Kenya

A Year Later, Africa’s Gen Z Uprising Is Only More Emboldened

September 7, 2025 Obiora Ikoku, Waging Nonviolence. Organize! Africa, Gen Z, Kenya, Nigeria, Social Media, Youth Activism

Over the past year, a wave of mass protests has swept through the capitals of some African states. From Nairobi to Lagos, Accra to Dakar, angry protesters have marched to the sound of exploding tear gas shells and live bullets to rail against hunger and inequality while demanding an end to IMF austerity. From June to August this year, the movement rose again with tens of thousands exploding onto the streets in Kenya, while hundreds of activists turned up at an anniversary event in Lagos, Nigeria to reflect and map out next steps. Provoked by deep economic frustrations and lack of opportunities, these youth-led protests have shaken Africa’s aging ruling classes to their bones, making a forceful argument for a new social pact, anchored on a paradigm of national sovereignty, inclusive growth and social welfare.

‘Inequality In Kenya: View From Kibera’ Documentary Premieres

August 28, 2025 Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Africa, Documentary, Kenya, Poverty, Structural Racism

Poverty is an artificial creation. Join political activist and Black Agenda Report’s contributing editor Ajamu Baraka and members of the Communist Party Marxist-Kenya on a trip to Kibera, Africa’s largest slum. It is symptomatic of a larger issue because, despite Nairobi being the wealthiest county in Kenya, contributing 27% of the country’s GDP, 60% of its 5 million residents live in squalor across 200 slums. Successive governments since independence have done little to change the status quo, leaving the people to predatory organizations that, at best, provide a band-aid to a gaping wound, or at worst, serve to depoliticize the masses. Black Agenda Report & North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights have come together to re-release African Stream’s Mini-Doc: “Inequality in Kenya: View from Kibera”.

Haitians, Kenyans Both Fighting Neo-Colonial Representatives Of US-Led Imperialism

July 30, 2025 Black Alliance for Peace, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Haiti, Kenya, State Repression, Western imperialism

Since 2021, the Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team has tracked the deepening crisis of imperialism in Haiti, in particular how imperialist forces and neocolonial puppets have worked to suppress and eliminate the organizing of popular movements and the will of the Haitian people. Over the last four years, this crisis has impacted nations around the globe, in particular Kenya. This summer marks the one-year anniversary of Kenya’s youth-led uprising against the IMF-backed Finance Bill of 2024. Instead of reckoning with the demands of a generation that has endured skyrocketing inflation, police violence, and mass unemployment, President William Ruto has once again unleashed the full force of state repression.

Kémi Séba: Imperialist Nations, Not Haiti’s ‘Gangs,’ Are The Enemy

June 8, 2025 Isabelle Papillon, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! colonization, Haiti, Kenya, US Imperialism

Famed Pan-African activist, journalist, and author, Kémi Séba, landed in Haiti on May 28, creating a political tsunami through press conferences, interviews, and speeches over the past week by repeatedly emphasizing four principal points. First, the imperialist nations, primarily the United States and France, are the principal enemies of the Haitian people and the source of their current crisis, although posturing as their savior and friend. Second, Haiti’s neighborhood armed groups have been demonized, largely through imperialist propaganda, and are not the people’s enemy. On the contrary, greater unity between the armed groups and the people is key to liberating the country.

Kenya Deploys 200 More Police Officers To Haiti As Crisis Escalates

January 26, 2025 Nicholas Mwangi, People's Dispatch. Educate! Haiti, Kenya, Military Intervention, Police, Violence, William Ruto

Kenya has deployed another batch of 217 police officers to Haiti, adding to the 400 sent last year as part of a “multinational mission” aimed at addressing the country’s deepening crisis of gang violence. The intervention aims to protect critical infrastructure and conduct “targeted operations” alongside the Haitian National Police, however, there are significant doubts about its effectiveness in resolving the systemic challenges plaguing Haiti. On October 2, 2024, the United Nations Security Council authorized this year-long, Kenyan-led security intervention to purportedly combat gang violence and restore stability to territories controlled by armed groups.

Kenya’s High Court Delivers Blow To Neoliberal University Funding Model

January 5, 2025 Nicholas Mwangi, People's Dispatch. Resist! Higher Education, Kenya, Legal System, Neoliberalism, Victory

The Kenya High Court delivered a landmark ruling on December 20, 2024, that declared the new funding model for higher education unconstitutional. The case, brought before the court by the Kenya Human Rights Commission and other organizations including the National Student Caucus, challenged the legality and fairness of the new model launched last year. In his ruling, Justice Mwita declared the new university funding model unconstitutional for several reasons. The high court noted that it violates Section 53 of the Universities Act by introducing policies that conflict with the law.

Mathare Ecological Network Fights For Restoration Of Dignity And Hope

December 23, 2024 Nicholas Mwangi, People's Dispatch. Create! Africa, climate crisis, Floods, Kenya, Nairobi

In April 2024, relentless heavy rains wreaked havoc across Kenya, plunging the country into a humanitarian crisis. The devastation claimed at least 270 lives, displaced over 200,000 people, and obliterated livelihoods, infrastructure, and property. Among the hardest-hit areas was Mathare, one of Nairobi’s largest informal settlements, where over 40 lives were lost as the Mathare River burst its banks, flooding vast portions of the community. For the residents of Mathare, mostly low-income earners, the flooding was catastrophic. Families were stranded, homes were submerged, and lives were uprooted in the blink of an eye.

Understanding The #OccupyParliament Movement In Kenya

October 9, 2024 Joel Mukisa, Black Agenda Report. Strategize! #OccupyParliament, Kenya, Mass Action, Neoliberalism, Occupy Parliament, State Repression

If you asked a think-tank team leader, a social sciences Professor at Nairobi University if they anticipated the scale and popularity of the protests that rocked East Africa’s economic powerhouse Kenya, only a few months ago many honest people would simply retort, NO! The protests that rather appeared spontaneous characterized mainly by a young generation of Kenyans known as Gen Z protesting the Finance Bill (an annually produced document that lays out the government’s fiscal strategy) that would introduce a cocktail of new taxes on essential and basic commodities.

Beyond The Finance Bill: Kenya’s Ongoing Demand For Change

August 20, 2024 Nicholas Mwangi, Orinoco Tribune. Resist! IMF, Kenya, Mass Action, US Imperialism, Youth Activism

For the past five weeks, Kenya has been gripped by unprecedented protests. What began on June 18 as a rejection of the Finance Bill has expanded into a larger movement demanding better governance and radical change in the country. In society, development and events are never entirely predictable, nor do they occur in isolation. Even periods of apparent inactivity can give way to rapid change, overshadowing years of dormancy or quietness. These dynamics are evident in the ongoing protests in Kenya, that embody Lenin’s famous quote, “There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen.”

Give Peace A Chance In Haiti: Restoring Security And Stability

July 18, 2024 Jake Johnston, Center for Economic and Policy Research. Educate! Foreign Intervention, Haiti, Kenya, Peace

At 9:16 a.m. on June 25, a Kenya Airways plane touched down in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. On board were some 200 Kenyan police, the vanguard of the Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission approved by the United Nations Security Council late last year. Eventually, the force is expected to consist of 2,500 officers from at least a half dozen countries who will be tasked with restoring security and clearing the way for free and fair elections. It’s certainly not the first such mission in Haiti, where, since the mid-1990s, there have been nearly constant UN and foreign security deployments. Almost 10,000 troops were stationed in Haiti between 2004 and 2017, only to be replaced by a smaller successor mission.

Haiti May End Up Foiling US Plans For Kenya

July 13, 2024 Kim Ives, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Antony Blinken, Haiti, Kenya, US Imperialism

Just over three weeks after he was sworn in on Jun. 3, Haiti’s de facto Prime Minister Garry Conille – without even the knowledge, much less the approval, of the Transitional Presidential Council (CPT) that appointed him – boarded a plane on Jun. 28 to visit Washington, DC, where he reported to his bosses in meetings with U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian Nichols, Deputy National Security Adviser Jonathan Finer, and paymasters from the World Bank and Interamerican Development Bank (IDB), among others. He then traveled to New York, where he addressed the UN Security Council on Jul. 3.

Responsibility For Kenya Crisis Lies At The Feet Of US Neo-Colonialism

July 10, 2024 Black Alliance For Peace, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Africa, Kenya, neo-colonialism, US Imperialism

The excessive support and public adoration the U.S. government has given to Kenya’s President William Ruto represents the racist contempt this settler state has for all of Africa and for the domestic population of descendants from the continent. Two days before African Liberation Day on May 25th and one month before the Kenyan police’s brutal crackdown on protests against the US-IMF backed Finance Act that increases taxes up to 35% on essential goods, U.S. President Biden rolled out a red carpet for Ruto at a White House state dinner. The debt that this bill is supposed to address only exists because of the incessant and indiscriminate borrowing by the previous government of Kenya, for which Ruto was vice president.

How Kenya’s Youth, Middle Classes And Working Poor Joined Forces

July 10, 2024 Caroline Kimeu, Portside. Strategize! Austerity, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kenya, Ruto, Youth Activism

I remember Kenya’s June 25 protests like they were yesterday. The energy on the streets of Nairobi was frenetic, filled with the sound of whistles, motorcycle honks, vuvuzelas (long horns used to cheer in soccer games) and loud blasts of teargas. “We are tired,” chanted the thousands of demonstrators who had turned out to oppose government plans to introduce wide-ranging tax hikes, on what would become the bloodiest day of the protests. Hoisting up Kenyan flags, they marched through one of the city’s main avenues, which was colored pink from water cannon spray, dodging rounds of rubber bullets and teargas.

The Kenyan Intervention In Haiti: A Wave Of ‘Diplomatic’ Terrorism

July 3, 2024 Kevin Edmonds, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Canada, Foreign Intervention, Haiti, Kenya, US Imperialism

The invasion of Haiti that has just begun with the arrival of Kenyan police, was long in the making. It is the end result of a long imperialist war of destabilization and propaganda against the country. Kenya's involvement is said to be a better solution than previous interventions, but it is just a cover for the goals of western imperialist machinations.

Generation Z Is At The Forefront Of A Powerful Uprising In Kenya

July 2, 2024 Samuel Karlin, Left Voice. Resist! Gen Z, International Monetary Fund, Kenya, Technology, Youth Activism

Youth in Kenya are rising up in the face of extreme repression. Mass protests began spreading rapidly in response to President William Ruto’s attempt to pass a tax bill. The bill would have raised taxes on household essentials including sugar and cooking oil in compliance with austerity measures that the government is trying to implement in order to receive a loan from the predatory International Monetary Fund (IMF). In response, young Kenyans, proudly identifying as “Generation Z,” have organized a mass movement online. For now, this uprising is developing independently of Kenya’s traditional parties and institutions which would benefit from co-opting the movement out of the streets.

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