Born on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kisumu, the capital city of Luoland, Kenya, to the Luo royal houses of K’Orinda and Yimbo; sent to a public school in Yorkshire, England, when she was “too young to say sod off”. A graduate journalist - the London Schools of Journalism as well as an economics graduate of the London School of Economics. Moved to Bavaria, Germany, where she studied Germanistics and Germanspecific economics. Been writing as a freelance journalist since 1980, columnist with various dailies and monthly magazines in Africa and Europe. Columnist withThe Afrian Times (Times Media). Gives lectures and seminars in various German universities, colleges and high schools on topics ranging from socio-economy in Africa, Business English, African literature and the socio-ethnological conflicts in the traditions of Africans and Europeans in particular, and the West in general. Written and published articles, papers, and a novel in German: Khiras Traum. Her non-fiction book “Darkest Europe and Africa’s Nightmare: A critical Observation of the Neighbour Continents” published in 2008 by a New York publisher. Full CV - www.akinyi-princess.de. More works as yet unpublished and a children’s fantasy/thriller. Speaks seven languages and lives in Bavaria with her husband and son.