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Outstanding Kenyan Women Who Broke Barriers
Founders of Book Bunk Trust, Angela Wachuka and Wanjiru Koinange, at McMillian Memorial Library.
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As the world prepares to celebrate its women as it marks International Women s Day on Monday, March 8, a number of Kenyan women will be walking with their heads raised high.
Some of these women have stepped up and challenged traditions occasioned by rather oppressive culture and societal norms.
One cannot count in one hand alone the number of women who have stood out recently; putting their names and that of the womenfolk in the history books.
They have followed in the footprints of the likes of Prof Wangari Maathai, Grace Onyango, Mary Elizabeth Okello, women who inspired a generation to challenge the status quo.
Strategies
On both occasions, Al Qasimi presented the IPA’s 2021 vision to develop strategies to return global publishing to full strength and enable it to continue making its vital contribution to education, social development and knowledge economies.
Addressing KPA officials and Kenyan publishers, Al Qasimi said: “The pandemic exposed some important underlying issues in the publishing world, and its impact continues to reverberate. This is why we are assembling a cross-sectoral task force comprising publishers, authors, illustrators, distributors, wholesalers, printers, and like-minded others. We will engage all stakeholders across the value chain and draw up a road map to help the book industry to be more resilient and move onwards and upwards, to everyone’s benefit.”
Al Qasimi met local publishers and the leadership of IPA member the Kenya Publishers Association (KPA) as part of an IPA drive to boost the resilience and sustainability of publishing worldwide.