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The River Between (AWS African Writers Series)
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Heinemann
Heinemann
Christian missionaries attempt to outlaw the female circumcision ritual and in the process create a terrible rift between the two Kikuyu communities on either side of the river.
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Petals of Blood
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics
The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this fervent, hard-hitting novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. A deceptively simple tale, Petals of Blood is on the surface a...
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Wizard of the Crow
Ngugi Wa'Thiong'O
Anchor
Anchor
In exile now for more than twenty years, Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet and critic Ngugi wa Thiong’o has become one of the most widely read African writers. Commencing in “our times” and set in the fictional “Free Republic of Aburiria,” Wizard...
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Weep Not, Child (African Writers)
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Heinemann
Heinemann
This is a simple and powerful tale of the effects of the Mau Mau war on individuals and families in Kenya.
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A Grain of Wheat (African Writers Series)
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Heinemann
Heinemann
This is a compelling account of the turbulence that inflamed Kenya in the 1950s and its impact on people's lives. Five friends and agemates make different choices when the Mau Mau rebellion erupts in colonial Kenya. Kihika joins the freedom fighters...
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Devil on the Cross (African Writers Series)
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Heinemann
Heinemann
This remarkable and symbolic novel centers around Wariinga's tragedy and uses it to tell a story of contemporary Kenya faced with the "satan of capitalism." Ngugi has directed his writing even more firmly towards the commitment that he shows in...
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Gifts
Nuruddin Farah
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Gifts is a beguiling tale of a Somali family, its strong matriarch, Duniya, and its past wounds that refuse to heal. As the story unfolds, Somalia is ravaged by war, drought, disease, and famine, prompting industrialized nations to offer monetary...
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Maps
Nuruddin Farah
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
This first novel in Nuruddin Farah's Blood in the Sun trilogy tells the story of Askar, a man coming of age in the turmoil of modern Africa. With his father a victim of the bloody Ethiopian civil war and his mother dying the day of his birth,...
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