The Kwajo Tweneboa One
Political Thinking with Nick Robinson
BBC
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Nick Robinson talks to the housing campaigner Kwajo Tweneboa about his own experience of poor social housing and his father's death, how he harnessed the power of social media to become a powerful voice in Westminster and whether he fancies a go at elected politics himself.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello and welcome to Political Thinking. |
| 0:07.0 | My guess this week shows how one person armed with passion, determination and a mobile phone |
| 0:14.0 | can force politicians, companies and regulators to listen. |
| 0:19.2 | Quijote, Twinebower, tweeted pictures of the terrible state of the flat in which he and |
| 0:24.3 | his sisters lived and in which his father died. |
| 0:28.8 | It was riddled with damp and mold and infested with cockroaches and mice. |
| 0:34.6 | He enlisted his neighbours on his south London estate in his fight for decent living conditions |
| 0:39.4 | and due to a growing media profile is now able to help people in social housing all over |
| 0:45.2 | the country. |
| 0:46.7 | Quijote, it's just 24 years old and he only graduated from university this week. |
| 0:52.6 | Quijote, welcome to Political Thinking. |
| 0:54.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:55.9 | And congratulations on graduating. |
| 0:57.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:58.8 | Hey, Keid, how much your life has changed in the past couple of years? |
| 1:02.8 | No, when I do get the opportunity to sit back and actually think about it, it does blow |
| 1:06.6 | my mind that all of this happened in such a short space of time. |
| 1:09.8 | I mean, 18 months or thereabouts. |
| 1:12.8 | And I always wanted it to progress in that way because of the cause. |
| 1:16.6 | Did I think it would happen so soon? |
| 1:18.2 | Absolutely not. |
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