# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rebeka-njau
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:35:25.754Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rebeka-njau"
name: "Rebeka Njau"
slug: "rebeka-njau"
description: "Rebeka Njaū is a Kenya educator and writer, who was Kenya's first female playwright and a pioneer in the representation of African women in literature. Her writing has addressed topics such as female genital mutilation and homosexuality. Her first novel, Ripples in the Pool (1975), appeared as number 203 in the Heinemann African Writers Series."
tagline: "Kenyan artist, playwright and novelist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rebeka_Njau.tif?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932-12-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.59
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.337797333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebeka_Njau"
    title: "Rebeka Njau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebeka_Njau"
    title: "Rebeka Njau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebeka_Njau"
    title: "Rebeka Njau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebeka_Njau"
    title: "Rebeka Njau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebeka_Njau"
    title: "Rebeka Njau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebeka_Njau"
    title: "Rebeka Njau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A8%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7_%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "ربیکا نجاو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19573358"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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