Gen Z revolution: You can’t imprison minds of people who carry own beds to school
Middle class kids, who one MP mocked as arriving to protest in Ubers and with iPhones and left to go away with chicken nuggets from KFC, linked up with upper working-class youngsters, and stood up to their parents – basically. ILLUSTRATION | JOSEPH NYAGAH | NMG
The Kenyan political class just had its major reckoning with Generation Z. After several days of protests against what they saw as obnoxious taxes in the Finance Bill, and “budgeted corruption”, they got the government to withdraw the law. President William Ruto also announced a series of cutbacks on items the Gen Z protesters had highlighted as wasteful.
The political elite seemed to have been blind-sided. Understandably, because in the early days, it was a protest like Africa hasn’t seen.
