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Wanjik?, child of mine

2024
"In the lush Kenyan countryside, a young Gik?y? girl helps her grandmother with daily tasks. Here, as she tends to the cows, carries water, and plays in the fruit trees and sugarcane, she is called Wanjik?. On the busy city streets of Nairobi, where she goes to school, she is called by her English name, Catherine. But at home with Wangar?, the maid who cooks and cares for her, she is again Wanjik?. All grown up in boarding school, Catherine is the leader of her class, surrounded by friends from different cultural backgrounds. But at night, when she gathers with her fellow Gik?y? sisters to speak her mother tongue, she is Wanjik? once more"--Provided by publisher.

First come the zebra

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.

Dreams in a time of war

a childhood memoir
2010
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.

Facing Mount Kenya

the tribal life of the Gikuyu
1978

The baboon king

2001
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.

First come the zebra

2009
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.

The baboon king

1999
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.
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