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Abdirahman Kahin has no trouble sleeping. You’d think the owner of Afro Deli would, considering how much he fits into his schedule. Aside from managing three — make that four in the spring — Afro Deli locations across the Twin Cities, Kahin recently sponsored the shipment of more than 110,000 books to Somalia and Djibouti through the St. Paul-based nonprofit Books for ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½.

Local students, the Alliance Française and ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½ have joined to collect and send French-language books to students in French-speaking Mali in West ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½.

ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½ is pleased to announce its exciting latest project under the BFA publishing initiative: books in Amharic and Oromo that are being custom-printed in Ethiopia!

ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½ recently closed its 2021 photo contest and is pleased to showcase some amazing photos sent by book recipients from across the continent.

As a child growing up in rural ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½, Nonku Adumetey did not have access to books. When she became a mom and found herself living in Rogers Park, Adumetey was disappointed to find that while access to books was no longer a problem, she was unable to find books that represented diverse characters like her own toddler-aged kids.

For Northfield’s Charlie Cogan and Cerif Keita, donating French-language books to students in West ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½ is all about building amities — friendships.