Kwajo Tweneboa
The Catalyst
Ideas with a spark, energy, range and the ability to start things.
Kwajo Tweneboa is a passionate housing campaigner who draws on personal experiences to highlight the struggles faced by tenants. This interview reveals his determination to spark change in the housing sector and his ability to connect with others on shared challenges.
“Yeah, so it's a townhouse, three floors, and in the middle floor is the front room, and that ceiling began to cave in because of a leak and it had to be taken down. So it was just beams above it. And you can see daylight out of the brickwork. And it wasn't dealt with over the winter period many months.”
“Sometimes you need radical change, I think An extent, I do believe that, but ultimately, I think if I want change now, I have to work the system because that change comes from those in powers. And I've made it very clear. I've made it very, very clear.”
“Yeah, so dad was a carer for many decades, used to look after the elder at one point growing up. He had two caring jobs, one in the morning and one in the evening, and he would go out. They became his family.”
“No, it was quite the opposite. So, the reason I did that, the reason I went round to the estate, and I wasn't necessarily going to in the beginning, but my provider put out a statement and it was something along the lines of, we're sorry, Quejo feels as though him and his family haven't received the service that they deserve.”
Political Thinking with Nick Robinson — The Kwajo Tweneboa One
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