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30 Jul, 6 tweets, 5 min read
It’s book club time! Stop everything you’re doing and join our #AmnestyBookClubKE discussion on activism, active citizenship, and Dialogue & Dissent with @irunguhoughton, @GigiEssendi, @wanjirunjira, and @awuorayiecho! All we’re missing is you! Join us:
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Can’t join the Zoom call? You can also livestream the conversation on the Amnesty Facebook page:
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“At that time activist was a very dirty word or not something too many people identified with,” @irunguhoughton #AmnestyBookClubKE
“I was wrestling with this idea of must activists be oppositional? Must they be against the state? I was really grappling with this one idea of must we always be in dissent?” @irunguhoughton
#AmnestyBookClubKE
“It was the cynical way that he put it that really gave me a wake up call. Was the reason I was at university to become that or something better?” @irunguhoughton on one of the drivers that led to him being an activist
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“I grew up in an environment that was not conducive to me understanding who I am,” @GigiEssendi
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