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Title: TWO PATHS AHEAD The Ideological Struggle between Capitalism and Socialism in Kenya,
Summary: The struggle between socialism and capitalism in Kenya has been long, bitter and violent. Capitalism won with the active support of USA and UK governments at the time of independence in 1963. Yet the original (1960) Kenya African National Union (KANU) Party was in favour of socialism.
Authored by: Shiraz Durrani and
- Released On: 2023-03-01
- Price: 2000 Ksh.
Title: GUERRILLA INCURSIONS INTO THE CAPITALIST MINDSET
Summary: Guerrilla Incursions into the Capitalist Mindset is an unprecedented collection of over 60 essays, interviews, petitions and letters as well as poems and short stories flowing from the pen of Shiraz Durrani. It is a treasure trove of truths that has so far been obscured by the information vacuum created by capitalism and its sister, imperialism.
Authored by: Shiraz Durrani and
- Released On: 2023-02-27
- Price: 2500 Ksh.
Title: THREADS OF TIME Torture, Imprisonment and a Quest for Social Justice
Summary: Mugo Theuri was plucked from his reporting job at the lawcourts in Nakuru after barely three months in post and driven to Nairobi for what would turn out to be 49 days of torture in the infamous Nyayo House.
Authored by: Mugo wa Theuri and
- Released On: 2023-02-01
- Price: 2000 Ksh.
Title: ESSAYS ON PAN- AFRICANISM
Summary: Essays on Pan-Africanism begins with essays by Shiraz Durrani, Abdilatif Abdulla, Issa Shivji, Firoze Manji, Sabatho Nyamsenda, Willy Mutunga and Noosim Naimasiah on various aspects of Pan-Africanism. This is followed by Remembering the Champions of African Liberation
Authored by: Shiraz Durrani and Noosim Naimasiah
- Released On: 2022-06-07
- Price: 2000 Ksh.
Title: KEY POINTS IN THE HISTORY OF KENYA
Summary: History never dies. It is embedded in people's memories when books are burnt and children are taught false histories, imagined by false historians from near and far - says the author in this book.
Authored by: Shiraz Durrani and
- Released On: 2022-06-06
- Price: 1200 Ksh.
Title: CABRAL PINTO WILLY MUTUNGA UNDER COVER
Summary: For over 30 years, Willy Mutunga has blazed the trail in starting many important public conversations about remaking Kenya and the wider world into a better society. As a public intellectual, he has consistently challenged convenient stereotypes in an effort to bring down the social barriers erected by fear and ignorance
Authored by: WILLY MUTUNGA and
- Released On: 2022-04-04
- Price: 2500 Ksh.
Title: STRONGER THAN FAITH - My Journey in the Quest for Justice in Repressive Kenya -
Summary: Few events in Kenya's recent history have captured the imagination of the nation as those of the period from the late 1970s. Between the pages of this memoirs is a history of that period which is hardly taught in our schools and is fast receding into the holes of the insignificant as a younger generation takes over.
Authored by: Oduor Ong’wen and
- Released On: 2022-03-02
- Price: 2500 Ksh.
Title: ESCAPE FROM MONEYVILLE
Summary: It was a cold, dark night. Everything was quiet. A Mawingo bus was travelling from Nairobi to Mombasa. It had big signs painted on the outside: Danger- man. It had travelled over two hundred kilometres and was approaching Mtito Andei. Everybody in the bus was fast asleep. Everyone, that is, except four people
Authored by: Shiraz Durrani and
- Released On: 2021-06-09
- Price: 798 Ksh.
Title: THE STRUGGLE FOR LAND & JUSTICE IN KENYA
Summary: Why has legislation failed to address long standing grievances about grossly unequal land distribution? This important book suggests that questions of justice should be central to discussions of African land reform.
Authored by: Ambreena Manji and
- Released On: 2021-06-08
- Price: 2499 Ksh.
Title: CRIMES OF CAPITALISM IN KENYA
Summary: Covers a shameful period of Kenya’s past under the government of President Daniel arap Moi (1978-2002) who ruled Kenya with an iron fist and conducted his reign of terror on those opposed to his dictatorship
Authored by: Shiraz Durrani and Kimani Waweru
- Released On: 2020-08-11
- Price: 1500 Ksh.
Title: NEITH ER SETTLER NOR NATIVE
Summary: In this genealogy of political modernity, Mahmood Mamdani argues that the nation-state and the colonial state created each other. In case after case around the globe—from the New World to South Africa, Israel to Germany to Sudan—the colonial state and the nation-state have been mutually constructed through the politicization of a religious or ethnic majority at the expense of an equally manufactured minority.
Authored by: Mahmood Mamdani and
- Released On: 2020-07-10
- Price: 2200 Ksh.
Title: CORPSES OF UNITY– An Anthology of Poems
Summary: Cameroon is no longer a peace-haven in Central Africa. This bilingual poetry anthology is a literary response to the avoidable but worsening and under-reported fratricidal war in Anglophone Cameroon.
Authored by: Nsah Mala and Mbizo Chirasha
- Released On: 2020-07-10
- Price: 1000 Ksh.
Title: Andolo – The Talented Boy with Albinism
Summary: Mbesa village witnesses a peculiar birth; that of a boy with a special skin colour. He becomes a curiosity for everyone. Nevertheless, his difference will not be a handicap for him.
Authored by: Nsah Mala and Akila Junior
- Released On: 2020-05-05
- Price: 500 Ksh.
Title: PEOPLE'S RESISTANCE TO COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM IN KENYA
Summary: This book looks at the third pillar of resistance to British colonialism - people's resistance, the others being Mau Mau and radical trade union movement. It brings together several aspects of people's resistance to colonialism and imperialism - before and after independence and includes resistance by nationalities, women, students, peasants and workers in what can only be described as people's resistance
Authored by: Shiraz Durrani and
- Released On: 2018-10-14
- Price: 800 Ksh.
Title: TRADE UNIONS IN KENYA'S WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
Summary: It is due to the success of the trade union movement in the national liberation movement that the colonial government suppressed prominent trade unions and attacked TU leaders like Makhan Singh, Fred Kubai, Pio Gama Pinto and Bildad Kaggia
Authored by: Shiraz Durrani and
- Released On: 2018-10-13
- Price: 800 Ksh.
Title: MAU MAU THE REVOLUTIONARY, ANTI- IMPERIALIST FORCE FROM KENYA
Summary: Very few countries hide or obscure the significance of their most important historical achievements. Kenya has managed to do so without any regrets or even a thought about the implication of such a major oversight in connection with Mau Mau Resistance
Authored by: Shiraz Durrani and
- Released On: 2018-09-12
- Price: 800 Ksh.
Title: PIO GAMA PINTO Kenya's Unsung Martyr
Summary: Pinto became a symbol of anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles in Kenya and India. He was actively involved in Goa's struggle against Portuguese colonialism and in Mau Mau during Kenya's war of independence
Authored by: Shiraz Durrani and
- Released On: 2018-08-11
- Price: 2200 Ksh.
Title: KENYA'S WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
Summary: Mau Mau and its Legacy of Resistance to Colonialism and Imperialism
Authored by: Shiraz Durrani and
- Released On: 2018-06-07
- Price: 1498 Ksh.
Title: LIBERATING MINDS RESTORING KENYAN HISTORY
Summary: Resistance to imperialism in pre independence Kenya by progressive South Asian Kenyans propelled the Kenyan liberation struggle to new heights
Authored by: Nazmi Durrani and
- Released On: 2017-04-26
- Price: 800 Ksh.
Title: MAKHAN SINGH. A Revolutionary Kenyan Trade Unionist
Summary: This book examines the life and work of a remarkable trade unionist and revolutionary. Makhan Singh laid the foundation for radical trade unionism and influenced the liberation struggle in Kenya
Authored by: Shiraz Durrani and
- Released On: 2016-04-17
- Price: 1200 Ksh.
Title: PROGRESSIVE LIBRARIANSHIP
Summary: Public spending is under threat and public libraries are suffering. At a time when libraries can play a critical role in supporting people facing difficult economic and social situations, the dominant conservative model of librarianship has nothing meaningful to say about the role and relevance of libraries
Authored by: Shiraz Durrani and
- Released On: 2014-04-25
- Price: 1599 Ksh.
Title: INFORMATION AND LIBERATION
Summary: Writings on the Politics of Information and librarianship
Authored by: Shiraz Durrani and
- Released On: 2008-10-22
- Price: 1500 Ksh.
Title: NEVER BE SILENT
Summary: The struggle for independence in Kenya was waged at many levels. Never be Silent explores how this struggle was reflected in the communications field
Authored by: Shiraz Durrani and
- Released On: 2008-04-23
- Price: 1200 Ksh.
Title: Karimi Nduthu A life in struggle
Summary: Karīmi Nduthu was brutally assassinated by agents of the Moi dictatorship on the 23rd of March 1996. A s this book indicates, Karīmi Nduthu was a revolutionary jewel, firmly embedded in the purest forms of the Kenyan tradition of patriotic resistance
Authored by: Karimi Nduthu and
- Released On: 1998-09-09
- Price: 300 Ksh.