This week we welcome Valerie Keter from Nairobi, Kenya. Valerie is a cultural storyteller and filmmaker from Nairobi, Kenya. Her online platform offers a space for curiosity, reflection and cultural exchange, and she makes insightful content that informs her audience about topics grounded in African history, language and neocolonial political issues.
Valerie curates a welcoming online community and encourages critical thought and reading through discussions, themed reading projects and multi-part educational series that focus on a particular topic. For us, she has compiled a list of three book recommendations to get you started on African history.
Here are her 3 must-read African historical books:
- An African History of Africa by Zeinab Badawi
- The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
- A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
