# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wanjiku-wa-ngugi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:53:13.199Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wanjiku-wa-ngugi"
name: "Wanjiku wa Ngũgĩ"
slug: "wanjiku-wa-ngugi"
description: "Wanjikũ wa Ngũgĩ is a Kenyan writer, who has lived and worked in Eritrea, Zimbabwe and Finland. She is the founder and former director of the Helsinki African Film Festival (HAFF). Also a political analyst, she is a member of the editorial board of Matatu: Journal for African Literature and Culture and Society, and has been a columnist for the Finnish development magazine Maailman Kuvalehti. Among journals and newspapers in which her work has appeared are The Herald (Zimbabwe), The Daily Nation, Business Daily, Pambazuka News and Chimurenga. She is the author of a novel published in 2014 and a contributor to anthologies including New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent, Nairobi Noir."
tagline: "Kenyan writer (born 1970)"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           40.61
  momentum:             8.40528032774448
  historical:           2.410116
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  41
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanjik%C5%A9_wa_Ng%C5%A9g%C4%A9"
    title: "Wanjikũ wa Ngũgĩ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanjik%C5%A9_wa_Ng%C5%A9g%C4%A9"
    title: "Wanjikũ wa Ngũgĩ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105725604"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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