Ben Mutua Jonathan Muriithi

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. He is currently an international broadcaster/multimedia specialist working on TV, radio, and internet at the Voice of America (VOA), a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the US Government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. Previously, he was a regional correspondent and producer at Voice of America based in Atlanta, Georgia. 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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