Mission and Vision
The vision of APNET is “the transformation of African peoples through access to books”. The mission of the organization is to “strengthen African publishers through networking, training and trade promotion in order to fully meet African’s need for quality books relevant to African social, political, economic and cultural reality”. Promotion of indigenous publishing is of great importance to APNET; however, both small and large publishing houses are members.
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