The Company
Footprints Press is an independent Kenyan based publishing house
Specialising in photographic coffee table books on Africa. Covering a diverse slate of subjects with a focus on the modern African, all the works published stimulate further dialogue. Footprints Press was established in 2010, and is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. The publishing house takes its name from the renowned poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:- “Psalm of Life”.
Our books are exciting, innovative and enduring publications that inspire readers and contribute positively to the transforming landscape of the African continent. Whether through essays, poetry, photography, fiction or non-fiction work, the books celebrate Africa’s imagination, innovation, its past and its unfolding future through the authentic voices of the African experience. The books are compilations, typically created by several hands pulling together to make the whole.
Our Mission
To publish exciting, innovative and enduring books that inspire readers and contribute positively to the transforming landscape of the continent. Whether through essays, poetry, photography, fiction or non- fiction work, Footprints Press seeks to celebrate Africa’s imagination, innovation, its past and its unfolding future through the authentic voices of the African experience.
Our Vision
To celebrate Africa in its poignant glory and by so doing to provide all Africans the opportunity to appreciate the continents’ veritable potential and inspire in them a resolve to play their hand in contributing to a positive next chapter.
The Founder
My purpose in birthing Footprints Press was to seek a platform where we could curate our stories, as children of the 20th & 21st century Africa. Eschewing the often pejorative narratives so often uni-focal and relayed by others, I am keen to present us as we are – in these present-day truths. The contemporary visual vignettes of us by us are for our children and the children’s children. So, whether through essays, poetry, photography, fiction or non-fiction work, we aspire to celebrate Africa today and to do this through unfiltered primary voices. Years hence we might sift through these compilations and marvel at Africa’s resident, multi-faceted and unyielding glory.
SUSAN WAKHUNGU-GITHUKU
