Angela Wanjiku Wamai

Angela Wanjiku Wamai is a Kenyan film editor. Her first film, Shimoni, won awards including the Golden Film Award at the Luxor African film festival.

Life Wamai was born and raised in Nairobi.

Wamai worked for a decade as an editor including New Moon directed by Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann and the documentary No Simple Way Home by Akuol de Mabior. Her first feature film, Shimoni premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Enkop In 2025 her film Enkop (The Soil) was being shown at the film festival in Rotterdam. The film was described as led by women, neo-western and set in Kenya’s ranch land.

Films "I Had to Bury Dad" (2018, Writer / Editor / Co-producer), "No Simple Way Home" (2021, Editor), (2020), "Dad, Are You Ok?" (short film in 2020, Director), Golden Film Award at the Luxor African Film Festival for Shimoni