The General Council's duties include electing the Board. Board The Board is the executive arm of the General Council and is made up of the Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Treasurer, and a representative each from Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone Africa. To be able to carry out successfully, the Board relies on the Secretariat. At present there is an on-going KAWI project. Full, Founding, Affiliate, and Associate.
Full membership embraces national publishers associations.
Associate membership is reserved for individuals or organisations with an outstanding record of service to African publishing. Unlike the other categories, which can be applied for, Associate Membership can be conferred only by invitation from the General Council. Basically publishing moulds a nation since it determines the calibre of a people and their leadership. As a result foreign ideas, cultures, inter alia, have been fed to Africans, resulting in loss of identity. The sphere of.