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Our books are based on the principles of equality and justice. We aim to redress the working people’s lack of power over information, communication and the media; which then restricts their access to ideas and experiences to resist imperialism..
CORPSES OF UNITY
Cameroon is no longer a peace haven in Central Africa. This bilingual poetry anthology is a literary...
CRIMES OF CAPITALISM IN KENYA
This is the first number in the Research and Documentation (R&D) series from Vita Books and Ukombozi...
ESCAPE FROM MONEY VILLE
So begins an adventure for four Kenyan youths, two boys and two girls, that explores the depth of de...
Information and liberation
Information and Liberation is a retrospective collection of Shiraz Durrani’s articles and conference...
Essays On Pan-Africanism
Essays on Pan-Africanism begins with essays by Shiraz Durrani, Abdilatif Abdulla, Issa Shivji, Firoz...
MAUMAU THE REVOLUTIONARY ANTI-IMPIRIALIST FORCE FROM KENYA 1948-1963
Very few countries hide or obscure the significance of their most important historical achievements....
PEOPLES RESISTANCE TO COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM IN KENYA
This book looks at the third pillar of resistance to British colonialism – people’s resistance, the...
TRADE UNIONS IN KENYAS WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
It is due to the success of the trade union movement in the national liberation movement that the co...
KENYAS WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
Kenya’s War of Independence restores Kenya’s stolen history to its rightful place, stripped of colon...
MAKHAN SINGH: A REVOLUTIONARY KENYAN TRADE UNIONIST
This book examines the life and work of a remarkable trade unionist and revolutionary. Makhan Singh...
NEVER BE SILENT
“We will never be silent until we get land to cultivate and freedom in this country of ours” …so sa...
PROGRESSIVE LIBRARIANISM
Public spending is under threat and public libraries are suffering. At a time when libraries can pla...
KEY POINTS IN THE HISTORY OF KENYA
History never dies. It is embedded in people's memories when books are burnt and children are taught...
NEITHER SETTLER NOR NATIVE the making and unmaking of permanent minorities
In this genealogy of political modernity, Mahmood Mamdani argues that the nation-state and the colon...
STRONGER THAN FAITH
Between the pages of this memoirs is a history of that period which is hardly taught in our schools...
PIO GAMA PINTO 1927 - 1965 Kenya’s Unsung Martyr
Pio Gama Pinto was born in Nairobi on March 31, 1927. When he was eight, his father sent him to Indi...
ANDOLO – The Talented Boy with Albinism
Mbesa village witnesses a peculiar birth; that of a boy with a special skin colour. He becomes a cur...
THE STRUGGLE FOR LAND AND JUSTICE IN KENYA
In their chapter on land in a landmark text entitled Public Law and Social Change in Kenya published...
CABRAL PINTO - Willy Mutunga under cover
For over 30 years, Willy Mutunga has blazed the trail in starting many important public conversation...
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