Kenyatta series

Kenyatta series
List of books
    • Crime Partners
    • Death List
    • Kenyatta's Escape
    • Kenyatta's Last Hit
AuthorDonald Goines (writing as Al C. Clark)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreUrban fiction
PublisherHolloway House Publishing Company
Published1974
Media typePrint (Paperback)

The Kenyatta series is a four-volume urban fiction series by American author Donald Goines under the pseudonym of Al C. Clark.[1] Goines released the books under a pseudonym on the request of his publisher, who wanted to avoid flooding the market with too many books under Goines's name and potentially undermining sales as well as to differentiate the books from Goines's "grittier" urban fiction novels.[2][3]

The books cover the actions of a man by the name of Kenyatta, named after Jomo Kenyatta, that leads a group of militant blacks similar to the Black Panther Party.[4] The series comprises four books, Crime Partners, Death List, Kenyatta's Escape, and Kenyatta's Last Hit. Goines released the first book in June 1974 through Holloway House, with the final book being published posthumously in November of the same year.

  1. ^ Stallings, LaMonda (2011). Word Hustle: Critical Essays and Reflections on the Works of Donald Goines. Black Classic Press. ISBN 978-1580730464.
  2. ^ Munby, Jonathan (2011). Under a Bad Sign. University of Chicago Press. pp. 155–156. ISBN 978-0226550367.
  3. ^ Dickson-Carr, Darryl (2005). The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction. Columbia University Press. pp. 110. ISBN 0231124724.
  4. ^ Ostrom, Hans (2005). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature. Greenwood Press. p. 637. ISBN 0313329745.