A Nairobi imprint whose ISBN prefix is 978-9966-769. This page does not sell the spine.
Mvule Africa Publishers — written MvuleAfrica Publishers in some library files — is a Nairobi house that Open Library credits with about twenty-seven works. PublishersGlobal lists it among Kenyan ebook publishers and notes that the firm said it had taken e-book systems on. The Kenyan ISBN block 978-9966-769 appears on titles dated 2005 and 2009 in the Books-by-ISBN index: J. E. Sibi-Okumu’s Role Play: A Journey Into the Kenyan Psyche (978-9966-769-42-8) and Kibny’aanko Seroney’s ambassador biography and Kalenjin dictionary. Subject headings on Open Library run through Kenyan politics, biography, children’s fiction, constitutional law, cartoons and Nairobi. That is a public catalogue, not a warehouse inventory for this domain.
Authors attached to the imprint in those records include Miriam Khamadi Were (four titles), P. L. O. Lumumba, Koigi wa Wamwere, Hilary Ng’weno, Barrack Muluka, Wanyiri Kihoro, Mwangi Ruheni, Mude Dae Mude, Betty Muthoni Gikonyo and the Association of East African Cartoonists. People named as subjects include Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye, Martin Oduor-Otieno, Zarina Patel. Places: Kenya, Nairobi, Africa. The list will grow or shrink as libraries recatalogue. Check Open Library before you quote a count.
The name, and the names it is not
Mvule is an East African tree — Milicia excelsa, iroko in other markets — a hardwood that outlasts a paperback. The imprint name sits in that register. It is not Mvua Press, the 2024 eKitabu literary imprint launched before the Macondo Literature Festival. It is not Mandel Vilar Press. It is not Muvule, the Ugandan coffee and vanilla exporter. Those doors have other keys.
What this desk will not do
It will not take a manuscript, quote a print run or collect a rights fee. PublishersGlobal once marked the house as open to foreign, translation, audio and film queries; that note is a directory line from their file, not a live inbox on this hostname. Buy or borrow the book through a bookseller or a library catalogue. Correct a year or an ISBN here if you have a source.