Addario, Lynsey. It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War. New York, NY: Penguin Press, 2015.
War photographer Lynsey Addario’s memoir is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life.

Eldon,Kathy. In the Heart of Life: A Memoir. New York, New York: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2013.
In 1977, Kathy Eldon moved with her husband and two children from England to Kenya, where she found freedom as she had never known it before and was ready to push back from her old, restrictive life into this tumultuous new world as a journalist and writer, she embraced the energy and creativity of Kenyans, both black and white. But her world collapsed when her twenty-two-year-old son, Dan—an artist and photojournalist on assignment for Reuters—was stoned to death by an angry mob in Somalia, killed by the very people he was trying to help. Kathy's journey through this tragic loss was deeply spiritual as she discovered that, in many ways, Dan was still ever-present in her life.
This gripping international saga includes a passionate love, a dangerous coup in Kenya, and a compelling glimpse into a woman on the brink of self-discovery. After her son's murder, Kathy began to publish his art, which gained popularity worldwide and—together with her daughter, Amy—launched a global foundation celebrating Dan's work as a creative activist. Throughout Kathy's exploration of profound tragedy, we find the secrets to not only surviving, but being truly, gloriously alive.

Elkins, Caroline. Imperial Reckoning; The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya. New York, New York, Holt Paperbacks, 2005.
As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenya’s largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu - some one and a half million people. In Imperial Reckoning Elkins provides an account of the unraveling of the British colonial life.

Hilsum, Lindsey. Colvin, Marie. In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
When Marie Colvin was killed in an artillery attack in Homs, Syria, in 2012, at age fifty-six, the world lost a fearless and iconoclastic war correspondent who covered the most significant global calamities of her lifetime. In Extremis, written by her fellow reporter Lindsey Hilsum, is an investigation into Colvin’s epic life and tragic death.

MacArthur, Julie (Editor). Dedan Kimathi on Trial: Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion. Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Press, 2017.Dedan Kimathi on Trial unearths a piece of the colonial archive long thought lost, hidden, or destroyed Its discovery and landmark publication unsettles an already contentious history and prompts fresh examinations to its reverberations in the present. This critical edition also includes provocative contributions from leading Mau Mau scholars reflecting on the meaning of the documents offered here and the figure of Kimathi in a much wider field of historical and contemporary concerns These include the nature of colonial justice, the moral arguments over rebellion, nationalism, the end of empire, and the complexities of memory and memorialization in contemporary Kenya.

Wainaina, Binyavanga. One Day I Will Write About This Place. New York, NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2012.
In this compelling memoir, Binyavanga Wainaina tumbles through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him. Named a 2011 New York Times notable book, Wainaina evokes family, tribe, and nationhood in joyous language.

Maathai, Wangari. Unbowed: A Memoir. New York, New York, Anchor; Reprint edition, 2007.
In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage, When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people’s environmental movement, focused on the empowerment of women, that soon spread across Africa. Persevering through run-ins with the Kenyan government and personal losses, and jailed and beaten on numerous occasions, Maathai continued to fight tirelessly to save Kenya’s forests and to restore democracy to her beloved country. .

Wrong, Micheala. It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower. New York, New York, Harper Perennial; Illustrated edition, 2010.
In January 2003, Kenya was hailed as a model of democracy after the peaceful election of its new president, Mwai Kibaki. By appointing respected longtime reformer John Githongo as anti corruption czar, the new Kikuyu government signaled its determination to end the corrupt practices that had tainted the previous regime. Only two years later, Githongo himself was on the run, having secretly compiled evidence of official malfeasance throughout the new administration. Unable to remain silent, Githongo, at great personal risk, made the painful choice to go public. The result was a Kenyan Watergate.