With an Introduction by Bronislav Malinkowski, Facing Mount Kenya is a
central document of the highest distinction in anthropological
literature, an invaluable key to the structure of African society and
the nature of the African mind. Facing Mount Kenya is not only a
formal study of life and death, work and play, sex and the family in one
of the greatest tribes of contemporary Africa, but a work of
considerable literary merit. The very sight and sound of Kikuyu tribal
life presented here are at once comprehensive and intimate, and as
precise as they are compassionate.