# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philo-ikonya
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:55:26.041Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philo-ikonya"
name: "Philo Ikonya"
slug: "philo-ikonya"
description: "Philo Ikonya is a writer, journalist and human rights activist from Kenya. Her articles and books often cover the current political situation in Kenya. She was the president of Kenya's branch of PEN, the international association of writers. After several arrests for her activism and a severe beating in 2009 while in police custody, she left Kenya in political exile."
tagline: "Kenyan writer and journalist, human rights activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Philo_Ikonya_at_G%C3%B6teborg_Book_Fair_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1959"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.68
  momentum:             15.92105263157895
  historical:           12.93632133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "فیلو ایکونیا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Philo Ikonya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Philo Ikonya"
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  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Ikonya"
    title: "Philo Ikonya"
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    title: "フィロ・イコニャ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump