The Afrika Redefined Indie Book Prize is awarded annually for the best independently published book (fiction, poetry, and non-fiction).
A Premier-Pan African Publisher of Choice
Mystery Publishers, a premier Kenyan pan-African publisher of choice, won Kenya 2022 DIGITALLY FIT AWARDS. This award seeks to reward and recognise organisations creating an impact online, organisations that are #DigitallyFit.
We are pleased to announce the production and publication of 5 Years Next Sunday by Idza Luhumyo, narrated by Catherine Kabuuka, our first-ever Ugandan voiceover artist. Kenyan writer, Idza Luhumyo, won the 2022 Ako Caine Prize for African Writing.
The title, 5 Years Next Sunday, is an alternate to ‘Five Years Next Sunday’,…
We are pleased to announce the production and publication of our first-ever audiobook, 5 Years Next Sunday, by Idza Luhumyo. It’s a story you don’t want to miss listening.
Mystery Publishers has won the 2022/2023 Corporate LiveWire Global Award as the Digital Publishing Company of the Year – Kenya for the second year in a row. In July 2021, Mystery Publishers was awarded the Middle East and African (MEA) Markets African Business Excellence Award for the Best Independent Digital Publishing Company – Kenya.
This Award seeks to reward and recognise organisations creating an impact online, organisations that are #DigitallyFit.
At Mystery Publishers, we have been offering digital, print-on-demand, and audiobook publishing since 2014. This nomination confirms that we have left a commendable footprint for our efforts to offer digital publishing.
The 2022 edition was held at Alliance Française de Nairobi on Saturday, September 10, 2022, from 2:00pm to 7:00pm. The event is majorly an online event, but this year Lexa felt the need to bring the writers and readers together for a discussion on “Literary Methods and The Future of Kenyan Writing”.
We are pleased to announce the publication of the Our Stories Redefined Anthology 2022 (flash fiction edition). The anthology celebrates new-age African writing, a vehicle for new-age African writers to tell their stories to a generation that understands them.
In this 2022 edition, the stories focus on Afro-modernity and Afro-futurism, mainly familial and…
Traditional publishers receive and reject thousands of manuscripts depending on various factors, discouraging authors. Even when manuscripts are accepted, they can be so extensively modified that the authors barely recognise their work. The traditional publisher, a business like any other, can only publish what will sell.
The Afrika Redefined Indie Book Prize is an annual prize managed by Mystery Publishers, a Kenyan premier pan-African independent publisher with a bias to African speculative fiction and genre/pop literature stories. The winner is awarded Ksh.20,000.
Thank you for taking time to help us vote the most appealing cover for ‘Our Stories Redefined’ Anthology for African Writing 2022.
The launch of Vincent de Paul’s The Fundamentals of Strategic Writing book at Alliance Française de Nairobi on 30 July 2022