Bibliography of White Literature in of the 20th Century

HIS COMPILATION aims at providing an introductory list of materials likely to be of use to scholars researching the white community of T Kenya in the twentieth century, and in particular that community’s lite- rary production. There is a host of peripheral material that, because of its non- literary nature, has barely been touched on here. An example would be the ubi- quitous Kenya Settlers’ Cookery Book and Household Guide, first published in 1929, and variously published in in succeeding years. There was a con- siderable mass of publication on agricultural topics. The Women’s League was (and still is) a very active group which produced various projects, the most striking being They Made It Their Home (1962), an illustrated book about the branches of the League; the illustrations are some fifty “Kenya Em- broideries” which, with their accompanying essays, were intended to show “as many facets as possible of life during the years of European settlement in Kenya, with glimpses of the human hopes and struggles which were an inevitable part of building a civilization in a new and savage country.”1 Various guidebooks to natural history were produced, especially by Hugh Copley, who served as Fish Warden. The East Africa Study Circle based in Cornwall has been issuing texts on the philately of the period. There was a contemporaneous Asian literature, culminating in Ambu H. Patel’s ‘Release Jomo’ pamphlets and book. Newspaper archives now on microfilm provide even more texture to those recovering the settler experience. Some of the works listed are not just about Kenya; for ex- ample, in John Blower’s Banagi Hill only one chapter is on his time in Kenya, but it is significant for what it has to say about Mau Mau in the Aberdare Forest. Gerard Wallop (the Earl of Portsmouth) did not arrive in Kenya until 1948, and only the last six chapters of his autobiography are about East Africa. Many of the sporting books travel easily across borders or even continents; I

1 East Africa Women’s League, They Made It Their Home (Nairobi: Printing and Packaging Cor- poration, 1969). Elspeth Huxley wrote the introduction for this book. 134 WHITE SPACES Ꭻ have limited their mention here to those chiefly about Kenya. There is no real book, by Percy Phillips, titled “Monsoon Clouds over Africa,” mentioned in Wil- bur Smith’s Assegai; the reference seems to be Smith’s tip of the hat to Philip Percival, the renowned white hunter. A line had to be drawn somewhere, so later works that do not directly ad- dress the colonial issues are not included; the writings of Marjorie Oludhe Mac- goye, Stephen Partington, and Valerie Cuthbert can easily be found elsewhere; they show that white literature could grow beyond the colonial limitations. ‘RH’ refers to the Rhodes House collections in Oxford. Films and TV series are listed separately. Cross-reference reminders on adap- tations follow book titles. Almost all of these works are in English, and the few that are not can be iden- tified by their titles. Only Dulyn Wyn Roberts’ account of working for the rail- ways in Kenya in the 1950s is likely to be a surprise, as it is written in Welsh.

Books, Articles, Dissertations, and MSS Aaronovitch, Sam, & K. Aaronovitch. Kenya Controversy (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1947). Abuoga, John Baptist, & Absalom Aggrey Mutere. The History of the Press in Kenya (Nairobi: African Council on Communication Education, 1988). Abuor, C. Ojwando. White Highlands No More (Nairobi: Pan African Researchers, 1973). Adamson, George. Bwana (London: Collins Harvill Press, 1968). Adamson, George. My Pride and Joy (London: Harvill Press, 1986). Adamson, Joy. Born Free (London: Collins Harvill Press, 1960). See also: James Hill, dir. Adamson, Joy. Forever Free (London: Collins Harvill Press, 1970). Adamson, Joy. Living Free (London: Collins, 1961). Adamson, Joy. The Peoples of Kenya (New York: Harcourt, Brace, & World, 1967). Adamson, Joy. The Searching Spirit: An Autobiography (London: Collins Harvill Press, 1968). Ahlefeldt–Laurig–Bille, Gregers (Count). Impala (Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1937). Ahlefeldt–Laurig–Bille, Gregers (Count). Tandalla (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1951). Ainsworth, John. “Autobiography,” RH Mss Afr. S. 380, p.85. Aiyar, Sana. Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora (Cambridge MA: Harvard UP, 2015). Akeley, Carl E. In Brightest Africa (Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page, 1924). Akeley, Carl E., & Mary L. Jobe Akeley. Adventures in the African Jungle (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1930). Akeley, Carl E., & Mary L. Jobe Akeley. , Gorillas, and their Neighbors (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1932). Akeley, Delia J. Jungle Portraits (New York: Macmillan, 1930).