The Generational Question in Kenya’s Evolving Protest

The Kenyan society is yet to decide what the 2024 protests meant for the country, and its citizens, and where to situate it in a long history of agitation. The widespread offline and online dissent has taken on different dimensions across the generations. What is not in doubt is that the protests were about contesting the nature of the state, and the soul of the nation. In this episode, The Elephant’s curator Joe Kobuthi and author Darius Okolla discuss what the continuing vocal and open dissatisfaction by the raia means.