Mkuki na Nyota Publishers Ltd (MNP) is a book publishing company that was founded in 1981 in response to the general absence of independent scholarly publishing in Tanzania.
It also translates literature into Kiswahili, including Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Le Petit Prince from its original French.
[1] Mkuki na Nyota is a member of the African Books Collective] a collective owned and governed by a group of African publishers.
[2] Mkuki na Nyota has published books for and in conjunction with the Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF), Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA),[3] Research on Democracy in Tanzania (REDET).
[4] Mkuki na Nyota has partnered with Non-governmental organisations to promote reading and education in Tanzania, for example, with Newton Tanzania.