Ngugi wa Thiong’o, one of Kenya's most famous writers, has been recommended several times on Five Books, Petals of Blood being highly recommended.

For  a Kenyan politics book,  Regime Threats and State Solutions  by Mai Hassan, "a really terrific study of the development of the Kenyan bureaucracy. It reflects the challenges that are brought out in the other books, which is how, in a very ethnically divided society—and Kenya is fantastically diverse with many languages and ethnic groups—do you manage the country’s ethnic elites, who are competing for resources and power, and yet keep things running?" Say Eval Lieberman in his recommendations for the best books on African politics.