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Denis Nzioka

astronomer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ5258796 ↗
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Denis Njoroge Nzioka was a Kenyan author. He has been instrumental in the formation of several organizations focused on sexual diversity and sex workers' rights while supporting regional organizing around sexual diversity, bodily autonomy, and choice-expression.

Life and work

Njoroge was born in Nairobi, Kenya and studied at the University of Embu. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Animal Husbandry.

He founded Identity Kenya as a media agency and service. The Agency worked to transform public opinion and social attitudes through grassroots reporting and community commentary.

Njoroge was a 2013 Kenyan Presidential aspirant. He pioneered Identity Kenya, as well as a news app on the Google Play Store. He co-edited GKT's book My Way, Your Way or the Rights Way and published in 2019 an anthology book of Kenyan allies speaking out for marginalised rights titled Rafiki Zetu. In 2020, he launched an online archive, dubbed KumbuKumbu, an open, online, and free repository for records documenting the history and culture of diverse expressions and identities in Kenya from mid-1800 to the present.

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