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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Kenya
DK Publishing 2011; US$ 25.00DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Kenya will lead you straight to the best attractions Kenya has to offer. Packed with photographs, illustrations and maps of Kenya, this guide explores every facet that makes Kenya dynamic and irresistible; from the spectacular wildlife and breathtaking National Parks, to the lively nightlife and cultural attractions of... more...
And Then Life Happens
Allen & Unwin 2012; US$ 27.26A moving account about life in two cultures, and Auma Obama's relationship with her brother, Barack. more...
The Last Maasai Warriors
Greystone Books 2012; US$ 19.95How two young Maasai tribesmen became warriors, scholars, and leaders in their community and to the world. They are living testament to a vanishing way of life on the African savannah. Wilson and Jackson are two brave warriors of the Maasai, an intensely proud culture built on countless generations steeped in the mystique of tradition, legend... more...
Fighting the Mau Mau
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 24.00This new study of Britain's counterinsurgency campaign in Kenya examines the difference between official and accepted methods of conquering insurgents. more...
Uncertain Tastes
University of California Press 2009; US$ 27.95This richly drawn ethnography of Samburu cattle herders in northern Kenya examines the effects of an epochal shift in their basic diet-from a regimen of milk, meat, and blood to one of purchased agricultural products. In his innovative analysis, Jon Holtzman uses food as a way to contextualize and measure the profound changes occurring in Samburu social... more...
Kenya Today
Algora Publishing 2007; US$ 32.95This is the story of modern Africa: the reality of poverty, underdevelopment and the donor community. Are governments using politics and imported culture to trap ordinary Africans in a weakening web of international friendship and economic partnership, more...
Philosophising in Mombasa
Edinburgh University Press 2007; US$ 119.40Philosophising in Mombasa provides an approach to the anthropological study of philosophical discourses in the Swahili context of Mombasa, Kenya. In this historically established Muslim environment, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, philosophy is investigated as social discourse and intellectual practice, situated in everyday life. This is done... more...
Staying Maasai?
Springer 2009; US$ 109.99The area of eastern Africa, which includes Tanzania and Kenya, is known for its savannas, wildlife and tribal peoples. This title focuses on the livelihoods of the Maasai in two different countries - Kenya and Tanzania. It looks at what people do, why they choose to do it, with what success and with what implications for wildlife. more...
Challenges of African Growth
World Bank Publications 2007; US$ 14.99Poverty in Africa is largely the outcome of slow growth. With the region hosting 10 percent of the world's population but a staggering 30 percent of the world's poor, the challenges it faces are enormous but NOT insurmountable. The message of this book is clear - poverty-eradicating development in Africa is possible. In fact, there are indications... more...









