Amina Odhimabo

Over the past seven years, Amina Odhiambo, a writer and social activist residing in Nairobi, has focused her work on the connections between human dignity, cultural resilience, and environmental justice in Kenya. Drawing on her experience in coastal areas like Kilifi and Kibera, Africa's second-largest slum, she recounts grassroots ideas addressing resource inequity, pollution, and climate adaption. Her writing opposes policies that worsen ecological and social divisions while elevating the voices of underprivileged groups, like as mothers facing urban sustainability issues or craftspeople resurrecting traditional crafts. Amina's work with groups like Sustainable Cities Initiative Nairobi, where she supports community-led solutions like Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLAs) that empower women entrepreneurs, and Pendekezo Letu, which supports youth connected to the streets, has greatly influenced her viewpoint. Her essays combine poetic storytelling with sharp analysis of development politics, especially how urbanization and extractive industries transform cultural identities. She has a background in environmental sociology from the University of Nairobi. Her distinctive focus on "remembrance as resistance"—documenting Indigenous knowledge and daily acts of survival against environmental erasure—joins our journal as a guest contributor.