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Gen Z, Riggy G, and the Kenyan pornocracy

Dec 4, 2024 | africasacountry.com | Kari Mugo |Keith Ang'ana

Five months since the leaderless, anti-tax, pro-good-governance “Gen Z” protests roiled Kenya in June and July 2024, their vanguardism inspiring young people in other African countries to stage their own, the uprising has been eclipsed by the dizzying fallout of a tectonic political shift.
Ruto’s Kenya

Nov 14, 2024 | africasacountry.com | Kari Mugo |Keith Ang'ana

Ruto’s government is abducting people every day. Literally. There is not one day that has passed since the anti–finance bill protests started in June when Kenyans are not being bundled into unmarked Subaru cars by unidentified persons understood as plainclothes police officers (in all of their shades of vigilantism). While the president and his acolytes deny these events, which are often captured on city CCTV cameras or by citizen phones, these state kidnappings continue.
On Safari

Sep 4, 2024 | africasacountry.com | William Shoki |Maher Mezahi |Kari Mugo

In the 2024 US presidential race, “weird” has become the Democratic party’s go-to adjective to disparage the policies and worldview of their opponents, the Republicans. It was Minnesota governor-turned-VP-pick Tom Walz who first summoned the term to describe GOP candidate Donald Trump and his VP pick JD Vance. “These are weird people on the other side, they want to take books away, they want to be in your exam room, that’s what it comes down to,” Walz declared.
Kenya’s third liberation movement

Aug 25, 2024 | geeska.com | Kari Mugo |Alex White

It's no longer just about the finance bill. Kenyans want fundamental change. If the point of protest is to create a counter-crisis, then the people’s movement in Kenya has succeeded. Emboldened by the 2010 Constitution, which transitioned the country into an open and democratic society, a people’s grab for power, unprecedented in scale and force, has captured global attention and put President William Ruto’s ruling party on the back foot.
On safari

Aug 12, 2024 | africasacountry.com | William Shoki |Maher Mezahi |Kari Mugo

In the 2024 US presidential race, “weird” has become the Democratic party’s go-to adjective to disparage the policies and worldview of their opponents, the Republicans. It was Minnesota governor-turned-VP-pick Tom Walz who first summoned the term to describe GOP candidate Donald Trump and his VP pick JD Vance. “These are weird people on the other side, they want to take books away, they want to be in your exam room, that’s what it comes down to,” Walz declared.
The keyboard warriors are winning

Jul 31, 2024 | africasacountry.com | Keith Ang'ana |Kari Mugo

In an increasingly digitized public economy, Kenyans are the latest to leverage digital platforms to steer a social movement and have expanded the field of digital activism in innovative ways. What began as social media users expressing their frustration by wielding the #RejectFinanceBill2024 and #RutoMustGo hashtags has evolved into one of the largest movements against corruption and poor governance in Kenyan history.
What is the IMF’s plan for reviving the Somali shilling?

Jul 28, 2024 | geeska.com | Abukar Arman |Faisal Mohammed Ali |Alex White |Kari Mugo

Somalia’s attempt to revive the Shilling might help address the economy’s dollarisation, but the terms of its revival with IMF and World Bank support come with their own risks. Since the collapse of the central government in 1991 and the subsequent loss of confidence in the local currency, the Shilling, which is now printed by companies and individuals in arbitrary denominations, the phenomenon of dollarisation has prevailed in Somalia.
The mad man

Jul 18, 2024 | africasacountry.com | Keith Ang'ana |Kari Mugo |William Shoki

Kenya has, for many years, been a country whose politics is dominated by populism and tribalism. Election results have always been decided by what tribe you belong to or by how much a candidate is willing to empty their pockets to bribe the voters. Thus, once a politician gets into power, they have no obligation to perform their duties, since that was not the reason they were elected.
Kenya’s third liberation movement

Jul 15, 2024 | africasacountry.com | Kari Mugo |Keith Ang'ana |William Shoki

If the point of protest is to create a counter-crisis, then the people’s movement in Kenya has succeeded. Emboldened by the 2010 Constitution, which transitioned the country into an open and democratic society, a people’s grab for power, unprecedented in scale and force, has captured global attention and put President William Ruto’s ruling party on the back foot.
Kenya’s third liberation movement

Jul 15, 2024 | africasacountry.com | Kari Mugo |William Shoki

If the point of protest is to create a counter-crisis, then the people’s movement in Kenya has succeeded. Emboldened by the 2010 Constitution, which transitioned the country into an open and democratic society, a people’s grab for power, unprecedented in scale and force, has captured global attention and put President William Ruto’s ruling party on the back foot.