African Storybook Initiative

African Storybook Initiative aims to address the shortage of books in local African languages for early reading. We have created a website for people who work with children in African contexts. The website has openly licensed stories for the first few years of reading, and the tools to version (translate and/or adapt) stories for different African languages, reading levels, and contexts. Since the stories all have English versions to translate from, the project will create a firm basis for literacy development in local African languages as well as English (and later, in other languages of wider communication). Available: www.africanstorybook.org