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Ann Njogu is a Kenyan activist. In 2010, she was the director of the Centre for Rights Education and Awareness, which among other things documented sexual- and gender-based violence after the Kenyan general election in December 2007.
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Things that change your life are the people you meet and the books you read.
When you are involved in activism, your goal is never to get rewarded but to create impact and change.
When you find a network of people who are thinking alike with a common desire to bring change, you achieve a lot.
We hear the voices from across the world telling us, yes it has been done elsewhere — it can also be done in Kenya
My philosophy is that in life you either succeed or learn.
We should be agitated for change, especially the many things that don’t work as opposed to sitting back, moaning and groaning.
The brain is a very powerful organ, whatever you tell it, it does. The body will just adjust
I have used my voice to give the voiceless a voice.
Women’s dressing has been weaponized. Society uses the dress as a backlash against women who are proponents of certain changes.
Unless the people are equipped with all the information they require, and they need, to make the right decisions
They’ll never be able to shake off the shackles of oppression
We still felt the fear, but continued to do it anyway because it was the right thing. We understand that it is our duty, and that of our generation, to replace the present despair with a new hope
I talk to myself. Najiambia ‘Anne, whatever you have, put it behind. You are the voice of hope to the people outside there
I wanted to die. For three months, I cried every day
In Africa and in Kenya we have all the resources
When you speak up, our government listens. When you activate your networks, that is awesome
It’s only that we have the wrong priorities, the wrong leadership to direct those priorities, and the levels of corruption that make it impossible for that potential to be realized
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