Srila Prabhupada Letter to Cyavana, December 26th 1971

“So far books are concerned, it appears that it will be difficult to bring books there from other places, due to financial reasons of the government, so whatever they will allow you to send, you may send to the book fund and receive that amount of books. Try to get big books in this way, especially for our life members, by persuading the government to allow us. For other books we can print in Nairobi through that Mr. Patel who owns a very modern press facility. Distribution of books and magazines is our most important activity. Without books, our preaching has no solid basis. Especially the Africans want our books. So Karandhara is in Tokyo now supervising the printing of many books, including the Krsna book paperback size which I am especially printing for Africans. We are printing 50,000 copies of each volume in three volumes, or 150,000 books total, so you may order as many as possible by paying Dai Nippon and ordering from Karandhara. I think if I meet Mr. Kenyatta, I shall be able to request him to allow us more books.”