Andrew Makkinga interviews Nanjala Nyabola, writer and political analyst and the author of Travelling While Black - Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move:
What does it feel like to move through a world designed to limit and exclude you? What are the joys and pains of holidays for people of colour, when guidebooks are never written with them in mind? How are black lives today impacted by the othering legacy of colonial cultures and policies? What can travel tell us about our sense of self, of home, of belonging and identity?
Nanjala Nyabola is an independent writer & researcher based in Nairobi, Kenya. 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, as well as a JD from Harvard Law School. 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).
Moderator Andrew Makkinga was born in Kampala, Oeganda. Hij hosted many different programs on radio and television, like hiphopshow 3VOOR12XL and DeBattle, which combines rap and debate. Every summer since 2007 Andrew presents the North Sea Jazz Festival. Starting 2016, he has his own show on NPO Radio 2 Soul & Jazz and in 2019 he started ‘Makkinga Meets’, also available as podcast. Andrew is a supervisory board member of the Performing Arts Fund NL.
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