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
One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir
West with the Night
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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Reading the Horn of Africa
37 books — 8 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichiePurple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSo Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ
African Fiction
604 books — 433 voters

Things They Lost by Okwiri OduorDreams in a Time of War by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oPetals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oWeep Not Child by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oWeep Not, Child by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Kenyan writers
29 books — 3 voters
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Conflict-Zone Journalism
284 books — 143 voters


Something is rotten in the Republic of Kenya.
Don Santo

Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
If the nations of Africa desired to assure the prosperity of the next 25 generations of African people, they would get together and collaborate on establishing a continental Permaculture Economy. And they would do that immediately. That would be a wise investment.
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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