{"id":1121,"date":"2022-09-25T12:19:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T12:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2022-09-26T12:49:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T12:49:41","slug":"23rd-nairobi-international-bookfair-kicks-off-on-sept-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/2022\/09\/25\/23rd-nairobi-international-bookfair-kicks-off-on-sept-28\/","title":{"rendered":"23RD Nairobi International Bookfair kicks off on Sept 28"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"669\" src=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220925_104907_856-1024x669.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220925_104907_856-1024x669.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220925_104907_856-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220925_104907_856-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220925_104907_856-1536x1004.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220925_104907_856-1200x784.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220925_104907_856.jpg 1539w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 23RD Nairobi International Bookfair kicks off on Sept 28 running up to Sunday Oct. 2 at the Sarit Center hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event which is organized by the Kenya Publishers Association (KPA) comes as a source of great relief for local publishers still recovering from the devasting effects of COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kiarie Kamau, the chairman of KPA said the pandemic and the attendant restrictions meant that the bookfair was not held in 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are excited that we are holding a phyiscal book fair after being unable to do so the last 2 years owing to the COVID-19 disruption,&#8221; Kamau said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kamau, who is also the managing director of East Africa Educational Publishers, noted that the NIBF has an admirable profile internationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is the biggest book fair in this part of Africa. Perhaps the only one that comes close is the Cairo International Book Fair,&#8221; he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The theme of this year&#8217;s book fair is &#8216;publishing in the New Era&#8217; which is a representation of current realities, both locally and internationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 23RD Nairobi International Bookfair kicks off on Sept 28 running up to Sunday Oct&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1129,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/1129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}