Everyone has a heritage, and for Wanjiku, her childhood memories keep coming up within her modern setting.
Everyone has a heritage, and for Wanjiku, her childhood memories keep coming up within her modern setting. In the countryside, a young Gikuyu girl, Wanjiku, helps her grandmother with daily tasks. On the streets of Nairobi, she is Catherine. But at home with Wangari, the maid, she is again Wanjiku. All grown up in boarding school, Catherine is the leader of her class. Gloriously illustrated, alive with the joie de vivre of girlhood, and based on the author’s own childhood memories, Wanjiku, Child of Mine is an ode to the heritage that walks alongside us.