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“It was written relatively soon after the Mau Mau uprising. Petals of Blood is his best book…it’s a world-class novel by any standards. It’s sort of prescient. Like any great novel it opens the heart of the issue. It’s basically about the Mau Mau, and about the various infighting and how the Mau Mau became, from his perspective, a gang war in some ways…But it’s not a morality tale – it’s a jolly good story.” Read more...
The best books on Colonial Africa
Sam Kiley, Journalist
