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Afrikan book review

The SNOW GIRLS
By Prof. Rhoda Wanja Thairu

“We had been taught to revere and value our elders.
This was customary. We were told that the elders were
our books; the elders were our libraries. The wisdom of
the elderly people was beyond limits. Older people in
the community were the greatest teachers the children
could ever have.”

In 1964, four, then renowned high schools in Kenya,
organized a geographical study of Mount Kenya for their
Advanced Level students. The study was to take the
form of a mountain climbing expedition. Two of these
students were to make history by becoming the very first
Kenyan females to make the trip. This book is set against
a backdrop of Kenya’s independence, allowing the reader
to glean insights on the social, religious and political views
of a country in transition.

Contacts for purchase:
+254 728 667 553

A People Called The AGIKUYU:
Yesterday and Today and Tomorrow?
By Paul Ngige Njoroge

“This is a dramatic illustration of the aggressive intentions
of the West in Africa today in the 21st century, supposedly
an enlightened age – and not in 1875 at the dawn of the
colonial partition of Africa. The name of the game for the
white man in 2011 as in 1885 is world domination and
brutal establishment of control over weaker peoples.”

This book explores the origins, growth, challenges and
influence of the people who occupied “the land between
the four mountains”. The author takes the reader on a
journey from millennia before Christ, to the present day,
exploring social, economic, political issues surrounding
the Agikuyu community. He examines and shares
perspectives from colonialism, to liberation struggles
and the post-colonial narrative in Afrika, looks at ethnic
cleansing and neocolonialism. One simply cannot ignore
the Agikuyu, their place in history or their influence on
modern Africa. A worthwhile read indeed and excellent
addition to an academic study on Afrika.
Contacts for purchase:
+254 722 881 391