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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Confessions of Nairobi Men
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Seasons in Hippoland (The Africa List)
No Edges: Swahili Stories
Penguins Stopped Play by Harry ThompsonBeyond a Boundary by C.L.R. JamesA Corner of a Foreign Field by Ramachandra GuhaBob Woolmer's Art and Science of Cricket by Bob WoolmerChinaman by Shehan Karunatilaka
Cricket
240 books — 94 voters

The Frontlines of Peace by Severine AutesserreBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenMy War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony LoydA Capitalist in North Korea by Felix AbtSketches from the Periphery by M.P. Summers
Conflict-Zone Journalism
286 books — 145 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherChasing the Devil by Tim ButcherSketches from the Periphery by M.P. SummersBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahMy Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Great Modern African Reads
91 books — 62 voters
Cutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseSketches from the Periphery by M.P. SummersKintu by Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiWhere Tomorrow Leads by DiAnn MillsSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
East Africa
253 books — 104 voters


One of the major effects of independence on Pentecostalism was the growth of nationalism. The general feeling was one of transferring positions and authority from the missionaries to national leaders.
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