From My Mother’s Back: A Journey from Kenya to Canada by Djoki Wane is a memoir.

The author shares her journey from a Catholic girls’ boarding school in rural Kenya to standing in front of a lectern at the University of Toronto.  Along the way she reflects on the heritage that was taken from her as a child and the strengths and teachings of the family, particularly her mother,  that pulled her through and helped her to not only succeed as a scholar, but to reclaim her culture, her history and even her name.