Mkuki na Nyota explained

Founder:	Walter Bgoya
Country:	United Republic of Tanzania
Headquarters:	24 Samora Avenue, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Publications:	Books
Topics:	Politics, economics, gender studies, development studies, children

Mkuki na Nyota Publishers Ltd (MNP) is a book publishing company that was founded in 1981 in response to the general absence of independent scholarly publishing in Tanzania. It researches, creates, publishes, markets and sells general books, children's books, trade books and educational books. Books are published in both English and Kiswahili. It also translates literature into Kiswahili, including Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Le Petit Prince from its original French.^[1]

Mkuki na Nyota is a member of the African Books Collective] a collective owned and governed by a group of African publishers.^[2]

Partnerships

Mkuki na Nyota has published books for and in conjunction with the Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF), Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA),^[3] Research on Democracy in Tanzania (REDET).^[4] Mkuki na Nyota has partnered with Non-governmental organisations to promote reading and education in Tanzania, for example, with Newton Tanzania.^[5]

External links

• Mkuki na Nyota Official Website

Notes and References

1. Web site: "The Little Prince" in Swahili. Mwana Mdogo . Wa Mfalme . 9 January 2010. 7 March 2012 . https://archive.today/20130223092126/http://www.ambafrance-tz.org/The-Little-Prince-in-Swahili . 23 February 2013 . dead .
2. Web site: African Books Collective . African Books Collective . 7 March 2012.
3. Web site: Policy Research for Development, REPOA. www.repoa.or.tz. 2017-11-07.
4. Web site: Profile Mkuki na Nyota Publishers . Africa News . 7 March 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120104112521/http://www.africanews.com/site/page/partner_mkuki_na_nyota_publishers . 4 January 2012 . dead .
5. Web site: The Village Reading Corner . Newton Tanzania . 7 March 2012.