In the weeks leading up to the storming of the Kenyan parliament, I noticed a unique element in the type of persons who attended the protests; they polled much younger, more enthusiastic, and some wore fairly pricey wearables. Not exactly what we had come to expect of the rank-and-file rioters in Kenya.
The quest for justice expressed through protests had found resonance with the type of Kenyan who would often be considered apolitical, and unimpressed. They are not the group most invested in the everyday mechanics of dealing with teargas, running battles, and placards. Something had changed. We just didn’t fully appreciate it yet. Somehow, this apathetic regime had finally managed to enrage a unique indifferent cluster: the Gen Zs.
How did that happen? There has to be a starting point to this somewhere, somehow. Without guessing, we still have ample opportunity to explore a diversity of probable points of origin. We must seriously examine the Gen Z arguments, organization, and agenda. Kenyans need to know where this bottom-up dissent came from, how it operates, who’s in it, and where it’s likely to go in the short, medium, and in the long term.
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