Akinyi Princess of K'Orinda-Yimbo
Akinyi Princess of K'Orinda-Yimbo
Editor, Germany/Kenya
| Name: | Akinyi Weiniger von K'Orinda-Yimbo |
| Maiden name: | Akinyi Princess of K'Orinda-Yimbo |
| Residence: | Winzerweg 4
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Email: akinyi.princess@web.de
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| Date and place of birth: | 1st November 1962, in Kenya |
| Marital status: | Married |
| Citizenship: | German and Kenyan |
| Education: | 1968 - 1974 | Chapter House Preparatory School, Yorkshire, England | ||
| 1975 - 1978 | Queen Ethelburgas College, Yorkshire, England (A-Level School-leaving Certificate) |
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| Studies: | 1979 - 1981 |
Nairobi University - Faculty of Journalism and Literature (BA) | ||
| 1981 - 1987 | London School of Economics London School of Journalism |
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| Professional experience: | 1980 - 1983 | Columnist with The Sunday Standard | ||
| 1984 - 1999 | Freelance journalist with solicited and unsolicited work from/for New African (London), Deutsche Welle (Cologne), BETO Magazin (Düsseldorf), Lectures at Annual English Seminars of the universities of Mannheim and Essen, Evangelical (Iserlohn), Seminars on The Socio-economic Role of Women in Eastern Africa |
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| Publications: | Socio-economic Role of African Women(1994) paper, The Language of Gestures (1996) paper, White Rage (being edited), Alanza’s Imperium (YA, being edited), The Barbarism of Power (novel based on real story of a victim family in the 1998 Nairobi bombing, being edited), Khiras Traum (2004 Munich), Darkest Europe and Africa’s Nightmare: A Critical Observation of the Neighbour Continents (Dec 2007, New York) |
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| Languages: | English (native language)
German (fluently)
French (elementary knowledge)
Latin (elementary knoledge) Dholuo, Kiswahili (2nd native languages) |
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| Hobbies: | Literature, arts, horseracing and riding, arts exhibitions, music, dancing, travel, cookery and tennis. | |||
Akinyi Princess of K'Orinda-Yimbo was born on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kisumu, the capital city of Luoland, Kenya; at a very young age (when she was too small to say "sod off!" as she puts it), she was sent to private school in Yorkshire, England. She is a graduate journalist of the Nairobi and the London Schools of Journalism as well as an economics graduate of the London School of Economics (1981-1987). She moved to Bavaria, Germany, where she studied Germanistics and Germanspecific economics (1993 to 1997). She has been writing as a freelance journalist since 1980, serving as a columnist with various dailies and monthly magazines in Africa and Europe. She gives lectures and seminars in various German universities, colleges and high schools on topics ranging from socio-economy in Africa, Business English, Intercultural Communication, African literature and the socio-ethnological conflicts in the traditions of Africans and Europeans in particular, and the West in general. She was the CEO of her companies Eur-AfrAsia Association for Quality Management & Intercultural Communications Training, and PAKY Investment Holdings Ltd. She gave up both posts in order to devote her time to her passion: writing. She is now only Chairman on the Board of Directors. She has written and published articles, papers, and a novel in German: Khiras Traum, and Bound to Tradition. Her nonfiction book Darkest Europe and Africa's Nightmare: A crtical Observation of Neighboring Continents was published in 2008 by a New York publisher. She is alsoa columnist with The African Times (Times Media, Berlin). She speaks seven languages, is married to a German politician, has a son and lives in Bavaria.
