About Kinyanjui Kombani

Kinyanjui Kombani "The Banker who writes" is a creative writer, banker, learning facilitator, award winning entrepreneur and business mentor based in Nairobi, Kenya.

He is the 2018 Winner of the Burt Award for African Young Adult Literature for his story 'Finding Colombia'.

His novels ‘The Last Villains of Molo’, and 'Den of Inequities' have been study texts at university level.

Kombani’s other work include children’s stories: ‘Wangari Maathai: Mother of Trees’ ‘We Can Be Friends’ and ‘Lost But Found’.

Kinyanjui is a graduate of Kenyatta University, Kenya, where he honed his skills in theatre and creative writing. Mizoga‘Carcasses’, a play Kinyanjui wrote for Born Free Foundation’s Bush Meat Trade Awareness project, was performed to audiences all over the country and later shot to film. ‘Mizoga’ has been screened in Africa, Europe and the USA and has been shown to over 60,000 rural Kenyans