SOLVED. Village set up on another planet [s]

[Karen]

Adult Fiction; people from earth sent to another planet but only the leaders know earth exists. The new village functions as an agrarian/tribal unit with no technology. The leaders make contact with the home planet but pretend it's magic or divination of some kind. I think the village is African but I don't remember. I read this in the 90's.

[Holly]

Is this fiction for adults?

[Karen]

Yes. Adult fiction

[Isabel (kittiwake)]

This could well be one of Mike Resnick's Kirinyaga stories. They are set in a traditional Kikuyu village that has been recreated on one of Earth's colonies.

[Andy]

Isabel (kittiwake) wrote: "This could well be one of Mike Resnick's Kirinyaga stories. They are set in a traditional Kikuyu village that has been recreated on one of Earth's colonies."

Though in that book, the village was on a space station, not another planet.

[Karen]

Kirinyaga is the book. Thank you everyone for your help!