The English bard wondered what is in a name?
Others wonder what is in a list?
You make a list, but your neighbour would make a completely different list. So what is the function of a list? Is it just to comfort your ego and exhibit your peculiarities? I do not know.
What I do know is that on a website about Kenyan books, the writer of a blog announced his top ten Kenyan books of all times.
Just agree or disagree!
You wonder what a Kenyan book is?
Written by an author with the Kenyan nationality?
Published by a Kenyan publishing house?
A book written about Kenya?
books touched by Africa 
Our bookstores stock mostly American & British books with a sprinkling of local authors, but we seldom get books from other African countries. South Africa has a very small book-buying public. Our population is approx 49 million and I think there are less than 1 million leisure book buyers. Poor education & illiteracy partly to blame; ditto economic hardship. Etc. etc. welcome to the Third World!
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Is it possible to order books from other African countries?
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Interesting; we don’t get Kenyan books in our stores – completely unknown territory to me.
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At times I do find some African writers in our stores, even Deon Meyer. Chimamanda Adichie from Nigeria is an other one. Are European writers more en vogue in your bookshops?
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