Author: Wanjikũ Wa Ngũgĩ

Wanjikũ Wa Ngũgĩ is the author of the novel The Fall of Saints (2014) and former director of the Helsinki African Film Festival (HAFF). She was a columnist for the Finnish development magazine Maailman Kuvalehti, as well as a jury member of the Cinem Africa Film Festival, Sweden. Her story ‘Hundred Acres of Marshland’ was published in New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent, edited by Margaret Busby (2019). Her short stories and essays have appeared in Nairobi Noir, Houston Noir, St. Petersburg Review, Auburn Avenue and Barelife Review, among others.