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John Kiriamiti

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John Kiriamiti
Born (1950-02-14) February 14, 1950 (age 74)
Thuita Village, Kenya
Occupation(s)Writer
Former bank robber
Known forWriting books on his criminal career

John Kiriamiti (born 14 February 1950[citation needed]) is a Kenyan former bank robber[1] turned writer.[2] Kiriamiti is best known as the writer of My Life in Crime[3] and My Life with a Criminal: Milly's Story, which were both a sensation among Kenyan youth in the late 1980s and 1990s.

Kiriamiti was born in Thuita Village,[4] Kamacharia, Murang'a District, in Central Kenya. He is the second of the nine children of Albert and Anne Wanjiru Kiriamiti, both primary school teachers in Murang'a.[4]

In the years after his release from Kamiti Maximum Security Prison, he has also become a philanthropist and social reformist rehabilitating street children and thieves in Murang'a. Besides writing novels, Kiriamiti owns and edits a newspaper, The Sharpener, which he established after the government ban on the Gikuyu version, Inooro, in 1995.[5]

Bibliography

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Kiriamiti's books include:

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References

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  1. ^ "Kiriamiti's dark past, struggle to tell story on criminal career". The Standard.
  2. ^ "African Books Collective: John Kiriamiti". africanbookscollective.com.
  3. ^ "The Kiriamiti touch". Daily Nation. 2 July 2020.
  4. ^ a b "Biography Life and times of John Kiriamiti". Daily Nation.
  5. ^ "SPLA | John Kiriamiti". spla.pro.