"A profile of the Nairobi-based Friends-of-the-Book Foundation, a non-profit organization established to help alleviate the book famine in East Africa and to promote functional literacy. The organization facilitates the publication/translation (both in Kiswahili and in English) of key books for the reading public, and makes them available at affordable prices. This booklet sets out the background to the establishment of the organization, its principal objectives, details of books published to date and those in the pipeline." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1385)