Gersy Ifeanyi Ejimofo is founder and director of Digitalback Books. After starting her career working in tech and academic publishing (for the likes of Pearson and Macmillan) Ejimofo changed direction a few years ago, at a discussion on African writers. After hearing about the difficulties of publishing and bookselling in the region and for the African diaspora - a lack of distribution, piracy, high production costs - she realised there could be a technological solution. "That," she says, "was the lightbulb moment." Two and a half years later, Digitalback Books - an online platform dedicated to African writers - has secured partnerships with more than 30 publishers, including Zed Books, Peepal Tree Press and New Internationalist.
Here, she shares five things inspiring her to think and work differently right now.
