Wainaina is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Angel Wainaina (1983–2009), Kenyan actress, radio presenter and rapper
Binyavanga Wainaina (1971–2019), Kenyan writer
Catherine Wainaina (born 1985), Kenyan beauty pageant winner
Eric Wainaina (musician) (born 1973), Kenyan singer-songwriter
Erick Wainaina (born 1973), Kenyan marathon runner
Fidelis Wainaina, Kenyan activist
Njoki Wainaina
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Kenneth Binyavanga Wainaina (18 January 1971 – 21 May 2019) was a Kenyan author, journalist and 2002 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. In...
Wainaina is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Angel Wainaina (1983–2009), Kenyan actress, radio presenter and rapper Binyavanga Wainaina...
Erick Wainaina (born December 19, 1973, in Nyahururu) is a Kenyan marathon runner, who won an Olympic bronze medal in 1996 and a silver medal in 2000....
Njoki Wainaina is a gender and development consultant from Kenya. She was the first executive director of the African Women's Development and Communication...
Eric Wainaina may refer to: Erick Wainaina (born 1973), Kenyan marathon runner Eric Wainaina (musician) (born 1973), Kenyan singer and songwriter This...
James Wainaina Macharia (born 1959) is a Kenyan accountant who was nominated by President Uhuru Kenyatta as Cabinet Secretary for transport in November...
Fidelis Wainaina (1962 – 5 March 2008) was the founder of Maseno Interchristian Child Self Help Group (MICH), an organization that strives for self-sustainability...
Angela "Angel" Wainaina (1983 – 28 January 2009) was a Kenyan actress, radio presenter and rapper. Wainaina was born 1983 in Kawangware, a slum of Nairobi...
Carole Wamuyu Wainaina was the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Human Resources from October 2014 till April 2017, replacing Catherine Pollard...
Joyce Ann Wainaina, is the Managing Partner of Chui Ventures a Pan-African Seed fund with a gender-inclusive focus, backing local founders building mass-market...
Likarion Wainaina (born 20 August 1987), is a Russian–born Kenyan filmmaker. He is best known as the director of critically acclaimed shorts Between the...
May 2024. Don't Let Titanium Become The Curse Of Kwale; Opinion by Sam Wainaina, The East African (Nairobi), 18 January 2001 Titanium mining in Mozambique...
Homeboyz Animation and its music produced by Kenyan singer-songwriter Eric Wainaina. The series comprises 55 episodes. The series was first conceived by Claudia...
Sydney. The event was won by Ethiopian Gezahegne Abera, with Kenyan Erick Wainaina second, and Tesfaye Tola, also of Ethiopia, third. It was the first time...
is a 2018 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Likarion Wainaina. It first premiered at 68th Berlin International Film Festival. It was...
from Kenyan Writer and Bard College Achebe Center Director Binyavanga Wainaina". Bard College. Archived from the original on 1 September 2021. Retrieved...
2023. Archived from the original on June 20, 2023. Retrieved 2024-03-06. Wainaina, Ndichu (June 30, 2020). "Suspected serial killer arraigned in Nyahururu"...
messaging. Adichie, in a 2011 conversation with Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina, stated that the overriding theme of her works was love. Using the feminist...
"incentives to capture economic rents through violence." Furthermore, Binyavanga Wainaina (2009) likens Western aid to colonization, in which countries believe that...
Rigathi Gachagua as his running mate". The Star. Retrieved 15 May 2022. Wainaina, Ndung'u (16 May 2022). "Rigathi Gachagua's political journey". The Standard...
whole new generation of African writers – Caine Prize winners Binyavanga Wainaina (current director of the Chinua Achebe Center at Bard College) and Helon...
Ethiopians, Gezahegne and Tesfaye Tola, and Kenyan Erick Wainaina. At the 37 km mark, Wainaina tried to make a break, but 2 km later Gezahegne surged to...
artists based in Nairobi include Jua Cali, Nonini, Camp Mulla, Juliani, Eric Wainaina, Suzanna Owinyo and Nameless. Popular record labels include Ogopa DJs,...
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