March 2024

Pictures, books, worlds

Baobab Books has been publishing picture books, children's stories and young adult fiction from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Oceania and the Middle East in German translation since 1990, providing authentic insights into other worlds

Laugh your troubles away !

The publisher Carlsen Verlag is celebrating the centenary of comic genius André Franquin with a comprehensive new edition

Our lady of the night

Narratives of the black body in "Our Lady of the Night" by Mayra Santos Febres*

Cherished Memories

The Frankfurt Book Fair may be the largest book fair in the world but Bangladesh's month-long book extravaganza, the Ekushey Book Fair, is definitely the longest

Colonial fossil

In "Climate injustice", Friederike Otto emphasises that we should prepare for the consequences of climate change. This is illustrated with case studies from around the world. But regardless of what happens and where, the West is always to blame