Kenya’s Gen Z Movement: Fighting for Transparency and Accountability in Governance

Over the past two years, Africa s Gen Z have not only arrived on the political scene on the continent, they are shaking it. Born between the late 1990s and early 2010s, they are the first generation in Africa to be simultaneously educated enough to understand the system and connected enough to expose it. They have seemingly demonstrated that they could be the most militant social formation in Africa’s postcolonial history. Not violent but militant. There is a difference that matters enormously. On the one hand, the violence, in Kenya at least, has largely been directed at them by the state. Their militancy, on the other hand, stays resilient in the form of digital advocacy on social media.