Kenya

Books in this genre are set in or about Kenya.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Kenya"

Lonely Crowds
Confessions of Nairobi Men
The House of Rust
The Elephant Girl
Things They Lost
And This is How to Stay Alive
Fowl Murder (Kenya Kanga Mystery #1)
The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How I Fought to Save Myself, My Sister, and Thousands of Girls Worldwide
Lucky Girl
Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move
Nairobi Noir
No Edges: Swahili Stories
Seasons in Hippoland (The Africa List)
A Grain of Wheat
Out of Africa
Unbowed
Circling the Sun
Dust
Wizard of the Crow
Petals of Blood
One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir
The River Between
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
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeCutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Fictitious Africa
547 books — 265 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
600 books — 427 voters
Cutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseSketches from the Periphery by M.P. SummersWhere Tomorrow Leads by DiAnn MillsKintu by Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
East Africa
251 books — 98 voters


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

John Rachel
Hungry stomachs growl the same tune.
John Rachel, Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

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