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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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Our fathers fought bravely. But do you know the biggest weapon unleashed by the enemy against them? It was not the Maxim gun. It was division among them. Why? Because a people united in faith are stronger than the bomb
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, A Grain of Wheat

Binyavanga Wainaina
I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan is worth $9 a day). This means that a Japanese cow would be a middle class Kenyan... a $9-a-day cow from Japan could very well head a humanitarian NGO in Kenya. Massages are very cheap in Nairobi, so the cow would be comfortable.
Binyavanga Wainaina

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