# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maina-wa-kinyatti
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:33:34.414Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maina-wa-kinyatti"
name: "Maina wa Kinyatti"
slug: "maina-wa-kinyatti"
description: "Maina wa Kinyatti is a Kenyan Marxist historian and former political prisoner under Daniel arap Moi's dictatorship. He is considered the foremost researcher on the Mau Mau in Kenya, one of the primary reasons that Kinyatti was arrested and imprisoned. After being released from prison on 17 October 1988, he fled the country to Tanzania, fearing a re-arrest by Moi's government. After a month in Dar es Salaam, Kinyatti was forced to apply for political asylum in the US. Kinyatti was awarded the PEN Freedom to Write Award in 1988."
tagline: "Kenyan academic"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-04-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.97
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.071166666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maina_wa_Kinyatti"
    title: "Maina wa Kinyatti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maina_wa_Kinyatti"
    title: "Maina wa Kinyatti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gpe.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maina_Wa_Kinyatti"
    title: "Maina Wa Kinyatti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maina_wa_Kinyatti"
    title: "Maina wa Kinyatti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B2%D0%B0"
    title: "Киниатти, Маина ва"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://rw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maina_wa_Kinyatti"
    title: "Maina wa Kinyatti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6736235"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump