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Nanjala Nyabola
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thumb|Nanjala Nyabola in 2019
Nanjala Nyabolais a writer, political analyst, and activist based in Nairobi, Kenya
Quotes
"The lack of a data privacy law has been an enormous lacuna in Kenya's digital rights landscape."
As quoted in The Web's Largest Resource forFamous Quotes & Sayings.
"Write As Yourself and Write What You Know."
"I’ve found that if you put aside the desire to be seen and just write from an authentic place of wanting to tell stories you know and that you think the world might profit from hearing, it will take you a long way, even in nonfiction."
As quoted by OJIMA ABALAKA on April 16th 2021.
There’s something about the human condition that wants to build community outside the family and there’s something about how that intersects with information that makes it a very powerful and potent thing
The basis of political discourse has to be that we’re all consuming the same information, even if we disagree about what that information is and what it means
My favourite thing to witness over the last couple of years has been how women, especially, have been using . . . radical feminists have been using social media to organise
There is very little space for radical feminism in the public sphere in Kenya
There’s very little space for people who challenge traditional family values and especially lesbians especially people who are parts of sexual or gender minorities wouldn’t find representation in the public sphere at all, prior to the social media area
And it’s important to understand media capture, because the internet has a surrogate function in every society that reflects what is missing in that specific society
[./Digital_Democrahttps://www.ids.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/9.-Nanjala-Nyabola-transcript.pdfcy,_Analogue_Politics:_How_the_Internet_Era_is_Transforming_Politics_in_Kenya_-_Nanjala_Nyabola Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya - Nanjala Nyabola] 5 June 2019
Quote about her
During my childhood, I was completely spoilt for choice with African and non-African young adult literature which I read until I finished primary school—then I pivoted to more general literary fiction.
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External links
Category:Women journalists from Kenya
Category:Non-fiction authors from Kenya
Category:Living people
Category:Activists from Kenya