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  • NarrativeThe Masai: Their Language and FolkloreAlfred Claud Hollis · 1905White settlers begin to settle in the Rift Valley and on the highlands where the Maasai lived.Literature
  • EssayFacing Mount KenyaJomo Kenyatta · 1938The portrait of the Kikuyu people by one of their own, the future head of the Kenyan state.Literature
  • NovelWeep Not, ChildNgũgĩ wa Thiong'o · 1964Kenya has been independent for a few months when this novel appears, about the years of the Mau Mau revolt.Literature
  • Short storiesLand Without ThunderGrace Ogot · 1968Five years after independence, a former nurse publishes stories drawn from the oral traditions of her people.Literature
  • NovelThe Trial of Christopher OkigboAli Mazrui · 1971The only novel of a great Kenyan political scientist, an imaginary trial of a Nigerian poet in the hereafter.Literature
  • NovelSon of WomanCharles Mangua · 1971The novel that launched Kenya's popular literature, the confession of a child of the Nairobi slums.Literature
  • NovelKill Me QuickMeja Mwangi · 1973Ten years after independence, young graduates flock to the capital and discover that school no longer guarantees them anything.Literature
  • PoetryVoice of AgonySauti ya DhikiAbdilatif Abdalla · 1973The poems written in detention by a Swahili poet of Mombasa, author of a pamphlet against the government.Literature
  • NovelRipples in the PoolRebeka Njau · 1975A pioneering Kenyan novel, in which a Nairobi woman back in the village falls in love with another woman.Literature
  • TheatreBetrayal in the CityFrancis Imbuga · 1976A decade after independence, a young Kenyan playwright sets a satire of dictatorship in an invented country.Literature
  • PoetryDaughter of My People, Sing!Micere Githae Mugo · 1976Back from Canada to teach in Nairobi, a young Kenyan academic publishes her first poems in the same year as a play co-written on the revolt of the fifties.Literature
  • CinemaRise and Fall of Idi AminSharad Patel · 1981The Ugandan dictator had lost power less than a year before filming, which takes place mostly in Kenya.Cinema
  • NovelMafutaKatama Mkangi · 1984not translated into EnglishUnder a regime that distrusts academics, a sociologist writes an allegory of social classes in Swahili.Literature
  • NovelComing to BirthMarjorie Oludhe Macgoye · 1986A former English missionary bookseller, who became Kenyan and Luo by marriage, tells twenty years of the country's history through one woman.Literature
  • CinemaKolormaskSao Gamba · 1986Kenyan cinema then has only a handful of local productions, and the State finances a film made by Kenyans.Cinema
  • CinemaSaïkatiAnne Mungai · 1992Since the mid-eighties, Kenyan women directors coming from documentary have begun to make fiction films.Cinema
  • NovelThe River and the SourceMargaret Ogola · 1994A Luo family saga in which women cross a century of Kenyan history, from the chieftaincies to independence.Literature
  • CinemaBattle of the Sacred TreeWanjiru Kinyanjui · 1995A Kenyan woman trained at a film school in Berlin shoots her graduation film in a village in her country, with Kenyan performers.Cinema
  • NovelA Good DaySiku NjemaKen Walibora · 1996A coming-of-age novel in Swahili, between Tanzania and Kenya, long studied in Kenyan secondary schools.Literature