Coffee Time

Mary Njeri Kinyanjui earned her PhD in Geography from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and her master’s from Kenyatta University, Kenya. She taught at the Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya. She has benefited from numerous awards and fellowships and been a guest scholar in development studies at research centres and institutes across Africa and Europe. She has also been a member of the Board of Governors of several secondary schools in Kenya. She was a Visiting Research Associate at Five College Women’s Study Research Center, based at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts in the USA, where she facilitated a seminar on Topologies of self-reliance and solidarity in African communities. She is author of the Langaa book Coffee Time, which is based on the experience of her family and is practically a treatise on development. Other publications include: Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa: From the Margins to the Centre (2014); African Markets and the Utu-Ubuntu Business Model (2019); and The Sweet Sobs Response of Women to Anthropain (2019).