Soma Nami Books Director Wendy Njoroge during an interview at the bookshop along Ngong road Nairobi. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]
Wendy Njoroge's journey into the literary world began when she was just a child reading her elder siblings' books, but it went to the next level on two different occasions. The first was when a friend informed her Text Book Centre (TBC) was looking to fill a vacancy.
"So during the interview one of the interviewers asked what I would do differently and I was like, 'Why don't you have a book club?' and he said, 'Should you come, that will be your first assignment!"