![A Maasai woman holds her ID card as she waits to cast her ballot in a polling station near the town of Magadi in Kenya on March 4, 2013 [File: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ef7d0e13e2e942c48aad8c648bf5198e_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Kenyans are being forced to make a choice between legal erasure and being commodified as data by their own government.
![Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina died on May 21 after a short illness [File: Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/c9050a16ffec492d8bb55c6cf415c83c_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Binyavanga Wainaina inspired me and a whole generation of Kenyans to put pen to paper.
![UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan looks at the 'Djennenke' style pre-Dogon statue, a symbol of immortality, during the inauguration of the Musee du Quai Branly in Paris, June 20, 2006 [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/7f2c2b05bb414392a7872868850d37d1_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
From the very cultures that created them?
Kenyans are being forced to make a choice between legal erasure and being commodified as data by their own government.
Binyavanga Wainaina inspired me and a whole generation of Kenyans to put pen to paper.
From the very cultures that created them?