In Kenya, the name ‘Wanjiku’ epitomizes the ordinary person, the citizen, in the context of national socio-political and socio-economic discourse. The origins of the name are in the often heated national debated on political, economic and rights-related issues where elite self-interest often takes precedence. Aligned with economic thinking from western schools of thought, the elite often act without much attention to Wanjiku’s daily challenges of survival of completely ignore her well-developed modes of survival as a completely ignore her well-developed modes of survival as a demonstration of a sound system worth paying attention to.
For long time, Mary Njeri Kinyajui taught and conducted research at the institute of Development Studies(IDS) of the University of Nairobi with a focus on the bases of (among others) the informal sector, gender dynamics, rights and the role of indigenous cultural values in the common wellness of society. Some of her published works are ”Women and The Informal Economy in Urban Africa”, ”From the Margins to the Centre (ZED Books), African Markets and the Utu-Ubuntu Business Model”, ”A perspective on Economic Informality in Nairobi(African Minds, 2019), The Sweet Sobs of Women in Response to Anthropain (Cambridge Publishing, 2019), and Many more.
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