Mwangi Ruheni is the pseudonym of Kenyan novelist Nicholas Muraguri (born 1934)[1] best known for his novels The Minister's Daughter (1975) and The Future Leaders (1973), which were published as part of the African Writers Series.
He then went on to Makerere University in Uganda, where he studied Botany Zoology and Chemistry and became editor of the schools' creative writing journal, the St. Augustine's Newsletter.
[2] He then received a master's degree in Chemistry between 1957 and 1959, a MSc in forensic Science at the University of Strathclyde.
[2] He worked as a scientist in the civil service eventually becoming Chief Government Chemist, staying largely out of the public eye through most of his career, only publicly connecting himself to his pseudonym in a 1995 interview.
[2] His book Random Thoughts is largely a commentary on the literary and publishing industries.