kikuyu (african people)

When two young Kenyan boys, one Maasai and one Kikuyu, first meet, they are hostile toward each other based on traditional rivalries, but after they suddenly have to work together to save a baby in danger, the boys begin to discover what they have in common.

Recounts the story of the author's childhood, covering his early years in World War II-era Kenya as the fifth child of a third wife, his thirst for learning that singled him out, and the political struggles that shaped his life.

Son of a Kikuyu mother and a Masai herdsman father, Moreng?ru the hunter lives on the edges of tribal society until an actual banishment forces him to make a life for himself among a troop of baboons.

When two young Kenyan boys, one Maasai and one Kikuyu, first meet, they are hostile toward each other based on traditional rivalries, but after they suddenly have to work together to save a baby in danger, the boys begin to discover what they have in common.

Son of a Kikuyu mother and a Masai herdsman father, Moreng?ru the hunter lives on the edges of tribal society until an actual banishment forces him to make a life for himself among a troop of baboons.