It gives one a good understanding of an African culture.
It is difficult to read. It is almost an ethnologic description.
This is a classic read in anthropology.
This is an autobiography of Jomo Kenyatta the first President of Kenya. It was Jomo Kenyatta who fired Barack Obama Sr from Government - leaving Barack Obama in poverty and ending up as a drunkard and eventually dying as a cripple.
A good story by a good writer, picked this up along with Tagore, and some other non-American writers. Often language influences thought and it is apparent when you read a story written by a person with a different mother tongue.
Authentic, surprisingly objective and well written in English by a first generation college educated Kenyan. It's no surprise that he went on to become Kenya's first president following the end of colonial rule.
This book should be required reading for every citizen of the 21st century.It was written by a young man in 1937 describing and celebrating an advanced culture to a world that could not then and cannot now see beyond its own xenophobic narcissism.
An inside look at African value system.
I have read a lot even encyclopedea I have to drop this book may be I will pick it up when I have no book to read again may be it will be more interesting as I continue then I will review this review again.
This book gives a detailed look at how kenyans in general and the kikuyu in particular lived before the coming of the white man. The disruption of this way of life by the British.
This book is one of a kind capturing and documenting traditions fast disappearing.[[ASIN:0394702107 Facing Mount Kenya]].
Very informative...Loved it!!
A good sample of a typical african traditional government. A historical account of the Agikuyu.
I got interested in learning more about my culture after listening to incredible stories from the past from a 70 year old Kikuyu woman. I bought the book and it was an intense understanding of my own culture.
I was looking for something light and I thought this could be some interesting non fiction book. I was expecting the book to be about the Kenyan struggle for independence since the book was written by Kenya's founding president.
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