Warris Vianni was born and grew up and in Kenya, where his family settled in the 1920s, a time when Jomo Kenyatta, the leading African nationalist and later first President of Kenya, came to London to press his people’s claim to land taken by British settlers.

Warris read law at the London School of Economics and Cambridge. Now based in London, he retains a passionate interest in Kenya, its history and politics and is especially interested in exploring the transformation of cultural consciousness into political aspiration.  He is currently working on Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya.