Böcker utgivna av East African Educ. Publ.

The inaccessibility of biomedicine to most of Africa's population because of escalating costs has necessitated a search for alternative ways of managing illnesses. Traditional medicine, which has always been practised in the indigenous cultures, is fast filling this therapeutic gap. This book is a collection of essays based on a multidisciplinary approach to traditional medicine in Africa. It has contributions from social scientists, natural resource experts, traditional medical practitioners, educationists, and medical scholars. It attempts to define the problems of traditional medicine in Africa, while also discussing the conceptual foundations of African ethnomedicine and medical pluralism.

The East African Publishing House published three classic books in the 1960s on the origins of certain events among people and in the animal kingdom. The books have been long out-of-print and are now available again in re-issues by Heinemann Kenya. The stories are oral tales handed down the generations by the people living near Lake Victoria. In this first of the series, the four stories are 'How the Goat Became our Friend'; 'How the Hawk and the Crow Came to Hate Each Other'; 'How the Beans Came to Have a Black Sport on Them'; and 'How the Leopard Got His Spots', and 'How the Hyena Got an Ugly Coat'. Each story is illustrated with adrawing.

The East African Publishing House published three classic books in the 1960s on the origins of certain events among people and in the animal kingdom. The books have been long out-of-print and are now available again in re-issues by Heinemann Kenya. The stories are oral tales handed down the generations by the people living near Lake Victoria. In this first of the series, the four stories are 'How the Goat Became our Friend'; 'How the Hawk and the Crow Came to Hate Each Other'; 'How the Beans Came to Have a Black Sport on Them'; and 'How the Leopard Got His Spots', and 'How the Hyena Got an Ugly Coat'. Each story is illustrated with adrawing.

Peter Enahoro wrote a famously funny book, The Complete Nigerian, and the follow-up How to be a Nigerian. In similar mode, a Kenyan writer has produced a series of hilarious essays about what it means to be a Kenyan. Described as painfully true and outrageously witty, the book is a light-hearted illustration of the particularities of thought, manners and attitude of Kenyan people.