I am Gideon Nyakiongora,73 years young. I graduated from University of Nairobi in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Literature. I was employed by Income Tax Department of the Treasury and worked there for 33 years and retired in the year 2006.
After retirement i had plenty of time to do something because at 58 yrs i was still feeling young and wanted to continue working. At KRA i was a manager from early eighties and retired as a Senior manager at the Domestic Taxes Department, Times Tower. So with free time in my hands , I set up a tax Consultancy which i did for almost 10 years and said it was enough. Then I remembered what i had intended to do at the university; Journalism but the faculty had not been established at the University of Nairobi then and hence forcing me to join the faculty of arts. Why I wanted to do journalism was through encouragement from my English teacher McClure, who liked my English and made me the Editor in Chief of Getembe , the Kisii High Shool Magazine.
Indeed i had mastery over languages though i was also able to do mathematical subjects like Economics and pass with honors. I also did accounts. In fact KRA bosses loved my work such that even after reaching my retirement they extended my stay with them for an extra 3 years to perform special tasks. So i started writing from around 2011.I submitted manuals to the publishers for approval and publication but was disappointed that while editors recommended my work for publication, the top bosses would turn them down and decline publication. I felt frustrated. In fact, one member of one firm’s editorial team advised me privately to do self-publication and this is what i did and established my own publishing company, known as Gideon Wisdom Publishers which i use and i have already published 11 books viz:
1.Set The Last Captives Free.
2.The Tale Of Innocent Imani.
3.Born To Die
4.Amazing Love
5.Why Jesus Christ
Translations:
6.Mateka Wa Mwisho Wakombolewe
7.Hadithi Ya Imani Asiye Na Hatia
8.Kuzaliwa Ili Kufa
9.Mahaba Ya Kushangaza
10.Kwanini Ni Yesu Kristo
11.Omogano O’Imani Otari Na Mamocho
Those are the books i have so far authored and published and they are in the market, with all the English books available on Amazon.
I do Christian mission work under a ministry called Come Back Home, whose target is to arouse Christians to reach out to Muslims because Muslims are also the harvest field for our Lord and Savior who has redeemed us from sin and made us co-heirs with, Him without paying the price. The book is appealing not only to general non-believers to come to the faith, but to other faiths as well. This is why i have included Islam, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainists, Confucianism in my appeal having studied something about their faiths. I am still writing and by the grace of God I feel fully charged to continue.
