# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/makena-onjerika
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:53:26.310Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/makena-onjerika"
name: "Makena Onjerika"
slug: "makena-onjerika"
description: "Makena Onjerika is a Kenyan writer, who won the 2018 Caine Prize for African Writing, making her the fourth writer from her country to do so—following wins by Binyavanga Wainaina in 2002 and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor in 2003, and Okwiri Oduor in 2013."
tagline: "Kenyan writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Makena_Onjerika_0288.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.805472
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Makena_Onjerika"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "ماكينا أونجيريكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makena_Onjerika"
    title: "Makena Onjerika"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makena_Onjerika"
    title: "Makena Onjerika"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makena_Onjerika"
    title: "Makena Onjerika"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%A5%D5%B6%D5%A1_%D5%95%D5%B6%D5%BB%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%AB%D5%AF%D5%A1"
    title: "Մակենա Օնջերիկա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makena_Onjerika"
    title: "Makena Onjerika"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makena_Onjerika"
    title: "Makena Onjerika"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55357051"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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