H. Nanjala Nyabola is a Kenyan writer and a humanitarian advocate currently based in Nairobi, Kenya. She holds an undergraduate degree in African Studies and Political Science from the University of Birmingham in the UK, an MSc in Forced Migration and an MSc in African Studies, both from the University of Oxford which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Her primary interests are in conflict and post-crisis reconstruction, especially translating and incorporating the experiences of marginalised voices (racial, ethnic, economic or gender minorities) in the process of rebuilding societies. She has lived in and travelled to almost 50 countries across 4 continents, speaks eight and a half languages to varying fluency and is comfortable admitting that she doesn’t know the correct way of pronouncing “interdict”.