A white king in East Africa : the remarkable adventures of John Boyes, trader and soldier of fortune, who became king of the savage Wa-Kikuyu
A White King in East Africa is a 1912 New York travel memoir by trader and adventurer John Boyes, written with C. W. L. Bulpett, about his years among the Kikuyu of Kenya. The photographs show African warriors with shields and spears, a termite mound with a rider, and portrait studies of women with neck and leg ornaments, all posed in plain documentary style that suggests strong contrast between figures, dense crowds of spears, and earth-toned natural settings for period-style imagery.
