Empowerment Begins with Your Mother Tongue

"If you know all the languages of the world except your mother tongue, you are enslaved. On the other hand, if you know your own language and add all the other languages of the world to it, you are empowered."

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

 


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e are pleased to present our books that are available in over 140 African languages. They range from well known languages like Swahili, Hausa, Yoruba and Zulu to lesser known dialects and scripts like Sango, Osmanya and Vai.

We are dedicated to promoting and preserving African languages through publishing and hope that others will join us in promoting this vital aspect of cultural preservation. Most of our books are published in bilingual editions.

All our books are translated by professional translators.

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OUR BOOKS HAVE BEEN TRANSLATED INTO THE FOLLOWING LANGUAGES

Acholi (Uganda) Afar (Djibouti & Eritrea) Afrikaans (South Africa) Akuapem (Ghana) Amharic (Ethiopia) Arabic (Lebanon) Aramaic (Egypt) Assamese (India) Asante (Ghana) Azeri (Azerbaijan) Bahasa (Indonesia) Balochi (Pakistan) Bambara (Mali) Bamum (Cameroon) Bamvele (Cameroon)  Bandi (Liberia)  Baoulé (Ivory Coast) Basa'a (Cameroon) Bassa (Liberia) Batanga (Cameroon) Bemba (Zambia) Bengali (India) Berber (Algeria) Bisso'o (Cameroon) Bosnian (Bosnia & Hercegovina) Bulu (Cameroon) Burmese (Myanmar) Changana (Mozambique) Chichewa (Malawi) Chinese (China) Chinyanja (Zambia) Chokwe (Angola) Cisena (Mozambique) Coptic (Egypt) Dan (Liberia) Dari (Afghanistan) Dinka (South Sudan) Dogri (India) Douala (Cameroon) Dutch (The Netherlands) Dyula (Ivory Coast) Dyula (Burkina Faso) Dzongkha (Bhutan) Edo (Nigeria) Efik (Nigeria) Ekegusii (Kenya) Emakwa (Mozambique) English (US and UK) Ewe (Togo) Ewondo (Cameroon) Fang (Gabon) Fante (Ghana) Farsi (Iran) Fe'efe'e (Cameroon) Finnish (Finland) Fon (Benin) French (France) Fulfulde (Nigeria) Ga (Ghana) Gaelic (Ireland) German (Germany) Ghomala (Cameroon) Gikuyu (Kenya) Giriama (Kenya) Gola (Liberia) Grebo (Liberia) Greek (Greece) Gulmancema (Burkina Faso) Gurage (Ethiopia) Hadiyyisa (Ethiopia) Harrari (Ethiopia) Hausa (Nigeria) Hindi (India) Ibibio (Nigeria) Igbo (Nigeria) Ijaw (Nigeria) Italian (Italy) Itsekiri (Nigeria) Japanese (Japan) Kabiye (Togo) Kalabari (Nigeria) Kalanga (Zimbabwe) Kalenjin (Kenya) Kambaata (Ethiopia) Kanembu (Tchad) Kannada (India) Kanuri (Nigeria) Kashmiri (India) Khandeshi (India) Khmer (Cambodia) Khoekhoegowab (Namibia) Kiembu (Kenya) Kikamba (Kenya) Kikongo (DR Congo) Kimbundu (Angola) Kimeru (Kenya) Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) Kirundi (Burundi) Kom (Cameroon) Konso (Ethiopia) Korean (Korea) Kpelle (Liberia) Krio (Sierra Leone) Kru (Liberia) Kunama (Eritrea) Kurdish (Kurmanji) Kwasio (Cameroon) Lao (Laos) Lingala (D.R. Congo) Lomwe (Mozambique) Lorma (Liberia) Lubukusu (Kenya) Luganda (Uganda) Luo (Kenya) Maan (Liberia) Maasai (Kenya) Macedonian (North Macedonia) Maithili (India) Malagasy (Madagascar) Malay (Malaysia) Malayalam (India) Mandinka (Gambia) Maninka (Guinea) Maori (New Zealand) Marathi (India) Mauritian Creole (Mauritius) Medumba (Cameroon) Mende (Sierra Leone) Moba (Mali) Mongolian (Mongolia) Montenegrin (Montenegro) Mòoré (Burkina Faso) Nda'Nda' (Cameroon) Ndebele (Zimbabwe) Nepali (Nepal) Ngemba (Cameroon) Ngiemboon (Cameroon) Nobiin (Egypt & Sudan) Nuer (South Sudan) Nugunu (Cameroon) Nupe (Nigeria) Oriya (India) Oromo (Ethiopia) Oshiwambo (Namibia) Otjiherero (Namibia) Pidgin English (Cameroon) Pidgin English (Nigeria) Polish (Poland) Portuguese (Portugal) Punjabi (India) Rajasthani (India) Ripka (Cameroon) Rukwangali (Namibia) Runyankore (Uganda) Runyoro-Rutooro (Uganda) Russian; Sango (Central African Rep) Sanskrit (India) Santhali (India) Sepedi (South Africa) Serbian (Serbia) Sesotho (South Africa) Setswana (South Africa) Shikomori (Comoros) Shona (Zimbabwe) Shupamom (Cameroon) Sidama (Ethiopia) Sindhi (Pakistan) Sinhala (Sri Lanka) Siswati (South Africa) Somali (Somalia) Somali (Osmanya Script) Soninke (Gambia) Spanish (Spain) Swahili (Kenya) Swedish (Sweden) Tagalog (Philippines) Tamil (India) Telugu (India) Temne (Sierra Leone) Thai (Thailand) Tigre (Eritrea) Tigrinya (Ethiopia) Tshiluba (DR Congo) Tshivenda (South Africa) Tumbuka (Malawi) Turkish (Turkiye) Umbundu (Angola) Urdu (Pakistan) Urhobo (Nigeria) Uzbek (Uzbekistan) Vai (Liberia) Vietnamese (Vietnam) Welsh (Wales) Wolayita (Ethiopia) Wolof (Gambia) Xhosa (South Africa) Xitsonga (South Africa) Yao (Malawi) Yemba (Cameroon) Yoruba (Nigeria) Zarma   Zulu (South Africa)

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