Books in English on Kenya and Tanzania
- Anderson, David. Eroding the commons : the politics of ecology in Baringo, Kenya, 1890s-1963. Athens : Ohio University Press, 2002. (336 p.)
- Being Maasai : ethnicity & identity in East Africa. Edited by Thomas Spear & Richard Waller. London : James Currey ; Athens : Ohio University Press ; Dar Es Salaam : Mkuki na Nyota ; Nairobi : East African Educational Publishers, 1993. (322 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Bender, Matthew V. Water brings no harm : management knowledge and the struggle for the waters of Kilimanjaro. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2019] (336 p.)
- Berman, Bruce and John Lonsdale. Unhappy valley : conflict in Kenya & Africa. 2 vols. London : J. Currey ; Nairobi : Heinemann Kenya ; Athens : Ohio University Press, 1992.
--See also: EBSCO e-book ; ACLS e-book
- Brennan, James R., Taifa : making nation and race in urban Tanzania. Athens : Ohio University Press, c2012. (292 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Cheche : reminiscences of a radical magazine. Edited by Karim F. Hirji. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Mkuki na Nyota, c2010.
--See also: E-book
- Chesaina, Ciarunji. Oral literature of the Embu and Mbeere. Nairobi : East African Educational Publishers, 1997. (211 p.)
- Clack, Timothy. Memory and the mountain : environmental relations of the Wachagga of Kilimanjaro and implications for landscape archaeology. Oxford, England : Archaeopress, 2007. (108 p.)
- Cohen, David William and E. S. Atieno-Odhiambo. Burying SM : the politics of knowledge and the sociology of power in Africa. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann ; London : Currey, 1992. (159 p.)
- Cohen, David William and E.S. Atieno-Odhiambo. Siaya, the historical anthropology of an African landscape. London : J. Currey ; Athens : Ohio University Press, 1989. (152 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Custodians of the land : ecology & culture in the history of Tanzania. Edited by Gregory Maddox, James L. Giblin & Isaria N. Kimambo. Athens : Ohio University Press, 1996. (271 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Dedan Kimathi on trial : colonial justice and popular memory in Kenya's Mau Mau rebellion. Edited by Julie MacArthur. Athens : Ohio University Press, [2017] (406 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Durrani, Nazmi. Liberating minds, restoring Kenyan history : anti-imperialist resistance by progressive South Asian Kenyans, 1884-1965. Nairobi : Vita Books, 2017. (202 p.)
- Durrani, Shiraz. Kenya's war of independence : Mau Mau and its legacy of resistance of colonialism and imperialism, 1948-1990. Nairobi, Kenya : Vita Books, [2018] (449 p.)
- East African archaeology : foragers, potters, smiths, and traders. Edited by Chapurukha M. Kusimba and Sibel B. Kusimba. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, c2003. (226 p.)
- Ehret, Christopher. An African classical age : eastern and southern Africa in world history, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1998. (354 p.)
- Fadiman, Jeffrey. When we began there were witchmen : an oral history from Mount Kenya. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1993. (395 p.)
- Fair, Laura. Reel pleasures : cinema audiences and entrepreneurs in twentieth-century urban Tanzania. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2018. (452 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Geiger, Susan. TANU women : gender and culture in the making of Tanganyikan nationalism, 1955-1965. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann ; Oxford : James Currey ; Nairobi : E.A.E.P. ; Dar es Salaam : Mkuki Na Nyota, c1997. (217 p.)
- Hodgson, Dorothy Louise. Being Maasai, becoming indigenous : postcolonial politics in a neoliberal world. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011. (265 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Hodgson, Dorothy Louise. Once intrepid warriors : gender, ethnicity, and the cultural politics of Maasai development. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2001. (333 p.)
- Hunter, Emma. Political thought and the public sphere in Tanzania : freedom, democracy and citizenship in the era of decolonization. New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015. (259 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Iliffe, John. A modern history of Tanganyika. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1979. (616 p.)
- Kanogo, Tabitha M. African womanhood in colonial Kenya 1900-50. Oxford, UK : James Currey ; Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2005. (268 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Kimambo, Isaria N. Penetration & protest in Tanzania : the impact of the world economy on the Pare, 1860-1960. London : J. Currey ; Dar es Salaam : Tanzania Pub. House ; Nairobi : Heinemann Kenya ; Athens : Ohio University Press, 1991. (188 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Kimambo, Isaria N., Gregory H. Maddox, and Salvatory S. Nyanto. A new history of Tanzania. Dar es Salaam : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers Ltd., 2017. (223 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Kjekshus, Helge. Ecology control & economic development in East African history : the case of Tanganyika 1850-1950. E-book. Athens : Ohio University Press, c1996. (222 p.)
- Koponen, Juhani. Development for exploitation : German colonial policies in Mainland Tanzania, 1884-1914. Helsinki : Distributor, Tiedekirja ; Hamburg : Distributor, Lit Verlag (Münster), c1994.
- Koponen, Juhani. People and production in late precolonial Tanzania : history and structures. [Helsinki] : Finnish Society for Development Studies : Finnish Anthropological Society : Finnish Historical Society in cooperation with Scandinavian Institute of African Studies ; [Uppsala, Sweden] : [Distributor outside Finland, Scandinavian Institute of African Studies], c1988.
- Maina wa Kĩnyattĩ. Agĩkũyũ, 1890-1965 : Waiyaki, Kenyatta, Kĩmaathi. Nairobi, Kenya : Mau Mau Research Center, c2010. (271 p.)
- Maji Maji : lifting the fog of war. Edited by James Giblin and Jamie Monson. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010. (325 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Maloba, Wunyabari O. Kenyatta and Britain : an account of political transformation, 1929-1963. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018] (295 p.)
- Maloba, Wunyabari O. Mau Mau and Kenya : an analysis of a peasant revolt. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1993. (228 p.)
- Marsh, Zoë. East Africa through contemporary records. Cambridge [England] : University Press, 1961. (214 p.)
- Mbiti, John S. African religions & philosophy. 2nd & rev. ed. Oxford ; Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann, 1990. (288 p.)
- Miruka, Simon Okumba. Oral literature of the Luo. Nairobi : East African Educational Publishers, 2001. (200 p.)
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo. Dreams in a time of war : a childhood memoir. New York : Pantheon Books, c2010. (256 p.)
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo. In the house of the interpreter : a memoir. New York : Pantheon Books, c2012. (240 p.)
- Nyerere, Julius K. Freedom and unity: Uhuru na umoja ; a selection from writings and speeches, 1952-65. London ; Nairobi [etc.] : Oxford U.P., 1967. (366 p.)
- Nyerere, Julius K. Nyerere on education : selected essays and speeches, 1954-1998 = Nyerere kuhusu elimu. Edited by Elieshi Lema, Marjorie Mbilinyi, Rakesh Rajani. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : HakiElimu : E&D Ltd. : Mwalimu Nyerere Foundation, c2004. (164 p.)
- Ogot, Bethwell A. The challenges of history and leadership in Africa : the essays of Bethwell Allan Ogot. Edited by Toyin Falola and Atieno Odhiambo. Trenton NJ : Africa World Press, c2002. (684 p.)
- Ogot, Bethwell A. History of Kisumu City : 1901-2001. Kisumu, Kenya : Anyange Press Ltd., [2016] (178 p.)
- Ogot, Bethwell A. A history of the Luo-speaking peoples of eastern Africa. Kisumu, Kenya : Anyange Press, c2009. (912 p.)
- Osborne, Myles. Ethnicity and empire in Kenya : loyalty and martial race among the Kamba, c. 1800 to the present. New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014. (276 p.)
- The Palgrave handbook of Kenyan history. Edited by Wanjala S. Nasong'o, Maurice N. Amutabi, and Toyin Falola. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023] (265 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Peterson, Derek R. Creative writing : translation, bookkeeping, and the work of imagination in colonial Kenya. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c2004. (289 p.)
- Peterson, Derek R. Ethnic patriotism and the East African Revival : a history of dissent, c. 1935-1972. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012. (344 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Revealing prophets : prophecy in Eastern African history. Edited by David M. Anderson & Douglas H. Johnson. London : James Curry ; Athens : Ohio University Press, 1995. (310 p.)
- Robertshaw, Peter. Early pastoralists of south-western Kenya. Nairobi : British Institute in Eastern Africa, 1990. (318 p.)
- Rockel, Stephen J. Carriers of culture : labor on the road in nineteenth-century East Africa. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c2006. (345 p.)
- Salvadori, Cynthia. Through open doors : a view of Asian cultures in Kenya. Rev. ed. Nairobi, Kenya : Kenway Publications, 1989. (388 p.)
--See also: 1st ed.
- Schmidt, Peter R. Historical archaeology in Africa : representation, social memory, and oral traditions. Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, [2006] (316 p.)
- Schmidt, Peter R. Iron technology in East Africa : symbolism, science, and archaeology. Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c1997. (328 p.)
- Shanguhyia, Martin S. Population, tradition, and environmental control in colonial Kenya. Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2015. (323 p.)
- Shivji, Issa G., Saida Yahya-Othman, and Ng'wanza Kamat. Development as rebellion : a biography of Julius Nyerere. 3 vols. Dar es Salaam : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, [2020]
- Spear, Thomas T. Mountain farmers : moral economies of land & agricultural development in Arusha & Meru. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Mkuki na Nyota ; Berkeley : University of California Press ; Oxford : James Currey, 1997 (262 p.).
- Sutton, John Edward Giles. A thousand years of East Africa. Nairobi : British Institute in Eastern Africa ; London : International distributor, Thames and Hudson, c1990. (111 p.)
- Tanzania : the story of Julius Nyerere through the pages of Drum. With the assistance of Mohamed Amin [and others] ; edited by Annie Smyth and Adam Seftel. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers : Kampala, Uganda : Fountain Publishers, c1998. (299 p.)
- The urban experience in eastern Africa, c. 1750-2000. Edited by Andrew Burton. Nairobi, Kenya : British Institute in Eastern Africa, c2002. (264 p.)
- Weiss, Brad. The making and unmaking of the Haya lived world : consumption, commoditization, and everyday practice. Durham : Duke University Press, c1996. (250 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Weitzberg, Keren. We do not have borders : greater Somalia and the predicaments of belonging in Kenya. Athens : Ohio University Press, [2017] (274 p.)
- Were, Gideon S. Western Kenya historical texts : Abaluyia, Teso, and Elgon Kalenjin. Nairobi : East African Literature Bureau, [1967] (196 p.)
- White, Luise. The comforts of home : prostitution in colonial Nairobi. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1990. (285 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Wright, Marcia. Strategies of slaves & women : life-stories from East/Central Africa. New York : L. Barber Press ; London : J. Currey, 1993. (238 p.)
Books in English on the Great Lakes Region: Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda
- Atkinson, Ronald Raymond. The roots of ethnicity : the origins of the Acholi of Uganda before 1800. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1994. (320 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Ayot, Henry Okello. Historical texts of the Lake region of East Africa. Nairobi : Kenya Literature Bureau, 1977. (320 p.)
- Chrétien, Jean-Pierre. The great lakes of Africa : two thousand years of history. New York : Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass : Distributed by MIT Press, 2003. (503 p.)
- Cohen, David William. Womunafu's Bunafu : a study of authority in a nineteenth-century African community. Princeton : Princeton University Press, c1977. (216 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Connah, Graham. Kibiro : the salt of Bunyoro, past and present. London : The British Institute in Eastern Africa, 1996. (224 p.)
- Des Forges, Alison Liebhafsky. Defeat is the only bad news : Rwanda under Musinga, 1896 -1931. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2011. (306 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Doornbos, Martin. The Ankole kingship controversy : Regalia galore revisited. Rev. ed. Kampala, Uganda : Fountain Publishers, 2001. (141 p.)
- Earle, Jonathon L. Colonial Buganda and the end of empire : political thought and historical imagination in Africa. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017. (271 p.)
--See also: E-book
- The East African revival : histories and legacies. Edited by Kevin Ward, Emma Wild-Wood. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., c2012.
--See also: E-book
- Fabian, Johannes. Language and colonial power : the appropriation of Swahili in the former Belgian Congo, 1880-1938. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986.
(206 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Hanson, Holly Elisabeth. Landed obligation : the practice of power in Buganda. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c2003. (264 p.)
- Kagwa, Apolo. The kings of Buganda. Translated and edited by M. S. M. Kiwanuka. Nairobi : East African Pub. House, [1971] (256 p.)
- Karugire, Samwiri Rubaraza. A history of the kingdom of Nkore in Western Uganda to 1896. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1971. (291 p.)
--See also: 2007 reprint
- Kiwanuka, M. S. M. A history of Buganda from the foundation of the kingdom to 1900. New York : Africana Pub. Corp., [1972] (322 p.)
--See also: Burke copy
- Klieman, Kairn A. "The Pygmies were our compass" : Bantu and Batwa in the history of west central Africa, early times to c. 1900 C.E. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c2003. (253 p.)
- Kizza, Immaculate N. The oral tradition of the Baganda of Uganda : a study and anthology of legends, myths, epigrams and folktales. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2010. (208 p.)
- Kodesh, Neil. Beyond the royal gaze : clanship and public healing in Buganda. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, c2010. (264 p.)
- Lemarchand, René. Burundi : ethnocide as discourse and practice. [Washington, D.C.] : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, c1994. (206 p.)
- Lemarchand, René. Rwanda and Burundi. E-book. New York, Praeger Publishers, 1970. --via University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries (Gainesville, Florida).
- Longman, Timothy Paul. Memory and justice in post-genocide Rwanda. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
--See also: E-book
- Low, D. A. The mind of Buganda ; documents of the modern history of an African kingdom. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1971. (234 p.)
- Mamdani, Mahmood. When victims become killers : colonialism, nativism, and the genocide in Rwanda. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2001. (364 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Mukasonga, Scholastique. Cockroaches. Translated from the French by Jordan Stump. Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, 2016. (165 p.)
- Newbury, Catharine. The cohesion of oppression : clientship and ethnicity in Rwanda, 1860-1960. New York : Columbia University Press, c1988. (322 p.)
- Newbury, David S. The land beyond the mists : essays on identity and authority in precolonial Congo and Rwanda. Athens : Ohio University Press, c2009. (444 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Palmer, Jack Dominic. Entanglements of modernity, colonialism and genocide : Burundi and Rwanda in historical-sociological perspective. London : Routledge, 2018. (213 p.)
--See also: E-book
- p'Bitek, Okot. Lawino's people : the Acholi of Uganda. Zürich : Lit Verlag, [2019] (625 p.)
[Reprints of: Frank Knowles Girling’s The Acholi of Uganda ; Okot p’Bitek’s The Religion of the Central Lwo, African Religions in Western Scholarship, and Acholi Love.]
- Prunier, Gérard. Africa's world war : Congo, the Rwandan genocide, and the making of a continental catastrophe. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. (529 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Prunier, Gérard. The Rwanda crisis : history of a genocide. New York : Columbia University Press, c1997. (424 p.)
- Reid, Richard J. Political power in pre-colonial Buganda : economy, society & warfare in the nineteenth century. Oxford : James Currey ; Kampala : Fountain Publishers ; Athens : Ohio University Press, 2002. (274 p.)
- Schoenbrun, David Lee. A green place, a good place : agrarian change, gender, and social identity in the Great Lakes region to the 15th century. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann ; Oxford : James Currey, 1998. (301 p.)
- Schoenbrun, David Lee. The names of the python : belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930. Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2021] (339 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa. Edited by Henri Médard & Shane Doyle. Oxford : James Currey ; Kampala [Uganda] : Fountain Publishers ; Nairobi [Kenya] : EAEP ; Athens : Ohio University Press, 2007. (273 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Stephens, Rhiannon. A history of African motherhood : the case of Uganda, 700-1900. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013. (223 p.)
- Stephens, Rhiannon. Poverty and wealth in East Africa : a conceptual history. Durham : Duke University Press, 2022. (295 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Stroeken, Koen. Medicinal rule : a historical anthropology of kingship in east and central Africa. New York : Berghahn Books, 2018. (316 p.)
- We cannot forget : interviews with survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Edited by Samuel Totten and Rafiki Ubaldo. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011. (207 p.)
--See also: E-book