Kenya Books


Bill Bryson's African DiaryBill Bryson's African Diary
Best Price: $5.94
Bill Bryson is the funniest travel writer working today, I believe, and even when he takes on...
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Best Price: $8.44
This is by now a revered classic of a young girl's childhood in the Kenyan countryside under...
Birds of Kenya and Northern TanzaniaBirds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania
Best Price: $23.10
The book is very comprehensive. Unfortunately, even though it claims to be a field guide, it is...
The Worlds of a Maasai Warrior: An AutobiographyThe Worlds of a Maasai Warrior: An Autobiography
Best Price: $10.00
Very interesting first person account of a Maasai man who becomes western educationed and gives...
The Birds of East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi (Princeton Field Guides)The Birds of East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi (Princeton Field Guides)
Best Price: $21.93
This book includes all the birds; the birds that also live in California, the amazing colorful...


Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in KenyaImperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
Best Price: $4.72
Ms. Elkins does a good job of writing the story of the Mau-Mau rebellion, which was as she puts...
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo (Peter Capstick Library Series)The Man-Eaters of Tsavo (Peter Capstick Library Series)
Best Price: $13.72
A fascinating snapshot in a small hiccup in the giant that was the British Empire. ...
The Lives of Beryl MarkhamThe Lives of Beryl Markham
Best Price: $6.90
After reading Beryl's memoir, West With the Night, I wanted to find out more about this woman...
No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous ClimbNo Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb
Best Price: $4.01
The best thing about the book is that it is believable. With that being said, it's just not...
White MischiefWhite Mischief
Best Price: $4.95
Interesting and easy read - Fox has done his research well. My late husband's parents were Kenya...


Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of EmpireHistories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire
Best Price: $7.00
With the fracas about the American prison at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, one could read this book for a...
Mau Mau and Kenya: An Analysis of a Peasant Revolt (Blacks in the Diaspora)Mau Mau and Kenya: An Analysis of a Peasant Revolt (Blacks in the Diaspora)
Best Price: $10.75
Dear Exile : The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a Year) by an OceanDear Exile : The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean
Best Price: $1.38
This is a great book. I don't read very much. It is hard for me to find a book that is really...
African Nights: True Stories from the Author of I Dreamed of AfricaAfrican Nights: True Stories from the Author of I Dreamed of Africa
Best Price: $3.97
I did volunteer work at Kuki's Ol Ari Nyrio in 11/07 and it was the most amazing experience of...
West With the NightWest With the Night
Best Price: $10.00
I read this book because someone suggested my family might have been related to Beryl Markham,...

We Only Come Here to Struggle: Stories from Berida's LifeWe Only Come Here to Struggle: Stories from Berida's Life
Best Price: $10.50
This book is the culmination of a lengthy relationship between Claire Robertson and a market...
Out of Africa (Vintage Books, V740)Out of Africa (Vintage Books, V740)
Best Price: $4.95
My favorite movie of all time. The book is not as good as the movie.
Kenya Safari Companion (Safari Companions)Kenya Safari Companion (Safari Companions)
Best Price: $6.94
Kenya ABCs: A Book About the People and Places of Kenya (Country Abcs)Kenya ABCs: A Book About the People and Places of Kenya (Country Abcs)
Best Price: $3.93
Kenya ABCs Book
An African Experience: Wildlife Art and Adventure in KenyaAn African Experience: Wildlife Art and Adventure in Kenya
Best Price: $211.16
I love this book and will treasure it. I hated coming to the end of it and hope to get a copy...

The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial NairobiThe Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi
Best Price: $20.83
"The Comforts of Home" is a major work on Africa by any standard. By analyzing...
Mau Mau WarriorMau Mau Warrior
Best Price: $1.95
The Mau Mau Freedom Fighters waged a guerrilla war for eight years (1952-1960) against their...
Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in KenyaPolitics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya
Best Price: $24.16
In more than a metaphorical sense, the womb has proven to be an important site of political...
Making Ethnic Ways: Communities and Their Transformations in Taita, Kenya, 1800-1950 (Social History of Africa)Making Ethnic Ways: Communities and Their Transformations in Taita, Kenya, 1800-1950 (Social History of Africa)
Best Price: $33.89
Rather than seeing ethnicity as an exogenous construction or as a product of persistent...
Kenya (Oxfam Country Profiles Series)Kenya (Oxfam Country Profiles Series)
Best Price: $8.69
Kenya, with its fertile soils, diverse climate, and enterprising people, should be a land of...

Mau Mau: An African CrucibleMau Mau: An African CrucibleBritish Counterinsurgency: From Palestine to Northern IrelandBritish Counterinsurgency: From Palestine to Northern Ireland
Best Price: $83.80
Very informative intellectual work. Serious and rich analysis of all cases covered. Highly...
African Political Leadership: Jomo Kenyatta, Kwame Nkrumah, and Julius K. NyerereAfrican Political Leadership: Jomo Kenyatta, Kwame Nkrumah, and Julius K. Nyerere
Best Price: $25.75
In African politics, Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, Tanzania's Julius Nyerere, and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah...
Unhappy Valley : Conflict in Kenya and Africa: Book One: State and class (Eastern African Studies )Unhappy Valley : Conflict in Kenya and Africa: Book One: State and class (Eastern African Studies )
Best Price: $19.92
Paradise Lost: A History of Game Preservation in East AfricaParadise Lost: A History of Game Preservation in East Africa
Best Price: $14.64
This book does a nice job providing an overview of competition between wildlife and humans in 3...

Trouble Showed the WayTrouble Showed the Way
Best Price: $6.20
This volume is a meticulously executed and written study of women, men, and trade in the Nairobi...
The Man Who Moved the World: The Life & Work of Mohamed Amin (Spectrum Guides)The Man Who Moved the World: The Life & Work of Mohamed Amin (Spectrum Guides)
Best Price: $19.95
The Rough Guide to KenyaThe Rough Guide to Kenya
Best Price: $3.00
At last a useful map for Kenya - rare these days to find ANY decent map of East Africa - but now...
Enigmatic Proconsul: Sir Philip Mitchell and the Twilight of the EmpireEnigmatic Proconsul: Sir Philip Mitchell and the Twilight of the Empire
Best Price: $72.05
Sir Philip Mitchell has a distinguished career in the British Colonial Service during the latter...
The Freedom of the Spirit: African Indigenous Churches in Kenya (American Academy of Religion Academy Series)The Freedom of the Spirit: African Indigenous Churches in Kenya (American Academy of Religion Academy Series)
Best Price: $30.20
This book examines the history and ecclesiology of two African Independent Churches in Kenya,...

Kenya: The Land, the People, and the NationKenya: The Land, the People, and the NationRed Strangers: The White Tribe of KenyaRed Strangers: The White Tribe of Kenya
Best Price: $4.77
This is about the history of whites (mainly europeans) in Kenya, the govoernment, settler...
Drums of Rebellion: Kenya in ChaosDrums of Rebellion: Kenya in Chaos
Best Price: $24.95
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A Modern History of Kenya, 1885-1980A Modern History of Kenya, 1885-1980Modern African Spirituality: The Independent Holy Spirit Churches in East AfricaModern African Spirituality: The Independent Holy Spirit Churches in East Africa
Best Price: $6.70
The merging of Christianity with traditional African beliefs and practices is widespread...

Kenyan Running: Movement Culture, Geography and Global ChangeKenyan Running: Movement Culture, Geography and Global Change
Best Price: $44.00
The writing of this book is very technical yet if you are looking for the training regime and/or...
Mau Mau War In Perspective: Eastern African StudiesMau Mau War In Perspective: Eastern African Studies
Best Price: $22.81
Man Hunt in KenyaMan Hunt in KenyaHow to be a KenyanHow to be a Kenyan
Best Price: $10.86
Mutahi uses satire to address some of the most problematic issues Kenyans faced in the 1990s. ...
Unhappy Valley: Clan, Class & State In Colonial Kenya (Eastern African Studies)Unhappy Valley: Clan, Class & State In Colonial Kenya (Eastern African Studies)

Ethnic Politics in Kenya and Nigeria : A Comparative StudyEthnic Politics in Kenya and Nigeria : A Comparative Study
Best Price: $39.75
A brilliant comparative study of tribal politics in Kenya and Nigeria, and the rest of Africa....
EAST AFRICA (Armies of the Nineteenth Century)EAST AFRICA (Armies of the Nineteenth Century)
Best Price: $155.84
Principally covering Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zanzibar, this volume deals with the native...
Exceptional Spaces: Essays in Performance and HistoryExceptional Spaces: Essays in Performance and History
Best Price: $11.98
Taking interdisciplinary and diverse approaches, these thirteen essays explore the multifaceted...
An Oral History of Tribal Warfare: The Meru of Mt. KenyaAn Oral History of Tribal Warfare: The Meru of Mt. KenyaThe Man Whom Women Loved: The Life of Bror BlixenThe Man Whom Women Loved: The Life of Bror Blixen
Best Price: $27.74
Baron Bror Blixen was so noted for the admiration he excited in women, that his hunting clients...

The Shadow of Kilimanjaro: On Foot Across East AfricaThe Shadow of Kilimanjaro: On Foot Across East Africa
Best Price: $17.99
Let me first of all say that Rick Ridgeway is one of my favorite adventure writers. This book...
Dis-ease in the Colonial State: Medicine, Society, and Social Change Among the AbaNyole of Western KenyaDis-ease in the Colonial State: Medicine, Society, and Social Change Among the AbaNyole of Western Kenya
Best Price: $38.97
Olumwullah examines disease, biomedicine, and processes of social change among the AbaNyole of...
When We Began, There Were Witchmen: An Oral History from Mount Kenya (Los Alamos Series in Basic and Applied Sciences, 13)When We Began, There Were Witchmen: An Oral History from Mount Kenya (Los Alamos Series in Basic and Applied Sciences, 13)
Best Price: $3.70
This is the history of the Meru people of Mount Kenya, based on their own traditions, from the...
My Footprints in the Sands of Time: An AutobiographyMy Footprints in the Sands of Time: An Autobiography
Best Price: $38.50
This autobiography provides a commentary on the history of Kenya as seen through the eyes of...
Kenya Today: Breaking The Yoke of Colonialism in AfricaKenya Today: Breaking The Yoke of Colonialism in Africa
Best Price: $24.95
I was fascinated by the complexity of international politics around african affairs. Especially...

Lost Lion of Empire: The Life of 'Cape-to-Cairo' GroganLost Lion of Empire: The Life of 'Cape-to-Cairo' Grogan
Best Price: $12.46
A well balanced, excellent read about a great man in a great time who loved both Africa and the...
When Blood and Tears United a Country: The Bombing of the American Embassy in KenyaWhen Blood and Tears United a Country: The Bombing of the American Embassy in KenyaKenya in Pictures (Visual Geography. Second Series)Kenya in Pictures (Visual Geography. Second Series)
Best Price: $29.27
On God's Mountain/the Story of Mount KenyaOn God's Mountain/the Story of Mount Kenya
Best Price: $19.99
 
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