African Children's Book Box Society
African stories for African children

"It is my wish that the voice of the storyteller may never die in Africa, that all the children of the world may experience the wonder of books" Nelson Mandela

The African Children's Book Box Society is a charitable organization founded in Nairobi, Kenya in 1991. Our society's main purpose is to support and increase literacy in Africa by providing children in African schools with their own stories and literature written by African authors.

The Global Literacy Project collects donated books for Africa. Unfortunately most of these books are in English and storybooks are largely from the European/North American culture. Africans have a rich culture of their own and books of their own culture and in their own language are sadly lacking in most African schools. The African Children's Book Box Society tries to make up for this lack.

We do this by putting together and distributing portable libraries of African books in the form of "Book Boxes" to African schools. We are currently operating in Kenya and Tanzania and hope to expand to other countries.