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Nanjala Nyabola

is a Kenyan writer and graduate student at Harvard Law School, focusing on the legal and socio-political dimensions of conflict in Africa. Her writing focuses on African politics and society, international law, and feminism.

Features

Fire This Time?

By Nanjala NyabolaAugust 7, 2017
Kenya’s Referendum on Public Values
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The Standing Vote

By Nanjala NyabolaNovember 7, 2016
The state's racist response to the Standing Rock encampment has alienated some from the ballot box. A dispatch from Nanjala Nyabola.
Essays & Reviews

What is Aleppo?

By Nanjala NyabolaOctober 19, 2016
Aleppo is every broken promise, bundled lie, and double standard implicit in the mantra “never again.”
Essays & Reviews

Eulogy For Pan-Africanism: Long Live Man-Africanism

By Nanjala NyabolaMay 23, 2016
Everyone can tell you what Pan-Africanism stands for… when it is juxtaposed with the West. But no one seems to know what Pan-Africanism means when it is self-referential. And the solidarity consciousness is dying, leaving behind a network that exists solely to protect rich, powerful men.
Essays & Reviews

The African is Not at Home

By Nanjala NyabolaOctober 26, 2015
African migrants and refugees within the continent bear the contradictions of binding African identity to land.
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