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Unbowed : a Memoir (06 Edition)
by Wangari Maathai  Publisher Comments In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people’s environmental movement...
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Letters from Africa, 1914-1931
by Isak Dinesen Publisher Comments "Here is a rich new biographical perspective on the brilliant storyteller whose sophisticated romantic fiction . . . made her an international success and perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. . . . [These letters] contain the raw...
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Facing Mount Kenya: The Tribal Life of the Gikuyu
by Jomo Kenyatta Synopsis 'Facing Mount Kenya' is a central document of the highest distinction in anthropological literature, an invaluable key to the structure of African society and the nature of the African mind. 'Facing Mount Kenya' is not only a formal study of life and...
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The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Elspeth Huxley Synopsis In an open cart Elspeth Huxley set off with her parents to travel to Thika in Kenya. As pioneering settlers, they built a house of grass, ate off a damask doth spread over packing cases, and discovered -- the hard way -- the world of the African. With an...
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Dear Exile : the True Story of Two Friends Separated (For a Year) By an Ocean (99 Edition)
by Hilary Liftin 
Publisher Comments A funny and moving story told through the letters of two women nurturing a friendship as they are separated by distance, experience, and time. Close friends and former college roommates, Hilary Liftin and Kate Montgomery promised to write when Kate's...
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Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
by Caroline Elkins Publisher Comments A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in Kenya. As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few...
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Strangers and Traders: Yoruba Migrants, Markets, and the State in Northern Ghana
by J S Eades Synopsis A detailed account of chain migration and its implications for economic...
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Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire
by David Anderson Synopsis A remarkable account of Britain's last stand in Kenya...This is imperial history at its very best.--John Hope Franklin In a gripping narrative...that is all but impossible to put down (Joseph C. Miller), Histories of the Hanged exposes the long-hidden...
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In the Dust of Kilimanjaro, P
by David Western Publisher Comments "Kilimanjaro slowly takes shape as the night sounds die, its glaciated peak tinged pink in the early light. A solitary wildebeest stares motionless as if mesmerized by the towering mass; a small caravan of giraffe drifts across the plain in solitary file,...
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The Risks of Knowledge: Investigations Into the Death of the Hon. Minister John Robert Ouko in Kenya, 1990 (New African Histories Series)
by David William Cohen Synopsis Among the probes was an extensive 1990 inquiry organized by a New Scotland Yard team invited to Kenya by the government, as well as an open public commission of inquiry appointed by President Daniel arap Moi. The commission ran for seventeen months in...
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Trouble Showed the Way: Women, Men, and Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890 - 1990
by Claire C Robertson Publisher Comments This volume is a meticulously executed and written study of women, men, and trade in the Nairobi area from 1890 to 1990....
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Black Poachers, White Hunters (06 Edition)
by Edward I. Steinhart Publisher Comments For centuries, Kenya’s game-laden plains and forests were the rewarding hunting grounds of her native African population. Black Poachers, White Hunters traces the history of hunting there in the colonial era, describing the British attempt to...
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Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire
by David Anderson
Publisher Comments A groundbreaking work of colonial history in the tradition of King Leopold's Ghost and The Boer War. A riveting account of Britain's final bloody decade in Kenya, this book tells the story of the brutal war between the colonial government and the...
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Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya
by Lynn M Thomas Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-287) and index....
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In the Dust of Kilimanjaro
by David Western Publisher Comments "Kilimanjaro slowly takes shape as the night sounds die, its glaciated peak tinged pink in the early light. A solitary wildebeest stares motionless as if mesmerized by the towering mass; a small caravan of giraffe drifts across the plain in solitary file,...
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Red Strangers: The White Tribe of Kenya
by C S Nicholls Synopsis Kenya's forgotten history from its inception to independence in 1963....
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I Dreamed of Africa
by Kuki Gallmann Synopsis Gallmann gives the enthralling story of a woman's life in Africa, the story of a powerful romance and paralyzing sorrow, and of Africa itself--a land of passionate beauty haunted by mystery and danger. of photos, 8 in color....
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Mau Mau and Nationhood (03 Edition)
by E.s. Atieno Odhiambo Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-298) and index....
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African Nights: True Stories from the Author of I Dreamed of Africa
by Kuki Gallmann Publisher Comments Lyrical, beautifully written tales of life in Africa Africa evokes a deep sense of mystery. It is a place that retains what most of the world has lost: space, roots, traditions, awesome beauty, true wilderness, rare animals, and extraordinary people. In...
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I Refuse to Die: My Journey for Freedom
by Koigi wa Wamwere Publisher Comments A compelling autobiography describing the struggle of an outspoken activist journalist in Kenya....
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