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African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya, 1900-1950

By Tabitha Kanogo

Education, Society and Development: New Perspectives from Kenya

By David Court, Dharam P. Ghai

Karibu: Welcome to the Cooking of Kenya

By Ann Gardner

Kenya: The Magic Land

By Brian Tetley, Mohamed Amin, Duncan Willetts

The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj

By David Gilmour

One Day I Will Write About This Place

By Binyavanga Wainaina

The White Masai

By Corinne Hofmann, Peter Millar

Nine Faces of Kenya

By Elspeth Huxley

Class and Economic Change in Kenya: The Making of an African Petite Bourgeoisie, 1905-70

By Gavin Kitching

Of Lions and Dung Beetles: A Man in the Middle of Colonial Administration in Kenya

By Terence Gavaghan

Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya: Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization

By Daniel Branch (University of Warwick)

Islam and Politics in Kenya

By Arye Oded

Eroding the Commons: The Politics of Ecology in Baringo, Kenya, 1890s-1963

By David M. Anderson

The Rise of a Party-State in Kenya: From Harambee! to Nyayo!

By Jennifer A. Widner

Empire State-building: War and Welfare in Kenya, 1925-52

By Professor Joanna Lewis

Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011

By Daniel Branch

Kau: The Kenya African Union

By John Spencer

The Man Who Moved the World: Life and Work of Mohamed Amin

By Bob Smith, Salim Amin, Michael Buerk

Talk of the Devil

By Riccardo Orizio

Colony to Nation: British Administrators in Kenya 1940-1963

By John Johnson

Modern African Spirituality: The Independent Holy Spirit Churches in East Africa

By Ane Marie Bak Rasmussen

Women of Fire and Spirit: Faith, History, and Gender in Roho Religion in Western Kenya

By Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton (Lecturer in Afro-American and African Studies, Lecturer in Afro-American and African Studies, University of Virginia)

It's Our Turn to Eat

By Michela Wrong

Kenya: The Quest for Prosperity

By Norman N. Miller

The Combing of History

By David William Cohen

The Scattering Time: Turkana Responses to Colonial Rule

By John Lamphear (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin)

Histories of the Hanged: Britain's Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire

By David Anderson

Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya

By Caroline Elkins

Shadows On the Grass: Farah; Barua a Soldani; the Great Gesture; Echoes from the Hills

By Isak Dinesen

Next Stop Kenya (Paperback)

By Fred Martin