Ann Njogu

“When you find a network of people who are thinking alike with a common desire to bring change, you achieve a lot.”

“I have used my voice to give the voiceless a voice.”

“When you are involved in activism, your goal is never to get rewarded but to create impact and change.”

“We should be agitated for change, especially the many things that don’t work as opposed to sitting back, moaning and groaning.”

“Things that change your life are the people you meet and the books you read.”

“My philosophy is that in life you either succeed or learn.”

“Women’s dressing has been weaponized. Society uses the dress as a backlash against women who are proponents of certain changes.”

“We hear the voices from across the world telling us, yes it has been done elsewhere — it can also be done in Kenya”

“and there’s nobody that’s going to stop that kind of change that is brewing across the country”

“The time for change has come”

“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”

“In Africa and in Kenya we have all the resources”

“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 wanted to die. For three months, I cried every day”

“They’ll never be able to shake off the shackles of oppression”

“Unless the people are equipped with all the information they require, and they need, to make the right decisions”

“The brain is a very powerful organ, whatever you tell it, it does. The body will just adjust”

“I talk to myself. Najiambia ‘Anne, whatever you have, put it behind. You are the voice of hope to the people outside there”

“My advice to such radio presenters is, go to a counselling school and learn do you can offer constructive advice. Radio is a very powerful tool and some listeners take our word as the gospel truth”