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1,000 items Delivery: 1-3 Days Pay on delivery Education Level: Secondary Age Group: Form 1 Requisition: Featured Author: John Kiriamiti Publisher: Quick Overview The Sinister Trophy; a trophy sought after by so many - and they will stop at nothing virtually nothing - to get the trophy. What is it about this menacing trophy? SOCIETY Meet the Man
Who Escaped Kamiti Prison The worst criminals ever to walk on Kenyan soil.Many names like Wacu u, Wanugu, Matheri, Rasta, John Kiriamiti, Onyancha are referred to as brave criminals but in reality, Shimoli "The Jackal" was their master.When Shimoli was released from Kamiti prison on March 15, 2007, he had a three-time prison escape.
SOCIETY 4 Kenya's Most Notorious And Badass Criminals in History Kenya has had several cases of huge crimes from gangsters that gave most people sleepless nights, their actions would give you chills to the spine, the following is a list of the top 5 criminals.Edward Shimoli Maina or the "The Jackal" A man nicknamed after 'Carlos the Jackal' a
terrorist from Venezuela due to how slippery he was, managed to escape from the police several times and even escaping from jail 3 times, convicted of 88 rapes, drug dealing, and 14 murders. SOCIETY Top 7 Kenyan Notorious Criminals who Gave Police Hard Times Before They Were Killed 1. Peter Mwea Wakinyonga alias Wakinyonga Wakinyonga
was a famous bank robber and a cold-blooded killer. He was killed in 1978 after a dramatic gunfight with the police in a club in Kangemi, Nairobi. 2. Gerald Wambugu Munyera alias Wanugu Wanugu was a merciless criminal. He was feared by both the police and ordinary Kenyans. He was involved in several bank heists in the country. He was gunned
down by flying squad officers in 1996 alongside his girlfriend in Nakuru. 3. Edward Shimoli alias The Jackal Shimoli CULTURE Mbogi ya MaWriters: Kenyan Literature on the Rise We're now in an era where Kenyan literature has not only begun taking shape, but also has begun looking a lot more meaningful than the days when Kenyan literature to us
meant looking for the newest book by either Ngugi wa Thiongo, John Kiriamiti or the late Barbara Kimenye (if you were a huge fan of the Moses series). CRIME Former Notorious Gangster Narrates Being Arrested By His Wife in Their Bedroom For one George Githenji, the life of robberies, shootouts, alcohol and women is one he is so familiar with,
being one of the renown and most feared gangsters in his early days. Now reformed and practicing agriculture in his Murang'a village, he remembers the days he engaged in dozens of bank robberies, raids in tycoons homes in Nairobi, Nakuru and Naivasha. Githenji, who is now 75, now spends his days with his fellow reformed colleague, the popular
John Kiriamiti, whose description of his life in crime is more CULTURE John Kiriamiti: Unknown Aspects Of Reformed Bank Robber John Kiriamiti remains the best ever author of literature work in kenya,as well as greatest ever reformed bank robber, perhaps in this entire planet.His work includes My Life In Crime,My Life In Prison,Son of Fate and
Sinister Trophy.Kiriamiti as described by those who were present during his reign as a bank robber,he is not only termed as wise but also a man of people.Why termed as a man of people remains a nightmare to many, perhaps this is the reason why he thrived in his entire missions. CRIME Forget It, It's All in Vain, John Kiriamiti Tells Aspiring
Criminals With his body strength now fading, John Kiriamiti is such a man full of life regrets for having spent his youthful days engaging in robbery activities some 40 years ago. However, and despite many years of robbery, Kiriamiti 'retired' a poor man. All he took home was just but memories. In as much as they could earn a lot from a single loot, the
robbers had no investment ideas in their minds. While in a single loot one could pocket like Sh0.2 million which was quite a lot during then, it could only take a little SOCIETY Meet former Catholic Nun Who Is Responsible For Transformation Of Ex- bank Robber John Kiriamiti John Kiriamiti was born on 14th February 1950. He is a Kenyan former
bank robber who turned to be writer. Born in Thuita Village, Kamacharia Location of Murang'a District in Central Kenya, he is the second born of the nine children of Albert and Anne Wanjiru Kiriamiti, both primary school teachers in Murang'a. Kiriamiti is best known as the writer of the following books: 1. My Life in Crime 1980 2. My Life with a
Criminal: Milly's Story 1984 3. Son of Fate – 1994 4. The Sinister Trophy – 2000 5. My Life CRIME How Kenya's Most Wanted Criminal Reformed, Later Married a Catholic Nun Mr. John Kiriamiti now a reformed gangster, was arrested and jailed for 28 years. He explains how he got reformed, taught fellow inmates English lessons, and became a
writer of the instant bestselling novel in the 80s, My Life in Crime. “I was expelled from Nairobi School while in Form One for getting into fights with the white boys, who were dominant. They were not keen on having to share their facilities with Africans like me,” Kiriamiti narrates in an earlier interview. He notes that her wife Julian (ex-nun), CRIME
My Life in Crime, John Kiriamiti The late 1690 and early 70s may be remembered as the years of the great bank and other armed robberies in Kenya. This is the true story of one of the participants in some of those robberies, John Kiriamiti. In raw and candid language, Kiriamiti tells the story of how he dropped out of secondary school when he was
only fifteen years old, and for a time became a novice pickpocket, before graduating into crimes like car-breaking and ultimately into violent robbery. This spell-binding story takes the reader into POLITICS Apart From John Kiriamiti, Here are Other Two Men Who Denied the Cops Peaceful Sleep in Kenya When you happens to listen to the reformed
story of once a kimonda man john Kiriamiti then you will thank God for delivering him even to an extend of spreading the gospel today as we speak. During his time it used to be an active drama nowadays called a movie. We are speaking of man who one time tricked the cops a great way by pretending to be a dead corpses and later when the police
were busy checking the coffin, having chased him for long he all over sudden came out of it and everyone was like mguu ni longer ENTERTAINMENT Kenyan Celebrities Who Were Once In Jail Majirani Majirani is one of the kenyan hit maker. Before he became a celebrity, he had sometime in jail. Majirani decided to quit his degree in criminology at
the university of Nairobi in order to concentrate in music. Before he found his way onto music a calamity befell him and he was sent in jail for a whole year. He was arrested by the police while he was coming from an event. He opened up that he was remanded in Narok Prison without being given an opportunity to defend himself or get a bail. He
spent the CRIME John Kiriamiti Speaks."Mui Huwa Mwema" "Jack zollo" or John Baptista Kiriamiti. The man who has spent more life in prison than in free world speaks about his life, from bank robberies,car hijacking to life at Kamiti Maximum prison and today a celebrated author,full of wisdom and a wonderful family man. John kiriamiti with
monicah kagoni of "Metha ya Kagoni Show" The years around mid and late 70s witnessed a revolution which saw a high number of bank robberies and car hijacking. John kiriamiti speaking to Metha ya Kagoni a show that airs in Mt. Kenya CRIME How Did Hardcore Criminals Survive? In the 1970s, 80s and 90s, bank robberies was the most common
form of crimes reported, usually in the 1 pm news briefs. For the robbers, it was hit after hit after hit. The occurrences did happen in different towns, like a routine, with most of the robberies being successful. But as narrated by some former bank robbers, the entire scheme was a well choreographed event, one which involved rogue police officers
and a network of thugs, who had an elaborate plan. All heists were done during the day. One famous robber, CRIME Meet a Former Bank Robber Who Reformed and Became a Writer While Still in Prison John Kiriamiti (born 14 February 1950) is a Kenyan former bank robber turned writer. Born in Thuita Village, Kamacharia Location of 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. John Kiriamiti was a real-life criminal in Kenya during the 1960s and 1970s in the wake of the country's independence. Kiriamiti evaded the Kenyan police for all the crimes he committed until he was
arrested in November 1970 CRIME Meet One Of The Legendary Kenyan Writers Who Dropped Out of School At Form One If you haven't read his novels then make an appoint of looking for them. John Kiriamiti was one of the most wanted criminals in Kenya back in the 60s. He took part in some of the biggest bank heist of his time. He has authored
five popular books namely My Life In Crime published in 1984, My Life With A Criminal (Milly's Story) published in 1989, Son of Fate published in 1994, The Sinister Trophy published in 1999 and My Life in Prison published in 2004. In his first novel My life In Crime Kiriamiti tells his CRIME Here Is The Best Known Writer Who Wrote Best Selling
Novel "My Life in Crime" What a novelist!. John Kiriamiti is the writer of the best selling novel "My Life in Crime". Millions of people are eager to read his work after their friends shared a summary of it with them and surprisingly, those who have copies of it keeps on rereading. I wonder why many people like the novel. Is it because it contains alot of
romance, suspense and also flowing?. I don't know. You may get a copy of his work and read for yourself. John Kiriamiti (above) born in 14 February 1950 in Thuita village, Kamacharia CRIME Kenya's Money Heist-Like Novel Every Movie Lover Must Read Photo:Money Heist Movie cover Novelists often capture epic occurrences in their novels.They
cajole and entice words in an arrangement which is scenic to eyes,nutritive to minds and charming to ears.From them readers derive wisdom and entertainment. They use rich language which makes their literary works spicy to the readers.Once you start reading these kind of novels,you will find yourself yearning for more.The world has produced
great novelists of all times with William Shakespeare taking a pioneering to Page 1 A WALK THROUGH THE CRIMINAL’S CITY: JOHN KIRIAMITI’S MY LIFE IN CRIME AND MY LIFE IN PRISON Jennifer Beatrice MŨSANGI, Supervised by Dr. Dan Ojwang A research report submitted to the Faculty of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts. Johannesburg, 2008 i ABSTRACT A Walk through the Criminal’s City: John Kiriamiti’s My Life in Crime and My Life in Prison is an examination of Kiriamiti’s use of the criminal figure to represent the urban space and its discourses. Among the various ways
through which this study achieves its aim is by undertaking an overview of the crime genre in terms of its history and development, particularly the most popular of which is the detective crime sub‐ genre. Secondly, the study examines Kiriamiti’s (re)construction of the fictional criminal figure as a hero through the principles of the crime thriller. In
the examination of Kiriamiti’s representation of the urban space, this study digs into the various zones in which the criminal undertakes his daily activities like the bar, certain neighbourhoods and the prison. Finally, the study examines the use of stereotypes, as forming part of the discourses that order the urban space, in Kiriamiti’s crime writing.
Keywords: Criminal, Crime, City, Interpellation, Reader. ii DECLARATION __________________________________________________________ I declare that this research report is my own unaided work. It is submitted for the degree of Master of Arts in the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. It has not been submitted before for any other degree or
examination at any other university. ___________________________________ Jennifer Beatrice MŨSANGI ______day of_______________, 2008. iii DEDICATION To the Late Nathan Mũnũve Kĩtonga (aka Kĩlomba‐ d. January, 2007) …Everyone called you the village madman; but not until ‘madness’ is redefined and contextualized (and convincingly so), will I go
by this popular opinion. If you were here, I would ask you why you opted to call me Professor when such titles were reserved for the chosen few but since you are not, the burden lies with me. Koma mwendwa, ũkome na ũvoo! To you Granny Dorcas Ngithi Ngũkũ…Soon you might be clocking a century… and together we’ve come from world afar and
still are travelling life’s pathway. You have proved over the years that a few uneducated (sounds demeaning!) geniuses can have a passion for the education of others. I.O.U! And to all the bodies, living and dead, through whom a bullet has passed; fired from a rifle in the hands of a perpetrator of crime… Yes, institutionalized crime in Kenya’s 2007
post‐election violence, this is for you…Bado mapambano! iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Saying it was a long academic walk is a statement of the obvious but perhaps if it was not so long I would have convinced myself (erroneously though) that I could make it on my own. The presence and valuable assistance of several people made the walk less painful
and even shorter. I appreciate all the help that I got from all of you both in big and small ways. Although I may not mention everyone by name I appreciate whatever whoever did for me wherever and whenever, much of which perhaps I did not deserve. Dr. Dan Ojwang, Japuonj I know you have heard this enough times and perhaps it does not mean
anything to you anymore. Sincerely you were not only a supervisor to me but also a mentor, a source of inspiration and a spring of patience. Thank you for picking me up when I was down and for not giving up on me when I literally crawled at almost 0km/hr. To my former lecturers at Egerton University –Kenya, Dishon Kweya and Adrian Onyando,
thank you for teaching me literature beyond the written word and for believing I could. To Dr. Tom Odhiambo all the brainstorming sessions and your comments on ‘that very first essay’ are highly appreciated, ero kamano kabisa. To Mrs. Merle Govind, at the African Literature Department, thank you so much for your encouragement and thank you
too for the hot water whenever I caught flu (in this safari every little thing counts). I would also like to thank the University of the Witwatersrand Financial Aid and Scholarships committee for awarding me a Postgraduate Merit Award without which perhaps I would not have managed my finances. However all blame lies on me for any faults in this
report. Dina, Grace, Maina, Chris, Senayon, Busuyi and the entire African Literature Department fraternity, maze asanteni sana for that crucial question, “How is your work v going?”, for it truly did keep my work going. To Mim, Ukpong, Gerald, Jude, Olivier, Thabiso, Nomaphelo and all my friends at Campus Lodge thank you for simply being there. I
kept going because I knew I was not alone. Sheppy, thanks lots for everything (including everything). Charles Nyuykonge, thank you so much for all the ‘fights’ over time management and your unfailing encouragement, they really did work, Dankie! Ngiyabonga! To my comrades in the struggle towards the completion of our degree program: Jendele,
Violet, Nomsa, Khwezi and Carolyn, guys those debates and your valuable insights cannot be taken for granted. Carolyn, girl thank you for telling me to pack and go home when I kept whining over things I had no control over…It was such a challenge, kongoi lakwani. To my family, saying thank you may not be enough but I hope that it conveys the
message of my heart. Mum, for the sacrifice, the support both financial and emotional I lack the proper words…Asante mama, ni wewe tu! To my sister Kats, kid you know I know that my education threw your comfort off balance but you never complained; thanks for the sacrifice and all the comical phone calls and SMSs. To Uncle Kivindu, what can I
say? Sisemi kitu! Grandma, all my aunts, cousins and the entire Ngũkũ family, I cannot repay you for your prayers, kindness and support but God knows the prayer of my heart for you all. Finally, I thank God (perhaps this is where I should have begun) for provision and protection throughout my study; I owe completely nothing to myself. vi TABLE OF
CONTENTS Title Page Abstract i Declaration ii Dedication iii Acknowledgement iv List of Contents vi CHAPTER ONE: Introduction 1 CHAPTER TWO: “Robbery without Crime”: When the criminal Becomes a figure of Admiration 28 CHAPTER THREE: “This is Nairobi”: Unraveling the City’s Underbelly 49 CHAPTER FOUR: “Imagine an Indian
Supplying You with Free Lunch”: Stereotypical Representation of the City 77 CHAPTER FIVE: Conclusion 101 Bibliography 107 1 CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION This study aims to examine John Kiriamiti’s use of the criminal figure in the representation of the city and the discourses that order the urban space. The central argument in this study is
that Kiriamiti as a writer uses narrative to reconstruct both the city and the criminal in a way that interpellates and accommodates his readers (imagined or real). This study therefore seeks to identify the various ways in which Kiriamiti as an artist reorganises the criminal’s ‘reality’ in the city into text in My Life in Crime (1984) and My Life in Prison
(2004). The study, in its attempt to achieve the stated aim, answers certain specific questions about the criminal, the city and the narrative that links the two, that is, the crime story in general. These questions include: How are Kiriamiti’s texts presented to the reader for consumption? What does the criminal know about the city that the ordinary city
dweller does not? Or rather what alternative ‘truths’ about the urban space does the crime story unravel that are otherwise inaccessible to the reader? What and how do the crime story and the criminal appropriate particular popular discourses within the urban space? 2 My inquiry is motivated by among others three major factors. Firstly, the
emergence of recent scholarship in popular arts in Africa in general and particularly the study of the popular novel in Kenya is an important influence in this study. There has been in the recent past (from the late 1970s to date) an alternative focus in literary studies with a shift of attention from the monopoly of the so‐called ‘serious’ works of art to
those of the popular sub‐genre.1 In Kenya, works of writers such as David G. Maillu, Charles Mangua, Carolyne Adalla, and Omondi Mak’Oloo among others have been appreciated in and incorporated into literary circles unlike in the past when such works were judged as mere “deflation of literary value” (Lindfors 1991: 51). Clearly there is an
emerging need and interest in studying the ‘popular’ as the popular novel base continues to broaden. It is this arousal of interest in the urban popular novel that leads me into studying the works of John Kiriamiti which I believe belong to the popular category.2 It is important for me to point out, however, that I do not intend, in any way, to idealize
popular literature over ‘canonical’ literature because I believe both literatures are important in literary studies neither of which should be discarded in preference for the other. Secondly, John Kiriamiti’s style of writing is of particular interest in this research. The choice of Kiriamiti from among other popular Kenyan authors could be attributed to his
‘popularity’ as Kiriamiti the man (the robber) and as Kiriamiti the literary author. What perhaps makes Kiriamiti and his works so popular in Kenya is his adaptation of the 1 See Fabian (1978), Barber (1987 & 1997), Lindfors (1991), Frederiksen (1991), Kurtz (1998), Granqvist (2004 & 2006), Ogude& Nyairo (2006), among others. 2 Kiriamiti’s works
are considered popular owing not only to their subject matter and aesthetics but also to the influence of the readers in their composition. Son of Fate (1994) for example was written after receiving “hundreds of letters from …fans and a good number of friends who include[d] three authors advising [Kiriamiti] to try [his] hand in fiction” (Preface, Son of
Fate). Similarly, the sequel to Son of Fate, The Sinister Trophy (1999), was written on request by readers and reviewers of Son of Fate in the Kenyan newspapers, The Daily Nation and The People Daily (Preface, The Sinister Trophy). 3 tenets of the crime thriller. It is interesting that in all his works Kiriamiti manages to make his fictionalized self so
likeable that instead of being the villain that crime has turned him into, he becomes the reader’s hero. Although I am not saying that Kiriamiti is the only Kenyan writer who has done this, clearly the thrilling effect that he bestows crime is beyond dispute and could be argued to be primarily the main reason behind his popularity amongst Kenyan
readers. In fact Kiriamiti’s My Life in Crime, in particular, was so popular in the 1980s and 1990s that alongside other popular works like David Maillu’s After 4:30 and Mwangi Gicheru’s Across the Bridge, students read it under their desks or under blankets with flashlights for fear of being discovered by school authorities.3 In other cases certain
pages would be folded or recommended on the first page with a catchy phrase like, “Go to page 121” or “My name is Milly…meet me on page 39” and so on. Such pages would certainly contain graphically detailed sex scenarios or naughty phrases which then any student would want to read.4 Thirdly, although perhaps he is not the first novelist to
write on crime in Kenya,5 Kiriamiti’s My Life in Crime (1984) has been recorded as Kenya’s best‐selling novel of the early 1980s and the first in the urban “crime craze” (Danysh, 2001). Kiriamiti’s ground‐breaking crime novel spawned such works as John Kiggia Kimani’s Life and Times of a Bank Robber (1988), Frank Saisi’s The Bhang Syndicate
(1984), and 3 Owing to what school authorities considered explicit sexual content, students were not allowed to read or to be in possession of most of the novels belonging to the ‘popular’ category primarily written in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Such novels included Charles Mangua’s Son of Woman and its sequel Son of Woman in Mombasa,
David Maillu’s After 4:30, and John Kiriamiti’s My Life in Crime among others. Nevertheless, the distribution, circulation and consumption of these literatures continued to rise despite the imposed restrictions (Newell 2002:5). 4 Personal memory. See also, Kamau Mutunga, “Reading over the Years”. and Kurtz 1998:98. 5 Other crime novels before
Kiriamiti’s include Meja Mwangi’s The Bushtrackers (1979), Mwangi Ruheni’s The Mystery Smugglers (1975) and Paul Kitololo’s Shortcut to Hell (1982) among others. 4 Wamugunda Geteria’s Black Gold of Chepkube (1985) among others. Nevertheless, Kiriamiti is the most prolific author of the crime sub‐genre with up to five titles6 to his name
among which three are quasi‐autobiographical and two fictional.7 Kiriamiti introduces an altogether different approach to the writing of the city in Kenya. This is because unlike most other Kenyan novelists who only use crime as a trope within larger themes, Kiriamiti is a pioneer in the crime writing sub‐genre. Also what strikes one as interesting is
the fact that unlike in most other Kenyan popular urban novels, for example, those by Meja Mwangi8 and David Maillu, among others, Kiriamiti’s city is not a place of disillusionment and eventual suffering but for the better part of it a place of joy, material success and self‐definition for the criminal. Thus I believe his works present an altogether
different approach to the writing of the city (particularly postcolonial Nairobi) and are worth more scholarly attention than they have been accorded in the past.9 6 Kiriamiti is the most published popular author in the Spear Book series of the East African Educational Publishers according to the EAEP Book Catalogue. He could also be argued to have
established a consistent pattern of publishing after every five years since the publication of his first novel in 1984; others were published in 1989, 1994, 1999 and 2004 in that order. 7 The two texts with which this study is concerned (My Life in Crime and My Life in Prison) are ‘autobiographical’ and the other two Son of Fate (1994) and The Sinister
Trophy (1999) fictional. In addition to the two autobiographies is the sequel to the first; My Life with a Criminal: Milly’s Story (1989) in which the author appropriates Milly’s (his girlfriend) voice. 8 Meja Mwangi is one of the most established urban novelists in Kenya whose concerns with the city (particularly Nairobi) range from post‐independence
disillusionment to everyday city life. Mwangi is popular for his Nairobi trilogy (Kill Me Quick, Going Down River Road and Cockroach Dance). See among others Graebner (1992) 9 There are a few works which I managed to come across before and during my research on Kiriamiti. However I realized that most critics tend to read Kiriamiti alongside
other Kenyan novelists like Charles Mangua or Meja Mwangi because they are mostly concerned with either issues of modernity or simply the Kenyan urban novel and not the criminal or even Kiriamiti as a crime writer. Such critics include among others Roger Kurtz (1998), Raoul Granqvist (2004) and Tom Odhiambo (2008). 5 John Kiriamiti the Man
and Writer: A Biography John Baptista Wanjohi Kiriamiti was born on 14th February 1950 in Thuita Village, Kamacharia Location of Murang’a District in Central Kenya. He is the second of nine children born to Albert and Anne Wanjiru Kiriamiti, both primary school teachers (now retired) in Murang’a. Kiriamiti studied for and passed his Certificate of
Primary Education (CPE) at the local primary school in his Thuita Village. He was privileged to be among the first nine African students to join the dominantly‐white Prince of Wales School (now Nairobi School) at a time when most Africans could not afford the Ksh. 1,080 term fee thus preferring the relatively affordable Alliance High School whose
term fee was Ksh. 100. Although Kiriamiti received bursaries as a gifted African student, he joined Prince of Wales school as a day scholar and stayed with his uncle in Bahati Estate in Nairobi’s Eastlands where his elder brother Sammy stayed too. His academic life at the Prince of Wales School was short‐ lived though because in his last term as a
form one student, at the age of fifteen, he was expelled from school after being the ring leader in a student strike. That marked the end of Kiriamiti’s formal education in spite of pleas from his parents to take up school elsewhere. As a punishment for his ‘misconduct’ Kiriamiti’s parents decided to ‘deport’ him back to Murang’a where they wanted to
enroll him in a village secondary school. Kiriamiti could not hear of anything else besides schooling in Nairobi and declined his parents request to attend the local school. Eventually he decided to sneak his way back into Nairobi getting away with his father’s Ksh. 600. In Nairobi he had nowhere to stay as his uncle refused to take him in.
Subsequently, by the age of twenty, Kiriamiti was already a known robber and in the police “V.I.P list”, as he calls ‘the most wanted’ police list. As a criminal, Kiriamiti went by the names John Khamwene, Charles 6 Lukindo, Richard Mwangi, Albert Ngure, Albert Wanjohi and Jack Zollo (a name which he uses for his fictionalized self in both My Life in
Crime and My Life in Prison) among others. After a long chase with the police, Kiriamiti was arrested and sent to jail in 1971 for twenty years with forty eight strokes of the cane. It is at Kamiti Maximum Security Prison and Naivasha Government Maximum Prison that his first novel My Life in Crime was written and the initial ideas of My Life in Prison
born. Five months after the publication of My Life in Crime (in 1984), Kiriamiti was released on grounds of good conduct having served thirteen out of his twenty years sentence. Kiriamiti’s freedom however did not last long for two years down the line (in 1986) he was sent back to jail by President Daniel Toroitich arap Moi’s regime for allegedly
being involved in what the government deemed a seditious movement meant to overthrow the government (Mwakenya).10 This time Kiriamiti found himself head‐on with the law after Benga musician‐turned‐soldier, Hajullas Ochieng Kabaselle, implicated him in crime. ʺOchieng, on his arrest while serving in the Army, claimed that he had left his
machine gun with me to use in bank robberies for the funding of Mwakenya,ʺ Kiriamiti says in an interview with Joe Ombuor (ibid). Having had interacted with most of the brains thought to be behind the Mwakenya movement like Onyango Oloo, Prof. Katama Mkangi, Mwandawiro Mgangha and 10 See Joe Ombuor, “Fame and Glory from Writing after
Long”, Sunday Nation 27/02/2005, and “Ex‐robber’s War on Crime”, Sunday Nation 27/02/2005, . 7 others, Kiriamiti was a natural suspect to the authorities.11 Resultantly, he earned himself a seven‐year sentence for the alleged involvement in a clandestine movement. However, he was released after four years on February 11, 1990 (the same day
that South Africa’s freedom icon, Nelson Mandela was released from Robben Island). As fate would have it, two days later, after Kiriamiti’s release, what was thought to be the political assassination of the Foreign Affairs Minister Hon. John Robert Ouko on February 13, 1990 linked him to yet another ‘suspicious look’ from Kenyans, as rumour had it
that he “was released to kill Ouko” (Ombuor 2005:2). Nevertheless, since his trading of the gun for a pen (to use the words of Kamau Mutunga), and his subsequent release from Kamiti Maximum Security Prison, Kiriamiti has become a renowned philanthropist and social reformist rehabilitating street children and thieves in his rural Murang’a home.
Besides writing novels, Kiriamiti also owns and edits a newspaper, ‘The Sharpener’ which he established after the government ban on the Gikuyu version Inooro in 1995.12 My Life in Crime is the first novel written by John Kiriamiti. Part of the novel was written at Kamiti Maximum Security Prison and the rest at Naivasha Government Maximum
Prison both prisons in which Kiriamiti served thirteen years imprisonment for robbery with violence. The novel, Kiriamiti tells us, was published only five months 11 See We Lived to Tell: The Nyayo House Story, 2003. 12 Inooro (literally Sharpener) was a critical Catholic magazine whose past, present and future issues were banned by the Moi
government in February 1995 on grounds of unwarranted criticism against the government. See “Censorship in Kenya: Government Critics Face the Death Sentence”, . 8 prior to his acquittance and subsequent release from prison, that is, in May 1984. In fact when the novel was released and was discovered by the prison authorities, Kiriamiti was
sent into solitary confinement (a prison within prison) for a hundred days as a punishment for writing while serving a jail term (My Life in Prison, 197). In this ‘autobiographical’ novel, John Kiriamiti narrates how at only 15 years, he (as Jack Zollo) is expelled from school, becomes an amateur pickpocket and eventually graduates into a violent bank
robber. In simple yet candid language, Kiriamiti takes the reader into the criminal underworld of Jack Zollo which is ‘densely populated’ with prostitutes, robbers, forgers, carjackers, police and other men and women with whom Zollo deals in his life of crime. With an interesting attention to detail, Kiriamiti describes certain areas of Nairobi (including
various sites of consumption such as bars, hotel rooms, and so on) and Zollo’s peculiar utilization of such areas. In an action‐packed scenario (and language) Kiriamiti describes how at one point the police are searching for Zollo in the whole of Nairobi and he has to flee to the Congo. It is only in the Congo that Zollo (as Albert Ngure) leads a life
outside crime as a chauffeur to a Greek millionaire (Stephano).13 However, he has to flee back to Nairobi after Elizabeth and Hellene (his boss’s secretary and daughter, respectively) threaten to commit suicide because they are both pregnant by him. On his escape, he steals Stephano’s 1.5 million Congolese Francs an action that rekindles his ‘cat
and mouse 13 By leading a ʹstraightʹ life once in the Congo, Kiriamiti is in a certain way saying that the criminal operates within certain territories and not others. Although Zollo steals from Stephano on the day he escapes, he confesses to both his boss (Stephano) and to the readers that he regrets his deeds. This is so much unlike the Zollo who has
picked pockets, broken cars and robbed banks in Nairobi before, without any traces of guilt.
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