Suggested Reading – Adults

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Just a few links 

The East African Standard is considered the best journalism on the continent:

http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/

The Daily Nation

http://www.nation.co.ke/

African Books Collective

http://www.africanbookscollective.com/

This reader list from Amazon is designed for ”anyone interested in reading Kenyan books particularly literature from Kenyans or about Kenya.”

http://amzn.com/lm/R30B1XZFIXMY8A

Kenya Connects (an iMentor blog based in Sereolipi)

http://www.imentorkenya.blogspot.com/

Young adult fiction worth reading as an adult

Our Secret, Siri Aang

Cristina Kessler

The Mzungu Boy

Meja Mwangi

Dan Eldon: Safari as a Way of Life

Jennifer New

Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna

Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton, Herman Viola 

Memoirs about Kenya

Unbowed: A Memoir

Wangari Maathai

My Maasai Life: From Suburbia to Savannah

Robin Wiszowaty

Don’t be fooled by the cheesy title. My Maasai Life is packed with details about daily Maasai living.

The Journey is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon

Dan Eldon

One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir

Binyavanga Wainaina

Out of Africa

Isak Dinesen

West with the Night

Beryl Markham

The Tree Where Man Was Born

Peter Matthiessen

Dreams From My Father

Barak Obama

The Worlds of a Maasai Warrior: An Autobiography

Tepilit Ole Saitoti

Africa on Six Wheels: A Semester on Safari

Betty Levitov

Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters

Jane Goodall

Dangerous Beauty – Life and Death in Africa

Mark C. Ross 

* The last chapter is chock full of anecdotal information about the Samburu.

Non-Fiction

Laibon: An Anthropologist’s Journey with Samburu Diviners in Kenya

Ariaal Pastoralists of Kenya: Studying Pastoralism, Drought, and Development in Africa’s Arid Lands

Elliot Fratkin

Tribes of the Great Rift Valley

Broken Spears

Elizabeth L. Gilbert

Samburu

Nigel Pavitt

Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya

Caroline Elkins (Thanks: Maria Davis)

Fiction

The River Between

Wizard of the Crow

Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

Considered Kenya’s literary giant, Thiong’o has a lengthy bibliography to explore.

Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa

Francesca Marciano

The Constant Gardener

John le Carre

Africa: History and social context (a very short list)

Africa: A Biography of the Continent

John Read

Africa Trek l & ll

Alexandre Poussin and Sonia Poussin

Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown

Paul Theroux