Audio Brief By Boaz Waruku – KNIT Member
The Kenya National Interface Team (KNIT) has since 2015 been holding sessions aimed at addressing issues that have set Kenya on a challenging political and social trajectory since independence. The weakening of governance and social institutions that have resulted from this, threatens the very core of Kenya’s unity and peaceful...
The Future of Digital Safety in Kenya: Why Accountability Can No Longer Wait
By Edwin Wanjawa and Dommie Yambo-Odotte
For many Kenyans, digital gender-based violence (GBV) is still casually dismissed as “online drama.” But for survivors, it is trauma without borders. It destroys reputations, ruptures families, destabilises mental health, threatens livelihoods, and in far too many cases, spills into physical harm. As Kenya concludes the 16 Days of...
Building Digital Resilience — Tools, Skills and Community Interventions
By Edwin Wanjawa and Dommie Yambo-Odotte
As Kenya’s digital footprint rapidly expands through social media, mobile banking, E-learning, E-commerce, and online civic engagement, the digital space has become both a site of opportunity and a terrain of profound risk. For women and girls in particular, this space is increasingly marked by online Gender-Based Violence (GBV),...
Women, Marginalisation, and Digital Violence
By Edwin Wanjawa and Dommie Yambo-Odotte
The digital sphere has become an indispensable space for communication, self-expression, and political participation. Yet for many women across the world, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, this space is fraught with danger. Digital violence—manifesting through targeted cyberattacks, harassment, disinformation, and hate speech—mirrors and amplifies offline inequalities. It is a contemporary...
Progress Made in Women’s Leadership in Politics and Media
Progress Made in Women's Leadership
The Rise of Digital Gender-Based Violence in Kenya: When Online Harm Turns Into Offline Danger
By Edwin Wanjawa and Dommie Yambo-Odotte
Digital spaces were once imagined as places of freedom—platforms where women and girls in Kenya could learn, dream, build careers, express themselves, and participate in public life without restriction. Today, however, these same spaces have become some of the most dangerous environments for them. A new frontier of abuse...
Sextortion: The Silent Digital Trap Ensnaring Kenyan Girls
By Edwin Wanjawa and Dommie Yambo-Odotte
Sextortion — the coercive use of intimate images to demand money, sexual favours, or silence — has rapidly become one of the most insidious forms of technology-facilitated gender-based violence in Kenya. While women across all ages are targeted, high-school and university girls now bear the greatest burden, caught at...
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