Afro-Asian Book Council 

Objectives:     Set up in New Delhi in February 1990 as a non-profit NGO with the main objective of achieving intellectual self-reliance through mutual assistance and cooperation between Africa and Asia in authorship and publishing.

 Activities:      Book exhibitions and author development workshops at national and international levels, book industry training programmes, seminars, consultations and annual conferences on book-related themes in Asia and Africa, facilitating flow of books and Rights with a view to promoting indigenous authorship and publishing. 

Membership:  On March 31, 2006 the Council had 170 members on its roll in 25 Afro-Asian countries, viz.

                        IN AFRICA 

Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.

IN ASIA-PACIFIC

                        Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Philippines and UAE. 

                        IN EUROPE AND AMERICA

Outside the Afro-Asian region the Council has Associate Members in Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, Russia, UK and USA.