TransConflict recommends the following books for those interested in learning more about the history, culture and politics of Kenya
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Literature and First-Hand Accounts
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The Flame Trees Of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood – by Elspeth Huxley |
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Dreams in a Time of War – by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o |
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Histories of the Hanged: Britain’s Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire: Testimonies from the Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya – by David Anderson |
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The Mottled Lizard – by Elspeth Huxley |
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Out in the Midday Sun: My Kenya – by Elspeth Huxley |
Academic and Policy-Oriented
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Undercurrents of Ethnic Conflict in Kenya – by John O. Oucho |
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Kenya: A History Since Independence – by Charles Hornsby |
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Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011 – by Daniel Branch |
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Colonial Inscriptions: Race, Sex and Class in Kenya – by Carolyn M. Shaw |
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Our Turn to Eat: Politics in Kenya Since 1950 – by Daniel Branch |
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Mau Mau from Below (Eastern African Studies) – by Greet Kershaw |
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Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya: Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization (African Studies) – by Daniel Branch |
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