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PHOTO CAPTION: Worlds Unknown Publishers’ goal is to partner with authors from Africa to develop and publish high-quality fictional books for young adults.<\/em><\/p>\n
\u201cOur books give voice to the rich and vibrant stories of 1.3 billion African people,\u201d Cheboswony said. \u201cOur lineup of titles is sure to capture the hearts and imaginations of even the most reluctant teen readers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cheboswony, a resident of Phoenix and a native of the village of Kipniwai, Kenya, was motivated to curate a collection of African-themed books to ignite the curiosity and passion of young people craving literary encounters with fascinating and real youth from around the world, whose experiences are simultaneously relatable and yet completely foreign to them.<\/p>\n
As an immigrant, Cheboswony was exposed to different cultures through books, which helped her navigate cross-cultural communication and created a hunger in her to explore \u201cworlds unknown.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her mission with Worlds Unknown Publishers is to partner with authors from Africa to develop and publish high-quality fictional books for young adults. The current lineup of authors includes titles by Erick Ngoda, Muthoni wa Gichuru, Emily Wekulo, Moraa Gitaa, Newton Mudaki, Maria Ngoda, and Goro wa Kamau.<\/p>\n
One of the company\u2019s newly released books, \u201cLet\u2019s Talk About This\u201d by Moraa Gitaa, centers on two young girls from different cultural backgrounds in Nairobi, Kenya who meet at the Angels of Mercy Girl\u2019s Crisis Centre the morning after both have suffered the trauma of rape. \u201cLet\u2019s Talk About This\u201d is an engaging YA novella that recounts an end-of-the-year school party gone wrong while addressing issues of sexual trauma and forced child marriages.<\/p>\n
Cheboswony said, \u201c\u2019Let\u2019s Talk About This\u2019 is just one example of her publishing company\u2019s engaging and boundary-pushing books, each one filled with authentic characters and relatable stories from around Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another example is \u201cWard Nine\u201d by Emily Wekulo, a story of wealth, power, and mental illness centering on characters tangled in twisted cultural beliefs.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur authors\u2019 characters are vivid and very real,\u201d Cheboswony said. \u201cReaders will lose themselves in the pages of these books. They will barely notice how long it took to get to the last page of each one.\u201d<\/p>\n
View book trailers at https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCSa8AT0i_p1v6Lq4n9ZumQA<\/a>.<\/p>\n Learn more about Worlds Unknown Publishers\u2019 books at https:\/\/www.wupubs.com\/books<\/a>.<\/p>\n For more information about the company, go to https:\/\/www.wupubs.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n *VIDEO (YouTube): https:\/\/youtu.be\/_Rg-vsZieKs<\/a><\/p>\n
![https:\/\/www.Send2Press.com\/300dpi\/20-0909s2p-wu-publishers-300dpi.jpg<\/a>\n*Caption: Some example initial book releases from Worlds Unknown Publishers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX, Ariz., Sept. 10, 2020 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Former high school teacher, university adjunct and current curriculum developer manager for higher institutions, Joan Cheboswony is the founder of Worlds Unknown Publishers, a new self-publishing firm created to provide a platform for sharing stories about Africa, her people, cultures, and expansive natural beauty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8481,"featured_media":63268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,236,12804,125,1,37,134,177,559,40],"tags":[5454,14194,14193,6473],"class_list":["post-63367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-publishing-news","category-african-american-interest-news","category-ap","category-arizona-news","category-business-news","category-entertainment-news","category-general-editorial-news","category-phoenix-news","category-products-news","category-video-news-release","tag-adventure-novel","tag-african-themed-books","tag-authors-from-africa","tag-self-publishing","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":3701,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8481"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/www.Send2Press.com\/300dpi\/20-0909s2p-wu-publishers-300dpi.jpg\"){kind=link}