WordAlive Publishers
African publishing company
WordAlive Publishers publishes, markets, and distributes Christian books in Sub-Saharan Africa. WordAlive Publishers is a Pan-African publishing house based in Nairobi, Kenya, with offices in Kampala, Uganda. The company mainly focuses on personal growth, inspiration, leadership, relationships, fiction, theology, and children's books. WordAlive's catalogue contains more than 70 titles from both local and international authors. In 2009, Eyo, the first general fiction title in their catalogue, was published.
History
WordAlive Publishers was founded in September 2001 by David Waweru, whose publishing career had begun at the University of Nairobi press ten years earlier. At the time, most publishing houses in Kenya focused on textbook publishing with a few others engaged in religious publishing, and none published general trade books as a core business. Many cited perceived poor reading habits in Kenya and poverty as reasons why they did not think that these areas were viable propositions. WordAlive now accounts for 35% of their sales from "upcountry" – outside Kenya's major towns – areas that are considered "poor" by Kenyan standards.
WordAlive is the African publisher of the Africa Bible Commentary, a 1,586-page one-volume commentary released in 2006 and written by 69 African scholars.
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