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.
A Premier-Pan African Publisher of Choice
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.
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…
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
Dear good people,
Our Stories Redefined Anthology 2022 edition is now at the publishing stage. We have developed cover concepts and ask for your assistance in choosing the most appealing cover.
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Featuring different themes/topics every year, Perspective Matters is a writing competition by Qazini, a Kenyan media organisation that aims to we use the power of stories to uplift, inspire, and challenge existing narratives and champion the spectrum of voices and perspectives from the African continent.
We hope this anthology shall be the vehicle for new-age African writing that we envision. The challenge is, many a time in Africa, ideas die with their originators. Nigerian writer, Ken Saro Wiwa, summarised it well in his story, ‘Africa Kills Her Sun’. This happens when we are selfish, don’t see and support the vision,…
After the official launch of ‘Our Stories Redefined Anthology’ during the NYrobi Book Fest on 25 June 2022, emceed and moderated by Filmmaker and critic Simiyu Barasa, there was a panel discussion comprising Vincent De Paul, contributor Jerusha Kananu Marete, and Sharon Maritim who edited and proofread the anthology.
This year, we received more submissions than in 2021 from four African countries, the same as in 2021.
The Mystery Publishers annual ‘Our Stories Redefined’ anthology does not only provide an opportunity for new authors to be published, but it also celebrates new African writing.