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How Gen Z used social media to mobilise, sustain resistance

GEN Zs hold poster during the Anti-Government NANE NANE protest on August 8, 2024. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

A year ago, Kenya witnessed an extraordinary youth-led uprising against the Finance Bill, 2024, which proposed significant tax increases on essential goods and services.

Generation Z was at the heart of this revolution, fusing outrage with innovation and using digital tools and social media to organise, amplify and sustain their resistance.

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