Summary: A homeless orphan in Kenya becomes a lucrative businessman, only to give it all up and open an orphanage that today serves over 2,000 Kenyan children.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Brainstorm Media 2017

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Obama, George Hussein.

Summary: This is a memoir of George Obama, President Obama's Kenyan half brother, who found the inspiration to strive for his goal--to better the lives of his own people--in his elder brother's example.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010

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Kainen, Dan.

Summary: A magical journey where readers encounter eight animals that come alive. Using an innovative lenticular-based technology, precision sliding lenses, and original four-color video imagery, each image is like a 3-D movie on the page, delivering a rich and fluid visual experience.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2012

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Suthar, Nihar

Summary: "The Hope Raisers is a deeply emotional narrative that follows Daniel, Mutura, and Lucy as they fight to transform their slum through art and skating. It inspires and educates readers on African culture, female empowerment, and creating sustainable change in developing countries"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2022

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Winter, Jeanette

Summary: This true story of Wangari Maathai, environmentalist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is a shining example of how one woman's passion, vision, and determination inspired great change.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Company 2018

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Odede, Kennedy

Summary: An American volunteer and a former African street youth recount their romantic relationship, his pursuit of a college education, and their founding of the first tuition-free school for underprivileged girls in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

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Leng'ete, Nice

Summary: "Nice's journey from "heartbroken child and community outcast, to leader of the Maasai" is an inspiration and a reminder that one person can change the world--and every girl is worth saving"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021

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Goffard, Christopher.

Contents: The house at the edge of the dark -- The lawyer -- The collar and the gun -- Oaths -- The dictator -- The clashes -- The terrible place -- The raid -- Lolgorien -- The tribunal -- The girls -- We will all be sorted out -- The bureau -- Manic depression -- The verdict -- The end of the time of Moi -- The inquest -- The labyrinth with no center.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Co. 2012

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Nivola, Claire A.

Summary: "This is the story of Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement"--Dust jacket.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2008

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Maathai, Wangari.

Summary: Maathai, the winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and a single mother of three, recounts her life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya. Born in a rural village in 1940, she was already an iconoclast as a child, determined to get an education even though most girls were uneducated. We see her become the first woman both in East and Central Africa to earn a PhD and to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2006

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Reynolds, Jan

Summary: "A photographic essay about the Maasai people in Kenya, traditionally nomadic herders, exploring the contemporary challenges they face--focusing on environmental changes such as the overgrazing of land and the threat of wildlife extinction--and how the Maasai are adapting their agricultural practices and lifestyle while preserving their culture"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books 2011

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Dinesen, Isak

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1985

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Kasbe, Jon

Summary: Examines the practice of ivory poaching as it exists in Kenya from the perspective of small-time poachers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2020

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Finn, Adharanand.

Summary: Whether running is a recreation, a passion, or just a spectator sport, Finn's incredible journey to the elite training camps of Kenya will captivate. Part travelogue, part memoir, this quest uncovers the secrets of the world's greatest runners--and puts them to the test.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2012

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McCormick, Ty

Summary: "From Ty McCormick, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, an epic and timeless story of a family in search of safety, security, and a place to call home. When Asad Hussein was growing up in the world's largest refugee camp, nearly every aspectof life revolved around getting to America-a distant land where anything was possible. Thousands of displaced families like his were whisked...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021

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Ridgeway, Rick.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1999

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Diaz-Ortiz, Claire

Summary: Recounts the experiences of an American woman whose encounter with a boy in a Kenyan orphanage led her to stay in the country for a year, and profoundly alter the boy's future.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Pub Group 2014

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Summary: In arid regions across southern Kenya, the waterhole, created by elephants and termites, is central to everyone's life. It is where animals visit to drink, and where some creatures are born and die. Every visit is charged with tension, for a waterhole is the perfect place for predators to wait in ambush.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Hatkoff, Isabella.

Summary: Details through text and photographs the special bond shared by Owen, an orphaned hippo, and Mzee, a 130-year-old giant tortoise.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2006

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