School: School of Education and Social Sciences
Department: Humanities and Languages
Email Address:ewanjau@karu.ac.ke, ewanjau37@gmail.com
Area/ Field of specialization: Literature
Research interests: African woman autobiography
Esther Gathoni Wanjau is a Tutorial Fellow in the School of Education and Social Sciences at Karatina University where she has been a faculty member since 2011. Her area of specialization literature. Esther completed her Ph.D. at Maasai Mara University and her Masters and undergraduate studies at the University of Nairobi. Her research interests lie in the area of the autobiography.
The shifting identity in Slave: The True Story of a Girl’s Lost Childhood and Her Fight for Survival by Mende Nazer. Journal of the African Literature Association 2022, VOL. 16, NO. 1, 54–67. https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2022.2026061
Narratives of identity in migrant woman’s autobiography. Book Chapter in a book “when “Home” Means More than One Country” by LINCOM Studies in Social Politics.
Peer-reviewed Publications
Wanjau, Esther G. The Shifting Identity in Slave: the true story of a Girls Lost Childhood and Her fight for Survival. Journal of the African Loiterature Association 2022. Vol.16, NO.1, 54-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2022.2026061