EnglishLusoga

Who we are

We are a young publishing company serving Africa as well as the rest of the world, headquartered in Uganda, with a branch in Belgium. We specialize in producing reference works and monographs, both on paper and in electronic format, currently supporting a Dictionary Series and a Linguistics Series.

The Sapoba Legacy

Title The Sapoba Legacy: A story of Ideals and Idealism in Ugandan Politics and Family Life
Authors Kirunda Kivejinja, Bidandi Ssali, and Kintu Musoke
Editors Minah Nabirye, Patrick Hanks, and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
Price 49.95 EUR

This book is a story of the triumph of idealism over adversity. It recounts, in their own words and the words of their family and associates, the history of Kirunda Kivejinja, Bidandi Ssali, and Kintu Musoke — the Troika of Ugandan politics.

The Sapoba Legacy

A Way with Words (A Festschrift for Patrick Hanks)

Title A Way with Words (A Festschrift for Patrick Hanks)
Author Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (ed.)
Price 59.95 EUR | 170,000 Ugandan Shs

20 original essays by leading linguists and dictionary makers, including John Sinclair, James Pustejovsky, Igor Mel’čuk, Ken Church, Adam Kilgarriff, Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell, Rosamund Moon, and Paul Bogaards. This book is essential reading for everyone interested in meaning, the lexicon, dictionaries, and corpus analysis.

A way with words

Monolingual Lusoga Dictionary

Title Eiwanika ly’Olusoga
Author Minah Nabirye
Price 49.95 EUR | 40,000 Ugandan Shs

This monolingual Lusoga dictionary is the first of a new generation of dictionaries for the African languages: compiled by a mother-tongue speaker for mother-tongue speakers, and this using a modern compilation approach which results in a user-friendly, intuitive reference work.

Lusoga Dictionary

Electronic Lusoga Dictionary

Title e-Eiwanika ly’Olusoga
Author Minah Nabirye
Price 19.95 EUR | 60,000 Ugandan Shs

A downloadable Windows version of the acclaimed monolingual Lusoga dictionary (for the International market), or the same on CD-ROM (for the Ugandan market). It comes with the fully updated text of the printed Eiwanika ly’Olusoga, plus advanced features such as lookups from within Microsoft Word, and Google text and image searches.

Electronic Lusoga Dictionary