Kinyanjui Kombani - Creative writer, thespian, event organizer, motivational speaker and a bank's Relationship Manager .

Kinyanjui is the author of the critically acclaimed The Last Villains of Molo (Acacia Publishers, 2004), Wangari Maathai: Mother of Trees (Longhorn Publishers, 2007) and We Can Be Friends (Longhorn Publishers, 2007). Crossroads, a dance-drama he co-wrote, won an award for The Most Thematically Relevant Item during the 2003 Kenyatta University Culture Week Festival.

Kinyanjui is a graduate of Kenyatta University, Kenya, where he honed his skills in theatre and creative writing. He was an active member of the Kenyatta University Travelling Theatre. During his term as Executive Director, the theatre group entered into a partnership with The Born Free Foundation to stage an awareness play on the Bush Meat Trade. Carcasses, a play Kinyanjui wrote for this project, was staged countrywide and has since been turned into a film, Mizoga.

Kombani was also a founding Director of The Kenyatta University Ensemble, a group incorporating students, staff and lecturers of the University. KU Ensemble organized the inaugural Kenya National Setbook Festival, and worked with organizations such as Care International for Participatory Theatre training at Dadaab Refugee Camps. The Ensemble, in collaboration with Macmillan Publishers (K) Ltd, staged William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, and later worked with Kenya Institute of Education for a film based on the set book.

Currently, Kinyanjui is a Business Consultant with an International Bank.