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Guest, a freelance writer on AIDS-related matters, concentrates on the neglected and perhaps most helpless and vulnerable victims of the AIDS epidemic...the millions of street orphans from all over Africa, especially in such sub-Saharan countries as South Africa, Zambia, and Uganda. Buy

Labels: Children, Ghana, Health, Kenya, Politics, Tanzania, Uganda

Kenya's women tell their stories of love, struggle, happiness, and tragedy in their own words. Topical chapters feature the voices of a large range of women talking about the subjects closest to their hearts. Chapters cover marriage, childrearing, work and getting by when there is no work, women's self-help groups, genital cutting, ethnic tensions, and the new government that has promised huge reforms. Buy

Labels: Biography, Inspirational, Kenya, Women

Once the major success story of a troubled continent, by the early 1990s Kenya came to be regarded as its fallen star. This book challenges such images of reversal and the analytical polarities that sustain them. The analysis combines many disciplines and perspectives to give a rich and varied picture of the culture of politics in twentieth-century Kenya. Buy

Labels: Kenya, Politics

The White Masai combines adventure and the pursuit of passion in a story of two star-crossed lovers from vastly different backgrounds. Corinne, a European entrepreneur, meets Lketinga, a Samburu warrior, while on vacation in Mombasa on Kenya's glamorous coast. Despite language and cultural barriers, they embark on an impossible love affair. Buy

Labels: Biography, Kenya, Tanzania, Women

AIDS is the most devastating communicable disease in history, and structures of poverty and injustice are magnifying the crisis in under-resourced countries. Irwin and Millen demonstrate that it is morally imperative and practically feasible to control the spread of AIDS by overturning common myths about treatment and prevention. Buy

Labels: Health, Kenya, Politics

This simple memoir is the story of a poor nomadic boy in Kenya who literally travels across the world but never abandons home. Lekuton grew up in Kenya's poorest tribe, herding cows and playing in trees and hyena holes before he entered a missionary boarding school and went to college in the U.S. Now he teaches in Virginia, but he has never lost his Maasai roots, and he returns home to help his people several months a year. Buy

Labels: Biography, Kenya

'This book, and its relative, the guide to East Africa, got me (and my husband) comfortably through 8 weeks of travel in East Africa. It was equally useful for the trip where I was a woman travelling alone, and the trip I took with my never-been-to-the-third-world dyed-in-the-wool- American husband'. - Amazon review. Buy

Labels: Kenya, Travel Guide

Whether you're sailing on a dhow off Zanzibar, scaling the heights of Kilimanjaro or having a quiet drink with your host in Nairobi, this book will help you communicate the way you want to. Buy

Labels: Educational, Kenya

Estes, who is affiliated with Harvard University and the Smithsonian Institute as a research associate, spent over eight years doing fieldwork in Africa and over 17 years leading safaris. His qualifications as an expert on the social ecology of African mammals are reflected in the text, which describes approximately 86 species of African mammals. Buy

Labels: Environment, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Travel Guide

Having combed public archives in London and Kenya and conducted extensive interviews with both Kikuyu survivors and settlers, Elkins exposes the hypocrisy of Britain's supposed colonial "civilizing mission" and its subsequent cover-ups. A profoundly chilling portrait of the inherent racism and violence of "colonial logic". Buy

Labels: History, Kenya

First published in 1937, Out of Africa is not free of the colonial or racist attitudes of its time; yet, within that context, Isak Dinesen is an enlightened observer and participant as she describes the experience of British East Africa before World War II. Buy

Labels: Biography, Kenya, Literature

"Cameron Burns has filled a void with the publication of this climbing and trekking guide for Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya. While much is probably written about Kili, there is very little practical literature about Mount Kenya. The introductory pages are full of useful hints for travelling in Kenya that, from my recent experience there, all ring ttrue" - Amazon Review. Buy

Labels: Environment, Kenya, Travel Guide

Gathered from some of the more than 40 ethnic groups of Kenya, these stories are brought to you both as original translations and as lively, ready-to-use retellings. The fascinating account of McNeil's own experiences while collecting the tales is woven throughout the book. Buy

Labels: Kenya, Literature

The value of Meredith's towering history of modern Africa rests not so much in its incisive analysis, or its original insights; it is the sheer readability of the project, combined with a notable lack of pedantry, which makes it one of the decade's most important works on Africa. Spanning the entire continent, and covering the major upheavals more or less chronologically...from the promising era of independence to the most recent spate of infamies...Meredith brings us on a journey that is as illuminating as it is gruelling. Buy

Labels: Ghana, History, Kenya, Politics, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda

Kenya, simultaneously heralded for its political stability and economic success and criticized as a wellspring of elitism and class exploitation, remains a close ally of the West and a symbol of capitalism in Africa. Yet its exquisite natural beauty and wildlife hide a more mundane reality. The country is rural, poor, and without mineral wealth, and less than 20 percent of Kenya's land area is readily available for dense human settlement. In this revised edition, Miller and Yeager address these social issues while tracing political and economic developments from early pre-colonial times to the contemporary period. Buy

Labels: History, Kenya, Politics

LightBox is comprised entirely of photographs taken by Binti Pamoja's members and essays they have written to accompany those photos. All of the pictures were taken with disposable or simple point-and-shoot cameras during the period of 2002-2004. Their expressions offer a candid look at the lives of young women in poverty. Their photography and essays display a powerful message: one of struggle, perseverance and hope. Buy

Labels: Children, Inspirational, Kenya, Pictorial, Women

Nolen puts a very human face on HIV/AIDS in Africa, verbally and visually. A photograph accompanies each of the book's 28 personal histories (one subject stands for one million infected people in sub-Saharan Africa). The faces in the photos appear no different than faces of everyday Americans, but that appearance belies the horrific reality of lives shredded by devastating disease.

Labels: Biography, Ghana, Health, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda

This is a very thorough course - goes well beyond a phrasebook, and the CD is only worthwhile if you read along and do the exercises. So, no passive learning by listening over and over on your commute: Amazon review. Buy

Labels: Educational, Kenya

The author of Maasai now offers his life story: from his birth into a traditional society in Tanzania in 1949, through his youth, education in a mission school, and initiation as a warrior, to his career as a game park guide and ranger (subject of a National Geographic film, Man of the Serengeti ); to his studies in Munich and Boston and at the University of Michigan (where he received an M.S. in natural resources), to his return home, to be received back ritually into his family. Buy

Labels: Biography, Kenya, Tanzania

"After reading the first paragraph and faced with the statement, 'Three million people die each year from AIDS, a death toll that has been compared to twenty fully loaded 747s crashing every single day for a year', it seemed evident that there was more to this disease than I first thought. I remembered how many stories I saw on the news about airplanes crashing and the news coverage that followed. I can't remember the last news story I watched about AIDS" - Amazon Review. Buy

Labels: Development, Ghana, Health, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda

There is evidence that women who live in societies that uphold male privilege - the majority of the world's women - are at increased risks for HIV infection. Booth looks closely at the operation of two clinics for sexuality transmitted diseases in Nairobi, Kenya, and explores how internationally funded and nationally sanctioned intervention to stop the spread of HIV have focused almost exclusively on the sexual and reproductive behaviour of those who are least able to challenge male power and dominance - working class and poor women. Buy

Labels: Health, Kenya, Women

Kenya, a land of safaris, wild animals, and Masai warriors, perfectly represents Africa for many Westerners. This peerless single-source book presents the contemporary reality of life in Kenya, an important East-African nation that has served as a crossroads for peoples and cultures from Africa, the Middle East, and East Asia for centuries. Buy

Labels: Culture, Kenya

This guide contains information on: natural history, conservation and culture in depth; where to see wildlife, from national parks to lesser-known regions; A to Z of activities, special interests and events to help create a personal safari; detailed coverage of accommodation, including eco-lodges; adventure options, from gold-panning to sky diving. Buy

Labels: Kenya, Travel Guide

In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle (Rachel Weisz) is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and the evidence points to a crime of passion. Buy

Labels: Kenya, Politics

The Rough Guide to Kenya is the ultimate guide to East Africa's best known destination. From the live music in Nairobi to the Turkana overland safaris, the 24-page, full-colour section introduces all of the country's highlights. The guide includes details for all the best places to stay, eat and drink, to suit every budget, plus the new 'Author's Picks' feature to highlight the very best options. Buy

Labels: Kenya, Travel Guide

"I read this book while living in Tanzania as a volunteer from 2000-2002. I found it very helpful in understanding East African post-colonial attitudes. For that, it was an invaluable book to read, and it helped me put my own self and work into context. I would recommend this book to anyone doing Peace Corps in Kenya or Tanzania. As a work of fiction, it is fascinating, and I was easily absorbed into the storyline, and the love story involved" - Amazon Review. Buy

Labels: Kenya, Literature

By examining the political signifacance - and complex ramifications of - reproductive controversies in twentieth-century Kenya, this book explores why and how control of female initiation, abortion, childbirth, and premarital pregnancy have been crucial to the exercise of colonial and postcolonial power. Buy

Labels: Health, History, Kenya, Politics, Women

When three arduous years as caretaker for her dying mother ended, Atwood found herself adrift. Atwood decided to run away from home - to return to Africa. Told with refreshing honesty and wit, Atwood's memoir of her years in Kenya covers a wide range - from continual adjustment to life in Africa, to adventures in remote and dangerous areas. Buy

Labels: Biography, Kenya

Anderson's authoritative history of the last days of the British Empire in Kenya focuses on the colonial judicial system, which sent over 1,000 native Kenyans to the gallows between 1952 and 1959, during the state of emergency triggered by the Mau Mau insurrection. Buy

Labels: History, Kenya