John Kirlamiti

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KirIamiti

John Kiriamiti, a former crook-turned-novelist, wrote My Life in Crime while doing time at Naivasha Maximum Security Prison where he was ‘cooling porridge’ for a series of bank robberies that rocked 1960s and 1970s Kenya. Kiriamiti is best known as the writer of My Life in Crime and My Life with a Criminal: Milly’s Story, which were both a sensation with Kenyan youth in the late 1980s and ’90s. (from African Books Collective)
John Kiriamiti, a former crook-turned-novelist, wrote My Life in Crime while doing time at Naivasha Maximum Security Prison where he was ‘cooling porridge’ for a series of bank robberies that rocked 1960s and 1970s Kenya. Kiriamiti is best known as the writer of My Life in Crime and My Life with a Criminal: Milly’s Story, which were both a sensation with Kenyan youth in the late 1980s and ’90s. (from African Books Collective)
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