Ms. Ory Okolloh

Sex: Female
Country: This proud Kenyan currently lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. Ory holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School in the USA in North America, but chiefly blogs about the situation in her native Kenya. 
Occupation: Ms. Ory Okolloh is a lawyer, a political activist and a blogger. She is the co-founder of Mzalendo a website that tracks the performance of Kenyan Members of Parliament, and the co-founder of Ushahidi, a website that grew out of the political crisis in Kenya and that maps both incidents of violence and peace efforts. Currently, she works as a legal consultant in Johannesburg for several NGOs and manages her various activism efforts.

She likes to blog about women’s rights in Kenya, blogging in Africa, technology in Africa and the fact that Africans have the right to creating our own content, telling our own stories, and reflecting the diversity of Africa. Her blog is an outlet for her opinions, commentary, and “isn’t this cool” links.

Blog form: links, official reports, tips and discussion papers. Most of her blog posts are articles with links.

Random: Have a look at Ory talk about how growing up in Kenya morphed into becoming an activist. Here's her talk from TED Global in Arusha, Tanzania.