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Parents from schools exchange (butter trade) text books for a reduced fee with bookshop stall owners outside the General Post Office (GPO) ahead of the opening of schools country-wide next week. The state has rolled out new set books to be used from January 2018 [Photo: Gideon Maundu| Standard]

The Ministry of Education has finally rolled out new set books for literature in English and Fasihi ya Kiswahili to be used from 2018 to 2022.

In a circular from the director of quality and assurance Pius Mutisya to secondary school heads, the new selection will replace those that have been in use since 2013.