CALL FOR SUBMISSION OF BOOKS ON SDG 4: QUALITY EDUCATION

Dear African Publishers/ Authors,

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Book Club African Chapter is inviting African publishers/ Authors to submit children’s fiction and non-fiction books that relate to the SDG 4: Quality Education in English, French, Arabic and Kiswahili that help educate children about the SDGs.

If you have books for children within the ages of 6 and 12 years + that relate to Quality Education– SDG 4, we invite you to submit them. Below are the links to the Google forms in the four main languages. A children’s book in any other African language that relates to SDG 4 can be submitted.

• English https://forms.gle/oQET4K4XKW4rDk9z7
• French https://forms.gle/6qN4Xc6dR2S1HjpJ6
• Kiswahili https://forms.gle/5DuQDiX8nG1QpE3VA
• Arabic https://forms.gle/XaBNGjZ81f9mKMtu6

To make the application complete, the applicant should mail the book in pdf to the given e-mail in the form (unsdgbookclubafricanchapter@gmail.com).

The deadline for the submission of the book(s) is 14th July, 2021. Book submissions for SDG 3 were selected and published. Link below contains selected books from SDG 1 to 3: https://namibia.un.org/en/125415-sdg-book-club-african-chapter

The aim of the African SDG Book Club is to use books as a tool to encourage African children ages 6- 12 to interact with the principles of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through a curated reading list of books (fiction and non-fiction but not textbook) published in Africa related to each of the 17 SDGs.

The UN SDG Book Club African Chapter promotes books and reading culture among children in Africa, provides great promotion for authors, publishers, booksellers, libraries, etc., fosters great book industry collaboration and enhance great opportunities for intra-African trade promotion of books.

Publishers/authors whose books are selected will be given a sticker that may be affixed on the front cover for e-book and reprinted copies.

For further enquiries or clarification, kindly contact our main email, unsdgbookclubafricanchapter@gmail.com; APNET Secretariat, info.africanpublishers@gmail.com; Dr Wale Okediran, PAWA, waleokediran@yahoo.co.uk , María José Cano UNIC, maria.cano-paz@unic.org or Aline Spantig UNIC aline.spantig@unic.org