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Why future of Kenyan youth has shifted from the cities to counties

By Tom Odhiambo

The youth scenarios in Kenya, to borrow a term from the Institute of Economic Affairs, are bleak. The Kenyan youth are cast as a jobless, hopeless and futureless. How can a whole generation be futureless? What is the point of life when there is no future? The problem with this doomsday theory is that it underestimates the human capacity for innovation and perseverance.

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