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Nairobi / Yaya Centre, Kilimani

Kenya's great independent bookshop since 1989 — Chan Bahal's two floors above Kilimani stock everything from Kenyan fiction and East African history to foreign periodicals, and Nairobi's writers treat it as a clubhouse. The place to find the literature of the region at its source.

Best for — East African literature from the shop that champions it.

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