The autobiography of a teacher at the Nairobi Pentecostal Bible College, whose life has taken him across the world. Written in response to a recent illness, he reflects on the lessons of his life and his enduring belief in God. Illustrated with b/w photographs. 148pp, KENYA. CANA PUBLISHING, 9966971076

Biography of one of the founders of East Africa Indian National Congress and shapers of Nairobi. BNS, 48pp, KENYA. EAST AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL PUBLI., 9966251111

Now in small paperback format. Sequel to the best-selling TICK BITE FEVER charts the author's relocation from Kenya to the 'mother country', previously familiar to him only through old copies of Punch magazine and the film Chariots of Fire. Would it be the anything like the place he had come to expect? 309pp, UK. EBURY.

Memoir by the US senator from Illinois tracing his father's migration from Kenya. 453pp, USA. VINTAGE USA.

This is the autobiography of a Kenyan public figure and role model to Kenyan women, Muthoni Likimani, who has been a broadcaster, politician, teacher, actress and activist. Muthoni established Noni's Publicity, one of the first indigenously owned public relations firms in Africa. 379pp, KENYA. NONI'S PUBLICITY.

In rich detail the author recalls the extraordinary adventures of her childhood amongst the Kikuyu and European expatriate community in Kenya at the beginning of the 20th century. First published in 1959. 280pp, UK. PIMLICO, 0712666133

The autobiography of the medical researcher and former vice-chancellor of the University of Nairobi whose work with HIV/AIDS has made him one of the foremost figures in the fight against the epidemic. He puts the events of his life into the context of Kenya's history. Index, b/w photographs, 287pp, KENYA. EAST AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL PUBLI., 9966251537

New edition of this lyrical memoir in which the Italian author describes her life in Kenya, her deep love for the country and the tragedies that struck her family. Gloss, maps, xx, 315pp, UK. PENGUIN BOOKS.

Fr. Kaiser, a Catholic priest is perplexed at the agony he witnesses among his parishioners. He sees families brutalised and violently uprooted in the years 1990 to 1997 in which small scale farmers in Kenya were persecuted for greed and wealth. In this small volume he tells their story and the problems caused by a thick wall of official silence and intimidation by politicians. Illustrated with b/w photographs. 117pp, UK. CANA PUBLISHING, 9966805559

Kenya's women tell their stories of love, struggle, happiness and tragedy. Whether subsistence farmers, herders, sex workers, business women and beggars, they all talk candidly and vividly about the subjects closest to their hearts - marriage, childrearing, work and unemployment, self-help groups, genital cutting, ethnic tensions and the new government that has promised huge reforms. Index, gloss, 350pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

Now available in paperback. The acclaimed autobiography of the Kenyan political activist and writer. Charts his struggles against both the colonial government and the subsequent post independence governments. Imprisoned for a total of thirteen years and tortured, his story is a testament to the power of the human spirit against oppression. His writing is interspersed with the freedom songs of his people. Illustrated with b/w photographs and with a foreword by Kerry Kennedy Cuomo and Nan Richardson. Notes, 367pp, USA.. SEVEN STORIES PRESS, 158322615X

The biography of J.D. Otiende who fought for an independant Kenya and served in the first cabinet of the new country. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Bib, 66pp, KENYA. EAST AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL PUBLI., 9966251561

An account of the prison experiences of former Member of Parliament, writer and human rights activist Koigi Wa Wamwere. Detained by both Kenyatta and Moi, the author describes the political motivations for his arrest, trial and imprisonment, and the ramifications for justice and democracy in Kenya. 295pp, KENYA. VITA BOOKS.

The story of a member of Mwakenya, an oppositional political movement in Kenya, who was imprisoned for six years and assasinated by 'thugs', essays by comrades on his ideas, his life, his assasination and his influence. 101pp, UK. VITA BOOKS.

A graphic, harrowing diary of the tortures suffered by a distinguished opponent of the Moi regime during six and a half years in prison. UK. VITA.

1996 1869886089 Paperback

The memoirs of a young woman's childhood in rural Ireland and her move to Kenya at the age of eighteen as Grace Kelly's stand-in during the filming of Mogambo. Her new life in Africa takes her to the heart of Kikuyu land at the height of the Mau Mau rebellion and to South Africa as apartheid takes its hold on the country. 318pp, UK. SUMMERSDALE.

An investigation revealing the dark intrigue behind the tales of White Mischief and the 1941 murder of Lord Errol in Nairobi. Index, bib, notes, 374pp, UK. FOURTH ESTATE, 1857028945

A biography of one of the most controversial figures in African Colonial history. Grogan was the first to travel across the continent from north to south and became a pioneer settler in Kenya. Index, bib, notes, xvii, 470pp, UK. HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS.

Memoir covering an eventful life from his birth during the First World War to shortly before his death at the beginning of the next millennium. Some of his earliest memories are of his childhood in Africa and he maintained a lifelong fascination with the continent, despite interludes in Britain. He served with the Royal Engineers in the Second World War, travelling extensively in Africa and the Middle East, and subsequently returned to live in Kenya. Index, 288pp, UK. RADCLIFFE PRESS.

Written for young people, a biography of Kenya's third president. Includes Kibaki's inaugural speech. B/w illus, viii, 85pp, KENYA. SASA SEMA PUBLICATIONS.

Illustrated by the author's own photographs, this book evokes Kenya's vanishing tribal heritage, the dramatic landscapes of Kenya. Also intimately portrays his Samburu companions, and the Turkana and Pokot people. Index, b/w photos, gloss, map, xiii, 160pp. UK. HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS, 0006383920

This autobiography of the Kenyan writer and surgeon tackles his Asian roots, European education, and African family life. Index, b/w photographs, 346pp, KENYA. EAST AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL PUBLI., 9966251227

The story of a Jewish family who flee Nazi Germany in 1938 for a farm in Kenya. Each deal with the harsh realities of life in Africa in different ways, but it is Regina, the family's five year old daughter who embraces the country, learns the local languages and finds friends. When the war ends and they return to Germany, the family is again thrown into turmoil. 291pp, USA. WISCONSIN PRESS, UNIVERSITY OF, 0299199606

The classic account of a Danish woman's experiences running a coffee plantation in Kenya from 1914 to 1931. A lyrical evocation of the landscape, animals and the people of East Africa. 330pp, UK. PENGUIN BOOKS, 0141183330

Now in paperback. Amusing memoir of two decades of research into a baboon troop in Kenya. 304pp, UK. VINTAGE, 0099285770

Candid memoir of historical value. B/w ill, index, v, 132pp, KENYA. MISC PUBLISHERS IN KENYA,

1999 DELAY Paperback

New in trade paperback. Fourteen years after fleeing Kenya with her baby daughter, Corinne returned in the summer of 2004 to meet Lketinga, her Masai ex-husband, and his family again in their village, Barsaloi. Nervous as she was, and uncertain as to how he would react on seeing her again, she found to her relief that she was welcomed unreservedly by all who remembered her. Corinne Hofmann revisits an area of a country which she cares about passionately, describing in her immensely readable style the changes she saw after her time away. 172pp, UK. ARCADIA.

The biography of Michael Wamalwa Kijana the first vice president of Kenya to die in office. The author tells the story of his life and his odyssey through the turbulent waters of Kenyan politics. 155pp, KENYA. OAKLANDBOOKS.

2004 9966996917 Paperback

Takes you through a journey of faith and courage at a time of momentous social, economic and political transitions in Kenya. Notes, bib, index, KENYA. CANA PUBLISHING.

A witty memoir of an African childhood, written from the perspective of a bemused and clumsy young boy. The author moved with his family from England to Zambia in 1971 at the age of three and later to Kenya. 245pp, UK. EBURY, 0091897432

New in paperback. Biography of the aristocratic lover of aviatrix Beryl Markham, and of Karen Blixen, a romance immortalised in her book 'Out of Africa'. 'No one who ever met him,' his Times obituary concluded, 'whether man or woman, old or young, white or black, failed to come under his spell.' 304pp, UK . VINTAGE.

Born in a rural Kenyan village in 1940, Wangari Maathai was already an iconoclast as a child, determined to get an education even though most African girls then were uneducated. In her remarkable and inspiring autobiography, she tells of her studies with Catholic missionaries, earning bachelors and master's degrees in the United States, and becoming the first woman both to earn a PhD and to head a university department in Kenya. She tells of her numerous run-ins with the brutal government of Daniel arap Moi and of the political and personal reasons that compelled her, in 1977, to establish the Green Belt Movement, which spread from Kenya across Africa, and which helps restore indigenous forests while assisting rural women by paying them to plant trees in their villages. Index, b/w photos, 314pp, UK. WILLIAM HEINEMANN.

Makham Singh (-1973) was an Indian settler in Kenya, who became a founding father of the trade union movement, and a leading opponent of the colonial state. He refused to accept a trade union movement segregated by race and the colonial apartheid that reinforced a hierarchy of races between black Africans, Asians and whites in such humiliating fashion. Instead, he demonstrated that the liberation of Asians and Africans were inextricably linked, and that imperialism and colonialism are the enemies of all peoples, and should be met with non-violent resistance. 586pp, KENYA. ZAND GRAPHICS.

The story of Berida Ndambuki, a Kenyan woman. She relates her personal history, 'presenting herself as neither an uncontested victim, nor an unblemished survivor, nor a triumphantly empowered victor. Her story demonstrates the fallacy of the traditional- modern model so often applied to Africa, and her knowledge reaches from her grandmother's experiences in the early twentieth century, through British colonialism, Kenyan independence, and contemporary struggles, both political and economic. See also item no. 12813. 34 b/w photos, xxxi, 240pp USA. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS.

First published in 1942, this classic account describes the author's life in Kenya over thirty years describing her childhood amongst the Masaai and the Nandi and her flights across East Africa. This new edition includes an introduction by Martha Gellhorn. 293pp, UK. VIRAGO, 0860685411

Now in paperback. A love story, an adventure yarn, and, incidentally, a piece of social anthro-pology. Corinne Hofmann falls in love with a Masai man while on holiday with her boyfriend in Kenya. After overcoming all sorts of obstacles, she moves into a tiny shack with him and his mother in his village, and spends four years in Kenya. Slowly but surely the dream starts to crumble until she flees back home with her baby daughter. Translated from the German by Peter Millar. Col plates, 320pp, UK. ARCADIA.

The story of the notorious White Mischief case. When the body of Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll was discovered with a bullet through his head, just outside Nairobi in 1941, the resulting scandal revealed the extent of upper class decadence and misbehaviour in East Africa. Illustrated with b/w photographs. 299pp, UK. VINTAGE UK, 009976671X

New in paperback. Maitland's biography had Thesiger's support before he died in 2003, and has been written with full access, granted to no one else, to the rich Thesiger archive vivid, intimate family correspondence, and his own letters, diaries and notebooks which are far more confiding than his scrupulously edited published accounts. Maitland investigates in depth Thesiger's parents and family influences; his wartime experiences and the ethos of conflict; his philosophy as a hunter and conservationist; his development as a writer and photographer; his close friendships with the Arabs and Africans amongst whom he lived; and his sexuality. 448pp, UK. HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS.