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eBOOKS
African eBooks to read on computer and mobile phones
By the end of 2022, NENA has published and is reselling near 3,800 eBooks in all the fields covered by our African authors, half in English and hlaf in French. Most of them are in ePub and HTML format, for local or online reading, on any medium (computer, mobile, eBook reader). More complex works are in interactive PDF format. All of them offer a rich hypertext navigation feature.
AUDIOBOOKS
African tales and stories to listen to
What could be more relevant in a continent characterized by the tradition of oral communication than to have access to digital books,not only to read, but also to listen to? NENA offers a collection of African tales in audiobooks, to be downloaded on an MP3 player, or listened to online.
ONLINE BOOKSTORE
The site where to find African authors
All eBooks and audiobooks published by NENA are available on its African eBookstore, along with those published by other French and English-speaking African publishers. More than 4,000 titles are planned for 2023. The interface, which is responsive for mobile devices, is deliberately sober and free of any commercial agression, and offers advanced search functions (by thematic classification, index, full-text search, filtering, similar documents), allowing quick retrieval of records. Several means of payment are offered, including offline purchase, before downloading or reading online.
DIGITAL LIBRAIRIES
Subscribe to read everything in the year
Our digital libraries are the simplest and most economical way for students, scholars, researchers, professionals and managers to access our eBook catalogue. Accessible from the ADB, they bring together our digital publications by domain: literature, social sciences, art and culture, youth, law, etc. They can be consulted online on a subscription basis.
PERSONNAL DIGITAL LIBRARY
A portable personal library on your phone
Any individual can now take out aN individual subscription to the “African Digital Library (ADL)”, which is a digital library for the general public. The ADL provides access to more than a thousand African digital books and audiobooks (novels, stories, poetry, youth, history, society, philosophy, etc.), written by great African classic authors and those of the future. NENA will soon launch a mobile application that will also allow access to these books.
DIGITAL ARCHIVES
African Documentary Heritage in Open Access
Commercially published books do not constitute the totality of Africa’s written heritage. For theses, dissertations, conferences, research reports, and any other “grey literature” or “archive”, NENA offers its service of creating, hosting and disseminating African archive collections. In 2020, a first fund of the influential Egyptian economist Samir Amin, has been open for free consultation.
PHYSICAL LIBRAIRIES
Places of culture and knowledge for the people of Africa
The ultimate goal remains the accessibility and reading of African works. Digital is not everything and there is still room for traditional libraries. NENA offers its service of setting up physical libraries with its computerized catalogue. In 2018, NENA inaugurated the People’s Development Library in Dakar with its partners. Some 5,000 documents have been catalogued, and the layout was designed and built. A multimedia room was set up with eBook readers and online access to NENA’s digital libraries.
DIGITAL ARTICLES AND JOURNALS
African scholarly publishing made easy
African researchers in universities and research centres need vehicles for the dissemination of their research results. To promote the dissemination of knowledge produced in Africa, NENA offers a management platform for the production of peer-reviewed journal. Digital articles are then disseminated through NENA’s online bookstore and digital libraries. Issues of a journal can be assembled and formatted for printing.
ACCESSIBLE eBOOKS
For people with visual impairments
Digital technology is now breaking down barriers to reading for the blind and visually impaired, particularly children and students. As a responsible publisher, NENA is committed, in collaboration with African institutions and associations in the sector, to the production and distribution of African ebooks accessible to the visually impaired. NENA has even improved the method in the production of complex accessible ebooks already used by blind students.
COURSEWARE
For distance education and learning
A courseware is a digital publication of a particular type, structuring the material of a course, and with multiple links to resources and activities. For NENA, moving from an ebook to an even more interactive courseware, with multimedia and quizzes, is a natural exercise. Its courseware on social entrepreneurship is already used in a virtual school. NENA integrates its courseware into a Learning Management System (LMS) platform to complement the learning content with pedagogical management (enrolment, teacher-learner interactions, monitoring and evaluation).
