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 work has featured in publications and outlets including African Arguments,[9] Al Jazeera,[10] Financial Times,[11] Foreign Affairs,[12] Foreign Policy,[13] The Guardian,[14] New African,[15] The New Humanitarian,[16] The New Inquiry,[17] New Internationalist,[18] OkayAfrica[19] and World Policy Journal.

"[21] generated much discussion,[22][23][24][25][26][27][28] including on the BBC World Service[29] and in a 2014 McGill University course syllabus on Western representations of Africa in media and pop culture.

[40] Nyabola has been an invited speaker at numerous international conferences on the politics of the digital, including re:publica 2018[41] and 2019,[42] the 2018 Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa,[43] and the 2019 RightsCon in Tunis.