Sometimes late last year, when news broke that the Jomo Kenyatta Foundation (JKF) had halted its publishing operations, I wasn’t surprised. I recalled the adorable Primary Mathematics! That was a gem. It is no longer on the shelves, thanks to the cartels. In Kenya, super brands do not die natural deaths. They are quietly strangled … Continue reading The book industry is fast degenerating into shadowy, amorphous cartels