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]
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 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]
Works
Books
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]
"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
Papers
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.
^Simpson, Jared Keller, Alex Eichler, Jake (5 May 2010).
"5 Best Wednesday Columns". The Atlantic. Retrieved 10 July 2019.{{
cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link)
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]
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 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]
Works
Books
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]
"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
Papers
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.
^Simpson, Jared Keller, Alex Eichler, Jake (5 May 2010).
"5 Best Wednesday Columns". The Atlantic. Retrieved 10 July 2019.{{
cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link)