Kenya

Books in this genre are set in or about Kenya.

A Grain of Wheat
Out of Africa
Unbowed
Circling the Sun
Dust
Petals of Blood
Wizard of the Crow
The River Between
West with the Night
One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir
Weep Not Child
When Stars Are Scattered
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
Dreams in a Time of War

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57 books — 17 voters
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Something is rotten in the Republic of Kenya.
Don Santo

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Now, at Balafon, the exiles were silent, to accommodate the ghosts of saints: Bolikango…Kasavubu..Lumumba…Kalondji…Tshombe…
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Weight of Whispers

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