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London Review of Books Christmas Books

Scram from Africa

John Reader

  • The Politics of the Independence of Kenya by Keith Kyle

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John Reader was a photo-journalist based in Nairobi from 1969 to 1979. Africa: A Biography of the Continent is out from Penguin.

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