East African Educational Publishers

Hearthstones is a rich tapestry of spellbinding stories that revolve around three strong women: Chilufya - a medical doctor; Likande, a private-sector career woman; and Tengani, a politician and...

Lieutenant General Daniel Opande, in his autobiography In Pursuit of Peace in Africa, shares his experiences in childhood, education, family and military career until his retirement. He wore many...

Christian theologians in Africa are faced with three conflicting worlds: Christian faith, African culture and modern culture. In spite of the commitment of Christian theologians to live by biblical...

Vitabu vya Nyota vimetungwa maksudi ili viwawezeshe wanafunzi katika Afrika Mashariki kujifunza lugha ya Kiswahili katika hali ya kuburudisha. Kuna mengi ya kujifunza, toka lugha, yaliyomo na hata...

This is a Kiswahili dictionary targeted towards elementary learners of the Kiswahili language. It is a product of comprehensive research that was carried out by the author and subjected to serious...

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...

Mona Lisa, msichana mwenye sura ya malaika na umbo la malkia anafakiwa kuutikisa ujabali wa Joram Kiango hata akakubali kustarehe naye. Joram Kiango anajikuta katika mkasa mzito na wa kutisha, na...

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...

The late 1690 and early 70s may be remembered as the years of the great bank and other armed robberies in Kenya. This is the true story of one of the participants in some of those robberies, John...

John Kiriamiti's best-selling novel My Life in Crime has become a classic.When, as an innocent teenage girl, Miriam met John Kiriamiti, alias Jack Zollo, she found him gentle, kind and considerate...

"...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,...

Bow-legged Bull frog sits by a riverbank, enjoying a delicious meal of flies. He cheerfully greets strangers that pass by and offers to share his food. However, he learns that not everyone eats flies...

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...

Tanzania iliingia katika uchaguzi mkuu ulioshirikisha vyama vingi kwa mara ya kwanza mwaka wa 1995. Kampeni kubwa za kitaifa na kimataifa zilifanyika hadharani na sirini. Yako mengi yaliyokuwa...

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...

Who can resist a boy with a smile as bright as the sun, when he asks to be joined on a stroll when the sun is shining bright, and the weather is just right? Certainly, not the animals and one...

For one daddy's little girl, bedtime is filled with imagination and adventure. Sweet Daddy Airlines has one passenger. The fun begins when Flight 22 takes off, headed to the beautiful Land of Wanji's...

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...

Devil on the Cross, first published in Gikuyu as Caitaani Mutharabaini (1980) and here in Swahili as Shetani Msalabani, is a portrayal of corruption and how it has entrenched itself into the society...

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...