{"id":216305,"date":"2025-06-20T13:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T18:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/africas-book-industry-unesco-highlights-its-economic-and-cultural-potential-in-a-new-report"},"modified":"2025-06-20T13:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T18:06:09","slug":"africas-book-industry-unesco-highlights-its-economic-and-cultural-potential-in-a-new-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/africas-book-industry-unesco-highlights-its-economic-and-cultural-potential-in-a-new-report","title":{"rendered":"Africa\u2019s book industry: UNESCO highlights its economic and cultural potential in a new report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/africas-book-industry-unesco-highlights-its-economic-and-cultural-potential-in-a-new-report.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNESCO launched the first-ever comprehensive mapping of Africa\u2019s book industry, revealing a sector brimming with untapped potential. The new report outlines a roadmap to transform the continent\u2019s publishing industry, with projected revenues of up to US$18.5 billion if key reforms are implemented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNESCO launched the first-ever comprehensive mapping of Africa\u2019s book industry, revealing a sector brimming with untapped potential. The new report outlines a roadmap to transform the continent\u2019s publishing industry, with projected revenues of up to US$18.5 billion if key reforms are implemented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}