Kenyan writer
Nanjala Nyabola is a Kenyan writer, political analyst, and activist based in Nairobi , Kenya.[ 1] [ 2]
Nyabola writes extensively about African society and politics, technology, international law, and feminism for academic and non-academic publications. Her first book Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Kenya (Zed Books , 2018) was described as "a must read for all researchers and journalists writing about Kenya today".[ 3]
Nyabola held a Rhodes Scholarship at Harris Manchester College , University of Oxford in 2009,[ 4] was part of the 2017 inaugural cohort of Foreign Policy Interrupted Fellows,[ 5] and was a 2017 Logan Nonfiction Program Fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good .[ 6]
Nyabola sits on the board of Amnesty International Kenya.[ 7]
Nyabola holds multiple degrees in politics and law:[ 5]
Nyabola writes extensively about African society and politics, in particular Kenya, alongside discussions of technology, international law, and feminism. Her work has featured in publications and outlets including African Arguments,[ 8] Al Jazeera ,[ 9] Financial Times ,[ 10] Foreign Affairs ,[ 11] Foreign Policy ,[ 12] The Guardian ,[ 13] New African ,[ 14] The New Humanitarian ,[ 15] The New Inquiry ,[ 16] New Internationalist ,[ 17] OkayAfrica [ 18] and World Policy Journal .[ 19]
Her 2014 Al Jazeera opinion piece "Why do Western media get Africa wrong?"[ 20] generated much discussion,[ 21] [ 22] [ 23] [ 24] [ 25] [ 26] [ 27] including on the BBC World Service [ 28] and in a 2014 McGill University course syllabus on Western representations of Africa in media and pop culture.[ 29]
Her 2010 Guardian opinion piece "Why, as an African, I took a Rhodes scholarship"[ 30] was chosen as one of the 5 Best Wednesday Columns in The Atlantic .[ 31]
Nyabola at the Disruption Network Lab in Berlin , 2018 Laura Rosenberger , Uri Rosenthal , Andreas Michaelis , Nanjala Nyabola, Oliver della Costa Stuenkel in 2019Nyabola is a frequent contributor to the BBC World Service, particularly on issues around Kenyan politics and technology.[ 28] [ 32] [ 33] [ 34] [ 35]
She is a prolific speaker at universities including discussions of African politics, specifically Kenya, migration, feminism, and the digital at the University of Edinburgh ,[ 36] SOAS ,[ 37] [ 38] Stanford University .[ 39]
Nyabola has been an invited speaker at numerous international conferences on the politics of the digital, including re:publica 2018[ 40] and 2019,[ 41] the 2018 Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa,[ 42] and the 2019 RightsCon in Tunis.[ 43] She gave the opening keynote at the 2022 Association of Internet Researchers conference.[ 1]
2020: Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move – a collection of essays published by Hurst Publishers ,.[ 44] The essays analyse the radicalised experience of travelling as "a middle-class, mobile, Black African female"[ 45] and is interspersed with "personal stories that are witty, moving, unsettling, and harrowing in turn".[ 46] The book was positively received and featured in The Times Literary Supplement [ 45] and NPR [ 47] among others. Ranka Primorac writes that the book "has sharp and urgent things to say about racism in America, xenophobia in Africa, and the future of Pan-Africanism".[ 46]
2018: Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya was published by Zed Books .[ 48] A review in African Studies Quarterly described it as a "highly refreshing, innovative, and descriptive narrative sheds light on contemporary Kenya, highlighting the impact of technology on its political and social systems".[ 45] It received positive reviews from LSE Review of Books ,[ 3] Duncan Green ,[ 49] Business Daily Africa ,[ 50] between the lines podcast from the Institute of Development Studies [ 51] and the Africa Oxford Initiative podcast at the University of Oxford.[ 52] Nyabola has given book talks at numerous universities including the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University ,[ 53] the University of the Witwatersrand ,[ 54] School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University ,[ 55] Stanford University Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society[ 56] and the University of Cambridge .[ 57] The book is cited in a Financial Times article on the fight to control Africa's digital revolution.[ 58]
2018 : Where Women Are: Gender & The 2017 Kenyan Elections (co-edited with Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle) was published by Heinrich-Boell-Stiftung and Twaweza Communications Ltd.[ 59] "Testimony as Text: Performative Vulnerability and the Limits of Legalistic Approaches to Refugee Protection". In African Women Under Fire: Literary Discourses in War and Conflict, published in 2017 by Rowman & Littlefield .[ 60]
"Media Perspectives: Social Media and New Narratives: Kenyans Tweet Back". Chapter in Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century: From the 'Heart of Darkness' to 'Africa Rising', published in 2016 by Routledge Nyabola, Nanjala. “Kenyan Feminisms in the Digital Age.” Women’s Studies Quarterly , vol. 46, no. 3 & 4, 2018, pp. 261–72. JSTOR , https ://www.jstor.org/stable/26511346. Accessed 7 June 2024.
^ a b "Prize Students Step-up to Receive Awards" . University of Birmingham. 12 July 2008. Retrieved 1 September 2020 .
^ Adebanjo, Oluwayemisi (2019). "Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya" . African Studies Quarterly . 18 (4): 85–86.
^ a b deSouza, Priyanka (7 December 2018). "Book Review: Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Kenya by Nanjala Nyabola" . LSE Review of Books . Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
^ "Rhodes Scholar Database" . Rhodes Trust . Retrieved 30 January 2021 .
^ a b "Foreign Policy Interrupted | H. Nanjala Nyabola" . Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
^ "H. Nanjala Nyabola" . Carey Institute for Global Good . 27 May 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2019 .
^ "Our Board" . Amnesty International Kenya . Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
^ "Nanjala Nyabola, Author at African Arguments" . African Arguments . Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
^ "Nanjala Nyabola" . www.aljazeera.com . Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
^ "Nanjala Nyabola" . Financial Times . Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
^ "Nanjala Nyabola" . Foreign Affairs . 14 September 2015. Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
^ "Nanjala Nyabola – Foreign Policy" . Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
^ "Nanjala Nyabola | The Guardian" . the Guardian . Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
^ "Search for "nanjala nyabola" - New African Magazine" . newafricanmagazine.com . Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
^ "Nanjala Nyabola | The New Humanitarian" . www.thenewhumanitarian.org . Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
^ "Nanjala Nyabola" . The New Inquiry . Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
^ "Author Details" . New Internationalist . Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
^ "Nanjala Nyabola" . runner . Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
^ "Search Results for "nanjala nyabola" – World Policy" . Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
^ Nyabola, Nanjala (2 January 2014). "Why do Western media get Africa wrong?" . www.aljazeera.com . Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
^ Gathara, Patrick (24 January 2014). "If western journalists get Africa wrong, who gets it right?" . The Guardian . ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
^ Wrong, Michela (21 February 2014). "In defence of western journalists in Africa" . African Arguments . Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
^ "Why do Western media get Africa wrong?" . TMS Ruge . 2 January 2014. Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
^ "What does a round of 'African nations in high school' say about" . The East African . Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
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^ Solomon, Salem (23 April 2014). "Examining the roots of biased reporting on Africa | Africa Talks" . www.africa-talks.com . Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
^ D.H. (24 January 2014). "Two tribes" . The Economist . ISSN 0013-0613 . Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
^ a b "BBC World Service - World Have Your Say, Is it the media's responsibility to champion Africa, or simply understand it?" . BBC . Retrieved 11 July 2019 .
^ Barber, Nicholas (2014). "Syllabus - Africa in Media and Pop Culture" (PDF) . mcgill.ca . Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
^ Nyabola, Nanjala (5 May 2010). "Why, as an African, I took a Rhodes scholarship | Nanjala Nyabola" . The Guardian . ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
^ Simpson, Jared Keller, Alex Eichler, Jake (5 May 2010). "5 Best Wednesday Columns" . The Atlantic . Retrieved 10 July 2019 . ((cite web ))
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^ "BBC World Service - Business Daily, Tackling Fake News" . BBC . Retrieved 11 July 2019 .
^ "BBC World Service - Focus on Africa, Political violence erupts in Guinea" . BBC . Retrieved 11 July 2019 .
^ "BBC World Service - Africa Today, Kenya Election Watch Special" . BBC . Retrieved 11 July 2019 .
^ "BBC World Service - Business Matters, Raila Odinga Calls for Boycott of Kenyan Elections" . BBC . 26 October 2017. Retrieved 11 July 2019 .
^ "Centre of African Studies: Events : Africa in 2019: Prospects & Forecasts" . www.cas.ed.ac.uk . Archived from the original on 11 July 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2019 .
^ "Africa in 2018: Prospects & Forecasts | SOAS University of London" . www.soas.ac.uk . Retrieved 11 July 2019 .
^ "NANJALA NYABOLA" . SOAS African Development Forum . Retrieved 11 July 2019 .
^ "Africa Table: Kenyan Feminisms in the Digital Age | Center for African Studies" . africanstudies.stanford.edu . Retrieved 11 July 2019 .
^ "Introducing: #rpAccra Speaker Nanjala Nyabola" . re:publica . Retrieved 11 July 2019 .
^ "What Tech Can't Fix" . re:publica 2019 . Retrieved 11 July 2019 .
^ "CIPESA-FIFAfrica2018-participant-Nanjala-Nyabola" . Cipesa Events . Retrieved 11 July 2019 .
^ "Nanjala Nyabola's schedule for RightsCon Tunis 2019" . rightscon2019.sched.com . Retrieved 11 July 2019 .
^ "Travelling While Black | Hurst Publishers" . HURST . Retrieved 22 March 2021 .
^ a b c Saro-Wiwa, Noo (15 January 2021). "Travelling While Black by Nanjala Nyabola book review | The TLS" . Times Literary Supplement . Retrieved 22 March 2021 .
^ a b Primorac, Ranka (3 July 2021). "Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move" . Wasafiri . 36 (3): 102–103. doi :10.1080/02690055.2021.1918469 . ISSN 0269-0055 .
^ "Rewriting The Travel Guidebook With Nanjala Nyabola : Rough Translation" . NPR.org . Retrieved 22 March 2021 .
^ "Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics" . ZED Books . Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
^ "Book Review: Nanjala Nyabola, Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya" . From Poverty to Power . 3 April 2019. Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
^ Nyayieka, Ivy (24 January 2019). "BOOK REVIEW: Kenya's digital democracy against analogue politics" . Business Daily . Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
^ "Podcast Ep 09: Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics – Nanjala Nyabola" . www.ids.ac.uk . Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
^ "Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the digital era is transforming Kenya | University of Oxford Podcasts - Audio and Video Lectures" . podcasts.ox.ac.uk . Retrieved 10 July 2019 .
^ "Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics" . Berkman Klein Center . 20 March 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2019 .
^ "Book Talk : What Technology Can't Fix by Nanjala Nyabola | Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research" . wiser.wits.ac.za . Retrieved 11 July 2019 .
^ "On Digital Democracy in Kenya | Columbia SIPA" . sipa.columbia.edu . Retrieved 11 July 2019 .
^ "Old Civic Spaces in New Digital Places: Theorising Kenya's Digital Civil Society" . Stanford PACS . Retrieved 11 July 2019 .
^ "talks.cam : Book launch with Nanjala Nyabola - in conversation with Dr Duncan Omanga (CGHR)" . www.talks.cam.ac.uk . Retrieved 11 July 2019 .
^ Pilling, David (20 June 2019). "The fight to control Africa's digital revolution" . Financial Times. Retrieved 15 July 2019 .
^ "Where Women Are: Gender & The 2017 Kenyan Elections" . East & Horn of Africa: Heinrich Böll Stiftung. Retrieved 11 July 2019 .
^ African Women Under Fire: Literary Discourses in War and Conflict . Rowman & Littlefield.
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