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

By Caroline Elkins

Kenya: The Quest for Prosperity

By Norman N. Miller

It's Our Turn to Eat

By Michela Wrong

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)

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

By Ane Marie Bak Rasmussen

Colony to Nation: British Administrators in Kenya 1940-1963

By John Johnson

Talk of the Devil

By Riccardo Orizio

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

By Bob Smith, Salim Amin, Michael Buerk

Kau: The Kenya African Union

By John Spencer

African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya, 1900-1950

By Tabitha Kanogo

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

By Professor Joanna Lewis

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

By Jennifer A. Widner

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

By David M. Anderson

Islam and Politics in Kenya

By Arye Oded

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

By Daniel Branch (University of Warwick)

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

By Terence Gavaghan

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

By Gavin Kitching

Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011

By Daniel Branch

From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labour and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925

By Frederick Cooper

A Modern History of Kenya, 1885-1980

By William R. Ochieng'

Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau, 1905-63

By Tabitha Kanogo (Royalty Account)

Mau Mau and Nationhood: Arms, Authority and Narration

By E.S.Atieno Odhiambo (Author), John Lonsdale

Control and Crisis in Colonial Kenya: The Dialectic of Domination

By Bruce Berman (Author)

Mombasa, the Swahili, and the Making of the Mijikenda

By Justin Willis (Assistant Director, Assistant Director, British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi)

Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and Africa

By Bruce Berman (Author), John Lonsdale

The Politics of the Independence of Kenya

By K. Kyle

Shanga

By Mark Horton

Decolonization and Independence in Kenya, 1940-1993

By B. A. Ogot, W. R. Ochieng

The Mottled Lizard

By Elspeth Huxley

Moi: The Making of an African Statesman

By Andrew Morton