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A further new title in this series on East African oral literature, considering East African-Indian genres of oral literature and cultures, which developed as people from India/Asia migrated to East...

This is the sixth title in a series of titles focussing on the oral literary tradition of various East African ethnic groups - the Maasai, the Embu and the Mbeere amongst others - published by EAEP...

Is polygamy moral? Should the Church marry and bless polygamists? Should Europe and America legalise polygamy? What really is the African's honest opinion of polygamy? David Maillu is a leading...

In what has become known as Africa's "second liberation", there has been a renewed drive from within for peace and good governance. Church leaders have been key actors in this drive as is evident in...

The author's father was a Kenyan nationalist detained by the British. And thus his son was unable to benefit from anything more than a rudimentary education. He turned to crime for a living, spent...

An instant success and bestseller in Kenya, which ran into 6 reprints, this prize-winning novel marked the beginning of popular literature in Kenya. Mangua's novel is a fictional, autobiographical...

A sequel to the bestselling The Son of Woman, written in Mangua's now familiar engaging, cynical and humorous style. In this novel, the Son of Woman has come out of jail amd moved to Mombasa to start...

The first of two volumes, these ten stories from the author's native Uganda, include tales of some of the familiar characters from African lore - Lion, Hare and Elephant. Wise old women, handsome...

Swahili for Foreigners has been developed to help the non-native speaker learn the language systematically and with minimal teacher assistance. The book is divided into thirty-four lessons...

This is the story of the life of Abudu Olwit, and of Teboke, the village where he is born and raised. In Teboke, two Indians build a cotton ginnery, and recruit workers from Sudan and the Congo to...

One of Kenya's most notable woman novelists, the author here tells a story for young children. A group of neighbourhood children catch a thief and a smuggler, help a street child to return to school,...

Rebecca deceives herself that she is a sophisticated modern woman. Her story is a portrait of her evolution in a society standing on the threshold of change. She desperately seeks self-discovery in a...

Since around the fourteenth century this heroic narrative has been handed down the generations orally within the Mongo People, and has now been published in English for the first time. The...

The events of this novel are played out against a background of tension and contradiction between the rural and urban experience, squalor and affluence, reality and superstition. Nyakane, a high-...

A story set in a fictional Nigerian village and university environment. Oby struggles to lead a full life in a modern but ever male-dominated world. First she must contend with rejection from the...

This racy novel is about two beautiful girls in Mombasa seeking the good life. Their passions for men and money and their thirst for adventure threaten to destroy them. But the narrator, one of the...

This is the story, from an established Kenyan author, of Mwende, a young girl from Koola. She tells of her wicked step-mother and hard life, how she tried to run away to Nairobi to find her father...

This is a symbolic story of a fictitious African state, ruined by poor leadership and corruption in the wake of independence from colonial rule, and the political turmoil and instablity which...

The inaccessibility of biomedicine to most of Africa's population because of escalating costs has necessitated a search for alternative ways of managing illnesses. Traditional medicine, which has...

The work is organised into sections on: global perspectives on capital markets; stock exchanges and capital markets within the African continent; regional perspectives within the continent; the...

Poet, philosopher and artist, these poems from the distinguished Ugandan writer won the 1972 Kenyatta Prize for Literature. Song of Prisoner confronts the tragedy of Africa's decade of freedom. He...

A complex social web forms the backdrop to this novel - the story of a man and two wives, one legally married to him, the other not. There is mounting pressure from a prying society with its norms on...

A young physical therapist living in the cold and bleak of northern Canada longs for a new life, and so she goes to work in South Africa. The novel centres around the new life Jayne finds. At first...