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MUTHONI GARLAND, 50, is an acclaimed author, having penned several adult and children’s books.

She is passionate about developing storytelling tools drawn from African traditions that engage children and teenagers and help them develop key life skills.

PUBLISHED in business daily, august 9, /// Muthoni Garland is one member of Kenya's emerging 'creative economy' who is not only innovative.

Muthoni Garland wants everyone in Kenya to read a book.

Muthoni Garland during her performance at the re-imagined story telling festival at Alliance Francaise in Nairobi.

After almost 10 years in its original Kenyan setting, Muthoni Garland's Storymoja Festival opens as an event in Accra, Ghana, newly pan-African in outlook.

She is one of the co-founders and editors of Storymoja, a Kenyan publishing house. She spoke to NJOKI CHEGE

When my husband moved to Cairo in after landing a contract in Egypt, I joined him there. It was then that I embarked on an online fiction writing course, which I thoroughly enjoyed.

I had never thought that I would ever change my career; I thought that marketing was ‘it’ until I stumbled upon writing and decided writing was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.

Muthoni Garland

I studied for a degree in Business Administration with a major in Marketing from the Ohio University, USA.

I worked for a market research company in the US before coming back home, where I worked for two major advertising companies before I quit to start my own marketing research company.

But with my new found love in writing, I sold off my marketing