John Oyaro

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John Oyaro
Role(s) SDDP AF Core Participant
Co-Lab(s) Nairobi, 9-13 May, 2016
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John Oyaro is a core participant of the Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era - African Co-Laboratory.

His Peer Empowerment and Support Mentors is Mirjam Hasselhorn.


John Brian Oyaro is the Executive Director of Signature Journal and Student President Daystar University (Kenya). He founded the Signature Journal in 2014. He has been involved in major decision making processes that concern the youth in the country. He has championed for the youth to be empowered both at university level and High school level. He believes that the future of his country will be shaped by hard choices made by the youth in his country.

He was voted in in the top 100 most influential students in the country in 2016. He pursues public relations and International relations at Daystar University. He has worked with international groups like the McClellan Foundation and has worked for a while with Kenya Diaspora alliance in adoption of Mobile Voting in higher learning institutions in the country. John hopes to be President of Kenya one day and he believes he and many others can get this chance only if there is a Reinvention of Democracy in Africa. He derives his inspiration from Dr Donald K Smith, the Founder of Daystar University, a man who has influenced so many countries in Africa towards adopting a theology of African living.


John Oyaro



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