Today Kenyans are sending a message to Africa and the 🌎. Authoritarianism and corruption will no longer ✈️.
You either do the job we asked you to do or you leave. #SiriNiNumbers
Viva 🇰🇪
Billionaires are buying elections.
Corporations are poisoning our food.
Republicans are defunding education.
Insurance companies are killing people needing healthcare.
Private equity destroyed affordable housing.
And people think "illegals" are the problem.
The Kenyan authorities paid a network of trolls to threaten and intimidate young protesters during recent anti-government demonstrations, Amnesty International has said. https://t.co/aRkGDK4rIx
This is what the government representatives Kenyans elect should be doing. This is what any government leaders that truly work for the people should be doing.
https://t.co/ZC160URjvR
A truly liberated society would not romanticize pregnancy. It would treat it as a choice so serious, lso sacrificial, that no one would ever be shamed for refusing it. Maybe the most radical thing a woman can do is look at the institution of motherhood
Press statement by Rose Njeri Tunguru, 30th October 2025, New York at the #TIME100NEXT gala.
I am truly honored to be here today, among such extraordinary people who are shaping the future of our world.
I ask that we keep our eyes on East Africa. Our region is going through a difficult chapter — marked by abductions, a shrinking civic space, and leaders who refuse to let go of power or value the lives of their citizens.
In Tanzania today, the president has barred her opponents from running for office, and the country once known for its peace is now in turmoil. Across our borders, activists live in fear. Kenyans have been abducted in Uganda and Tanzania. Ugandans in Kenya and Tanzania. Tanzanians in Kenya. It is the worst kind of exchange program — one that trades away our dignity and freedom.
In Kenya, we are facing our own struggles under a president determined to consolidate power, pushing through laws that violate our right to free expression.
But even in these dark times, I stand here in hope. I dedicate this moment to all the young people across the world who continue to rise, speak out, and demand better from those who lead us. You remind us that courage is contagious, and that change, no matter how far, always begins with us.
Thank you.
📷 NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 30: Rose Njeri Tunguru attends the 2025 TIME100 Next Event at The Current at Chelsea Piers on October 30, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Kevin MazurGetty Images for TIME)
Most people who try to change others for the better actually end up being changed for the worse. You can’t change others, you can only improve who you are and attract a different kind of people.