Meja Mwangi is a well-known Kenyan author whose books are a good introduction to East African literature. His most famous works include Going Down River Road, Kill Me Quick and Carcass for Hounds.Shiva Naipaul's North of South: an African Journey is a humorously pessimistic account of a visit to Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.Elspeth Huxley's Flame Trees of Thika tells the story of the white settler experience through the eyes of a young girl. Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa covers similar turf from an adult perspective.