Profile Mkuki na Nyota Publishers


Mkuki na Nyota Publishers is an indigenous Book Publishing Company established in 1991,
in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. With a background of 18 years as the General Manager of the Tanzania Publishing House, Walter Bgoya established Mkuki na Nyota Publishers in response to the general absence of independent scholarly publishing in Tanzania.

Mkuki na Nyota aims to publish relevant, beautiful and affordable books for the local and regional markets and quality competitive books for the overseas market. As well as being marketed and sold locally and regionally through bookshops and other outlets, internationally MnNP’s titles are marketed and distributed by the African Books Collective – a marketing and distribution organisation based in Oxford, UK which was established by African publishers in 1989 in order to promote sales of their books in overseas markets. Through an agreement with ABC, Michigan State.


Contact


Mkuki na Nyota Publishers
PO BOX 4246
Dar es Salaam
Tanzania

Sales/marketing Department (Kariakoo)
6 Muhonda Street,
Mission Quarter,
Opp. Kanisa Katoliki,
Kariakoo, Ilala,
Dar es Salaam

Phone:+255-22-2180479
Fax: +255-22-2121416
Email: sales.mauzo@mkukinanyota.com (Sales)
Email: marketing.masoko@mkukinanyota.com (Marketing)
                       

Projects

Art
MnNP is currently developing an East African Art books line with the first two titles in the series, "From Ritual to Modern Art: Tradition and Modernity in Tanzania Sculpture" and “Malangatana” (works of the renowned Mozambican painter), already out. Both of these are high quality coffee table books. The third and fourth books in a series uniquely covering the whole of East Africa are now being written by the best scholars and art historians in the region.

Textbooks
From inception, a number of books which MnNP developed as general readers for young people in and out of school have been approved for use in schools as set texts and supplementary readers.
Several of these have sold in tens of thousands over the years and have been found invaluable by teachers and students alike. It is with the experience in this line of publishing that MnNP has begun to develop text books, a number of which have already received the approval of the Educational Materials Approval Committee (EMAC) and are already on the market. The plan is to continue to develop series of high quality textbooks and several are in progress.

Social Sciences
As well as providing scholarly books in the Social Science that are used at the university in various courses, MnNP have published books for and in conjunction with the Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF), Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA), Research on Democracy in Tanzania (REDET), The Mwalimu Nyerere Foundation, the Civil Service Department and UNICEF. Cooperation with Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA) and the Civil Service Department has proved particularly successful.

Book cover:
Walter Bgoya