Tag: Nuria Books

  • Nuria Books takes up Naivas’ Kenyan book distribution

    Nuria Books takes up Naivas’ Kenyan book distribution

    Popular bookstore Nuria Books has taken up the distribution of Kenyan books for megastore Naivas. The deal was made public on November 20, 2023. In 2021, leading retailer Naivas Supermarkets announced a new initiative to bring books by Kenyan writers to be known to their many customers. The initiative called for Kenyan authors and publishers…

  • Nuria Books announces its Top 100 Kenyan books of 2022.

    Nuria Books announces its Top 100 Kenyan books of 2022.

    Kenyan bookstore Nuria Books announced its Top 100 Kenyan Books of 2022 on Monday, January 9, 2023. In 2015, Abdullahi Bulle set up the Nuria bookstore; named after his mother, in Nairobi, Kenya; nuria also incidentally is a play on the word “nuru” which is “light” in Kiswahili. He started selling what was in vogue…

  • Nairobi Book Festival to kick off on November 30.

    Nairobi Book Festival to kick off on November 30.

    The Nairobi Book Festival, powered by Nuria Books, will be hosted at the MacMillan Library, Nairobi from November 30 – December 3, 2022. In Kenya, like in many African nations, the publishing industry is really a textbook printing outfit that focuses mainly on presenting books for the Kenyan education system. Very few books come out…