John Kiriamiti
John Kiriamiti | |
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| Born | John Baptista Wanjohi[1] 14 February 1950 Thuita Village, Kenya Colony |
| Occupations | Writer Former bank robber |
| Known for | Writing books on his criminal career |
John Kiriamiti (born John Baptista Wanjohi,[1] 14 February 1950) is a Kenyan former bank robber[2] turned writer.[3] Kiriamiti is best known as the writer of My Life in Crime[4] and My Life with a Criminal: Milly's Story, which were both a sensation among Kenyan youth in the late 1980s and 1990s.
Kiriamiti was born in Thuita Village,[5] Kamacharia, Murang'a District, in Central Kenya. He is the second of the nine children of Albert and Anne Wanjiru Kiriamiti, both primary school teachers in Murang'a.[5]
In the years after his release from Kamiti Maximum Security Prison, he has also become a philanthropist and social reformist rehabilitating street children and thieves in Murang'a. Besides writing novels, Kiriamiti owns and edits a newspaper, The Sharpener, which he established after the government ban on the Gikuyu version, Inooro, in 1995.[6]
Bibliography
Kiriamiti's books include:
- My Life in Crime – 1980
- My Life with a Criminal: Milly's Story- 1984
- Son of Fate – 1994
- The Sinister Trophy – 2000
- My Life in Prison – 2004
- The Abduction Squad
- City Carjackers
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References
- 1 2 Kerongo, Grace (12 August 2011). "My Life in Crime novel to be shot as movie". The Star. Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2026.
- ↑ "Kiriamiti's dark past, struggle to tell story on criminal career". The Standard.
- ↑ "African Books Collective: John Kiriamiti". africanbookscollective.com.
- ↑ "The Kiriamiti touch". Daily Nation. 2 July 2020.
- 1 2 "Biography Life and times of John Kiriamiti". Daily Nation. Archived from the original on 21 December 2019. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
- ↑ "SPLA | John Kiriamiti". spla.pro.