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'''Rasna Warah''' (1962 – 11 January 2025) was a Kenyan writer.<ref name="africa">{{cite web |title=Rasna Warah |url=https://africasacountry.com/author/rasna-warah |website=africasacountry.com |publisher=Africa Is a Country |access-date=8 July 2025 |date=20 June 2024}}</ref><ref name="mengesha">{{cite web |last1=Mengesha |first1=Ras |title=Who Was Rasna Warah? |url=https://debunk.media/who-was-rasna-warah/ |website=Debunk Media |access-date=8 July 2025 |date=17 January 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Makokha |first1=Kwamchetsi |title=Rasna Warah: A warrior of truth hangs up her sword |url=https://nation.africa/kenya/news/rasna-warah-a-warrior-of-truth-hangs-up-her-sword-4888080 |access-date=8 July 2025 |work=Daily Nation |date=13 January 2025 |language=en}}</ref> |
'''Rasna Warah''' (1962 – 11 January 2025) was a Kenyan writer.<ref name="africa">{{cite web |title=Rasna Warah |url=https://africasacountry.com/author/rasna-warah |website=africasacountry.com |publisher=Africa Is a Country |access-date=8 July 2025 |date=20 June 2024}}</ref><ref name="mengesha">{{cite web |last1=Mengesha |first1=Ras |title=Who Was Rasna Warah? |url=https://debunk.media/who-was-rasna-warah/ |website=Debunk Media |access-date=8 July 2025 |date=17 January 2025}}</ref><ref name=makokha>{{cite news |last1=Makokha |first1=Kwamchetsi |title=Rasna Warah: A warrior of truth hangs up her sword |url=https://nation.africa/kenya/news/rasna-warah-a-warrior-of-truth-hangs-up-her-sword-4888080 |access-date=8 July 2025 |work=Daily Nation |date=13 January 2025 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="guchu">{{cite news |last1=Guchu |first1=Betty |title=A Tribute to My Friend Rasna Warah |url=https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/01/15/a-tribute-to-my-friend-rasna-warah/ |access-date=8 July 2025 |work=The Elephant |date=15 January 2025}}</ref><ref name="embrace">{{cite web |title=Our Tribute to Rasna Warah – Exceptional Writer, Activist & Human Rights Defender |url=https://embraceeveryone.wordpress.com/2025/01/22/our-tribute-to-rasna-warah-exceptional-writer-activist-human-rights-defender/ |website=Embrace everyone |access-date=8 July 2025 |language=en |date=22 January 2025}} ''Includes 6m25s video clip''</ref> |
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She was born in Nairobi in 1962, and went to a boarding school in [[Naini Tal]] in northern India before university studies in [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], United States, where she spent five years, and a year living in London, England.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rasna Warah, Columnist and Writer |url=https://lostinnairobi.wordpress.com/conversations-with-nairobians-nairobians-by-proxy-and-nairobian-wannabes/rasna-warah-columnist-and-writer/ |website=Lost in Nairobi |access-date=8 July 2025 |language=en |date=21 August 2014}}</ref> |
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She died of cancer on 11 January 2025.<ref name=makokha /><ref>{{cite news |last1=Warah |first1=Rasna |title=Cancer: The Enemy Within – Adios Rasna Warah |url=https://nation.africa/kenya/news/cancer-the-enemy-within-adios-rasna-warah-4886818 |access-date=8 July 2025 |work=Daily Nation |date=13 January 2025 |language=en}}</ref> |
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==Selected publications== |
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* {{cite book |last1=Warah |first1=Rasna |title=UNsilenced: Unmasking the United Nations’ Culture of Cover-Ups, Corruption and Impunity |date=2016 |publisher=AuthorHouse |isbn=978-1-5049-9993-9 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Unsilenced/xKfXCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=unsilenced%20warah&pg=PA1&printsec=frontcover |language=en}} |
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*{{cite book |last1=Warah |first1=Rasna |title=War Crimes: how warlords, politicians, foreign governments and aid agencies conspired to create a failed state in Somalia |date=2014 |publisher=Author House |isbn=978-1-4969-8281-0 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/War_Crimes/0WQOBAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=war%20crimes%20rasna%20warah&pg=PA175&printsec=frontcover |language=en}} |
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* {{cite book |last1=Warah |first1=Rasna |title=Mogadishu Then and Now: A Pictorial Tribute to Africa's Most Wounded City |date=2012 |publisher=AuthorHouse |isbn=978-1-4772-2903-3 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Mogadishu_Then_and_Now/p9YLxoqoq6kC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=rasna%20warah&pg=PA1982&printsec=frontcover |language=en}} |
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* {{cite book |last1=Warah |first1=Rasna |title=Red Soil and Roasted Maize: Selected Essays and Articles on Contemporary Kenya |date=2011 |publisher=AuthorHouse |isbn=978-1-4567-7725-8 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Red_Soil_and_Roasted_Maize/7872VHecdigC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=rasna%20warah&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover |language=en}} |
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* {{cite book |last1=Warah |first1=Rasna |title=Missionaries, Mercenaries and Misfits: An Anthology |date=2008 |publisher=Author House |isbn=978-1-4670-2276-7 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Missionaries_Mercenaries_and_Misfits/K6C_mC7FHZYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=rasna%20warah&pg=PR2&printsec=frontcover |language=en}} |
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* {{cite book |last1=Warah |first1=Rasna |title=Triple Heritage: A Journey to Self-discovery |date=1998 |publisher=R. Warah |isbn=978-9966-9974-9-4 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Triple_Heritage/J18wAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=rasna%20warah&dq=rasna%20warah&printsec=frontcover |language=en}} |
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