Don't Read Alone
2,300+ booklovers, 30+ countries, all exploring literature as a shared and empowering cultural experience.
MyLibri Books becomes Official Digital Reading Partner
MyLibri Books, a subscription-based digital library, joins Read to Impact as our Official Digital Reading Partner — integrated across our 2026 reading challenges, Tell the Impact Magazine, and community events.
Read the announcementOfficial Digital Reading Partners
About Us
We're Africa's leading literary community — connecting and empowering booklovers across borders through the shared experience of literature
Who We Are
RTI is a pan-African literary community united by a shared passion for books and the belief that literary exploration is a cultural experience best enjoyed together.
What We Do
We run reading challenges, literary festivals, and community programmes — creating spaces where booklovers connect, share, and grow together.
Where We Are
Our community spans 30+ countries across Africa and beyond, with coordinators, university chapters, and an annual distributed literary festival held simultaneously across multiple cities.
From Our Literary Magazine
Ma Kẹkẹ is the Gemspread family's flash-fiction magazine: short African stories, free to read, each issue a collection you can finish in one sitting
Latest issue
Inside Life
Winning stories of quiet resilience, hard-won light, and twists that stay with you.
Read it freeImpact Report
See highlights of the positive impact we're making across Africa
OUR COMMUNITY
“We're enriching Africa's literary culture through community"
Creative Director, Read To Impact
Growing Size
2,300+
Active community members
Highlights
1500+
Unique books read by our community
Author Event
Multiple
Cities
Dream Africa Conference
150+
Attendees
Behind the Books
50
Attendees
From our publishing family
New fiction from Gemspread's Harmattan imprint
The Days We Long For
Oluwabunmi Adaramola · Romance
A woman gone silent after a painful past, and the gentle love that reaches her anyway.
Bittersweet Symphony
Sarah Ikogba · Young Adult
Two sisters, one buried secret, and the long road back to each other.
What Tomorrow Knew
Promise Onyekachukwu · Thriller
A love she's certain of, and a late stepmother who returns each night to warn her against marrying him.
JOIN US
Join Africa's finest literary community
Share what you're reading, join our reading challenges, attend RTI Lit Fest, and connect with booklovers who are redefining what it means to explore literature together.