Every HomeNeeds A Bookshelf.
The books, music, film and literature that shape how Africa thinks, in every one of our twelve editions. And a shelf of the books we have published. If your book belongs on it, we will help you write it, make it and put it in readers' hands.
Africa's Authors
The Cabanga Bookshelf is the bookshop of Cabanga Africa Group. It sells books, research reports and stationery online and through physical Bookshelves in offices and shops across Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Zambia, ordered on an e-invoice with cross-border delivery. For authors it is a full service: sell your book on the shelf and in all twelve magazines, publish it with us, protect the intellectual property, and take the training and advisory that turns a book into a business.
The Shelf In Every Edition
Every home has a shelf where the things that matter get kept. The Bookshelf is that shelf in print: a cultural section running in all twelve of our editions, from Cabanga in South Africa to Yaada in the Horn, covering the books, music, film and literature business people actually talk about.
It sits beside the markets and the money on purpose. The people who read our pages are the people who buy books, fill theatres and shape taste in their own markets.
New titles and the ones worth returning to, reviewed and discussed with their authors.
The artists and the business of sound across the continent.
What is being made, who is funding it and what it says.
Writing that outlasts the news cycle, from essays to letters.
Specify Your Book
Nine choices describe your book well enough for us to quote it: what it is, where it stands, how much of the work we carry, and how it reaches readers. Nothing here commits you to anything.
What Are You Publishing?
Tap your answers. The specification on the right builds itself as you go.
What kind of book is it?
We publish non-fiction only, in four kinds.
This one sits outside our list. We publish business books, memoirs, autobiographies and biographies only, so we would not be the right publisher for it.
Where is the book today?
Already published: we take it from here with distribution, marketing, a PR campaign or a launch. Choose what you need below.
How involved do you want us to be?
In which formats?
Choose one or more.
How long will it be?
What trim size?
The two standard sizes for business books.
How many copies in the first print run?
Who sells and distributes it?
Launch and visibility
Choose any that apply.
Still needed: organisation, your name, email address, country.
Timelines are indicative. We come back with a written proposal, a schedule and a fixed price against exactly what you have specified.
Non-Fiction, In Four Kinds
We keep the list narrow so we can do it properly. If your book is one of these, it belongs with us.
Strategy, markets, leadership and enterprise, written from inside African business.
A defining chapter of your life, told in your own voice.
Your whole story, from the beginning, told by you.
A life worth recording, researched and told by us.
From Manuscript To Launch
Seven stages. You come in at whichever one your book has reached. Open any stage to see what happens in it.
Stage 1The Conversation
We meet you, take the brief and agree what the book has to do and who it is for. For a book written with you, this is where the interviews begin.
Stage 2The Manuscript
Written with you, built with you from your drafts, or received finished. The chapter plan is agreed before the writing is locked.
Stage 3Editing
Structural edit, copy-edit and proofread, to the same standard our magazines are held to. You approve the final text.
Stage 4Cover And Typesetting
The cover is designed and the interior set for print, eBook and, where chosen, audiobook production.
Stage 5Registration And Production
ISBN registration and deposit where chosen, printed proofs approved, and the run produced.
Stage 6Distribution
Onto the Bookshelf and across the Cabanga network, into your own channels, or both.
Stage 7Launch And Visibility
Marketing, a PR campaign with coverage and interviews, and a launch event, as you choose them.
Write, Create, Sell, Build Or Collaborate
Five ways into the network. Each one has its own application, asking only what matters for that work.
Contributors
Business leaders, specialists and analysts who write about the sectors they know. Your application covers your field, your organisation and what you want to write.
Apply To ContributeContent Creators
Podcasters, video makers and newsletter writers. Your application covers your channel, the platforms you publish on and the audience you reach.
Apply As A CreatorSales Agents
Commission-based agents who sell advertising and contract publishing in their own market. Your application covers your territory and what you would sell.
Apply As A Sales AgentCollaborators
Photographers, designers, translators, researchers and event partners. Your application covers your discipline and your portfolio.
Apply To CollaborateDevelopers
Front-end, back-end and full-stack developers who build and run the Group's platforms. Your application covers your stack and the work you have shipped.
Apply As A DeveloperPUT YOUR BOOK ON THE SHELF.
Specify your book in the builder and send us the brief, or talk it through with us first.
Briefs and enquiries: info@cabanga.africa
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Bookshelf Questions
What is the Bookshelf?
The Bookshelf is the cultural section that runs in every one of the twelve Cabanga Africa Group editions, covering books, music, film and literature. It is also the Group's bookshop, online and on physical Bookshelves in five countries, and the place to start a book of your own.
What kinds of books does Cabanga publish?
Non-fiction only, in four kinds: business books, memoirs, autobiographies and biographies. Fiction, poetry and other genres sit outside the list.
Can Cabanga write my book with me?
Yes. We interview you and write the book in your voice, or build the manuscript with you from notes and drafts through structure and developmental editing. If the manuscript is finished, we edit, design and produce it.
My book is already published. Can you still help?
Yes. We distribute published books through the Cabanga network and the Bookshelf, and run marketing campaigns, PR campaigns and book launches for them.