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Nanjala Nyabola Quotes

Kenya

Nanjala Nyabolais a writer, political analyst, and activist based in Nairobi, Kenya

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"The lack of a data privacy law has been an enormous lacuna in Kenya's digital rights landscape."

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

"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."

There is very little space for radical feminism in the public sphere in Kenya

"Write As Yourself and Write What You Know."

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

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nanjala Nyabola (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.