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Mwangi Ruheni is the pseudonym of Kenyan novelist Nicholas Muraguri (b. 1934) best known for his novels The Minister's Daughter (1975) and The Future Leaders (1973) which were published as part of the African Writers Series. Muraguri was trained as a chemist, and spent 22 years as the Chief Government Chemist of Kenya.
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Early life and education
Muragari attended Mang'u High School. He then when on to Makerere University in Uganda, where he studie Botany Zoology and Chemistry and became editor of the schools' creative writing journal, the St. Augustine's Newsletter. He then received a Master's degree in Chemistry between 1957-1959, a MSc in forensic Science at the University of Strathclyde.
Career
Before becoming a novelist, Ruheni trained as a scientist and had no literary background. Despite this his novels did very well with both academics and non academics alike.Ruheni is not very forthcoming about his literary career.
He worked as a scientist in the civil service eventually becoming Chief Government Chemist, staying largely out of the public eye through most of his career, only publicly connecting himself to his pseudonym in a 1995 interview. His book Random Thoughts is largely a commentary on the literary and publishing industries.
Works
The following is a list of works by Ruheni: