, Nigeria.

Copies of the book will be available for sale at the venue, at a discount…

Date posted: June 21, 2012

In her latest anthology, Ugandan poet Mildred Kiconco Barya tackles issues such as the relevance of our cultural heritage in modern times, time and space, wars, poverty, love, pain, betrayal, shattered dreams, sex and death.

Titled Give Me Room to Move My Feet, and published by Amalion Publishing, the collection…

Date posted: February 10, 2012

The 54th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association was held from 16–19 November 2011 in Washington DC, USA.

The Distinguished Africanist Award this year was presented to Dr. Toyin Falola, the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. The award was…

Date posted: December 12, 2011

Akintayo Abodunrinin NEXT, August 20, 2011.

Sulaiman Adebowale has been trying to help writers get their works across since 2008 when he established Amalion Publishing based on his belief that “everybody needs a helping hand.”

Headquartered in Dakar, Senegal, the independent outfit whose mission is…

Date posted: August 26, 2011

Amalion was at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair in the United Arab Emirates from 15 to 20 March 2011. The ADIBF is one of the largest in the Middle East and a good venue for…

Date posted: April 24, 2011

Emotions and ingenuity were high at the grand finale of the Words and Pictures Programme held on April 11, 2009, in Dakar, Senegal. The event was a culmination of months of activities and…

Date posted: April 4, 2011

Tina Okpara, author of My Life Has A Price was interviewed by Franck Berteau, the journalist at French news outlet L’Express. The topic for the interview was modern slavery and Okpara’s experiences in the Okpara household. Here is an excerpt of her response to her missing school:

« Rien ne me fait plus…

Date posted: September 6, 2010

The Yoruba Academy has reiterated that it is welcome to all that come to its organization to promote ideals beneficial to the history or future of the Yoruba People. This decision was announced around the same time as the launch of the Amalion publication A History of the Yoruba People by Adebanji…

Date posted: April 19, 2010

El Hadji Massiga Faye, the journalist for Senegalese newspaper Le Soleil, reviews Ibrahim Niang’s collection of poetry Les Raisins du baobab. Here is an excerpt:

« A travers un cadre spatio-temporel propre à son pays natal et à l’Afrique, le poète fait voyager l’esprit en invoquant les ancêtres, les saisons, les mers, l’alimentaire,…

Date posted: April 12, 2010

Wale Adebanwi, assistant professor for the department of African-American and African studies at the University of California, provides us with a review of professor Adebanji Akintoye’s A History of the Yoruba People. The article was presented originally at a presentation of the book at the Premier Hotel in Ibadan, Nigeria on the…

Date posted: April 5, 2010

Saints and scholars went marching in the African city of New Orleans, the USA for the 52nd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association from 18–22 November 2009 in support of a city rebuilding…

Date posted: November 22, 2009

An eclectic group gathered on a Friday evening at Kadjinol Station for the launch of Give Me Room to Move My Feet, in what turned out to be a delightful evening of words and motion. With Kora music by Diabate, the drums from the…

Date posted: July 1, 2009

Nearly a thousand scholars, researchers, and policymakers gathered at the historic city of Bergen, Norway from 10 to 12 May 2009 for the First World Social Science Forum. The event was convened by the <a href=”http://www.unesco.org/ngo/issc/”…

Date posted: May 4, 2009