Category: POLITICAL/ HISTORY
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The Trouble with Nigeria book by Chinua Achebe (Author)
KShs960.00Add to cartThe only trouble with Nigeria is the failure of leadership, because with good leaders Nigeria could resolve its inherent problems such as tribalism; lack of patriotism; social injustice and the cult of mediocrity; indiscipline; and corruption.
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King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa book by Author: Adam Hochschild
KShs1,890.00Add to cartIn the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million–all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian.
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Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011 book by Daniel Branch
KShs4,890.00Add to cartOn December 12, 1963, people across Kenya joyfully celebrated independence from British colonial rule, anticipating a bright future of prosperity and social justice. As the nation approaches the fiftieth anniversary of its independence, however, the people’s dream remains elusive.
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George Magoha: Tower of Transformational Leadership book by George Magoha
KShs2,990.00Add to cartThe choice of Prof. Magoha would appear to lend credence to the government’s commitment to remorm KNEC. He is one of Africas best repected academics who as UoN boss helped establish Kenyas Premier university as a world class institution.
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Tom Mboya: The Man Kenya Wanted to Forget book by David Goldsworthy
KShs1,960.00Read moreThis book is a must read by all Kenyans, particularly those born after 1963. No nationalist, dynamic, intelligent and patriotic leader who can be compared to the late Thomas Joseph Mboya anywhere in Eastern Africa today.
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Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir book by Ngugi wa’Thiong’o
KShs1,595.00Add to cartIn Dreams in a Time of War, Ngugi deftly etches a bygone era, capturing the landscape, the people, and their culture; the social and political vicissitudes of life under colonialism and war; and the troubled relationship between an emerging Christianized middle class and the rural poor
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Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary book by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
KShs1,290.00Add to cartThe international outcry over the detention of Ngugi Wa Thiong’o without trial by the Kenyan authorities even reached him in prison. In this book he describes the purposeful degradation and humiliation of prison life.
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Sowing the mustard seed The struggle for freedom and democracy in Uganda By Yoweri Kaguta Museveni
KShs2,790.00Add to cartMuseveni led a guerilla war to liberate his country from tyranny and, as President of Uganda, has established a reputation as one of the most widely respected African leaders of his generation.
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A SEASON OF BLOOD – Poems from Kenya prisons book by Maina wa Kinyatti
KShs900.00Add to cartThe conditions that prisoners in Kenya endure are extremely barbaric. Every morning at 5 a.m., male prisoners are ordered out of the cells stark naked for internal body searches. The guards search their mouths and armpits, ears and nostrils. They pull, twist and squeeze their genitals.
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Kenya: A Prison Notebook book by Maina Wa Kinyatti
KShs990.00Add to cartMaina wa Kinyatti is one of Kenya’s progressive historians. In June 1982, he was arrested by the Kenyan authoritarian regime, charged with possession of seditious literature and imprisoned. He suffered for six-and-a-half years in the hands of his brutal captors.