Nanjala Nyabola

Board Member

Nanjala Nyabola is a writer, researcher, and political analyst whose work has been featured in a wide range of publications, including The Guardian, Aljazeera, Foreign Affairs, and The Nation, among others. She is the founder of the Kiswahili Digital Rights Project, a ground-breaking initiative to translate and popularize key terms in digital rights and technology into Kiswahili.

Ms. Nyabola is a member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism and founding member of the Africa Digital Rights Network. She is the author of Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move (2020) and Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era Is Transforming Politics in Kenya (2018) and editor of Where Women Are: Gender & The 2017 Kenyan Elections (2018).