Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Lynn Ngugi
Kenyan journalist and media personality From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Lynn Ngugi is a Kenyan journalist and media personality. She was one of the BBC's 100 inspiring women, a Commonwealth change ambassador and a campaigning YouTuber.
Life
Ngugi grew up in Huruma, which is a low-income residential estate in the north-east of Nairobi.[1] Her father was an abusive husband and after the marriage ended[2] her mother and her three sisters shared a single room in Huruma. Her mother sold shoes and her father stopped supporting his children.[2]
In 2004, she left secondary education[citation needed] and began studying journalism at the East Africa School of Media Studies.[3]
Ngugi worked for years in Qatar and Dubai[3] serving coffee, as she found it difficult to get a job in the media.[2] She volunteered to care for cancer patients.[4] In 2011, she began to gain influence on social media, first with Kiwo films and then with the Qatar Foundation.[citation needed] She worked at Tuko until 2021.[5] when she decided to launch her own channel which soon gathered 100,000 subscribers.[6]
Ngugi wrote about human interest stories and campaigned for justice - including for Ebbie Noelle Samuels.[7] Ebbie had died as the result of a head injury at her boarding school.[8]
Remove ads
Recognition
- Cafe Ngoma humanitarian journalist of the year award (2020)[4]
- Ambassador for Change for the Commonwealth of Nations (2021).[5]
- BBC list of the 100 most influential women of 2021[4][9]
- Gender justice champion award by Echo Network Africa (2023)
- Media Personality of the Year by East Africa Women of Excellence (2024).[10]
References
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads