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.
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]
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]
Recognition
Cafe Ngoma humanitarian journalist of the year award (2020)[4]
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