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Kenya

by Karen Jacobsen
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Introduces Kenya, home to more than forty African tribes as well as people from Asia and Europe.

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School Library Journal

Gr 3-6-- This attractive book is filled with well-produced full-color photographs. However, while the large print and short sentences make it appear to be accessible to young readers, conceptual fragmentation makes the book difficult. There are simply too many ideas and terms inadequately developed. The treatment of some subjects is misleading, if not inaccurate. A significant amount of space is devoted to describing different ``tribes,'' without providing any definition of this apparently key concept, even in the glossary. (And how is it that there are 70 different languages in Kenya but only 40 tribes?) Moreover, the interaction of ethnic groups is described in terms of rivalry and conflict only, ignoring patterns of cooperation and co-existence. The historical material emphasizes European explorers but neglects to point out that humankind seems to have emerged in this part of Africa. The treatment of Mau Mau is seriously misleading. A better choice is Keith Lye's Take a Trip to Kenya (Watts, 1985). For older readers, MichaelMaren's The Land and People of Ke nya (HarperCollins, 1989) is outstanding.-- Loretta Kreider Andrews, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MD

Book Details

Published
May 1, 1991
Publisher
Scholastic Library Publishing
Pages
48
Format
Binding
ISBN
9780516011127

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