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Democracy and Political ParticipationDigital Activism
Extractive Industries and Multinational Corporations
Human Rights
Refugees, Migration, IDPs
Social Movements & Non-violent Resistance
Women Human Rights Defenders
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Media
Migrant deaths: tragedy – or murder? New Internationalist Aug 16, 2023
A New Form of Propaganda Has Targeted the Central African Republic The Nation May 4, 2023
What the World Should Know About Sudan The Nation Apr 25, 2023
The Crisis of Imagination in International Relations The Nation Apr 11, 2023
In a World On Fire, What Do We Owe Each Other? The Nation Apr 4, 2023
History Explains Why Much of Africa Chooses Neutrality Over West’s Support of Ukraine Democracy Now Feb 23, 2023
The human cost of ChatGPT Al Jazeera The Take Podcast Feb 1, 2023
ChatGPT and the sweatshops powering the digital age Opinion Al Jazeera Jan 23, 2023
Africa’s Ukraine Dilemma Foreign Affairs Sep 5, 2022
What Will the Future of Kenya Look Like? Democracy Now Aug 19, 2022
The Kenyan Kakistocracy The Nation Aug 17, 2022
Climate change? It’s everyone’s problem New Internationalist Aug 17, 2022
Kenya 2022: The most boring election Opinion Al Jazeera Aug 6, 2022
Why dangerous content thrives on Facebook and TikTok in Kenya Washington Post Jul 31, 2022
Elon Musk’s purchase may very well kill Twitter as we know it Al Jazeera Apr 26, 2022
War and the attention economy New Internationalist Apr 4, 2022
Migration: Europe’s Achilles’ heel New Internationalist Feb 15, 2022
2021: The year of failed political leadership Opinion Al Jazeera Dec 29, 2021
Africa’s vaccine crisis: It’s not all about corruption Opinion Al Jazeera July 19, 2021
Vaccine Nationalism Is Patently Unjust The Nation Mar 22, 2021
In Nairobi, Female Coders Are Flipping the Silicon Valley Trope on Its Head Vogue Magazine Mar 8, 2021
How should social media be regulated? Opinion Al Jazeera Feb 11, 2021
Race shapes travel: backpacking as a black woman book excerpt The Guardian Nov 9, 2020
Kenya Turns Its Covid-19 Crisis into a Human Rights Emergency Essay New York Review July 22, 2020
Police violence in the time of pandemic Opinion Al Jazeera April 10, 2020
Africa has a head start in managing coronavirus Opinion Al Jazeera Mar 19, 2020
Nanjala Nyabola (@Nanjala1) is a writer, humanitarian advocate and political analyst based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her latest work focuses on the intersection between technology, media and society and has previously centered on conflict and post conflict transitions, with a focus on refugees and migration, as well as East African politics.
Her book Travelling While Black was published in 2020. She describes it as an essay collection reflecting on race and human mobility. Nanjala is the author of Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Kenya (2018) and the co-editor of Where Women Are: Gender and the 2017 Kenyan Elections.
She is a fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), an independent, non-partisan think tank based in Waterloo, Canada. Her work has appeared in such publications as Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Al Jazeera, World Politics Review, The Nation, as well as chapters in edited collections.
Nanjala holds a BA in African Studies and Political Science from the University of Birmingham, an MSc in Forced Migration and an MSc in African Studies, both from the University of Oxford, which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.