Kenya

Books in this genre are set in or about Kenya.

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

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1,768 books — 1,647 voters

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Our people think: I , Wangari, a Kenyan by birth - how can I be a vagrant in my own country as if I were a foreigner.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Devil on the Cross

Kenya has been rightly branded a “haven of missions.” However, this haven only emerged in the early 20th century, which is late compared to other missionary activities in West and South Africa. Though there had been Christian missionary activities as early as the 15th Century, their impact was short-lived, and Christianity had to be ‘reintroduced’ in the late 19th Century. Many missionary groups surged onto the Kenyan soil early in the 20th Century in a manner not witnessed among its neighbourin ...more
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