
A 50th-anniversary edition of one of the most powerful novels by the great Kenyan author and Nobel Prize nominee A legendary work of African literature, this moving and eye-opening novel lucidly captures the drama of a people and culture whose world has been overturned. The River...

Christian missionaries attempt to outlaw the female circumcision ritual and in the process create a terrible rift between the two Kikuyu communities on either side of the river.
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"The River Between is ...a sensitive novel about the Kikuyu in the melting-pot that sometimes touches on the grandeur of tap-root simplicity. Waiyaki, valuing the old folk-strength and the new missionary teaching, is condemned by both factions for his traffic with the other,...


Explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement. Faced with an alluring, new religion and magical customs, the Gikuyu people are torn between those who fear the unknown and those who see beyond it.

