Nanjala Nyabola is a Kenyan writer and researcher . Her work focuses on the intersection between technology, media, and society. She holds a BA in African Studies and Political Science from the University of Birmingham, an MSc in African Studies and an MSc in Forced Migration, both from the University of Oxford which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar, a JD from Harvard Law School and a PhD in Digital Humanities from King’s College, London. She has held numerous research associate positions including with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), and other institutions, while also working as a research lead for several projects on human rights broadly and digital rights specifically around the world. She has also worked as a lead researcher on projects pertaining to migration, youth protest and digital cultures around the world, as well as supporting nonprofits working with young people in politics across Africa as an organiser. A founding member of the Africa Digital Rights Network, she is a fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), the Digital Forensic Lab at the Atlantic Council, The Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology (CIPIT) at Strathmore University, and the Centre for International Cooperation (CIC) at NYU. She serves on the board of several non-profit organisations and has published in several academic journals as well as contributed to numerous edited collections. Nyabola also writes commentary for publications like The Nation, Al Jazeera, The Boston Review and others. She is the author of Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya (Zed Books, 2018) and Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move (Hurst Books, 2020), and an editor of Global Platform Governance: Regulating Big Tech Beyond the Atlantic (Bloomsbury, 2026).