Nanjala Nyabola
Writer, Researcher and Policy Analyst at Freelance
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Oct 29, 2024 |
odi.org | Sara Pantuliano |Nanjala Nyabola |Sandra Pepera
In the wake of our decision at ODI to suspend all activity on X (formerly Twitter), this episode examines the polarisation and hate we are witnessing in today’s social media landscape and what is driving it. Since Elon Musk took ownership of X two years ago there has been a rise of hate speech, mis- and disinformation on the platform. The UK riots, which we dissected in a recent episode, are a case in point.
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Oct 22, 2024 |
newint.org | Nanjala Nyabola
In September 2024, US vice presidential candidate JD Vance amplified a rumour circulating on Facebook that Haitian migrants in the small Ohio town of Springfield, where Vance is a senator, had been eating people’s pets. Erika Lee, who made the original post, later confirmed that she had no first-hand knowledge about any such incidents and was merely repeating something that a neighbour had told her – that a cat had gone missing and its owner had suspected that a Haitian had eaten it.
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Aug 1, 2024 |
aljazeera.com | Nanjala Nyabola |Analogue Politics"
One of the most interesting grammatical elements of Kiswahili, the most widely spoken African language in the world, is that you can always create the negative form of an infinitive verb. In English, to be grammatically correct, the opposite of a verb has to have some kind of meaning in the real world. For example, the opposite of “to live” is “to die”.
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Jul 1, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Nanjala Nyabola
There is as yet no resolution after an unprecedented week in Kenyan politics. What began as protests against a rushed-through finance bill has revealed a crisis of legitimacy within the executive, the legislature and the police that were sent to do the government’s bidding.
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Feb 21, 2024 |
znetwork.org | Nanjala Nyabola |Amy Goodman |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
Leaders at this year’s African Union summit have condemned Israel’s assault on Gaza and called for its immediate end. Kenyan writer and political analyst Nanjala Nyabola explains the long history of African solidarity with Palestine, continuing with today’s efforts to end the destruction of Gaza. African countries “see really an identical experience between Palestinian occupation and what they have endured under colonization,” says Nyabola. “It’s a question of history. It’s a question of solidarity.
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Seeing news that V.Y. Mudimbe has passed on. A titan of African philosophy whose work on "The Invention of Africa" opened up a whole new line of thought and work for me, particularly his work on language. It's not an easy book, but very thought provoking. May he rest in peace.
The backlash against the Finance Bill protests has not ended.
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RT @waweru: My periodic reminder to Africans especially to stop looking at politics like an English premier league game with its associated…