Google Launches Free AI-Powered Storybook for Nigerian Families


Google Launches Free AI-Powered Storybook for Nigerian Families
Google has introduced Storybook, a free AI-powered feature within its Gemini app, enabling Nigerian families to create personalized, narrated, and illustrated 10-page stories from prompts, photos, or children’s drawings. Launched on August 5, 2025, Storybook taps into Nigeria’s rich storytelling tradition, aiming to make learning engaging for its 39 million children aged six and under. Users can visit gemini.google.com/gem/storybook, input a story idea, and optionally add images to generate a vibrant tale, complete with narration, on mobile or desktop. Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, Google’s West Africa communications manager, emphasized that Storybook fosters creativity and education, allowing parents and teachers to craft tales that place children at the center of adventures, like turning a doodle into a bedtime story or a family photo...