The anti-government protests which began in Kenya in June, were both a win and a loss for the Generation Z protest movement, according to Gedion Onyango, Research Fellow at London School of Economics and Political Science.
“It was a win in that they demonstrated that they are here and their voices should be heard. It was a loss in that they were not able to achieve what they wanted,” Onyango says.
The strength of the movement was demonstrated by the fact that President William Ruto had to fire the entire cabinet, Onyango notes.
The protests which initially focused on proposed taxes soon took aim at ingrained corruption and misgovernance.