Nanjala Nyabola

“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”

“There’s very little space for people who challenge traditional family values and especially lesbians especially people who are parts of sexual or gender minorities wouldn’t find representation in the public sphere at all, prior to the social media area”

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

“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”

“The basis of political discourse has to be that we’re all consuming the same information, even if we disagree about what that information is and what it means”

“There’s something about the human condition that wants to build community outside the family and there’s something about how that intersects with information that makes it a very powerful and potent thing”

“"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."”

“"Write As Yourself and Write What You Know."”

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