Kenya: Bookshops Deserted As Schools Re-Open

2 January 2018

Nairobi — The number of parents and guardians heading to bookshops remained visibly low countrywide as schools re-opened on Tuesday.

Booksellers who spoke to Capital FM News said the number of buyers had significantly dropped compared to previous years amid confusion on what books to buy--in what they attributed to the confusion of the new syllabus to be rolled out for nursery to class 3.

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