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Kauna Malgwi
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03 · Background
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Nigerian clinical psychologist; chairperson of the Steering Committee of the Nigeria chapter of the African Content Moderators Union and founder of the Digital Rights and Mental Health Initiative Africa (DRMHIA). Malgwi fled northern Nigeria in 2012 during the Boko Haram insurgency with her mother and aunt, reached Abuja, and completed her education in Kenya, where she holds a Master's in clinical psychology from United States International University-Africa and is a PhD candidate in psychology at Pan Africa Christian University in Nairobi.
In 2019 she joined the Nairobi-based outsourcer Samasource (Sama) believing the role was call-centre work and discovered after starting that the assigned work was Facebook content moderation in her native Hausa under an NDA that prohibited her from disclosing she was reviewing Meta's content. She worked at Sama for four years at approximately $600 a month, and reports that "right from training, I started experiencing anxiety and panic attacks. I went into depression" — symptoms she later characterised, on the Coda Story record, as the period in which "I don't even know how I survived. It was the worst time of my life." Her tenure ended in January 2023 when Sama terminated its Meta contract and made roughly 260 Kenyan-based Facebook moderators redundant — the cohort whose mass dismissal became the basis for the 185-moderator petition now consolidated before Kenya's Employment and Labour Relations Court.
After losing the Sama role, Malgwi was among the moderators at the May 2023 Nairobi summit at which more than 150 African content moderators voted to establish the African Content Moderators Union; she emerged as the chair of the union's Nigeria-chapter steering committee and one of the founding cohort's most internationally visible voices. In February 2024 she testified at the European Parliament in Brussels on the conditions of outsourced AI-supply-chain moderation work — including her continuing insomnia and intrusive imagery after viewing child-abuse material — and reported that growing worker awareness of organising rights was "beginning to diminish the fear that you can just be laid off because you are raising concerns." She was named to the TIME100 AI 2024 list and the BBC 100 Women 2024 cohort the same year, and is a 2026–2027 ICDE Fellow at the Platform Cooperativism Consortium, where her research examines how AI-driven platform labour generates structural mental-health harm among content moderators in the Global South.
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restofworld.org
Checked 2026-05-12Rest of World (May 2023) — primary source for Malgwi's four-year tenure as a Sama Facebook content moderator beginning in 2019, the approximate $600 monthly pay, the loss of her job in January 2023 when Sama ended its Meta contract, and her presence at the May 2023 Nairobi vote that founded the African Content Moderators Union; carries her "this union is so important to us because our rights will be protected" quote and her account of anxiety, panic attacks, and depression starting in training
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codastory.com
Checked 2026-05-12Coda Story long-read — identifies Malgwi as Nigerian and a graduate student in psychology while at Sama, confirms she moderated Facebook content in her native Hausa, describes the NDA prohibiting her from disclosing she reviewed Facebook content, and carries her "I don't even know how I survived. It was the worst time of my life" line and the weight-loss and insomnia account
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time.com
Checked 2026-05-12TIME100 AI 2024 profile — primary source for Malgwi's recognition on the 2024 TIME100 AI list, her leadership of the Nigeria chapter of the union, her February 2024 testimony at the European Parliament, the 2012 flight from northern Nigeria during the Boko Haram insurgency to Abuja and on to Kenya, the framing of the roughly 260 Sama moderators terminated in 2023, and her line that worker-rights awareness is "beginning to diminish the fear that you can just be laid off because you are raising concerns"
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en.wikipedia.org
Checked 2026-05-12Wikipedia biography — secondary source confirming Malgwi's Master's in clinical psychology from United States International University-Africa, her PhD candidacy at Pan Africa Christian University in Nairobi, the founding of the Digital Rights and Mental Health Initiative Africa (DRMHIA), and the 2024 BBC 100 Women recognition alongside the 2024 TIME100 AI listing
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platform.coop
Checked 2026-05-12Platform Cooperativism Consortium profile — identifies Malgwi as a 2026–2027 ICDE Fellow researching "how AI-driven platform labor generates structural mental health harm among content moderators in the Global South" and confirms her leadership in the African Content Moderators Union; situates her work alongside the African Tech Worker Cooperative as a case study in worker-led collective care
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thecable.ng
Checked 2026-05-12TheCable (Nigeria) coverage of the 2024 TIME100 AI listing — independent confirmation of Malgwi's recognition and her identification as a Nigerian labour organiser in the African content-moderation pipeline
Source: entities/persons/person-kauna-malgwi.md in movement-graph at pin 3cc1a36.