Wanjikũ wa Ngũgĩ (born 1970s) is a Kenyan writer, who has lived and worked in Eritrea, Zimbabwe and Finland.
[1] Also a political analyst, she is a member of the editorial board of Matatu: Journal for African Literature and Culture and Society, and has been a columnist for the Finnish development magazine Maailman Kuvalehti.
[7] After completing her studies she spent time in Eritrea, before moving to Zimbabwe, where she lived for five years and worked as an editor as well as production manager,[8] also travelling during these years to different African countries, including South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Tanzania, and Mozambique.
[6] Wanjikũ has written plays and short stories,[10] and her first novel, The Fall of Saints, was published by Atria Books in 2014.
[6][12] Wanjikũ's second novel, Seasons in Hippoland, was published by Seagull Press in 2021,[7][14] characterised by one reviewer as a "dreamlike coming-of-age novel ... about the power of storytelling".