BMJ (Ben Mutua Jonathan) Muriithi (born Jonathan Nyaga on 4 May 1969)
is a print, radio and television journalist and actor based in the
United States. Muriithi is also a regional reporter and correspondent
for NTV, a Kenyan media outlet, QTV, and the Nation Newspaper, all
owned by Nation Media Group (NMG). He previously worked for The
Standard of Kenya as a US correspondent.BMJ Muriithi was born in
Kanyuambora village, Embu district in the Eastern province of Kenya. A
son of Kenyan small scale farmers, the late Sospeter Mungwana Kironji
Mutua and Jane Igoki Mungwana Kironji, he rose from a relatively
modest family background to head one of the most popular drama clubs
in Kenya, the Mt. Kenya Theatrix, before moving to the United
States.Muriithi and his now late brother, Stephen Njagi Kironji,
started acting in their village church at a very young age. Muriithi
later joined Kangaru School, Embu, Kenya, graduating in 1986. He then
joined a private school in Thika, Kenya while living with his father,
who worked as at Joytown Special School for disabled children as a
caretaker. Muriithi became the YMCA Drama Club Chaperon in 1988 and
later that year he was elected to head the Youth Department at the
Thika YMCA branch. In 1990, he trained as a registration assistant at
Kenya Institute of Surveying and Mapping (KISM) in Ruaraka. Upon
graduating, Muriithi was hired by the Kenyan government and posted in
Eastern Province as a Registration Assistant. While working with the
Lands Department at the Eastern Provincial Headquarters in Embu, he
joined renowned actor Joseph Murungu in the newly formed Mt Kenya
Theatrix Drama Group under the auspices of the Kenya Red Cross, Embu
Branch. While on an exchange program tour co-sponsored by the Kenya
Red Cross Society and the Norwegian Red Cross Society, he enrolled in
a certificate course in acting and photojournalism at Haraldvangen
Institute in Norway, graduating in 1992.
is a print, radio and television journalist and actor based in the
United States. Muriithi is also a regional reporter and correspondent
for NTV, a Kenyan media outlet, QTV, and the Nation Newspaper, all
owned by Nation Media Group (NMG). He previously worked for The
Standard of Kenya as a US correspondent.BMJ Muriithi was born in
Kanyuambora village, Embu district in the Eastern province of Kenya. A
son of Kenyan small scale farmers, the late Sospeter Mungwana Kironji
Mutua and Jane Igoki Mungwana Kironji, he rose from a relatively
modest family background to head one of the most popular drama clubs
in Kenya, the Mt. Kenya Theatrix, before moving to the United
States.Muriithi and his now late brother, Stephen Njagi Kironji,
started acting in their village church at a very young age. Muriithi
later joined Kangaru School, Embu, Kenya, graduating in 1986. He then
joined a private school in Thika, Kenya while living with his father,
who worked as at Joytown Special School for disabled children as a
caretaker. Muriithi became the YMCA Drama Club Chaperon in 1988 and
later that year he was elected to head the Youth Department at the
Thika YMCA branch. In 1990, he trained as a registration assistant at
Kenya Institute of Surveying and Mapping (KISM) in Ruaraka. Upon
graduating, Muriithi was hired by the Kenyan government and posted in
Eastern Province as a Registration Assistant. While working with the
Lands Department at the Eastern Provincial Headquarters in Embu, he
joined renowned actor Joseph Murungu in the newly formed Mt Kenya
Theatrix Drama Group under the auspices of the Kenya Red Cross, Embu
Branch. While on an exchange program tour co-sponsored by the Kenya
Red Cross Society and the Norwegian Red Cross Society, he enrolled in
a certificate course in acting and photojournalism at Haraldvangen
Institute in Norway, graduating in 1992.
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