Parents buy books at Savani’s Book Centre Ltd, Nairobi on December 29, 2017. PHOTO | DENNIS ONSONGO | NATION MEDIA GROUP
All secondary schools are set to have new English and Kiswahili setbooks from next year.
The old setbooks have been in use since 2013 and were tested in the 2017 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examination.
According
to a letter to all secondary school headteachers, county and sub-county
directors of education and other officials, the new setbooks will be
used by Form Three students and will be part of the curriculum for the
next four years.
GENUINE COPIES
“This
is to inform you that the final phase in change of setbooks for English
literature and Fasihi ya Kiswahili for secondary schools for 2018-2022
has been finalised,” said the letter by Dr Belio Kipsang, the Education
Principal Secretary. The letter, dated December 18, was signed by the
director of quality assurance services, Mr Pius Mutisya.
Blossoms
of the Savannah by Henry ole Kulet will replace The River and the
Source by Grace Ogot as the compulsory novel starting next year.
A
Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, will be the new play to replace The
Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht. The Pearl by John Steinbeck,
Memories we Lost by Chris Wanjala and Inheritance by David Mulwa will be
the next optional setbooks; students will be required to choose only
one from the three.
SECURITY
In
Kiswahili, Chozi La Heri by Assumpta K Matei will from 2018 replace
Kidagaa Kimemwozoea as a compulsory book for the next four years. Kigogo
by Pauline Kea Kyovi is the new play and will remain so until 2021
while Tumbo Lisiloshiba na Hadithi Nyingine by Alifa Chokocho and Dumu
Kayanda will be the new compulsory short stories from 2017 to 2021.
Meanwhile,
the ministry has incorporated security measures in the new setbooks
aimed at reining in piracy to help schools, parents and students buy
genuine copies with the correct content.
The books
will have a security tag and a running foot note: “Approved by KICD 2017
Edition and Kimeidhinishwa na KICD Toleo la 2017”. The foot note will
run on every page for English and Kiswahili respectively.
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