Uzima Press was for much of its history entirely donor funded. Lastly, a number of general titles and some textbooks were also published. We also published a variety of church registers and the Church Lectionary and Diary, previously referred as the Churchman’s Diary. There were also translations in the Taveta and Kalenjin languages. Initial production was of works whose copyright had previously vested with SPCK (The Society for the promotion of Christian Knowledge) This consisted of translations of the Book of Common Prayer, BCP, into the local languages of what could then be considered the Anglican strongholds, namely Kiswahili, Taita, Kikuyu, Luyia and Luo languages. Managed for the first decade by an expatriate, Uzima Press has since had four Kenyan General Managers to date. The current General Manager/CEO is Mr Clement Ouko. The current Board Chair is the Rt Rev’d Dr Julius Wanyoike, Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Thika. Finally, the General Manager/CEO is a member of the Board and serves as its secretary. We also have three independent directors, one of whom serves as the Board Treasurer. Others members are the Provincial Secretary of the ACK, the Director of Education and Training of the ACK who are ex-officio members. The company was initially housed at Imani House at St John’s Gate in Nairobi, before moving to our current premises at the Junction of Ring Road and Professor George Saitoti Avenue in Westlands.ĪCK Uzima Publishing House Ltd has a board of directors consisting firstly of two Bishops of the church, one of whom chairs the Board. Uzima Press was founded as a company limited by guarantee and owned by the then seven dioceses of the CPK. ACK Uzima Publishing House, then known as Uzima Press, was founded in December of 1974 to print and publish liturgical works (prayer and hymn books for the Anglican Church of Kenya, then known as the Church of the Province of Kenya (CPK).
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