Kenyan Literature
This is a list of the Kenyan Literature that I have in my possession. It is not meant to be an exhaustive list of all Kenyan Writers. Please inform me if any of the links do not work.
Judith M. Abwunza
Women’s Voices, Women’s Power (Ethnography)
Rocha Chimerah
Kiswahili: Past, Present and Future Herizons (History)
Stanley Gazemba
Pema peponi (Short Story available online)
Goat’s Feet (Short Story available online)
Kangemi’s Fly on the Wall (Article available online)
Interview (2010) available online
Profile available online
Wambui B. Githiora
Wanjira (Novel)
Wangui wa Goro
Deep Sea Fishing (Short Story in African Love Stories: An Anthology)
Deconstructing Culture in Africa (Essay from Pambazuka available online)
The hard road to democracy (Essay from Pambazuka available online)
Profile available online
Parselelo Kantai
You Wreck Her (Short Story available online)
The Cock Thief (Short Story available online)
The Treasure Buried in Nairobi’s Dumps (Article available online)
Jomo Kenyatta
Facing Mount Kenya (Ethnography) Excerpt Chapter 6 Initiation of Boys and Girls available online
Speech at the Kenyan African Union Meeting (1952) available online
Some Observations about Kenyatta in Britain 1929-1930 by Ann Beck (academic essay available online)
Wangari Maathai
An African Future: Beyond the Culture of Dependency (Article available online)
Africans can do it for ourselves (Article available online)
Kenya’s Green Belt Movement (Article available online)
Nobel Peace Prize Lecture (2004) available online
Bottlenecks of Development in Africa (1995) Speech available online
Interview (1999) with the UNESCO Courier available online
Interview (2004) for the Nobel Peace Prize available online
Interview (2005) for PBS available online
Video Interview (2009) available online
Interview (2009) for Oprah Magazine available online
Video Interview for Africa Talks Climate available online
Profile of Maathai available from the Goldman Prize Website
Profile of Maathai from BBC News
Biography of Maathai from the Nobel Peace Prize Website
Biography of Maathai and Exercises for ESL Learners available online
Website for the documentary Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
Website of The Green Belt Movement
Majorie Oludhe Macgoye
The Present Moment (Novel)
Coming to Birth (Novel)
Review of Macgoye’s A Farm Called Kishinev available online
Wunyabari O. Maloba
Mau Mau and Kenya (History)
African Women in Revolution (History)
Dismas A. Masolo
Discourse and Object: Appraising the Comparative Approach in Philosophy (Essay available online)
African Sage Philosophy (Entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy available online)
The Making of a Tradition: African Philosophy in the New Millenium (Essay available online)
Narrative and Experience of Community as Philosophy of Culture (Essay available online)
Community, Identity, and Cultural Space (Essay available online)
African Culture and Personality: A Response to James E. Lassiter (Article available online)
Ali A. Mazrui
The Trial of Christopher Okigbo (Novel)
The Africans: A Triple Heritage (History)
Nationalism and New States in Africa (with Michael Tidy, Political Science)
Cultural Forces in World Politics (Political Science)
Pretender to Universalism: Western Culture in a Globalizing Age (Lecture available online)
Interview (2008) available online
Ali Mazrui’s Website
Tom Mboya
Freedom and After (Memoir)
Tom Mboya: Young Man of New Africa by Alan Rake (Biography available online)
The Making of a Nation: Tom Mboya’s Murder and the Making of a One Party State by Hilary Ng’weno (article available online)
Letter from Martin Luther King Jr. to Tom Mboya (letter available online)
Website for the book Airlift to America: How Barack Obama Sr., John F. Kennedy, Tom Mboya and 800 East Africans Changed Their World and Ours
Micere Githae Mugo
To be a feminist (Poem)
The Trial of Dedan Kimathi (Play written with Ngugi wa Thiong’o)
Colomba Muriungi
The “Sweet Pepper:” Prostitution Declosetted in Kenyan Women’s Writing (Essay available online)
Let’s sing our heroes: a comparison of biographical series for children in Kenya and South Africa (Essay available online)
Godwin Rapando Murunga
A critical look at Kenya’s non-transition to Democracy (Essay available online)
The State, Its Reform, and the Question of Legitimacy in Kenya (Essay available online)
Civil Society and the Democratic Experience in Kenya (Essay available online)
Urban Violence in Kenya’s Transition to Pluralistic Politics 1982 to 1992 (Essay available online)
Phoebe Musandu
Drawing from the Wells of Culture: Grace Onyango and the Kenyan Political Scene (1964-1983) (Essay available online)
Daughter of Odoro: Grace Onyango and African Women’s History (Thesis available online)
Meja Mwangi
Going Down River Road (Novel)
Kill Me Quick (Novel)
Post-independance Disillusionment in Contemporary African Fiction: The Example of Meja Mwangi’s Kill Me Quick by Ayo Kehinde (academic essay available online)
The Tyranny of History in Contemporary African Fiction: A Case Study of Meja Mwangi’s Kill Me Quick by Ayo Kehinde (academic essay available online)
Juvenile delinquency and violence in the fiction of three Kenyan writers by Tom Odhiambo (essay available online)
Meja Mwangi’s Website
Mukoma wa Ngugi
How Kamau wa Mwangi Escaped into Exile (Short Story available online)
We are sailing (Article from Kenya Imagine avaiable online)
The Africa that pushes back (Article in Pambazuka available online)
African Writing in our time (Article in Pambazuka available online)
Not the President from Kogelo (Article in The Guardian available online)
Africa’s surreal future (Article in The Guardian available online)
Understanding the Kenyan Opposition (Article from the Zezela Post available online)
Let Us Not Find Revolutionaries Where There Are None (Article from The New Internationalist available online)
Africa is not a Proverb (Article from The Zezela Post available online)
New Orleans and The Third World (Article from ZCommunications available online)
Justice for Mau Mau Veterans (Article from Pambazuka available online)
African Writing in Our Time (Article available online)
Poems available online
Interview (2007) in African Writer available online
Interview (2009) in Chimurenga Online available online
Audio Interview (2008) available online
Mukoma Wa Ngugi’s Website
Rebeka Njau
Kenya Women Heroes and their mystical power (Biography, written with Gideon Mulaki)
Learning to grow (Article available online)
Interview (2008) available online
Interview (2011) available online Alternate Link
Profile available online
Ideology and the Image of Women: Kenyan Women in Njau and Ngugi by A. Porter (essay available online)
Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo
Nairobi to Shenzhen (Novel)
Mark Obama Ndesandjo`s Website
Frederick Ochieng’-Odhiambo
Philosophic Sagacity: Aims and Functions (Essay available online)
The tripartite in philosophic sagacity (Essay available online)
David N. Odhiambo
Kipligat’s Chance (Novel)
Interview (1999) by Larissa Lai available online
Margaret Ogola
The River and the Source (Novel)
On the Dignity of the African Woman (speech available online)
The Teachings of St. Josemaria Escriva in an African Context (article available online)
The Virtues of Healing by Ryan Gonzales (article summarizing a speech by Ogola)
Grace Ogot
Tekayo (Short Story)
The Rain Came (Short Story) Questions related to this story available online
The Green Leaves (Short Story)
Profile by Helen Fallon available online
Bathseba Mayomi Opini
Africans Thought of It: Amazing Innovations (Children’s Book, with Richard B. Lee)
Disabled women/girls and sports in Africa: Can educational institutions make a difference? (Video Lecture available online)
Interview (2003) available online
H. Odera Oruka
Cultural Fundamentals in Philosophy (Essay available online)
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga: A Eulogy (Article available online)
Parental Earth Ethics (Article available online)
Philosophy in Eastern Africa and the future of philosophical research in Africa (Essay)
Interview (1996) by Kai Kresse available online
A Critique of Oruka’s Philosophic Sagacity by K. M. Kalumba (academic essay available online)
Odera Oruka’s Philosophic Sagacity: Problems and Challenges of Conversation Method in African Philosophy by G. Azenabor (essay available online)
An African Savant: Henry Odera Oruka by F. Ochieng Odhiambo (article available online)
Yvonne Owuor
Weight of Whispers (Short Story)
The horror, the horror: Reflections on Reaction (Article available online)
Islam and We: Method and meaning; A reflection (Article available online)
TED Talk available online
Interview (2009) available online
Profile in The Guardian available online
History, Nation, Ghetto: Kenyan Women’s Literature and the Ethics of Responsibility by Marie Kruger (essay available online)
Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Devil on the Cross (Novel)
Petals of Blood (Novel)
Weep not, child (Novel) Excerpt available online
A Grain of Wheat (Novel)
The River Between (Novel)
Detained (Memoir)
Matigari (Novel)
The Trial of Dedan Kimathi (Play written with Micere Githae Mugo)
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Essay) Introduction available online, Excerpt available online
Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms (Essay)
Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir (Memoir)
I Will Marry When I Want (Play written with Ngugi wa Mirii)
Writing for Peace (Essay available online)
Uneven Development is the root of many crimes (Article available online)
Recovering the Original (Essay available online)
Power Daemons (Short Story available online)
Ngugi on the Violence in Kenya (2008) available online
Steve Biko Memorial Lecture (2003) available online
The Myth of Tribes in African Politics (Article available online)
Interview with BBC Africa Beyond available online
Interview with Left Curve available online
Video Interview with Granta available online
Interview (2006) from The Independant available online
Interview (2007) with Tavis Smiley available online
Interview with Michael Pozo available online
Interview (1982) in Marxism Today available online
Profile in Time Magazine (2008) available online
Profile by Helen Fallon available online
The Dramaturgy of Power and Politics in Post-Colonial Kenya: A Comparative Rereading of ‘Forms’ in texts by Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Francis Imbuga by G. Odera Outa (academic essay available online)
“Flowers in All Their Colours”: Nations and Communities in Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood by Joya F. Uraizee (essay available online)
Negritude Rediscovered: A Reading of the Recent Novels of Armah, Ngugi, and Soyinka by Eustace Palmer (essay available online)
Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Website
Charity Waciuma
Daughter of Mumbi (Memoir) The Woyingi Blogger’s Review
Binyavanga Wainana
How to Write About Africa (Essay in Granta available online) Read by Djimon Hounsou (Video available online) Wainana’s Video Commentary on this piece Part One, Part Two, Part Three
Discovering Home (Short Story available online)
Generation Kenya (Article in Vanity Fair available online)
In Gikuyu, for Gikuyu, of Gikuyu (Essay in Granta available online)
Black Mischief (Article available online)
A day in the life of Idi Amin (Short Story available online)
On the Kenyan Elections for BBC News available online
Self-Portrait available online
Interview (2008) in Pambazuka available online
Interview (2009) in Pambazuka available online
Profile by BBC News available online
Koigi Wa Wamwere
I Refuse to Die (Memoir)
Negative Ethnicity: from bias to genocide (Memoir)
Koigi: Man of the People or Enemy of the State (article from The Standard 2002)
Koigi: Detain him, vote him out, but you can’t silence him (article from the Daily Nation 2008)
Koigi’s Website
Njoki Nathani Wane
Indigenous Knowledge: Lessons from the Elders: A Kenyan Case Study (Sociological Essay)
Anti-Racism in Teacher Education: Rethinking our Practice (Essay available online)
Sexual Violence and HIV/AIDS Risk in Kenyan and Ugandan Schools: Social Implications for Educational Policy Development (Article available online)
African Women, Cultural Knowledge and Environmental Education with a Focus on Kenya’s Indigenous Women (Article available online, written with Deborah J. Chandler)
Indigenous Gendered Spaces: An Examination of Kenya (Article available online written with D. J. Chandler)
The Woyingi Blog 
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