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How Gen Z protests mirror French Revolution

To appreciate the unprecedented youthful unrest in Kenyan streets, it is in order to take liberty in citing copiously from historical text on France, on the eve of her events that rocked Europe.

Gareth H. Browning writes in The World of Living History, "On the eve of the revolution, France presented the picture of a landscape black with stormy discontent. The autocratic Louis XVI could tax, imprison, or silence his subjects at will. The favoured and proudly...