Full name: It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower

Author: Michela Wrong Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Biographies Culture: Africa Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780061346583 9780061346590 0061346586 0061346594

"A fast-paced political thriller.... Wrong's gripping, thoughtful book stands as both a tribute to Githongo's courage and a cautionary tale." - New York Times Book Review "On one level, It's Our Turn to Eat reads like a John Le Carré novel.... On a deeper and much richer level, the book is an analysis of how and why Kenya descended into political violence." - Washington Post Called "urgent and important" by Harper's magazine, It's Our Turn to Eat is a nonfiction political thriller of modern Kenya-an eye-opening account of tribal rivalries, pervasive graft, and the rising anger of a prospect-less youth that exemplifies an African dilemma. Similar books: In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz by Michela Wrong Africa Unchained by George B. N. Ayittey The Looting Machine by Tom Burgis Histories of the Hanged by David Anderson The Graves Are Not Yet Full by Bill Berkeley Precolonial Black Africa by Cheikh Anta Diop Playing the Enemy by John Carlin Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston The Obamas by Peter Firstbrook A Continent for the Taking by Howard W. French City of Thorns by Ben Rawlence The Shackled Continent by Robert Guest States and Power in Africa by Jeffrey Herbst Africa by Richard Dowden Dreams in a Time of War by Ngugi wa'Thiong'o I Didn't Do It for You by Michela Wrong Reunion in Barsaloi by Corinne Hofmann African Nights by Kuki Gallmann The Africans by David Lamb The Wright Brothers by David McCullough