Designing textbooks for an indigenous language: The case of Nambya

This article outlines the steps involved in writing secondary learners’ textbooks from vantage point of authors and publishers. It unpacks technicalities, merits, demerits team-authoring materials context revitalisation indigenous languages within Zimbabwe’s education system. The main focus is on technical compilation design textbook series. evaluates approaches that were used development Nambya light informing practice subsequent future works by same group or others.