Awaiting news of a buyer, Vivendi’s Editis in Paris continues rolling out new local-focus presses in Québec and Africa, this time in Senegal. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson‘To Promote the Emergence of the Continent’s Talents’The French publishing group Editis this month is announcing its opening of a second publishing house in Africa, Saaraba Éditions in Senegal. Saaraba Éditions, headquartered in Dakar, is being led by Souleymane Gueye, and held a private opening event on December 8. The creation of the Senegal house follows the 2020 establishment of Editis’ first such company, called Nimba, in Côte d’Ivoire. This creates stiff competition for locally focused publishers, as international bestsellers and other books appear on the African markets.

Source: CNN January 09, 2023 14:44 UTC