Books

Wanjiru Waithaka is a Kenyan author whose captivating storytelling weaves together rich cultural landscapes and complex characters. Her work explores themes of identity, belonging, and the human experience, offering readers a glimpse into the heart of Kenya and beyond. These are some of her works with more in the pipeline.

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New Release​

Silencing Anna

Silencing Anna tells the story of a young female journalist, blacklisted from all the media houses in the country, after exposing a prominent tycoon’s clandestine activities.

Ksh 1,200 – Purchase

Complete Catalogue

Wanjiru Waithaka’s Books​

Silencing Anna​
Ksh 1,200 – Purchase
Duel in the Savanna
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The Unbroken Spirit​
Ksh 690 – Purchase
A Profile of Kenyan Entreprenues​
In bookstores
Kenya’s Tax Czar
Ksh 2,700 – Purchase

Silencing Anna​

Silencing Anna tells the story of a young female journalist, blacklisted from all the media houses in the country, after exposing a prominent tycoon’s clandestine activities.

Kihoto Ndegwa uses his advertising millions to arm-twist editors and media owners into only publishing PR stories about him and killing negative ones in a classic illustration of media capture.

Anna struggles to keep her integrity in an often corrupt newsroom atmosphere while suffering depression and losing her faith in God.

When a whistle blower gives her the chance to bring Ndegwa down, Anna takes him on again despite her fear. The resulting drama moves quickly through the streets of Nairobi, the port of Mombasa, the Indian Ocean and ultimately into the wilderness of Tsavo East National Park where Anna faces her greatest test.

An elephant rescued from the wild after poachers killed its mother holds the key to Anna’s survival. Can she be saved before it’s too late? A final heart-breaking twist ends this fast-paced thriller that you won’t want to put down for even one minute..

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Duel in the Savanna​

An African president is at war with a business tycoon…
Everyone thinks the battle is based on politics and tribe…
In reality, it is about a secret buried so deep only a few know about it…

A secret that could bring down a business empire…
A secret that could destroy the tycoon’s son and everyone he loves…

The ripple effect spreads far and wide as family, friends, business associates, political allies – all get dragged into the fray…

The love affair between Tony Karenga, rich spoilt son of the patriarch and Sophie Gitwana, a girl from the other side of the tracks – daughter of a dirt poor single mother, is not spared either…

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The Unbroken Spirit​

Three inseparable friends…young, savvy, ambitious, and in control of their lives.
Tessa has the perfect job, everything she ever wanted. Toni runs a successful restaurant and Regina the party girl is living life to the full, always on edge and loving every minute.
Then it starts to unravel…

Tessa’s boss makes a pass at her sparking off a sequence of events that will severely test her professional skills, personal friendships and shake her faith to its very foundation.

What started out as just another party turns into Regina’s worst nightmare. A call for help in the middle of the night goes unheeded…then the mystery deepens when she wakes up the next morning with no recollection of what happened the night before…

The aftermath of that night sucks in everybody Regina loves, as the three friends join forces, embarking on a frantic hunt for clues to help them put Regina’s assailant behind bars.

As the mystery unfolds, the trio pit their wits against a faceless, powerful enemy who is determined to stop at nothing to conceal the truth. A shocking medical discovery raises the stakes as the battle threatens to tear them apart and ultimately destroy their very lives.

The Unbroken Spirit is a fast-paced, intelligent thriller…with surprising twists and turns, and in the end, utterly unpredictable…right up to its astonishing conclusion.

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A Profile Of Kenyan Entrepreneurs

This book profiles a dozen of Kenya’s most successful entrepreneurs across a variety of industries – manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, ICT, retail, media, and entertainment to name a few.

It is a collection that proves that when there is money to be made, you cannot beat a good entrepreneur no matter how deprived his or her background.

Be inspired by stories that illustrate the triumph of hope over means and the resilience of the human spirit in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.

Find out how they got to where they are, the pitfalls and challenges along the way and how they made and lost millions. Through their eyes you’ll get a fascinating glimpse into Kenya’s history and the events that shaped business in the colonial, pre and post independence period.

From the building of the Kenya-Uganda railway, state of emergency in 1952 and crackdown on Mau Mau fighters, the coffee boom and policy of Africanisation in the 70s, to the political corruption in the 80s and decline of the Kenyan economy in the 90s, in the first book of its kind, Kenyan entrepreneurs tell it all – the good, the bad and the ugly.

And best of all, a section on tips for aspiring entrepreneurs where they tell you how to achieve their level of success. This is a book you won’t want to put down.

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Kenya’s Tax Czar

As many of you know, I help other people tell their stories by ghost writing their memoirs. My latest project is Kenya’s Tax Czar, the autobiography of M.G. Waweru, the former Commissioner General of the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA).

His tenure was 2003-2012 during the presidency of His Excellency Mwai Kibaki, Kenya’s third president.

He is one of the 29 founder members of TransCentury, arguably Kenya’s most successful chama (group investing) with interests across the region. M.G. Waweru is the Chairman of the flagship business in the group, East African Cables Limited.

He is also a successful entrepreneur with investments in the energy sector, agriculture, transport and real estate.

M.G.’s book was my biggest and most challenging to date and I couldn’t be happier with how it turned out.

My gratitude to him for giving me the opportunity to tell his awesome story and to my publishers East African Educational Publishers (Eaep) for bringing this book to the market.

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Wanjiru Waithaka’s Bibliography

Wanjiru has written 8 books, edited several others and written numerous articles in newspapers and magazines over the last two decades.

Her third novel, Silencing Anna was released on Saturday 3rd December 2022 and is now available at Nuria bookstore and Prestige bookshop.

She made her second novel titled Duel in the Savanna available to readers on this blog. Click here to read the chapters online. Follow this blog to receive your FREE Pdf copy.

Her first book, a novel titled The Unbroken Spirit (2005), won third prize in the adult fiction category of the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature in 2007, the biggest and most prestigious literary award in the country. It was published by East African Educational Publishers (Eaep).

She co-authored A Profile of Kenyan Entrepreneurs (2012) with Evans Majeni. Also published by Eaep, it features a dozen of Kenya’s most successful business owners.

Wanjiru helps her clients write their memoirs. She partnered with M.G. Waweru, former Commissioner General Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and founder member of TransCentury, to write his autobiography titled Kenya’s Tax Czar. The book was released in December 2021. She assisted S.K. Macharia, founder and chairman of Royal Media Services, to write his autobiography titled Tenacious Courage, that is yet to be released.

Wanjiru’s non creative works include the Blue Book 2014 – The EU and Kenya: Partnership for Development, the annual report on development cooperation between the European Union and Kenya, which was launched on 9 May 2014. She also compiled the Blue Book 2016: Securing the future of the youth and promoting gender equality.

Another project was a collaboration where she compiled the speeches, presentations and discussions of the two-day Pan Africa Media Conference held on March 18-19, 2010 in Nairobi, Kenya into a book titled Media & The Africa Promise (2011).

The conference was organised by the Nation Media Group (NMG) and the Africa Media Initiative. Speakers included former President Mwai Kibaki, Rwandese President Paul Kagame, His Highness the Aga Khan, CNN correspondent David McKenzie and Google Africa’s Ory Okolloh. The book was edited by Wangethi Mwangi, former editorial director at NMG.

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