About Wanjikũ

Wanjikũ's full names are Alice Wanjikũ Mangat. Her names, apart from Wanjikũ which is a well known Kikuyu women name makes it difficult to identify her origin. Alice is a Christian name, Wanjikũ her birth name given to her by her dearest Kikuyu mother, and Mangat is the surname of her dearest father who was an Indian.

Wanjikũ was born and brought up and lived in Kenya until 1977 when she went to Germany. She is native speaker of Kikuyu, Swahili and understands a few other languages of Kenya related to Bantu group. She speaks fluent English and German too. Before coming to Germany, she worked in different companies in Kenya as a secretary.

In Germany she first worked with radio service Deutsche Welle, Swahili department as a freelance journalist and later in 1982 joined an International organisation, which prepare the German experts who go to work for development projects in East Africa. (...)

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