East African Educational Publishers

This is a Kiswahili dictionary that is meant for secondary school students, scholars and also the general readership. It is a product of comprehensive research that was carried out by scholars and...

The author analyses Kenya's formation as a state, its national interest, determinants of its foreign policy and how the country has applied its diplomacy in response to constantly changing dynamics...

What did it take to get hundreds of Kenyan students, thirsting for higher education, into US colleges in the late 1950s and early 1960s? It took perseverance, help from countless people, and the...

Land Without Thunder is Grace Ogot's first collection of short stories. Her live feeling for the macabre and the fatalistic is reminiscent of the tragedy in her first full-length work, The Promised...

This is the original Gĩkũyũ version of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's satirical novel Mũrogi wa Kagogo, published in English as Wizard of the Crow . The novel gives a surgical examination of...

Modern Swahili Grammar is an important contribution to the study of Swahili grammar from pedagogical and lingustic perspectives, and thus relevant to both students of Swahili and scholars of...

Should Remi, the first of his tribe to go to university, return to his people from the city? Should he return to Thoni, his brother's widow, whom he has had to marry under tribal custom? Or should he...

"...Inspekta, najisikia kuua tena..." inadai sauti katika sim ambayo imo mikononi mwa shupavu wa polisi. Hii ikiwa simu ya pili, baada ya ile ya awali ambayo ilifuatwa na kifo cha mwandishi maarufu,...

Ruru ni rugano rwa kiriu Ruru ni rugano rwa magegania Ruru ni rugano rwi na gikeno Ruru rugano rwi na ngunyiriri Ni rugano rwa Abirika itu Rugano rwa mundu muiru Rugano rwa gwikuwa na gwikunguira...

On January 20, 2009, Barack Hussein Obama made history as the first African-American president of the United States of America since its founding in 1776. Around the world, people celebrated his...

Oral Literature of the Maasai offers an extensive collection of types of oral literature: oral narratives; proverbs; riddles; and a variety of songs for different occasions. The versions in this book...

Mwandishi mmoja mashuhuri hapa duniani aliwahi kuandika katika kitabu chake, 'No Money Smells', kwamba hakuna pesa zinazonuka. Lakini mwandishi wa riwaya hii anadai "zipo, na zanuka". Ni pesa zipi...

The spirit of the poetic flowering of the 1960s is encapsulated in this comprehensive anthology. The collection gives voice to some fifty poets from Kenya, Uganda and Zambia, writing in English. The...

Kifo kaja duniani. Akikuchekea umekwisha ... Akikusalimu umekwisha ... Hana mdhaha ...Lakini yeye anataka watu wakubwa zaidi. Anataka kuifanya Afrika nzima iangue kilio na maombolezo amabayo...

This novel is by the author of the celebrated My Life in Crime and is his first.To Son of Fate, life is a grim, long and fruitless struggle for survival after he is released from Kamiti Maximum...

Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol are among the most successful African literary works. Song of Lawino is an African woman's lamentation over the cultural death of her western educated husband - Ocol...

Narrated from the point of view of Seun, an orphan from the Niger Delta, Stillborn is not only a tale of turmoil and tragedy; desperation and despair; but also one of optimism and opportunity. It...

The second novel from the winner of the Sinclair Prize for Fiction with her first novel. The life and times of the desolate in Kenyan society, striving for survival in a callous world.Author:...

Kendi is faced with her first mission after a vicious locust attack threatens to destroy everything. A sinister danger is lurking in the background. Will Super Lisu manage to uncover who is behind...

Kendi signs up for the inter-school Science and Technology Fair to take a break from her superhero life...

Teaching English in Africa is a practical guide written for primary and secondary school teachers working all over the continent. This book relates the practice of English language teaching directly...

When an Indian businessman, Vishal Mehta, is found murdered inside his garage in Tigoni, Limuru, Jack Chidi, an investigative reporter with The Daily Grind is called in to investigate. Jack has no...

The High Flier and Other Stories is a collection of twelve exciting short stories from across Africa. The collection focuses on pertinent issues which touch on social, economic and political aspects...

The Marakwet of Kenya is a study of a sub-group of the greater Kalenjin community, the majority of whom live in the Rift Valley Province of Kenya. It is an excellent introduction to the study of an...

This is the story of the peace process in Sudan. It is told by one of Kenya's most distinguished writers, well placed to narrate the extraordinary story of how peace in Africa's largest country was...

A young farmer and his wife who have migrated to Tanzania from Kenya become embroiled in issues of personal jealousy and materialism, and a melodramatic tale of tribal hatreds ensues. The novel...

The Class Reunion is a few days away. Felize is torn between skipping and attending the event. After a lot of tough talk from her cousin, Bupilo, she makes up her mind. She attends the Reunion but a...

To Son of Fate, life is a grim, long and fruitless struggle for survival after he is released from Kamiti Maximum Prison. He tries his hand at farming, tilling a small piece of land left to him by...

For many centuries, the politics of Sudan has been characterised by racial dichotomy and identity crisis, specifically between the North and the South. Added to these is the long history of...

Dieudonnes life is spun from the threads of one of Africa's grand moral dilemmas, in which personal responsibility is intertwined with the social catharsis occasioned by ambitions of dominance and...