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Rasna Warah was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1962. She writes for the Daily Nation, a national newspaper in Kenya. She is recognized for her work with the United Nation’s Agency for Human Settlements (UN-HABITAT) as the editor of the quarterly produced, Habitat Debate and the State of the World’s Cities report series. She has authored a historical memoir, Triple Heritage (1998) as well as edited the anthology, Missionaries, Mercenaries and Misfits (2008). [ ] Warah and her husband now live in Malindi. [ ]

Biography
Warah’s great-grandfather left Lahore, India (present day Pakistan) during the British colonial expansion into East Africa.[ ][ ] One year after Kenya declared its independence Warah’s father chose to become a Kenyan citizen.[ ] Warah is the fourth generation of her family to be born in Kenya.[ ]

Warah, the daughter of a Nairobi based photographer,[ ] is a photographer in her own right having held exhibits in her home city of Nairobi, as well as in Fukuoka, Japan and Amsterdam, Netherlands.[ ] While attending Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts Warah’s first column was published in the Boston Globe.[ ]  Warah later graduated Malmo University in Sweden with a Master’s in Communication in Development.[ ]

Literary Career
Warah has edited and written for the UN-HABITAT’s Habitat Debate and the State of the World’s Cities report series.[ ] Her columns have appeared in the Boston Globe, the Sunday Standard’s Now Magazine, the East African and, for the last few years, in the Daily Nation.[ ]  Her analysis for UN-HABITAT appeared in Planet of Slums, by Mike Davis.[ ]  Her fictional work, “The Unbearable Heaviness of Comfort” has been published in the anthology, kwani? .02, a journal edited by Ebba Kalondo.

Triple Heritage: A Journey to Self Discovery
Rasna Warah’s memoir Triple Heritage: A Journey to Self Discovery (1998) examines the societal interrelationships of Asians in Africa. [ ]

Missionaries, Mercenaries and Misfits
Missionaries, Mercenaries and Misfits, an anthology published in 2008, presents its reader with a variety of contributors who have worked or are based in Africa. In this collection Warah creates a framework for her critique of the process in which the development of Africa is conducted and can be influenced and misdirected. Warah suggests that development cannot be ‘fixed’ but must instead undergo a different form of change. [ ] For her, development must focus on building an independent Africa; one based its own contexts and realities instead of on UN requirements. [ ] In 2007 her nephew Jaimeen Patel was shot and an article was written in the newspapers and books published in the United Nations.

Books
1.	Warah, Rasna. Triple Heritage: a Journey to Self-discovery. Nairobi: R. Warah, 1998. Print. 2.	Warah, Rasna. Missionaries, Mercenaries and Misfits: an Anthology. Central Milton Keynes: AuthorHouse, 2008. Print.

Short Stories
1.	Warah, Rasna. “The Unbearable Heaviness of Comfort.” Kwani 02. Kwani Trust, 2003. Print.

Articles
1.	Warah, Rasna. "Kenyan Men Say No to Female Circumcision." Viva (1987). Print.

2.	Warah, Rasna. "A Conference in Kigali." UN Chronicle 35.3 (1998). Print.

3.	Warah, Rasna. "Outwitting Outlaws." UN Chronicle 35.3 (1998). Print.

4.	Warah, Rasna. "Rwanda Women to Inherit Property." The East African (2000). Print.

5.	Warah, Rasna. "The Chronicle Library Shelf." UN Chronicle 38.2 (2001). Print.

6.	Warah, Rasna. "The Chronicle Library Shelf." UN Chronicle 38.2 (2001). Print.

7.	Warah, Rasna. "Nairobi’s Slums: Where Life for Women Is Nasty, Brutish and Short." Habitat Debate 4.4 (2002). Print.

8.	Warah, Rasna. "Re-emerging Kabul." UN Chronicle 39.2 (2002). Print.

9.	Warah, Rasna. "Women Involved In Reconstruction." UN Chronicle 39.2 (2002). Print.

10.	Warah, Rasna. "Slums and Housing in Africa." UN Chronicle 40.4 (2004). Print.

11.	Warah, Rasna. “Divided City: Information Poverty in Nairobi’s Slums.” UN Chronicle 41.2 (2004). Print.

12.	Warah, Rasna. “Illicit Diamonds.” UN Chronicle 41.3 (2004). Print.

13.	Warah, Rasna. “Kenya’s Lone Crusader Wins Noble peace Prize.” UN Chronicle 41.1 (2005). Print.

14.	Warah, Rasna. “The State of the World’s Cities, 2004/2005 Globalization and Urban Culture.” UN Chronicle 41.1 (2005). Print.

15.	Warah, Rasna. “Celebrating the Human Spirit.” UN Chronicle 42.2 (2005). Print.

16.	Warah, Rasna. “Chaotic Urban Transition in Africa.” UN Chronicle 42.3 (2005). Print.

17.	Warah, Rasna. “Africa’s Urban Youth Find A Voice.” UN Chronicle 43.2 (2006). Print.

18.	Warah, Rasna. “Urban Slum Trends in the 21st Century.” UN Chronicle 43.2 (2006). Print.

19.	Warah, Rasna. “Nairobi Kenya: Life in Kiberia.” World Watch 20.2 (2007).Print.