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In 1996, only five African countries had internet connectivity. In 2001, all the countries on the continent had connectivity, and in the early part of the twenty- first century, Africa has experienced the fastest rate in growth of internet usage in the world. Yet this is only part of the story. To date, Africa remains the least connected continent in the world, and registers some of the greatest disparities and inequalities in access to ICTs. The digital divide is still very much a reality. The contributors to this volume provide invaluable information on the development and use of ICTs in Kenya and East Africa. Specifically, they raise questions about ICT policy and implementation, the respective roles of the public and private sectors, and the application of ICTs in government, education and various industries. Based on empirical research, the authors demonstrate the considerable progress that has been made in the region to promote ICT initiatives and projects as part of the wider development agenda. They also explore the many challenges the next stage of ICT development is encountering, defined as infrastructural, technical, regulatory, distributional, social, cultural and economic. Finally, the contributors consider the development of ICTs in wider continental and global contexts. They examine the complex intersections, interactions and sometime contradictions between ICTs in Africa, the information society, knowledge economies, education, literacy and enlightenment, socio-economic development, culture, language and globalisation. This is a co-publication with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in Canada

The Marakwet of Kenya is a study of a sub-group of the greater Kalenjin community, the majority of whom live in the Rift Valley Province of Kenya. It is an excellent introduction to the study of an African community in transition, both from its belief systems and in its broad structure and organisation. This work is invaluable to any student of comparative studies; whether in sociology, anthropology, economics or history.

The second volume of stories from Uganda contains more stories of animals and the human world, passing on the bounty of African folklore. Hare and Tortoise, two firm favourites, here vie for the attention of beautiful girls, and, of course, Tortoise is again triumphant.

This is the story, from an established Kenyan author, of Mwende, a young girl from Koola. She tells of her wicked step-mother and hard life, how she tried to run away to Nairobi to find her father. After various misadventures she is eventually happily reunited with her father. The story has simple drawings illustrating the start of each chapter.

First published in Dholuo in 1983, this is the first English-language edition of this story for children. One morning Ogilo and his two friends discover a pregnant hippo stuck in a muddly hole. The story centres around the boys secrecy, to protect the hippo being killed by grown-ups for meat, and their efforts to save the hippo. The fate of the poacher contains a moral tale.

Matthew is nicknamed "Prettyboy", forced by circumstances to leave his shanty home to live with well-off family friends at the coast in Kenya. Life at the coastal town bustles with fast living, excitement, hopes, fears, danger, and illusions of the good life. But behind all this, tragedy lurks. The novel is one of a series developed to advance written and spoken English amongst lower secondary school students.

The well-known Kenyan woman writer here tells an exciting story for young readers. The title is one in a series developed to meet the supplementary reading needs of secondary level pupils, and to encourage reading for pleasure. Reminiscent of the proverb that the serpent hisses where sweet birds sing, the story starts when Adela and Keti jokingly enter a village beauty contest - the start of excitement and adventure, fraught with danger and tragedy.

Joseph Daniel Otiende, born in 1917, was a Kenyan nationalist, and a prominent figure in Kenya's fight for independence. He was a cabinet minister in the first independence government contributing to nation building and development. He is now accredited with laying the foundations of the health and education services, and held in high regard as one of the few Kenyan politicians to shun the theory and practice of corruption, and for bowing out of politics at the right moment. This concise biography relates his early life, his work as a teacher during the colonial period, his political activities and his life after politics. It further sets his life into the wider context of a key period in Kenya's history, mediating historical events through the story of an individual, and outlining an individual's contribution to the shaping of history.

The fortunes of a refugee family are traced against the the backdrop of Idi Amin's rule and the expulsion of Asians from Uganda. The family travels to England and later to Mecca, delving into the mysteries of the Hajj. The author has published regularly in the Kenyan Sunday Nation for twenty years.

Mark Freeman, a recently retired teacher, returns on holiday to Igana, a West African country where he once taught. But much has changed and the elected government has given way to a military regime. The holiday is not what Mark expected and his journey takes him across the country with a companion he had not anticipated and on an adventure he would never forget.

This is one of the most stirring tales from the folklore of East and Central Africa. Mugasha is a deity-king who harness natural elements and uses them to recapture the usurped kingdom of his father. He is in many ways a symbol of the indefatigable human zeal in the search for liberty and justice.

Rebecca deceives herself that she is a sophisticated modern woman. Her story is a portrait of her evolution in a society standing on the threshold of change. She desperately seeks self-discovery in a society often suspicious of and sometimes outrightly hostile towards a girl who enjoys the benefits of modern western education, perceiving her as spoilt and a bad influence on the younger generation. Yet elements of this very society do not hesitate to take advantage of her youthful naivety.

No day passes without Nesta Koffi sending her children to the post- office for news from her husband, who migrated to America to work on an anonymous cruise ship; no news comes; and so Nesta awaits report of his death. Told from the perspectives of the wife and children left behind, this work of fiction reflects upon the common, but at times devastating conditions of our global but unequal world, where a husband leaves his family and home in search of wealth and opportunity. David Omowale is a budding and versatile novelist and poet of the mobile African diaspora. Born in Grenada he lives and works in Kenya.

This is the story of the life of Abudu Olwit, and of Teboke, the village where he is born and raised. In Teboke, two Indians build a cotton ginnery, and recruit workers from Sudan and the Congo to operate the ginnery, employing a white boss to discipline the immigrants. The workers live amongst the locals but do not own the land, or speak their languages. Abudu's mother sleeps with the workers of the ginnery, and so Abudu is born. He leaves the village to study for degrees, work and marry. Things soon turn sour though. and he lands himself in prison. Upon release, he returns to the village and all its problems, resolving to engage in politics. But he discovers that politics in inseparable from violence.

Since around the fourteenth century this heroic narrative has been handed down the generations orally within the Mongo People, and has now been published in English for the first time. The translation captures the African imagery, idiom and forms of literary expression. With the themes of peace, unity and reconciliation at its centre, the author encompasses and depicts the rich cultural heritage of the Mongo people. The narrative is simultaneously an expose of the great deeds of a legendary Mongo hero and the fascinating socio-historical, economic and religious context in which the Mongo have lived and continue to live.

Kenya is suddenly rocked by a mysterious wave of high-level murders. Who is behind it? and why are the Cabinet being targeted? Christopher Mathenge sets out to find the answers, and finds himself in an intricate web of love, romance, deceit, murder and death.

This is the first full-length book from a young writer from The Gambia. She has previously written articles for, and edited a magazine for young people in The Gambia. She won an International Poetry Award in 1995. The story is a mystery, an adventure in which Christie and her friends try to solve various riddles involving drug trafficking, her strange grandmother, her dead father and an adopted child.

The author's father was a Kenyan nationalist detained by the British. And thus his son was unable to benefit from anything more than a rudimentary education. He turned to crime for a living, spent fifteen years in prison, then decided to reform. This is his second book about his adventurous life.

A complex social web forms the backdrop to this novel - the story of a man and two wives, one legally married to him, the other not. There is mounting pressure from a prying society with its norms on the one hand, and the pressures of the unmarried wife on the other. The story tells of the search for inner peace in an often sententious and inward-looking society.

Okello Oculi is one of East Africa's foremost and pioneering writers. Born in Uganda, his poetry belongs to the same school as that of Okot p'Bitek and Joseph Brunga. It is a school that seeks to re-assert African cultural heritage with a critique of foreign influences. His voice is both evocative of a receding Africa and a declamatory dialogue with the new Africa. There are three main themes running through this new collection: the ecology of humans, animals and the natural world; Africa's ideological ancestory; and the interaction of political theory and literary enterprise.

Set against the background of the spread of Aids, this novel tells the story of a venereologist in Kenya and his struggle to help the down-trodden in society. Seeking to de-mystify sexually transmitted diseases, and aid patients' access to cheaper medical treatment, he has to battle against both prejudice and the escalating prices of drugs. The cast of characters in hospital, clinic and hospice in which he works bring the issues to life, with their personal stories interwoven.

In this adventure story the heroes and heroine of Adventure in Nakura successfully help Inspector Opiyo to bring to an end the activities of a dangerous gang in Mombasa.

An action-packed story designed to appeal to growing children. Young boys and a girl help the Professor rescue a mysterious black briefcase.

Six short stories for young children, each with an illustration, are designed to encourage reading for pleasure. The stories, from an established author, tell their own moral tales.